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"big mountains and covering [47]
hundreds of thousands of square miles
with liquid rock
of the earth's surface in Iceland,
Scotland, India, western North A-
erica, the Andes Mountains and the
island regions of the Pacific and At.
lantic Oceans. North of Kefertor.
Snak Island the rock is again
granite or related material and the
scenery reverts to the character of
that south of Disko Bay. The
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entrance to Laxe Fjord is through
a gateway that reminds one strongly
of the approach to Yosemite Park,
The two thousand foot vertical cliffs
on the north side closely resen-
bling Sentinel Peak in profile.
But a great glacial icefall is in view thru the entrance.
Keersorsnak (Sanderson's Hope), five
miles south of Uperrivik is one of
the prominent landmarks of the