The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . YAKUTSK IN OUR DAYS. (After a recent Russian drawing.) square miles, the Yenisej-Angara, not quite 50,000, and theLena, somewhat over 40,000.^ As the map of the river system 1 In order not to write without due examination about figures whichhave been written about a thousand times before, I have, with the help ofPetermanns map of North and Middle Asia in Stielers Hand-Atlas, cal-culated the extent of the areas of the Siberian rivers, and found themto be :— River
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe; with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old World . YAKUTSK IN OUR DAYS. (After a recent Russian drawing.) square miles, the Yenisej-Angara, not quite 50,000, and theLena, somewhat over 40,000.^ As the map of the river system 1 In order not to write without due examination about figures whichhave been written about a thousand times before, I have, with the help ofPetermanns map of North and Middle Asia in Stielers Hand-Atlas, cal-culated the extent of the areas of the Siberian rivers, and found themto be :— River area of the Ob (with the Tas)... „ „ „ Yenisej „ ,, ,, Lena,..Of these areas 4,966,000 square kilometres, or about 90,000 geographicalsquare miles, lie south of 60° Square Geograpliical kilonietres. square miles. .8,445,000 62,560 2,712,000 49,250 2,395,000 43,500 Scale 1:2 o,t)()0,ooo.
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