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- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian ... The Sea provides an important link between the neighboring areas of ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- The Caribbean Sea is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part ... The sea's deepest point is the Cayman Trough, between Cuba and ...13 KB (1,964 words) - 18:09, 14 November 2021
- Sea lion is the common name for various eared seals currently comprising ... Seven species, including one recently extinct (the Japanese sea lion ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- The Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea separating the Italian ... The sea's western coast runs the length of Italy, while the eastern ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 06:18, 15 June 2023
- movement, specifically when Antarctica and South America moved apart during ... feared because of their year round peril to sea faring vessels. ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- and walruses), and several otters (the sea otter and marine otter). Some ... The cetaceans and sirenians are completely aquatic. Sea otters, although ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- South Korea or Republic of Korea, is located in East Asia at approximately ... Surrounded on its other three sides by water, South Korea has 2,413 ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- size and a more pointed snout than the sea lions in the same family ... species and variously known as either fur seals or sea lions. ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- in seven genera commonly known either as sea lions or fur seals. ... been hunted for their furs, while sea lions have been trained for ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- The Bering Sea is the northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean that ... The Bering Sea is separated from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- off eastern Siberia along a general north-south axis, Florida-like, between ... to a giant fish, with the head at the south. The population density is ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- Oxley was appointed surveyor-general of New South Wales in 1812, and retained ... appointed Surveyor-General of Lands in New South Wales. In April 1815, he ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:02, 3 August 2022
- Hallasan (한라산, 漢拏山), a shield volcano on Jeju Island of ... is presently about 100 m (300 ft) below sea level in that area. Eruptions ...6 KB (934 words) - 22:48, 3 August 2023
- on September 2, 31 B.C.E., on the Ionian Sea near the Roman colony of Actium ... warships through the straits toward the open sea. There he met the fleet of ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 05:41, 15 June 2023
- A fjord (or fiord) is a long, narrow deep inlet of the sea bordered ... the climate warms and glaciers retreat. Sea level rises due to an influx ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- The Aral Sea (Kazakh: Арал Теңізі, Aral Tengizi, ... , Russian: Аральскοе мοре) a landlocked endorheic sea ...21 KB (3,162 words) - 21:29, 11 August 2023
- The Sea of Galilee or Lake Kinneret (Hebrew ים כנרת), is Israel ... River, which flows through it from north to south. The lake is situated deep ...16 KB (2,502 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- through the Great Rift Valley into the Dead Sea. The Jordan River, with the ... From its source to its Dead Sea destination 124 miles away (200 kilometers ...11 KB (1,837 words) - 07:37, 27 February 2023
- periods (such as the current epoch). A sea that lies over a continental ... sharply, called the shelf break. The sea floor below the break is called ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- the lake was originally part of the Baltic Sea that separated from the main ... commercial conduit between the Baltic Sea and the Volga River. In order ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- The Caspian Sea (Russian: Kaspiyskoye More; Persian: Daryaye Khezer ... processed into caviar, come from the Caspian Sea. In recent years dessication ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 14:23, 29 November 2023
- in Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, and South America. The Sea Otter (Enhydra ... predators as foxes, wolves, and raptors. Sea otters are a keystone species ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or ... (28,400,000 mi²), including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре; English ... This expansive sea—611,000 square miles (1,583,000 sq km)—is considered ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) to the south is the Antarctic Circle, ... solstice up to about 90 km (56 miles) south of the Arctic Circle; similarly ...9 KB (1,433 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- Africa and close relatives, the llamas, in South America, and the predictions ... During sometime in the Oligocene, South America was finally separated ...6 KB (898 words) - 00:21, 18 November 2022
- square kilometers between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea ... interior comes to an abrupt end at the Red Sea, where coral reefs along the ...12 KB (1,929 words) - 22:24, 29 January 2023
- is equidistant from both the North Pole and South Poles and divides the Earth ... *The South Temperate Zone, between the Tropic of Capricorn and the ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 08:03, 23 January 2023
- death adders, and, in some taxonomies, sea snakes. Elapids are found ... eels in the case of the partially marine sea kraits and fish, squid, and ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- The South Pole, also known as the geographic South Pole or Terrestrial ... The South Pole is a central site for environmental research and provides ...23 KB (3,208 words) - 15:38, 4 February 2023
- consider the sixth population in the Laptev Sea to be a third subspecies, ... days at a time either on land or in the sea. Diving to depths of 90 meters ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- of Independence as a representative of South Carolina. Of the 56 Signers ... Lynch, Jr. was a third generation public servant in South Carolina ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- than in both the earlier and later eras, and sea levels rose up to 200 meters ... and Eurasia, while Gondwana split into South America, Africa, Australia ...11 KB (1,570 words) - 10:34, 10 March 2023
- as continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe ... as shorelines vary with changes in sea level. Coastal islands may ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- (otarids) and include fur seals and sea lions. As with all pinnipeds ... larger, and faster swimming than the sea otters, which have retained ...18 KB (2,671 words) - 02:44, 21 April 2023
- Henry Hudson (September 12, 1570s – 1611) was an English sea explorer ... unknown regions in search of a commercial sea route to the Indies. Yet his ...9 KB (1,487 words) - 15:22, 25 January 2023
- Ganghwa Island, the fifth largest island in South Korea, sits in the ... #039;s highest point at 469 meters above sea level, and offered sacrifices ...8 KB (1,114 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- or streams mixes with saltwater from the sea. Estuaries are often associated ... means "tide" or "boiling (of the sea)." ...10 KB (1,449 words) - 04:23, 22 March 2024
- ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa. It is ... the great optimism engendered by opening a sea route to the East. ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley on the sea floor of the ... were carved during glacial times, when the sea level was about 200 meters ...14 KB (2,019 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- Mifratz Eilat) is a large gulf of the Red Sea. It is located to the east ... The Gulf of Aqaba, like the coastal waters of the Red Sea, is one ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- seas and the Caucasus Mountains on the south; and the Ural Mountains. ... many years Europe was divided on a North-South axis. With the southern Mediterranean ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- minimize the by-catch. Preservation of the sea bed, including the spawning ... is towing the trawl along or close to the sea floor. Bottom trawling can ...14 KB (2,235 words) - 14:52, 2 May 2023
- in 1640 and 1641 and to Palembang in the south of Sumatra in 1642, where ... of the Dutch East Indies. Proceeding south he skirted the southern end ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the ... Countries bordering the Black Sea are Turkey to the south, Bulgaria ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- The Baltic Sea is a semi-enclosed inland sea located in Northern Europe ... Similar to the Black Sea, the Baltic is one of the most brackish bodies ...25 KB (3,903 words) - 03:20, 17 September 2023
