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n. - An altimeter that uses the boiling point of water to determine land elevation.

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  • According to the hypsometer and our aneroid barometer we were at a height of 11,075 feet — this was in lat.
  • Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys.
  • Other things we left there were a sextant with a glass horizon, a hypsometer case, three reindeer-skin foot-bags, some kamiks and mits.
  • From 88º 25 'S. the barometer and hypsometer indicated slowly but surely that the plateau was beginning to descend towards the other side.
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