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Show An Arctic Railway. The most northern railway In the world Is the line irom Navlk, In Norway, Nor-way, across Lapland, connecting the Baltic with the Atlantic and giving access ac-cess to valuable ore deposits, It reaches lltltudc ti9 deg- 27 mln., and thus1 lies within the Arctic circle. The White Pass railroad in Alaska reaches a latitude lati-tude of 60 deg: The -total distance irom Navlk, on Ofoten' fiord, to Lulea, on thft Gulf of Bothnia, Is 483 kilometers, or 300 miles. At Boden, not far from Lulea, the new railway Intersects the Swedish railway system, extending southward on the '. one hand to Stockholm and tho rest of the peninsula, and on the other to St (Petersburg and the whole network of ' Russian railways. From Navlk to St. ' Petersburg, a distance og 1800 kilome- '. tors, there is now continuous railway communication, and from St. Petersburg Peters-burg on over the line of the Siberian ' railway to Vladivoatock. By the com- ' pletlon of this railway line across Eu- '. rope and Asia connecting by rail the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans 1b achieved, the distance being 11,900 kilo- ' meters, or about 7-100 miles, and at the ' average speed of thirty kilometers per 1 hour, the Journey from ocean to ocean -may be made in about sixteen days. |