- is the only self-governing province in South Korea; situated on and coterminous ... Jeju-do lies at the confluence of the Korea Strait, the Yellow Sea ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- (7000 B.C.E. to 3200 B.C.E.) sites in South Asia. Archaeological digs ... left with burials of males. Ornaments of sea shell, limestone, turquoise ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- (as an offering to Tangaroa, god of the sea). Another longstanding example ... Holt, published a seminal work on North Sea commercial species fisheries ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 17:26, 28 March 2024
- This inland sea of some 251,000 km² is connected to the Gulf of ... line (North Field in the Qatari sector; South Pars Field in the Iranian ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- and islets within the Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Irish Sea, Celtic Sea, and ... ten degrees of latitude on its longer north-south axis. Geographically, the ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and ... America, and Oceania but are sparse in South America, Africa, and Antarctica ...13 KB (2,017 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- Dias died at sea in 1550, in a storm off the Cape. Just over a century ... court. The family is said to have had a sea-faring history. Dias was well ...10 KB (1,706 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- The Sunshine Policy was the foreign policy of South Korea towards ... improved climate from the authoritarian South Korean regimes before 1992 ...14 KB (2,030 words) - 13:54, 28 April 2023
- Beringov proliv) is a formidable sea strait linking the icy Arctic ... The Strait connects the Chukchi Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean) in ...18 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- on the relative importance of land power and sea power in world history... ... significance of navies (he coined the term sea power) in world conflict. ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 12:53, 5 November 2022
- the Upper Peninsula of northern Michigan, south of Sault Ste. Marie. It then ... the floor of an Ordovician-Silurian tropical sea. There the constant depositing ...10 KB (1,467 words) - 23:26, 14 November 2022
- in the south within the country limits. The Belize Barrier Reef is a ... The sea is predominantly shallow north of Belize City, forming a flat ...15 KB (2,336 words) - 08:54, 27 September 2023
- One of the foremost Buddhist temples in South Korea, Haeinsa has housed ... Haeinsa has been interpreted "Reflections of the Calm Sea" ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- navigation, it connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (connected ... it as "ox-ford" or "shallow sea ox passage" and associated ...18 KB (2,647 words) - 14:59, 9 February 2022
- archipelago at the extreme southern tip of South America, separated from the ... Half of this island, and the islands west and south of it, are part ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole. It is from this point ... an important point of calculation, for the sea-going navigator it is simply ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 07:25, 6 September 2023
- The Andes is South America's longest mountain range, forming ... rising to 22,834 feet (6,960 m) above sea level. The summit of Mount ...15 KB (2,126 words) - 19:59, 26 July 2023
- on Alaska's North Slope. It extends from the Beaufort Sea on ... and wolves, nine marine mammals such as sea lions, seals, and otters, ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 06:21, 12 August 2023
- to the "precious blue-green color of sea water." Several varieties ... Emeralds are also found in the Transvaal, South Africa; Minas Gerais, Brazil; ...5 KB (674 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route ... After the South Australian explorer, John McDouall Stuart, had reached ...8 KB (1,267 words) - 01:46, 16 December 2022
- is a mountain in the southern part of South Korea. It is often referred ... Peak," rises to 1,915 meters above sea level, making it South Korea ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 05:52, 5 April 2024
- Trimurti Sadasiva, carved in relief at the end of the North-South ... from Mumbai, sits about ten km from the south east coast of the island ...10 KB (1,412 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- Ocean from the Gulf of California (or "Sea of Cortés"). Surrounded ... the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez) on its west from ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- Table Bay, 5 miles (8 km) off the coast of South Africa, approximately 6 miles ... as a political prison during the days of South African apartheid. It was ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
- The Dead Sea ( البحر الميت , ים המלח , translated as Sea of Salt), is a salt lake lying on the border between ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- (skunks), as well as the pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses). ... attempting to drive bears from kills. The sea otter uses rocks to break ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- Zhang Wen Ming, (張文明) who traveled by sea to India and studied at Nalanda ... in India. Account of Buddhism sent from the South Seas and Buddhist Monks Pilgrimage ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 13:24, 4 February 2023
- Korea. The Parks host and protect many of South Korea's sacred, historical ... Oe (Outer) Seorak, Nae (Inner) Seorak, and South Seorak. has Buddhist temples ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:16, 11 March 2023
- the Garonne river to the Mediterranean Sea, thereby completing a continuous ... North America; Barbados and Trinidad off South America; Great Britain, Ireland ...19 KB (2,807 words) - 19:43, 7 February 2023
- sits on a small peninsula, belonging to the sea as much as to the land. Treacherous ... of a fortified city built by Europeans in south and southeast Asia, showing ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- amber occur with Anglo-Saxon relics in the south of England; and up to a comparatively ... the shores of a large part of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, the great ...17 KB (2,724 words) - 02:46, 24 July 2023
- from natural geologic seeps on the sea floor. [http://seeps.geol.ucsb ... same ways as seabirds. Oil coats the fur of sea otters and seals, reducing ...11 KB (1,519 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- from Greek mythology, means the "Sea of Atlas." The oldest ... Ocean (which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic), to the Pacific ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), ... both of which are sometimes known as "sea cows" for their grazing ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- of a sense of moral superiority over the South, that the right, the more ... were sent to Millen, Georgia, and Florence, South Carolina. By December, only ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 19:58, 26 July 2023
- shaped desert's apex is on the south. [[Image:NachalParan2.JPG ... Hebrew word for "dry" or "south" . While the origin ...13 KB (2,056 words) - 04:27, 11 March 2023
- Located on Mt. Tohamsan, in Gyeongju, South Korea, about one hour ... on the southern and northern walls. On the south wall are Mognyon, Kajonyon ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
- [[Image:South Africa-Eastern Cape-Gamtoos Valley-Alluvial Gravel01 ... annually carries 406 million tons of sediment to the sea, ...5 KB (763 words) - 08:15, 23 July 2023
- stored in Haeinsa, a Buddhist temple in South Gyeongsang province, in South ... of the wood. Artisans soaked the wood in sea water for three years before ...7 KB (985 words) - 17:42, 2 May 2023
- markets of the Orient, da Gama extended the sea route exploration of his predecessor ... Da Gama's voyage was successful in establishing a sea route from ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...16 KB (2,304 words) - 15:46, 27 April 2023
- seals, from the eared seals (fur seals and sea lions) of the family Otariidae. ... seal was nearly exterminated and monk sea populations were greatly depleted; ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 16:04, 10 October 2020
- The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- abalone), crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and sea urchins—and others including ... that were the "canaries of the sea" and alerted people to ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- Flynn. His family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, when Flynn was a young ... friend David Niven, Dodge City (1939), The Sea Hawk (1940), and Adventures ...9 KB (1,222 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- the Spanish Netherlands across the North Sea for a landing in south-east ... that had been constructed the length of the south coast of England. That same ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- * Gossypium barbadens – Creole cotton or sea island cotton, native ... Gossypium barbadens was cultivated in South America about five thousand ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- and Rome's loss of the Red Sea ports, Augustin F. C. Holl. Ethnoarchaeology ... before Christ. Rome's trade route by sea to southwest India opened ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- predator, which typically moves into the sea to begin a predatory/parasitic ... Not all lampreys can be found in the sea. Some lampreys are landlocked ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 20:56, 22 October 2022
