The Geographical Journal, Volume 15Royal Geographical Society., 1900 - Geography Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately. |
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... position upon , and near the western end of , the cliff - top of Doyen's Dune , looking , from an elevation of about 18 feet , downwards at the large erosion ripples on the leeward in the trough , beyond the lee face of the dune . These ...
... position upon , and near the western end of , the cliff - top of Doyen's Dune , looking , from an elevation of about 18 feet , downwards at the large erosion ripples on the leeward in the trough , beyond the lee face of the dune . These ...
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... positions such as that of the ripples . now photographed that ripples grow to large size . At a spot near the foot ... position to leeward , and near the end of , the foot of the dune cliff . It is easily understood that the difference ...
... positions such as that of the ripples . now photographed that ripples grow to large size . At a spot near the foot ... position to leeward , and near the end of , the foot of the dune cliff . It is easily understood that the difference ...
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... position of dunes of which the whole material is moving forward . I was struck with a case close by Lamu , where dunes 150 feet high have gradually moved inland and buried the site of the old Portuguese town of Shella ; the sand was ...
... position of dunes of which the whole material is moving forward . I was struck with a case close by Lamu , where dunes 150 feet high have gradually moved inland and buried the site of the old Portuguese town of Shella ; the sand was ...
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... position of the Greenland coast , which stops the westerly progress of the ice . Owing to this a heavy pressure is accumulated on the north - eastern side of Greenland , which interferes with the drift of the ice of that locality to the ...
... position of the Greenland coast , which stops the westerly progress of the ice . Owing to this a heavy pressure is accumulated on the north - eastern side of Greenland , which interferes with the drift of the ice of that locality to the ...
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... position , while the ship itself , being always pushed ahead by her machinery , gradually advances , maybe rises again , and gives another crack to the field ice . We took some cinematograph 42 THE " YERMAK " ICE - BREAKER . 14.
... position , while the ship itself , being always pushed ahead by her machinery , gradually advances , maybe rises again , and gives another crack to the field ice . We took some cinematograph 42 THE " YERMAK " ICE - BREAKER . 14.
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Page 238 - I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that my Lords are...
Page 74 - Rawson, at the advanced age of eightyeight years, the Society has lost one of its oldest and most valued members.
Page 510 - Tables relating to the Output of Coal and other Minerals and the number of persons employed at mines worked under the Coal and Metalliferous Mines Regulation Acts during the Year 1899.
Page 33 - I was engaged at that time with my service, and did not then see my way to disclose my ideas, but I made some preliminary preparations. I wrote to Dr. Nansen a letter, in which I stated that I was entirely of his opinion, that he would be carried by the currents somewhere in the direction he imagined, and advised him that help should be sent for him to Franz Josef Land. My letter to him and his answer were duly published in the Russian newspapers and in geographical publications.
Page 511 - Report of the Expeditions organized by the British Astronomical Association to observe the total Solar Eclipse of 1898, January 22.
Page 122 - Sound, as commentators generally assume. " Now, having the wind at north-north-east, we steered away south and by east, with purpose to fall with the southermost part of this land, which we saw ; hoping by this meane, either to defray the charge of the voyage [? by discovery], or else, if it pleased God in time to give us a faire wind to the north-east, to satisfie expectation.
Page 57 - Dickson a'so contributed a paper on the temperature and salinity of the surface water of the North Atlantic during 1896 and 1897.
Page 422 - SOUTH AMERICA AND PACIFIC OCEAN. South America Pilot, part 1. East coast of South America, from cape St. Roque to cape Virgins, with the Falkland, South Georgia, Sandwich, and South Shetland islands ; also the north coast from cape St. Roque to cape Orange, in...
Page 181 - Report on the geology of the area covered by the Seine River and Lake Shebandowan map sheets, comprising portions of Rainy River and Thunder Bay districts, Ontario.
Page 125 - On the norther side of the mouth of this inlet lie three ilands [really blocks of mountains divided by valleys, which would look like islands from the distance (10 leagues) they were from land], not farre the one from the other, being very high mountainous land. The farthest of the three to the north-west [ie the block of the sea-front just south of the entrance to Ice fiord] hath four very high mounts [Mount Starashchin], like heapes of corne.