The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... east . No- where in Australia is there a range comparable with this fine series of mountains in New Guinea . Only in the south - east does a similar " earth buckle " rise many thousand feet above the sea , viz . from the New Zealand ...
... east . No- where in Australia is there a range comparable with this fine series of mountains in New Guinea . Only in the south - east does a similar " earth buckle " rise many thousand feet above the sea , viz . from the New Zealand ...
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... east near Samarai . An elongated trough , some 1200 miles long , separates the main ranges from the northern coastal ranges . In this trough ( in the British area ) flow the Sepik and Ramu Rivers , and it is continued by the Markham ...
... east near Samarai . An elongated trough , some 1200 miles long , separates the main ranges from the northern coastal ranges . In this trough ( in the British area ) flow the Sepik and Ramu Rivers , and it is continued by the Markham ...
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... east Trades . In fact they were wrong and Tasman was right , but neither party had any means of proving its case . From New Zealand Tasman sought a way back to Batavia . He steered north - east and then north , in order to water at the ...
... east Trades . In fact they were wrong and Tasman was right , but neither party had any means of proving its case . From New Zealand Tasman sought a way back to Batavia . He steered north - east and then north , in order to water at the ...
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