- connecting the Danube with the Black Sea. After its completion, he ... a popular story called Cast up by the Sea. In 1869, he traveled with ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- Phillip was appointed Governor of New South Wales, the first European ... ==Governor of New South Wales== |right|250px|Arthur Phillip was the ...18 KB (2,828 words) - 17:36, 16 August 2023
- circulation cells. Other winds, such as sea breezes, are a consequence ... propel their ships from Europe to North and South America. Their name derives ...17 KB (2,718 words) - 10:56, 15 May 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,959 words) - 15:42, 30 April 2023
- Megalithic tombs are found from the Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts ... Dolmen sites fringe the Irish Sea and are found in southeast Ireland ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 16:38, 29 January 2024
- century C.E. Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as an important marketplace ... also controlled two harbors on the Red Sea: Adulis (near Massawa) and ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- (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 ...14 KB (1,970 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- 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 ...20 KB (3,138 words) - 19:56, 22 April 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 18:33, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 16:31, 10 November 2022
- 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 ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- Seoraksan (Mt. Seorak) is the third highest mountain in South Korea ... Taebaeksan range, and the third highest in South Korea after Hallasan (1,950 ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 23:58, 29 May 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 23:30, 29 July 2023
- studies in Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean ... *Parsons, Elsie C. [1923] 1969. Folklore of the Sea Islands, South ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:40, 13 February 2024
- that lasted less than 100,000 years. Sea surface temperatures rose ... Europe saw the Tethys Sea finally vanish, while the uplift of the ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 21:20, 9 February 2022
- 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.” ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:13, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- 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 ...28 KB (4,276 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- has a leathery texture. The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea ... eggs on land, including the highly aquatic sea turtles. ...24 KB (3,663 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 23:17, 21 October 2022
- Gang I sik, presumably on the present Bohai Sea. Already weakened by ambushes ... the Grand Canal connecting the north and south of China. The economic south ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 08:50, 19 December 2022
- consisting of rogue waves, fog, icebergs, sea ice, hurricanes, nor'easter ... in the Grand Banks both on or near the sea floor, as well as in the water ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 20:24, 13 September 2021
- low-grade metamorphic rocks represent deep-sea sediments eroded from the ... Gondwana started to drift towards the South Pole. Panthalassa covered ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- Spanish and the Portuguese along a north-south meridian 370 leagues west ... Bull, Aeterni regis, had granted all land south of the Canary Islands to ...16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- 668, marking the beginning of the North and South States period (남북국시대 ... Goguryeo emerged on the north and south banks of the Yalu (Amrok) ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- the solstice and found it to be 7°12' south. Assuming that the sun’s ... on the Tropic of Cancer, is not directly south of Alexandria, and that the ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- water have to take their livestock further south, to land mainly occupied ... been diverted to other nations from the Aral Sea under Soviet rule. ...11 KB (1,569 words) - 09:42, 15 January 2023
- the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea on the north, the Red Sea ... band of semiarid savannas called the Sahel; south of the Sahel lies lusher ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 16:15, 25 August 2022
- Huanghe (Yellow River) and extends out to sea in the form of the Shandong ... to the powerful state of Chu from the south. The state of Qi was, on ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- The city developed in the narrow gap between the Caspian Sea and the ... built near the western shores of the Caspian Sea, south of the Rubas River ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- off the east coast of North America and in the North Sea. ... to the Arctic Ocean, including the North Sea, areas around Iceland and ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- south of the Arabian Peninsula, the archipelago is 250 kilometers ... Globally significant populations of land and sea birds (192 bird species, 44 ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- in the Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea, but Steinwehr was essentially ... Commercial Relations between the North and South. Forgotten Books, 2017. ISBN ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:10, 15 June 2023
- for certaine that … it was the great South Sea, whereat we were exceeding ... a newe Passage Through the Great South Sea, and That way Sayled Round ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- The Amazon River of South America is the world's largest river ... ocean is notably lower a hundred miles out to sea. |right|250px|The ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 15:24, 19 August 2023
- On leaving the Oxford in 1676, he visited St. Helena, an island south ... a method to determine longitude at sea, but was also interested in ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- ) is an immense inland sea that penetrates deeply into northeastern ... portions of four U.S. states (Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, and ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- Earth's surface (the other being the South Pole, diametrically opposite ... While the South Pole lies on a continental land mass, the North Pole ...22 KB (3,376 words) - 10:05, 11 March 2023
- being over a thousand feet higher than the South Rim. The fact that the Colorado ... Temperatures on the North Rim are generally lower than the South Rim ...19 KB (2,919 words) - 20:27, 13 September 2021
- The Libyan Desert, also known as Great Sand Sea or Western Desert ... lies sixty kilometers southwest of Cairo, south to the Bahariya, Farafra ...13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- ruled over many of the islands of the Sulu Sea, in the southern Philippines ... rising Chinese demand for products from the sea, particularly trepang (sea ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- Africa and draining into the Mediterranean Sea, the Nile has flooded seasonally ... (the Atbara) joins it roughly halfway to the sea. From that point north, the ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- widely believed to have originated from the Caspian Sea with natural habitat surrounding the North, Baltic, Mediterranean, Black, Azov, Caspian, and ...13 KB (2,084 words) - 22:49, 18 October 2021
- the governments of China, North Korea, and South Korea are content to leave ... Its main peak measures 821 meters above sea level, has a length of 1500 m ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- Zhejiang and Shanghai municipality to the south. Its name comes from jiang ... over a thousand kilometers along the Yellow Sea, with the Yangtze River passing ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, separating the Sea of Okhotsk on the west from ... by seabird excrements and higher levels of sea salt. However, many of the ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- recently extinct species, Neovison macrodon (sea mink; synonym Mustela macrodon ... pressures on wild populations. The sea mink, for example, was hunted ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- typically at of at least 2,500 meters above sea level (AMSL). Due to the size ... and the largest in Argentina, is in the south, while Lake Viedma, ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
- that exploits the rise and fall in sea levels due to the tides, or ... the Bosporus, and numerous sites in south east Asia and Australia. ...18 KB (2,762 words) - 23:26, 30 April 2023
