The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 56
... plateau sufficiently deep to reach the mountain to the northward . This bay has a broad opening to the sea ; the distance between its ocean capes is twenty miles , and its extension inland is about the same . Its eastern shore is ...
... plateau sufficiently deep to reach the mountain to the northward . This bay has a broad opening to the sea ; the distance between its ocean capes is twenty miles , and its extension inland is about the same . Its eastern shore is ...
Page 57
... plateau , excepting a narrow fringe along the shore , is formed by a great glacier , belonging to what is termed in this paper the Piedmont type . There are many reasons for believing that the plateau southeast of Yakutat bay was at one ...
... plateau , excepting a narrow fringe along the shore , is formed by a great glacier , belonging to what is termed in this paper the Piedmont type . There are many reasons for believing that the plateau southeast of Yakutat bay was at one ...
Page 71
... plateau was covered with a smooth and even sheet of pure white snow . In the latter part of June , 1880 , however , this snow had melted , and for the first time the real and most extraordinary character of this plateau was revealed ...
... plateau was covered with a smooth and even sheet of pure white snow . In the latter part of June , 1880 , however , this snow had melted , and for the first time the real and most extraordinary character of this plateau was revealed ...
Page 72
... plateau . To the buried glacier the U. S. Coast Survey has applied the name of Malaspina , in honor of that distinguished and unfortunate explorer . No connection could be seen between the small glaciers and the Malaspina plateau , as ...
... plateau . To the buried glacier the U. S. Coast Survey has applied the name of Malaspina , in honor of that distinguished and unfortunate explorer . No connection could be seen between the small glaciers and the Malaspina plateau , as ...
Page 82
... plateau bordering the continent . The plateau stretches southeastward for twenty or thirty miles , and is low and heavily forested . The eastern shore of the bay near our first camp is formed of bluffs about 150 feet high , which have ...
... plateau bordering the continent . The plateau stretches southeastward for twenty or thirty miles , and is low and heavily forested . The eastern shore of the bay near our first camp is formed of bluffs about 150 feet high , which have ...
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Agassiz glacier Alaska Amazon appears avalanches base beneath Bering Bering island Bering's Blossom island border camp canoe carts chart Coast and Geodetic crest crevasses débris dense Disenchantment bay eastern elevation Elias range Elias region expedition exploration feet flows formed Geodetic Survey GEOG Geological Survey glacial Haenke island height Hitchcock range ice-streams Icy bay indicated Kamshatka Kerr l'Isle l'Isle's lake land longitude lower Lucia glacier Malaspina glacier margin Marvine glacier melting miles moraines Mount Augusta Mount Cook Mount Owen Mount St NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC National Geographic Society névé night observations peaks Pinnacle system plateau Port Mulgrave portion reached ridge river rocks route rugged Russian sandstone Seward glacier shale shore side slope snow snow-fields southern southward steep stones storm stream Street summit surface tent terrace tion topographic tunnel valley vegetation voyage western westward Yakutat bay Yakutat system