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Page 291
... Pacific Ocean . The biggest single feature of the earth's surface with its myriad islands is mapped to a scale of 1 : 27,500,000 on a sheet 361⁄2 by 261⁄2 inches . Fifty - six large - scale insets chart important island groups . A table ...
... Pacific Ocean . The biggest single feature of the earth's surface with its myriad islands is mapped to a scale of 1 : 27,500,000 on a sheet 361⁄2 by 261⁄2 inches . Fifty - six large - scale insets chart important island groups . A table ...
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... Pacific is not only the widest but the deepest of oceans . It is about 23 times the size of the United States . The voyages of early navigators , such as Magellan , gave the impression that they sailed upon a vacant ocean , and even so ...
... Pacific is not only the widest but the deepest of oceans . It is about 23 times the size of the United States . The voyages of early navigators , such as Magellan , gave the impression that they sailed upon a vacant ocean , and even so ...
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... Pacific is more than the South Seas of the laymen or the Oceania of the geog- raphers ! A first glance at the map of even a small part of the myriad islands of the Pacific pro- duces an effect of great confusion , but closer study ...
... Pacific is more than the South Seas of the laymen or the Oceania of the geog- raphers ! A first glance at the map of even a small part of the myriad islands of the Pacific pro- duces an effect of great confusion , but closer study ...
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