- and the High Atlas, as well as to the Mediterranean Sea. ... to the north and the Anti-Atlas to the south. As its name suggests, it ...12 KB (1,891 words) - 06:24, 21 August 2023
- Canal which was used to ship rice from South China to Peking and the collapse ... as the Taiping Rebellion was beginning in South China. His reign saw the ...12 KB (1,653 words) - 19:28, 21 August 2020
- which is greater for larger drops. At sea level and without wind, 0 ... of rain driven into the country by the south-western trade winds following ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 00:07, 8 December 2022
- in the world, at 12,507 feet (3,812 m) above sea level, and the largest freshwater ... in Venezuela is the only body of water in South America bigger than Titicaca ...14 KB (2,293 words) - 05:37, 4 March 2023
- successful Antarctic expedition to the South Pole between 1910 and 1912 ... mistake or design flaw, became locked in the sea ice at 70°30'S off Alexander ...24 KB (3,885 words) - 21:07, 16 April 2023
- Antilles, an island arc of the Caribbean Sea in North America. The country ... The islands' proximity to South America has influenced its culture ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- are extant, including Zhinanlu (Pointing South), a historical diary in poetry ... Song court take refuge on the islands in the sea, but Prime Minister Chen Yizhong ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 19:07, 21 November 2022
- south of Miami, and extend in an arc southwest by south and then westward ... form as the result of the drastic changes in sea level associated with recent ...27 KB (4,181 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- who have fled North Korea seeking asylum in South Korea or other nations. Immediately following the truce ending the Korean war, South Korea ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- the rivers San and Wieprz in what is now south-eastern Poland in the west ... fall of the Roman Empire, of which most of south-eastern Poland and western ...16 KB (2,454 words) - 03:54, 18 April 2024
- a final battle fought in Japan's Inland Sea. Yoritomo, however, became ... and his mother drowned themselves in the sea, followed by Taira Tomomori ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- The Pandyan kingdom was an ancient Tamil state in South India of unknown ... the Muslim Delhi Sultanate as it pushed south, and lost power in the sixteenth ...21 KB (3,154 words) - 06:36, 18 November 2022
- in Africa, the Italian empire dropped South across the Mediterranean ... of the notion of Mare Nostrum (Our Sea). Betts 1975, p.12. ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 06:22, 11 March 2024
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is ... tourism in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. After long negotiations ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 18:42, 13 July 2023
- The building's official address is 233 South Wacker Drive, Chicago ... The tourist entrance can be found on the south side of the building along ...13 KB (2,043 words) - 15:23, 14 May 2023
- of the Overland Monthly and author of South Sea Idylls, who urged Stevenson ... *Island Nights' Entertainments (aka South Sea Tales) (1893)- ...22 KB (3,551 words) - 01:41, 16 December 2022
- such as the Florida poems in North & South, would deal explicitly with ... her first volume of poems, North & South, in 1946, and served in the ...8 KB (1,277 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- capitals before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania ... capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania. ...23 KB (3,172 words) - 22:13, 25 January 2024
- most likely to be found resting in beds of sea grass or coral reefs, with ... prefer to live in sheltered areas, such as sea grass beds, coral reefs, or ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- the Canadian province of Ontario and on the south by Ontario's Niagara ... Lake Ontario has an elevation of 246 feet (75 m) above sea level ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea. Bert Rudels, The Physical Oceanography ... includes the North Pole region. Extending south to about 60°N, the ocean ...31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
- July 14, 1610), was a Spanish missionary in South America, belonging to of ... shows. Just nine years later, one of the South Sea Armada galleons was named ...8 KB (1,278 words) - 13:07, 5 September 2022
- District of Israel on the Mediterranean Sea coast, is a city of over 200 ... a site to build a new power station in the south of the country (eventually ...25 KB (3,733 words) - 04:02, 18 August 2023
- and black farmers in the Reconstruction South. He traveled extensively ... :Interwoven with waftures of wild sea-liberties, drifting, ...10 KB (1,503 words) - 14:34, 27 January 2023
- by the supercontinent of Gondwana to the south, the continent of Siberia ... Eurasia lay in the Northern Hemisphere. Sea levels were high worldwide ...10 KB (1,511 words) - 05:54, 25 August 2020
- and has very high salinity, far saltier than sea water. The Jordan, Weber, ... Although it has been called "America's Dead Sea", the ...23 KB (3,613 words) - 12:54, 22 January 2023
- South Korea's foreign relations have been shaped by its evolving ... rising from the rubble of the Korean War, South Korea now belongs among the ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- into Lebanon, east into the transjordan and south to the Dead Sea. Jeroboam ... boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, in accordance ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 08:00, 3 April 2024
- to the west, and Fujian province to the south. To its east is the East ... with its eastern border on the East China Sea, the province enjoys the booming ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- open space then crosses the large north-south street that originally marked ... Nahr-i-Behisht. The third pavilion from the south, the Khas Mahal, contains ...10 KB (1,606 words) - 02:24, 8 December 2022
- in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south. At its narrowest point it ... Charles to the north and Cape Henry to the south. The eastern shore is generally ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 18:31, 8 December 2023
- on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, and also in barren ... In Scandinavia, cairns have been used for centuries as trail and sea ...25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- a port on the Pearl River, navigable to the South China Sea, and is located ... traded frequently with foreigners by the sea routes. Foreign trade continued ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- venomous creatures in the world. The name sea wasp is also applied to Chironex ... nematocysts, being eaten by large fish and sea turtles. ...18 KB (2,631 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- While the expedition to the South Sea was being organized in Santa ... to information from the natives, the South Sea could be seen from the ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- Francis Drake was born in the parish of Crowndale, a mile south of ... At about the age of 13, Francis took to the sea on a cargo barque, becoming ...19 KB (3,035 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- surface above the normal reach of the sea and undercuts that are mostly ... the southernmost part of Barétous valley, South-West of France. ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- reportedly sold into slavery or drowned at sea. Legends of both miracles ... southwards towards the Mediterranean Sea, where they believed that ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- with extensive summer resort development. Sea kayaking and orca watching ... Gulf Islands and San Juan Islands in the south, and the Discovery Islands ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- Gyeongju is a city (see Subdivisions of South Korea) and prominent ... and social trends that have shaped modern South Korea. However, amidst these ...25 KB (3,647 words) - 14:22, 14 December 2021
- the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles ... as the gateway to Istanbul and the Black Sea from the Mediterranean. ...15 KB (2,333 words) - 07:43, 23 January 2023
- , the Japanese created a settlement at the south of the Oshima peninsula. ... of the Matsumae-han, which dominated the south of Ezochi until the end of ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- The Torres Strait Islanders are a sea-faring people. They have been ... bridge was most recently submerged by rising sea levels at the end of the last ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- plains, forming the border between New South Wales and Victoria. which drains most of inland Victoria, New South Wales, and southern Queensland ...26 KB (4,062 words) - 19:01, 10 November 2022
