The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 3National Geographic Society, 1892 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 22
... southern part of this plateau is dry and desolate , the northern portion is well watered , with beautiful streams running now through deep cañons and then through rich , fertile valleys steadily descending toward the northeast ; the ...
... southern part of this plateau is dry and desolate , the northern portion is well watered , with beautiful streams running now through deep cañons and then through rich , fertile valleys steadily descending toward the northeast ; the ...
Page 26
... . From Iquitos the route ascends the Amazon and the Ucayle , one of its southern tributaries , 500 miles to Napal , then continues across the montaña The Pan - American Railway Route . 27 and the 26 Gardiner G. Hubbard - South America .
... . From Iquitos the route ascends the Amazon and the Ucayle , one of its southern tributaries , 500 miles to Napal , then continues across the montaña The Pan - American Railway Route . 27 and the 26 Gardiner G. Hubbard - South America .
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... Southern Coast of Alaska ---- Part I - Previous Explorations in the St. Elias Region Page . 55 58 Bering , 1741 Cook , 1778- La Pérouse , 1786 . Dixon , 1787- Douglas , 1788 Malaspina , 1792 .. Vancouver , 1794 Belcher , 1837 Tebenkof ...
... Southern Coast of Alaska ---- Part I - Previous Explorations in the St. Elias Region Page . 55 58 Bering , 1741 Cook , 1778- La Pérouse , 1786 . Dixon , 1787- Douglas , 1788 Malaspina , 1792 .. Vancouver , 1794 Belcher , 1837 Tebenkof ...
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... SOUTHERN COAST OF ALASKA . The southern coast of Alaska is remarkable for the regularity of its general outline . If a circle a thousand miles in diameter be inscribed on a map of the northern Pacific with a point in about latitude 54 ...
... SOUTHERN COAST OF ALASKA . The southern coast of Alaska is remarkable for the regularity of its general outline . If a circle a thousand miles in diameter be inscribed on a map of the northern Pacific with a point in about latitude 54 ...
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... southern shore of Alaska , for a distance of 200 miles along the bases of the Fairweather and St. Elias ranges , is formed of a low table - land intervening between the mountains and the sea . Yakutat bay is the only bight in this ...
... southern shore of Alaska , for a distance of 200 miles along the bases of the Fairweather and St. Elias ranges , is formed of a low table - land intervening between the mountains and the sea . Yakutat bay is the only bight in this ...
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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