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... coast and improving the mapping of Matochkin Shar Strait and the White Sea coast , and in 1832–35 Pyotr Kuzmich Pakhtusov surveyed much of the east coast of Novaya Zemlya . In 1880 the Englishman Leigh Smith made the first of two ...
... coast and improving the mapping of Matochkin Shar Strait and the White Sea coast , and in 1832–35 Pyotr Kuzmich Pakhtusov surveyed much of the east coast of Novaya Zemlya . In 1880 the Englishman Leigh Smith made the first of two ...
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... coast is less precipitous and there are fewer islands . Scotland's east coast also is composed of uplands— although it is less broken - and the resistant rocks con- tinue south into England . In the vicinity of Flamborough Head in ...
... coast is less precipitous and there are fewer islands . Scotland's east coast also is composed of uplands— although it is less broken - and the resistant rocks con- tinue south into England . In the vicinity of Flamborough Head in ...
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... coast the Karst zone is generally barren , either from lack of water ( which seeps underground ) or from long habits of deforestation practiced since antiquity . Barren rock and a drought - resistant scrub forest , called maquis ...
... coast the Karst zone is generally barren , either from lack of water ( which seeps underground ) or from long habits of deforestation practiced since antiquity . Barren rock and a drought - resistant scrub forest , called maquis ...
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