- a major channel connecting the Caribbean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. ... on the north and east, while the Caribbean Sea lies to the south and west ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- place in the minds of Koreans North and South. South Korea tends to emphasize ... and the haeshi (海市), the market facing the sea. * Hwandan Gogi ...10 KB (1,470 words) - 22:56, 23 April 2023
- chalumne) was found off the east coast of South Africa in 1938. It would ... a marine species. It was first found off of South Africa in 1938. Since 1938 ...26 KB (3,758 words) - 22:25, 7 January 2024
- Strait) is a channel at the southern tip of South America linking the Atlantic ... It continues to be used by ships rounding South America from the Atlantic ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- Two eco-regions cover the district, the South Western Ghats moist deciduous ... Sullivan, the Collector of Coimbatore just south of the Nilgiris, sent two ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... Hemisphere with the axes of the North and South Equatorial currents coinciding ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- estimated wild population of 500 to 1200 in South Florida. On March 20, 2007 ... The need to provide flood control to the new residents of South Florida ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 23:51, 24 March 2024
- in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado south into Mexico, where it empties ... the river clear, clean, and cold. Just south of the town of Page, Arizona ...24 KB (3,618 words) - 22:40, 7 January 2024
- volume of shipping in the Pacific and the South China Sea brought increasing ... fellow fishermen were caught in a storm at sea and shipwrecked on the deserted ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- systems, the Parakrama Samudraya or the Sea of Parakrama, constitutes ... matrimonial alliances with the stronger South Indian Kingdoms, those matrimonial ...12 KB (1,690 words) - 08:40, 24 November 2022
- a sparsely inhabited island group in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago ... located nearest the mainland of continental South America, and its surrounding ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 02:03, 8 September 2022
- ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel on top ... 1,300 feet high, dropping off to the Dead Sea, and the cliffs on the west ...14 KB (2,172 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022
- and Greenland to Iceland, the Barents Sea and as far south as the Bay ... the food chain, it too may be preyed upon by sea lions, orcas, sharks, and ...23 KB (3,573 words) - 13:25, 24 January 2023
- Kangjeng Ratu Kidul, the Goddess of the South Sea, with a founder of the ... of Ratu Kidul (Javanese Goddess of the South Sea) are said to be present. ...12 KB (1,955 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- on the southwest, and Tanzania to the south. The southern part of the ... kingdom, which encompasses a portion of the south of the country, including ...18 KB (2,666 words) - 23:11, 24 March 2024
- Rhodes's allies in Thrace and around the Sea of Marmara. ... Rhodes, an island state that dominated the south-eastern Mediterranean economically ...30 KB (4,711 words) - 00:32, 27 December 2021
- after the Battle of Chosin Reservoir to South Korea. After the Chinese ... that the North Korean army would push the South Korean army back far past ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- North Atlantic Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea (Hwang and Wehrly 2005). They ... Assessments of the stocks of the North and South Atlantic from the same period ...9 KB (1,355 words) - 17:46, 19 December 2022
- related sports, such as paddle-boarding and sea kayaking, do not require waves ... a swimming exhibition on behalf of the New South Wales Swimming Association ...15 KB (2,531 words) - 23:54, 26 February 2023
- France and the majority of his early life at sea; only in his mid-thirties ... stations throughout the Indian Ocean, South America, and the South Pacific ...22 KB (3,425 words) - 07:21, 10 August 2022
- Dam in Mozambique, which provides power to South Africa. There is also a smaller ... hills about 4,900 feet (1,500 meters) above sea level. Eastward of the source ...22 KB (3,457 words) - 21:14, 31 January 2024
- as precipitation, evaporation, melting of sea ice, and river inflow. ... Ocean (which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic). The Pacific ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- which were later also discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. ... Jewish residents of the countries to the south, and made several subsequent ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
- Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: VikingPenguin ... * Painter, John. Just James. Columbia: University of South Carolina ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
- many species of fish and birds, as well as sea turtles and sharks. At least ... to regrow lost limbs, in a manner similar to sea stars (Edgecomb 2002). ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
- who fought their way north to the Black Sea and eventually sailed back ... near the heart of Mesopotamia, far from the sea. They elected new leaders ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- of about 16 feet (five meters) above sea level, the islands that make ... over 350 miles (560 kilometers), north to south, has a total land area of ...20 KB (3,026 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
- of the Mutiny voyage, A Voyage to the South Sea, available from Project ... * [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15411 A Voyage to the South Sea ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea. It ... of Siberia may have migrated from the south, following reindeer migration ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 14:01, 20 May 2023
- of the English nation were not as skilled at sea-faring as their Scandinavian ... of Canterbury and the aldermen of the south-western provinces to buy ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 15:03, 18 May 2020
- part of Ecuador, a country in northwestern South America that claimed it in 1832. ... ====Baltra (South Seymour)==== During World War II Baltra was established ...33 KB (5,083 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- Dick and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to modern animated television ... islands of the Azores and Madeira, to the South Atlantic around southern ...27 KB (3,958 words) - 07:44, 24 January 2023
- southwest, a short distance away in the South China Sea. ... circuit, (or literally "Mountain-South" circuit) in 627 during ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- Kerry, in the province of Munster, in the south west of Ireland. ... with vegetation. He also encountered a sea monster, an adventure he shared ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- in which he sailed by raft 4,300 miles from South America to the Tuamotu Islands ... and the peoples and cultures of South America. During several exchanges ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, during the Battle ... effective helping develop a "New South" of business and industry ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2022
- ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles ... and Beauchene Island some distance to its south. Speedwell Island and George ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- If the Philistines are to be identified as one of the "Sea Peoples ... where he describes his victory against the Sea Peoples. The Peleset ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- Ocean, but also found in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and elsewhere ... catching nations in Asia are Indonesia and South Korea. Spain and France also ...16 KB (2,306 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- surface. They are closely related to the sea anemones, which are also classified ... Although corals can catch plankton and sea anemones can catch fish ...26 KB (4,043 words) - 19:01, 14 January 2023
- areas have been called alpine. A rise from sea level into the upper regions ... follows the watershed from the Mediterranean Sea to the Wienerwald, passing ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 08:34, 23 July 2023
- Rio Paraná in Portuguese) is a river in south-central South America, running ... it the second largest river system in South America, outranked only by ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 11:25, 11 March 2023
- *Sirenia – Sea cows *Cetacea - Whales and dolphins ==Ungulate features== ... *Tapiridae – Tapirs. Southeast Asia, Central and South America. 4 species ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 23:30, 11 November 2022
- Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or outside the normal jurisdiction ... " implicitly "to find luck on the sea." The word is also cognate ...24 KB (3,715 words) - 06:18, 24 November 2022
- navigation. The cardinal points are north, south, east and west. A compass ... Prior to the introduction of the compass, directions at sea were determined ...26 KB (3,954 words) - 00:20, 8 January 2024
