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  • 3,900 to 4,900 feet (1,200 to 1,500 m) above sea level are realized in the ... desert the foreboding nickname of "The Sea of Death." While the ...
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  • circulation cells. Other winds, such as sea breezes, are a consequence ... propel their ships from Europe to North and South America. Their name derives ...
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  • Megalithic tombs are found from the Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts ... Dolmen sites fringe the Irish Sea and are found in southeast Ireland ...
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  • Round The World by Way of the Great South Sea (1726), by Captain George ... killed one of these birds on entering the south sea, and the tutelary spirits ...
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  • century C.E. Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as an important marketplace ... also controlled two harbors on the Red Sea: Adulis (near Massawa) and ...
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  • (50 mph), it struck about 115 km (70 mi) south of Chittagong in Bangladesh ... Akash made landfall about 115 km (70 mi) south of Chittagong. The storm ...
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  • usually in protected lagoons. Akoya, South Sea, and Tahitian are the three ... and two to four years for Tahitian and South Sea. This mariculture process ...
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  • flows through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea at Alexandria. The Blue Nile ... The Blue Nile flows generally south from Lake Tana and then west across ...
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  • A skeleton of Tylosaurus proriger from South Dakota included remains of ... similar to that used by the conger eel or sea snakes today. The animal may ...
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  • Seoraksan (Mt. Seorak) is the third highest mountain in South Korea ... Taebaeksan range, and the third highest in South Korea after Hallasan (1,950 ...
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  • of China and empties into the Bohai Sea. The Yellow River basin has ... the Loess Plateau. If it is running to the sea with sufficient volume, 1 ...
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  • strain then being grown in Trinidad and South America, even though Spain ... new flagship of the Virginia Company, the Sea Venture, on which Rolfe, his ...
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  • studies in Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean ... *Parsons, Elsie C. [1923] 1969. Folklore of the Sea Islands, South ...
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  • to Vân Đồn district, bordered on the south and southeast by the Gulf ... island on the west, Ba Hầm lake on the south and Cống Tây island on ...
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  • that lasted less than 100,000 years. Sea surface temperatures rose ... Europe saw the Tethys Sea finally vanish, while the uplift of the ...
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  • a constant island of aridity surrounded by a sea of climatic change. The arid ... of the river that does not have a mouth toward the sea.” ...
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  • between Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea, and Suez (al-Suways) on the ... land between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. The canal comprises two parts ...
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  • in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of South America.[http://www.dfg.ca ... El Niño and La Niña are officially defined as sustained sea surface ...
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  • has a leathery texture. The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea ... eggs on land, including the highly aquatic sea turtles. ...
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  • it La Mer Douce, the sweet or fresh-water sea. A Sanson map in 1656 refers ... lake if you include the saline Caspian Sea). It contains a volume of ...
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