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Argentine plateau
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patagonia
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Patagonia is an extinct genus of non- placental mammal from the Miocene of Argentina . Traditionally considered a metatherian incertae sedis , more recent analysis have shown it to be a gondwanathere . It is the youngest allothere species known.
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Population (2000): 881 Housing Units (2000): 498 Land area (2000): 1.192704 sq. miles (3.089090 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.192704 sq. miles (3.089090 sq. km) FIPS code: 53490 Located within: Arizona ...
Usage examples of patagonia.
I have no doubt whatever the event occurred on the coast of Patagonia, but still I will have inquiries made in Glasgow, as to the destination of the BRITANNIA, and we shall know if it is possible she could have been wrecked on those shores.
June, 1862, the three-mast vessel, BRITANNIA, of Glasgow, has sunk on the coast of Patagonia, in the southern hemisphere.
As soon as they grew calmer they asked a complete string of questions, and Lady Helena recounted the whole story of the document, telling them that their father had been wrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and that he and two sailors, the sole survivors, appeared to have reached the shore, and had written an appeal for help in three languages and committed it to the care of the waves.
DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination.
Pampas in Patagonia are as much Indians as the natives of the Punjaub.
Oh, I make no question that the Geographical Society would have sent me to Patagonia as soon as to India, if I had sent in a request to that effect.
He would insist that Patagonia without Patagonians was not Patagonia at all.
It was much cooler, thanks to the violent and cold winds from Patagonia, which constantly agitate the atmospheric waves.
Harry Grant, from this very Patagonia so distinctly named in the document.
The natural inference is that, as far as regards Patagonia, our interpretation of the document was erroneous.
No other coast but the western coast of Patagonia could possibly, we thought, have been the scene of the shipwreck.
That was a plausible enough theory in Patagonia, but not in the part of Australia intersected by the 37th parallel.
After Patagonia, after Australia, his imagination, allured by a name, flew to New Zealand.
The names Patagonia, Australia, New Zealand, had appeared to him in turn with absolute certainty.
As soon as the DUNCAN had re-provisioned, she sailed along the coast of Patagonia, doubled Cape Horn, and made a swift run up the Atlantic Ocean.