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Page 104
Admiralty Islands 104 west coast of Baffin Island in the Northwest Territories , Canada . The inlet , leading south- ward from Lancaster Sound of Baffin Bay , is 2 to 20 miles ( 3 to 32 km ) wide , with a shoreline that rises abruptly ...
Admiralty Islands 104 west coast of Baffin Island in the Northwest Territories , Canada . The inlet , leading south- ward from Lancaster Sound of Baffin Bay , is 2 to 20 miles ( 3 to 32 km ) wide , with a shoreline that rises abruptly ...
Page 239
... Island ( one of the Komandor Islands ) in a creolized form that incorporates Russian verbal inflections . Aleut is spoken from the Alaska Peninsula through Umnak Island and on Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands , on the Pribilof Islands ...
... Island ( one of the Komandor Islands ) in a creolized form that incorporates Russian verbal inflections . Aleut is spoken from the Alaska Peninsula through Umnak Island and on Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands , on the Pribilof Islands ...
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... Island . Most of the islands are long and narrow , each rising from its eastern shore to a low ridge , beyond which lie lagoons and man- grove swamps ; coral reefs mark the shorelines . There are no rivers in The Bahamas . 1 occupies ...
... Island . Most of the islands are long and narrow , each rising from its eastern shore to a low ridge , beyond which lie lagoons and man- grove swamps ; coral reefs mark the shorelines . There are no rivers in The Bahamas . 1 occupies ...
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