Guinness Book of World RecordsSterling, 1978 - 704 pages |
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... North Africa is the largest in the world . At its greatest length , it is 3,200 miles from east to west . From north to south it is between 800 and 1,400 miles . The area covered by the desert is about 3,250,000 square miles . The land ...
... North Africa is the largest in the world . At its greatest length , it is 3,200 miles from east to west . From north to south it is between 800 and 1,400 miles . The area covered by the desert is about 3,250,000 square miles . The land ...
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... north of the Arctic Circle . The U.S.S.R. and the U.S. have maintained research stations on Arctic ice floes , which have drifted close to the North Pole . The U.S.S.R.'s " North Pole 15 , " which drifted 1,250 miles , passed within 1 ...
... north of the Arctic Circle . The U.S.S.R. and the U.S. have maintained research stations on Arctic ice floes , which have drifted close to the North Pole . The U.S.S.R.'s " North Pole 15 , " which drifted 1,250 miles , passed within 1 ...
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... North Pole are subject to positive proof . Cook , accompanied by the Eski- mos , Ah - pellah and Etukishook , two sledges and 26 dogs , struck north from a point 60 miles north of Svartevoeg , on Axel Heiberg Is . , Canada , 460 miles ...
... North Pole are subject to positive proof . Cook , accompanied by the Eski- mos , Ah - pellah and Etukishook , two sledges and 26 dogs , struck north from a point 60 miles north of Svartevoeg , on Axel Heiberg Is . , Canada , 460 miles ...
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