LAND OF THE WORLD
in our school days wo learned tha\ water covers three-fourths of the earth’s surface, and land the other fourth. This statement daites back to a time when very little was known about the distribution of land and water in the polar regions, and needs to bo considerably, revised in. (the light of reoent discoveries. Taking account x of the results of the latest polar ex-' peditions, Professor Wagner estimates that the ratio between land and water ‘ is 1242; in other words, that about three-sevenths of the earth’s surface is land, and the rest water. This estimate assumes that only 10 per cent. ' of the surface north of latitude 80 degrees north is land; ,an assumption that may be considerably modified by the forthcoming exploration* of the great unknown region north of British America and Eastern Siberia.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8810, 13 August 1914, Page 6
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140LAND OF THE WORLD New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8810, 13 August 1914, Page 6
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