Almost arcwise connectivity in unicoherent continua (Q1059883)

\textit{K. R. Kellum} has proved that a continuum is an almost continuous image of the interval [0,1] if and only if it is an almost Peano continuum [ibid. 11, 293-296 (1980; Zbl 0433.54026)]. Hence, a continuum is an almost continuous image of [0,1] if it has a dense arc component. Our principal result is that any almost arcwise connected, semi- hereditarily unicoherent, metric continuum with only countably many are components has a dense arc component. An example is given to show that this is not true for unicoherent continua in general. It is also shown that any semi-hereditarily unicoherent continuum with only countably many arc components has at most one dense arc component, and if it has a dense arc component, then every other arc component is nowhere dense. This generalizes results of Fugate and Mohler for \(\lambda\)-dendroids.