4 ; Mountain ranges have an effect on Z adjoining oceans. Thus, the level of y : the Bay of Bengal is several hundred r. | feet higher than that of the Indian J i Ocean as a whole, because of the proxu imity of the Himalayas. On the west e coast of South America the level of’ s the Pacific is a third of a mile above l- i that of the Atlantic on the east, beI cause of the great range of the Andes.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 955, 27 December 1933, Page 5
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