- Sea (corresponding to the East China Sea), the South Sea (corresponding to the South China Sea), the West Sea (sometimes seen as the Indian Ocean ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- conducted, including Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and the ... began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950, and ...25 KB (3,635 words) - 06:33, 16 November 2022
- of the large island of Luzon, it faces the South China Sea. Since the fourteenth ... traders brought goods from China, the South Sea Islands and throughout ...13 KB (1,737 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
- Christian nations in India, discovered a sea route to India by circumnavigating ... of Christian population exist, namely in South India, on the Konkan Coast ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- narrow rocky ridge, which extends north and south for about two miles (three ... the town is at about 4,183 feet (1275 meters) above sea level. ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- and Canada, a few more in Central and South America, and three in Australia. ... * Subfamily Buteoninae--hawks (buzzards), true eagles, and sea-eagles ...15 KB (1,992 words) - 01:24, 16 January 2023
- again. Today, about one-third of the South Korean population is Buddhist ... Three Korean temples located near the sea have been dedicated to Avalokitesvara ...21 KB (3,080 words) - 04:34, 4 March 2023
- point is Mount Benara at 2,165 feet (660 m) above sea level. for tourists include hiking and diving. Sea turtles come to roost on the ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- of merman figure or fish-deity of the the Sea Peoples. Most popular images ... consistent with his worship by the so-called Sea Peoples. Archaeological finds ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- that ranged from poverty in the American South to the horror of Nazi concentration ... (1937), a book about conditions in the South during the Great Depression ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 03:53, 6 November 2022
- death adders, and, in some taxonomies, sea snakes. Elapids are a family ... Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Ghana, Togo, Benin ...12 KB (1,749 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- nearly a mile (5,155 feet/1.6 km) above sea level, only three miles (4 ... rich stocks of mussels, abalone and other sea life, and moving inland at ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- 40' - 77° 44' E latitude in the South 24 Parganas district in the ... and north-east October to mid-March and south-west westerlies prevail from ...14 KB (1,909 words) - 23:31, 26 February 2023
- from the Malabar coast (now Kerala) in South India, who follow Syriac ... according to tradition, were, from north to south: Palayoor near Guruvayoor/Kunnankulam ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- | image_caption = Parborlasia corrugatus from the Ross Sea ... The majority of nemertean worms live on or in the sea floor, with ...11 KB (1,500 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast ... States and Cuba and with the Caribbean Sea via the Yucatan Channel between ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 08:28, 8 January 2024
- of Silla, and are designated National treasures of South Korea. ... uncovered in the tumuli of Gyeongju, South Korea, the capital of Silla ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 06:29, 11 January 2024
- the states of Wisconsin and Michigan to the south, is the largest of North ... is called "Gichigami" (Shining Big-Sea-Water), but it is better known ...18 KB (2,634 words) - 23:19, 21 October 2022
- with Joseon. The Reunification of North and South Korea may bring a rebirth ... Korea (Korean: 한국 in South Korea or 조선 in North Korea, see ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- century, the Netherlands reigned supreme at sea, and dominated global commerce ... Much of Holland had been wrestled from the sea, making the Dutch masters ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- heading towards Florida, the Caribbean, and South America from points north. ... to everything from vengeful deities, sea serpents, even to the purported ...20 KB (3,000 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- Desphande (eds.), Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia (Ann Arbor: University ... in Margiana. Dahistan (east of the Caspian Sea) derives its name from this ...15 KB (2,317 words) - 20:43, 19 May 2020
- Oppian of Corycus, a Greek author wrote a major treatise on sea fishing ... with a long handle is used in the American South and Midwest for gigging bullfrogs ...23 KB (3,586 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- Archaic or Woodland cultures farther south; or that it was a fundamentally ... and Labrador are a part - on its south. On the west and north, Foxe ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), (Korean: 대한민국, ... peninsula at the end of World War II, South Korea achieved formal independence ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- Treaty of Apamea, 188 B.C.E.) in the eastern sea, Rome emerged as the dominant ... had gained control of the Italian peninsula south of the Po river. Unlike Carthage ...26 KB (4,140 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- stream, and Cape Vincent, New York on the south bank. From this point to ... The Saint Lawrence River itself includes Lake Saint-Louis south of ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- lakes include Great Salt Lake, the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and the Dead ... become attached to the global ocean. The Red Sea, for example, is thought to ...31 KB (4,835 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- history's most decisive, ending Ottoman sea-power as well assuring European ... the Ottoman fleet had won supremacy at sea led by admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- is a United States National Park located in south-central Utah. Established ... The fold forms a north-to-south barrier that has barely been breached ...19 KB (2,793 words) - 22:09, 25 November 2023
- to a shipbreaking yard, often on a beach in South Asia. Historically, shipbreaking ... Shipyards are constructed by the sea or by tidal rivers to allow easy ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), Journey To The Center ... in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, although no direct exchanges ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 21:07, 4 October 2022
- in Western Australia, 225 miles (360 km) south of Jakarta, Indonesia and ... The combined effects of the erosion of the sea cliff and each successive ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- However, their predecessors as rulers of the sea, the dolphin-like ichthyosaurs ... have been found in England, Mexico, South America, Australia, and the ...11 KB (1,490 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- hand, Germans had traditions of foreign sea-borne trade dating back to ... Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania), and German South-West Africa (now Namibia ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- in the world and the highest elevations in South America. ... at Chile's border with Peru, while the south stretches to the bend of ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 18:40, 19 August 2023
- the central plains of the United States. In South Africa and Namibia thousands ... important as much of the country lies below sea level. Many windpumps ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- described as terrapins, tortoises, or sea turtles as well. Precisely ... reptiles as turtles if they live in the sea; terrapins if they live in ...18 KB (2,557 words) - 05:27, 4 November 2022
- above sea level far from any settled towns, the minaret suggests at ... dynasty fell to the Kharizm, a people from south of the Aral Sea, in 1215 ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
- with 16 counties, including many of the South China Sea islands. ... just one island, but also some two hundred South China Sea Islands. The containment ...25 KB (3,616 words) - 16:53, 21 January 2024
- mostly of island groups that arose from the sea, as a result of hotspot volcanism ... Birds are relatively common, including many sea birds and some species of ...24 KB (3,239 words) - 23:47, 17 November 2022
- in tribute to his military expeditions in South America and Europe. The role ... trade, and he was reared to a life on the sea. He was certified in 1832 ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- in the lowland south. Temperatures average between 21|C ... *South Sumatra. ===Geography=== Kerinci Seblat National Park extends ...15 KB (2,127 words) - 18:18, 2 May 2023
- nature, the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a surviving, roughly contemporary ... this led to direct voyage from Aden to the South Western coast in 40 days ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- for a possession along the strategic Red Sea coast. After encountering ... The Gash River rises near Asmara, flows south, turns west and forms ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
