. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. PHYSICAL FEATUEES OF NOEWAY. 75 with the Raste-Gaise (2,880 feet), overlooking the valley of the Tana, on the Russian frontier. Near this spot the Lapps speak of a cone occasionally emitting lurid vapours, and whose snows at times melt rapidly. Notwithstanding the general low elevation of the country, the headlands at the extremity of every njarg, or peninsula, almost invariuhly end in lofty terraces abruptly truncated. Such is the Nordkyn, or Kinerodden, northernmost point of the European mainland. Two others, the low Knivskiarrodden and the moi-
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. PHYSICAL FEATUEES OF NOEWAY. 75 with the Raste-Gaise (2,880 feet), overlooking the valley of the Tana, on the Russian frontier. Near this spot the Lapps speak of a cone occasionally emitting lurid vapours, and whose snows at times melt rapidly. Notwithstanding the general low elevation of the country, the headlands at the extremity of every njarg, or peninsula, almost invariuhly end in lofty terraces abruptly truncated. Such is the Nordkyn, or Kinerodden, northernmost point of the European mainland. Two others, the low Knivskiarrodden and the moi-e elevated North Cape, lying 4 miles nearer the pole, stand on the granite island of Magero, separated by a narrow channel from Norway. The Austrian explorer, Weyprecht, has suggested North Cape as one of the most favourable sites for a polar meteorological observatory. South-west of this point the summits of the islands and mainland are sufficiently near to present the effect of a continuous range, and here begins the Kjoleu Fig. 33.âIsland or Mageko. Scale 1 : 635,000. [23° E of P. 21° 20' to' |2i*° /â¢â\-, â â V ( Kniuskiarodden ^-- â!rL^ 'i&. 26°E. o-fGr. KJ lines. properly so called. In the island of Seiland the northernmost European glacier overflows from the perpetual snows of the surrounding rocks, while that of Talvik, on the coast, usually descends to the shore of the Alten-fiord. On the southern slope of the same mass is another glacial stream, resembling those of Greenland, and discharging into the Jokel-fiord. This is the only place in Scandinavia where may still be seen the phenomenon, common enough in former geological epochs, of fragments of ice breaking off above the undermining waters and floating away with the ocean current. South of these there are many other glaciers a hundred times more extensive, but all melting into streams before reaching the sea. In the lower valleys nothing is now visible except the traces of their former presen
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