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Download or read book Commander Islands (Classic Reprint) written by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Grebnitsky and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Commander Islands In the North of Behring Isl. Along the western shore there are sand-hills. The largest sand-hills in breadth and height are those near the Nicolsky village, as they are almost perpendicular with the mountain chain; they extend as far as the N. W. Cape, interrupted in this extension by two basaltic eruptions. The sand-hills situated towards the South of the colony are parallel with the mountain chain and lie direct upon it. The distribution and growth of the sand-hills still continues at the present time; they fill the swamp, raising its level and moving into the sea, increase the space of shallow shore, always moving the port of the village. On Copper Isl. There are only two places known, where there are sand-hills; there they connect with the mountain chain, the S. Eastern part of the copper-island, which was formerly a separate island, and a small mountain-chain, lying separately, is connec ted with the range. The nature of the shore, the alluvial sand was the means of giving its name to some places called Sand-bays (there are several on the island). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.