- and where it erupted - whether into the sea, in an explosive cinder eruption ... ** Narooma Basalt, Narooma, New South Wales, Australia ** Samson's ribs ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 03:22, 1 January 2022
- above sea level in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, in the Rocky ... , Navajo, "Female River" (the direction south is female ...17 KB (2,584 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- conservationists. Her book Gifts from the Sea, a lyrical meditation upon ... were the first to fly from Africa to South America, and explored polar ...12 KB (1,917 words) - 06:54, 28 July 2023
- States forces for use against the state of South Carolina in the Nullification ... To get on the enemy's flanks by using sea power. Landing at Veracruz ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- a Phoenician colony. They dominated sea trade for at least 3,000 years ... reached the shores of the Erythraean Sea, having migrated to the Mediterranean ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley of south eastern Korea that coalesced ... northeast China (Manchuria), and an extreme south east part of Russia). When ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- The limestone under Miami formed as the result of drastic changes ... Beach County to Florida Bay. Most of the South Florida metropolitan area ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga is widely regarded ... Hills in Central Russia to the Caspian Sea. Four of the ten largest cities ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- second only to the Amazon Rainforest in South America. The dense rain forest ... Before continental drift opened the South Atlantic Ocean, the Congo ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 19:05, 15 May 2020
- Chun River and Sha Tau Kok River, 160 km south of the provincial capital ... temperate and mild in the autumn; the South China Sea buffers its climate ...24 KB (3,404 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- and standing 7,726 feet (2,355 meters) above sea level, it is the third highest ... of about 8000 feet (2440 meters) above sea level, on a plateau that is ...20 KB (2,986 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- the northwest, and Mozambique on the east, south, and west. The Great Rift ... The Great Rift Valley runs through the country from north to south ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- able to make a journey around the world by sea during his lifetime. Geographical ... familiarizing himself with the ways of the sea, skills that would later serve ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- by a powerful Baekje's forces to its south and west, found it most effective ... in an assault on Wiryesong, approaching by sea and river. Asin was expecting ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- to have extended his Empire to both sides of the Red Sea. ... The Queen of Sheba is mentioned as the "Queen of the South" ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- flow downhill, typically terminating in the sea or in a lake. In arid areas ... rivers can still be commonly seen in South Island New Zealand and on ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- potential ravages by storm waves from the sea. Although the most widely ... dune are harsh, with salt spray from the sea carried on strong winds. The ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- rises more than 8,565 feet (2611 m) above sea level and is sometimes called ... the island at 10,069 feet (3070 m) above sea level, is northwest of the ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- A vital crossroads between the north-south trade routes and east-west ... settled in the new capital Njimi further south of Kanem. By the thirteenth ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 02:36, 5 October 2022
- and fish, and in turn being eaten by fish, sea mammals, octopuses, and so ... million years ago, and became a significant sea predator in the Ordovician ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- States were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between ... a stranger was carrying. People who moved South needed luggage quickly and ...18 KB (2,758 words) - 00:57, 13 January 2023
- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... membership. The area, together with part of South Asia, had been widely known ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- after the Nile in Africa, and the Amazon in South America. The river is about ... rivers, and finally reaches the East China Sea at Shanghai. ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 00:54, 17 April 2023
- A submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to ... In 1849, C.V. Walker, electrician to the South Eastern Railway, submerged ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- wintering grounds in warmer regions to the south. However, other patterns ... migrants, and have little choice but to head south in winter. ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- The Sydney Opera House, located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ... Situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbor, with park land to its ...15 KB (2,320 words) - 01:54, 27 February 2023
- to Britain, where he returned to a life at sea in the Royal Navy. (McKay 2006) ... that suggest Equiano may have been born in South Carolina. Most importantly ...10 KB (1,546 words) - 00:02, 18 November 2022
- Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into ... of the Great Sioux Reservation to be all of South Dakota west of the Missouri ...27 KB (4,267 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- coast of Central America, on the Caribbean Sea, bordered by Mexico to the ... plains, in places heavily forested. The south contains the low mountain ...24 KB (3,475 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- Andalusia lies to the south of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha ... the north to the Sistema Penibetico in the south. The plain is fundamentally ...14 KB (2,046 words) - 19:54, 26 July 2023
- largest city of Guyana on the mainland of South America. The city is located ... Guyana is the third smallest country on the mainland of South America ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
- ecosystem as they bring nutrients from the sea back up into the mountains ... silvery blue of a fresh-run fish from the sea to a darker color. Their condition ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- is Mount Bates 1,047 feet (319 meters) above sea level, located in the northwest ... The park also includes the two smaller islands to the south of Norfolk ...20 KB (2,910 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara Desert. Geographically ... as geographically; the dark-skinned peoples south of the Sahara developed in ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South ... vast continent located in the far south of the globe to "balance ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- an island arc that seperates the Bering Sea in the north from the main ... 000 seabirds, rare Asiatic migrant birds, sea lions and fur seals. The Aleutian ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
- Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves ... Approximately 65 - 75 million years ago, a shallow sea teeming with ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 05:36, 26 August 2023
- rock faces. The cliffs above the Tarn, south of Bar Harbor on Route 3 ... to be rolled and rounded by the surf. Sea cliffs can provide beach material ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 07:17, 14 June 2023
- located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, is the capital, the largest ... spa complexes overlooking the Caspian Sea. However, scientists consider ...25 KB (3,739 words) - 05:50, 26 August 2023
- *South Asia: Conservation activities of South Asian Zoo Association ... *South East Asia: Conservation activities of South East Asian Zoo ...18 KB (2,585 words) - 06:10, 13 June 2023
- led by Deborah coming up from the south, diverted Sisera's attention ... their successful crossing of the Red Sea. The fifth chapter of the ...14 KB (2,226 words) - 08:58, 28 January 2024
- The North Sea is a marginal, epeiric sea on the European continental ... . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Pacific Ocean, 26 miles (42 kilometers) south of the equator. Nauru is ... basalt seamount. The volcano was eroded to sea level and a coral atoll grew ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, ... China. Being at the juncture of north and south, the lands comprising modern ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- Described as a tax collector working near the Sea of Galilee, Matthew ... Since Levi-Matthew worked near the Sea of Galilee (Mark 2:14), it ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Mediterranean Sea, extending southward to northern ... waters, but has been spotted as far south as Australia and New Zealand ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- black = north, blue = east, red = south, white = west, and yellow ... the northern littoral of the Black Sea, incorporating the indigenous ...11 KB (1,663 words) - 18:55, 30 August 2021
