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124:"We were now about to cross the famous 'Bam-i-Dunya', 'The Roof of the World' under which name the elevated region of the hitherto comparatively unknown Pamir tracts had long appeared in our maps. Wood, in 1838, was the first European traveler of modern times to visit the Great Pamir,"
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With the awakening of public interest in Tibet, the Pamirs, "since 1875 ... probably the best explored region in High Asia", went out of the limelight and the description "Roof of the World" has been increasingly applied to Tibet and the
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Le Toit du Monde (Pamir), voyage extrême orient. Illustré de 31 Vignettes et d'une Carte,
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Original Roof of the World
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398:Le Sueur, Alec (2003-01-01).
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1808:Arctic Ocean
1750:Persian Gulf
1745:Indian Ocean
1726:Adriatic Sea
1691:Arctic Ocean
1523:Amazon Basin
1518:Amazon Plain
1490:Near Oceania
1295:Mid-Atlantic
1245:Aridoamerica
1205:Northwestern
1118:Northwestern
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983:Greater Iran
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1550:The Guianas
1439:Australasia
1382:West Indies
1310:New England
1290:Great Lakes
1260:Mesoamerica
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1123:Scandinavia
1012:Middle East
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558:First World
511:'s primary
231:Mount Imeon
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1736:Ionian Sea
1731:Aegean Sea
1701:Baltic Sea
1633:Antarctica
1485:Micronesia
1454:New Guinea
1412:Portuguese
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1285:East Coast
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780:Antarctica
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538:Down Under
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469:The Pamirs
441:2017-04-17
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158:Der Große
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1706:Black Sea
1665:Australia
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164:Tien-Shan
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1648:by area
1604:America
1581:Islands
1431:Oceania
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1255:Central
1222:Romance
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702:Saharan
648:America
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61:epithet
1947:Global
1937:Arctic
1876:Rivers
1854:Other
1788:Oceans
1643:Europe
1599:Africa
1392:French
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