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Title: A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Leonard
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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mmands the Sound. It has a populationof about half a million, which is not quite one-fifth of thetotal population of the country. The city is built on anarrow strait between Zealand and the small island ofAmager which gives it a protected harbour, the best inthe country. Its command of the Sound has made ita great collecting and distributing centre for the produceof the Baltic region, and particularly for Swedish andRussian dairy produce. The second great route of Denmark also passes throughCopenhagen. The construction of the Kiel Canal was agreat blow to Denmark, both strategically and com-mercially. To meet the new competitor the Danes havedeveloped a means of quick transport, without break ofbulk, from the west Jutland port of Esbjerg, to Malmoand Stockholm in Sweden. This is accomplished bymeans of railway trains and ferry boats, the latter being I90 EUROPE used to transport the trains across the two Belts andthe Sound (see Fig. 56). Aalborg^ on Liim Fiord and Aarhuus^ on the east
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THE MAPPA CO . LTD LONDON Fig. 56.—Denmark. coast of Jutland, are small ports engaged in cattle andgrain trade. The Faroe Islands (= Sheep Islands), an isolatedgroup of volcanic islands lying midway between theShctlands and Iceland, support about 18,000 people,whose occupations resemble those of the Orkney and i HOLLAND 191 Shetland Islands—?. <:. shccp-rcaring, fishing, etc. Theybelonj^ to Denmark. Iceland. Iceland, whose area is equal to that af Ireland andWales combined, is a very mountainous island. Itselevation, combined with its high latitude, results inthe greater part being covered with snow-fields andglaciers. The only inhabited areas are small lowlandsin the south and south-west. These have been built upof glacial debris brought down by rivers. Elsewhere thecoasts are high, and in their deeply indented characterresemble the coasts of Norway. The island is largelybuilt of basalt, which suggests volcanic activity, past orpresent. There are scores of volcanoes, active or

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