Mount Everest = Sagarmāthā (Sagarmatha) = Chu-mo-lung-ma Feng (Qomolangma) / John B. Garver, Jr., chief cartographer ; National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration.
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
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1988.
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| Physical Description: | 1 map : color ; 73 x 53 cm, folded to 23 x 15 cm |
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Sagarmāthā (Sagarmatha) [Parallel title]
Chu-mo-lung-ma Feng (Qomolangma) [Parallel title] |
| Cartographic Data: | Scale 1:50,000. 1 cm = 0.393701 in. 1 m. = 3.280833 ft. ; Transverse Mercator projection, origin meridan 87°E (E 86°50'--E 87°00'/N 28°05'--N 27°55'). |
| Format: | Map |
| Note: | Relief shown by contours, shading hachures and spot heights. Contour interval 40 m., index contours 400 m. Panel title. Includes glossary of Chinese, Tibetan, and Nepali terms. Joint research effort with the Henry S. Hall Jr., Everest Fund of Boston's Museum of Science, with the support of His Majesty's Government of Nepal, National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, the People's Republic of China. On verso: High Himalaya: a computer-generated landscape portrait, produced by the Cartographic Division. Text, col. ill., inset "High-tech land-cover mapping." Supplement to the National Geographic, November 1988, page 652A, volume 174, number 5. Cartographic material. |
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| Call Number: | 400-c A-1988 (Mt. Everest) Map G7822.E8 1988 N3 Map |