The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 2 AUSTRALASIA. great oceanic depression covers about one half of the surface of the earth.* South of the three continental extremities—Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, and Tasmania—the belt of waters stretches uninterruptedly in a circuit of 15,000 to 16,000 miles. Moreover, the marine depression extends far to the north beyond the equator, developing to the east of Africa the vast basin of the Indian Ocean, and east of Australia and Asia the still more extensive basin of the Pacific Ocean. If the continental masses, taken colle
The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 2 AUSTRALASIA. great oceanic depression covers about one half of the surface of the earth.* South of the three continental extremities—Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, and Tasmania—the belt of waters stretches uninterruptedly in a circuit of 15,000 to 16,000 miles. Moreover, the marine depression extends far to the north beyond the equator, developing to the east of Africa the vast basin of the Indian Ocean, and east of Australia and Asia the still more extensive basin of the Pacific Ocean. If the continental masses, taken collectively, be compared to a half crater, whose contour, beginning at the Cape of Good Hope and terminating at Cape Horn, comprises the Ethiopian highlands, the Himalayas, and the Andes, the ' Great Fig. 1.—The Geeat Oceanic Hemisphere (Western Section). Ocean,' as Fleurieu calls the united Indian and Pacific waters, will be found to completely flood this immense semicircle. The total sweep of this semicircle of inner shores exceeds 24,000 miles, that is to say, the length of the terrestrial circum- ference at the equator. Edward Suess has brought into hill relief the striking contrast presented by the Atlantic and Pacific,.the former presenting no lofty coast range round its periphery, while the latter washes with its abysmal waters the very foot of the encircling escarpments. But is this writer not mistaken in * Total oceanic area, according to Kriimmel Great ocean, with Atlantic and Arctic Seaa Ai'ea of dry lands .... 148,000,000 square miles. 112,000,000 57,000,000 ,, .,
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