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Place-names in the Soviet Arctic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Terence Armstrong
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There are places in the Soviet Arctic which on English maps and in English literature are called by three or four quite different names. The confusion to which this state of affairs leads is obvious. Yet it is not too difficult to establish a set of principles which might be generally used as a guide in putting Russian Arctic place-names on English maps.

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Polar Record , Volume 5 , Issue 39 , January 1950, pp. 408 - 426
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1950

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