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Added by Media Influence Map · 30 September 2026
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Book · 1864
The expedition enters the earth through the crater of Snæfellsjökull in Iceland and emerges through Stromboli, and the novel draws on the geology and palaeontology of its day for what it finds below.
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