The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 109National Geographic Society, 1956 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 121
... nearly two miles . The amount of ice in this enormous dome is almost inconceivable - 2.7 million cubic kilometers , or 647,800 cubic miles . Cut up into jumbo - size ice cubes , it would provide a two - ton chunk for every person on ...
... nearly two miles . The amount of ice in this enormous dome is almost inconceivable - 2.7 million cubic kilometers , or 647,800 cubic miles . Cut up into jumbo - size ice cubes , it would provide a two - ton chunk for every person on ...
Page 149
... nearly seven miles . Skeptically we examined the nylon line , a braided rope less than a quarter of an inch thick . Did our friend really think it was strong 149 enough to lower and raise his 100 - pound cam- era in such tremendous ...
... nearly seven miles . Skeptically we examined the nylon line , a braided rope less than a quarter of an inch thick . Did our friend really think it was strong 149 enough to lower and raise his 100 - pound cam- era in such tremendous ...
Page 777
... nearly tripled in the last 16 years . Here , as elsewhere , wealth is where you find it , and optimism flowers as brightly as Alaska's wide - ranging fireweed in summer . Take the old - timer I met at the sagging inn in the ghost town ...
... nearly tripled in the last 16 years . Here , as elsewhere , wealth is where you find it , and optimism flowers as brightly as Alaska's wide - ranging fireweed in summer . Take the old - timer I met at the sagging inn in the ghost town ...
Contents
Airplanes New Industry and Military Defense Speed Progress | v |
In These Telltale and Often Beautiful Relics of Vanished | xviii |
Athens to Istanbul A Journey Through the Heart of the | 37 |
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