A GREAT PORT IN THE FAR EAST.—AII eyes have been on Vladivostok, the great port of north-eastern Asia. The name Vladivostok signifies Power or Sovereign of the East and the town lies on the undulating slopes of several hills at the south-west end of a peninsula projecting between the Amur and and Ussuri Bays into Peter the Great Bay. The fortified naval and commercial harbour is formed by the irregular, land-locked bay of the Golden Horn, a fine stretch of deep water, four miles long and over half a mile wide, the entrance to which is commanded by Russian Island and a number of islets.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 726, 27 July 1929, Page 21
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105A GREAT PORT IN THE FAR EAST.—All eyes have been on Vladivostok, the great port of north-eastern Asia. The name Vladivostok signifies Power or Sovereign of the East and the town lies on the undulating slopes of several hills at the south-west end of a peninsula projecting between the Amur and and Ussuri Bays into Peter the Great Bay. The fortified naval and commercial harbour is formed by the irregular, land-locked bay of the Golden Horn, a fine stretch of deep water, four miles long and over half a mile wide, the entrance to which is commanded by Russian Island and a number of islets. Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 726, 27 July 1929, Page 21
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