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Page 166
... islands . Funda- mentally , Darwin's concept is still valid , although many consider submergence by the rise of sea level , following melting of Pleistocene ice sheets , to be a better explana- tion of the latest upward growth of many ...
... islands . Funda- mentally , Darwin's concept is still valid , although many consider submergence by the rise of sea level , following melting of Pleistocene ice sheets , to be a better explana- tion of the latest upward growth of many ...
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... islands in a nearly continu- ous line . Vestlandet contains the third and fourth most populous Norwegian cities , Bergen and Stavanger ( qq.v. ) , respectively ; both are his- torically important port cities and trading cen- tres ...
... islands in a nearly continu- ous line . Vestlandet contains the third and fourth most populous Norwegian cities , Bergen and Stavanger ( qq.v. ) , respectively ; both are his- torically important port cities and trading cen- tres ...
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... Islands and the immense mass of Green- land , both in the northern Atlantic Ocean . It is the small- est of the three Scandinavian kingdoms , with an area ( ex- cluding Greenland ) of 16,629 square miles ( 43,069 square kilometres ) ...
... Islands and the immense mass of Green- land , both in the northern Atlantic Ocean . It is the small- est of the three Scandinavian kingdoms , with an area ( ex- cluding Greenland ) of 16,629 square miles ( 43,069 square kilometres ) ...
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