- famous Skyline Drive, which runs north to south for the length of the park ... of these sections is divided by a highway. South of Rockfish Gap, Skyline ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- Heritage Site in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Forming ... kilometers (100 ml) north to 65 km (40 ml) south of Sydney and from 55 to ...15 KB (2,192 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- Bronze Age Andronovo culture at the Caspian Sea. Their migration to and within ... race appears to have its origin in the Black Sea region. They migrated from ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- north, Liguria to the northwest, Tyrrhenian Sea to the west, Umbria and Marche ... The Tuscan Archipelago is a chain of islands between the Ligurian ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving ... in the form of apartheid came into play in South Africa. The city had a rather ...25 KB (3,503 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- The Congregational Church of South Butler, in New York, inducted Brown ... in 1871, and a collection of poetry, Sea Drift, in 1902. ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- of convicts going to work near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Dated 1842.]] ... and other criminals. New Caledonia in South Sea Melanesia received dissident ...21 KB (3,190 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- and maritime technology searching for a sea route to the source of the ... in 1266, focused on the Mediterranean Sea while the Portuguese Empire ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- Its surface averages 577 feet (176 m) above sea level, the same as Lake Huron ... *South Manitou Island *Washington Island *Rock Island ===Parks=== ...12 KB (1,735 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- Aleppo occupies a strategic trading point midway between the sea and ... through Egypt and the Suez Canal to the Red Sea. Since then, the city has ...14 KB (2,080 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- * Bligh, William. A Voyage to the South Sea. Project Gutenberg ... * [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15411 A Voyage to the South Sea ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- continuous repression by the Spanish in the south caused many of its financial ... Wars, against the Turks in the Mediterranean Sea, and against Protestantism ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- the land form. They are affected by changing sea levels and movement of offshore ... Long shore currents continuously transport sand south along Assateague ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 04:57, 18 August 2023
- face inundation if and when predicted sea-level rises occur. Already ... Australia in the Micronesian region of the South Pacific. The three main island ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- impacts, and nuclear weapons testing at sea all have the potential to ... they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing "hump ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- 10,000 years exist for river oak trees from South Germany (from the Main and ... of sediment deposition in a lake, river, or sea bed). The deposition pattern ...10 KB (1,580 words) - 09:41, 28 January 2024
- High elevations on mountains produce colder climates than at sea level ... cover 33 percent of Eurasia, 19 percent of South America, 24 percent of North ...28 KB (3,998 words) - 16:21, 17 January 2023
- measured by the height of its summit above sea level. The mountain, which ... Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, climbing the South Col Route. At the time, ...31 KB (4,841 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- on its west, with no natural outlet to the sea. The Great Basin Desert is ... in elevation are from 282 feet (86 m) below sea level in Death Valley to the ...18 KB (2,728 words) - 02:26, 19 December 2022
- 38th parallel and the United States to the south. The Soviet Union] refused ... The split of Korea into north and south has precedent in Korean history ...33 KB (5,024 words) - 16:59, 7 May 2021
- some months before in the wooded swamps south of New Orleans during a raid ... gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- Serbia was to be given access to the Adriatic Sea. :XII. Ottoman Empire ... :The establishment of an independent Poland with access to the sea. ...13 KB (1,920 words) - 06:38, 1 April 2024
- the Latin Australis, meaning "of the South." It is sometimes referred ... from its proximity to both East Asia and South Asia, and overall plays an ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- introduced in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America. The muskrat is found ... who dives to the bottom of the primordial sea to bring up the mud from which ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- designations: North Coastal, Central, and South Coastal. ... South Coast Salish lived in the Puget Sound Basin of Washington. George ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- one of the most important early cities of South Asia and the Indus Valley ... The most developed and advanced city in South Asia during its peak, Mohenjo ...14 KB (2,047 words) - 19:32, 9 November 2022
- The narwhal is a creature rarely found south of latitude 70°N. ... the ice covering the narwhal's Arctic Sea habitat (Broad 2005). Another ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- a British Overseas Territory located in the South Atlantic and consisting of ... day, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. Ascension ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- and have forged their identity from the sea. Recent prohibitions on fishing ... to the north and irregular capes and points to the south. ...22 KB (3,091 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- to Australia and New Guinea by land when sea levels were lower during the ... of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about 90 miles (140 km) south ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- [[Image:Sinwonsa_Saritab.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Sinwonsa Temple, South ... |#583 Jisan-ri, Habuk-myeon, Yangsan-gun, South Gyeongsan Province ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 06:43, 5 April 2024
- earth)—met the salt waters of the primeval sea goddess Nammu. Enki was the ... tradition in the form of the bronze "Sea" which stood before Solomon ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- unequal access to resources, including the sea, will continue to advantage ... of Bolivia, included access to the sea. Supporting their claims with ...34 KB (5,333 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- a small post in the Examiner's Office of the South Sea House. Its subsequent downfall in a pyramid scheme after Lamb left would be contrasted to ...7 KB (1,084 words) - 19:35, 4 December 2023
- a great plain of an oblong shape in the south. Fifty stadia (about 600 ... of the island. They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- Historically, there have been two main sources for common salt: sea ... it is possible to use solar evaporation of sea water to produce salt. Brine ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 15:04, 27 April 2023
- and warm oceans and lives in the open sea. The species is believed to ... specimen in Table Bay, South Africa. It was described the following ...14 KB (2,223 words) - 18:28, 17 April 2023
- a seventh century C.E. port city of the South Indian dynasty of the Pallavas ... temple grounds remained preserved from harm by the sea. ...31 KB (4,590 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- was known as the "Gateway to the South," and its capture opened ... front of Rocky Face Ridge, Johnston retired south towards Resaca. He had expected ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 11:49, 14 November 2021
- See History of Korea, History of North Korea, and History of South ... from fibers and decorating them with sea shells and stones. ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 11:25, 26 June 2022
- the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. To Hispaniola's southwest ... part of the island, extending from the south coast of the Dominican Republic ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 21:45, 31 January 2024
- indeed, Offa was considered the overlord of south Britain by Charlemagne. That ... Sussex and Wessex were the main polities of south Britain. More recent scholarship ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea south of the Anatolian peninsula ... of Northern Cyprus, separated from the south by the UN-controlled Green ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- of Abraham, 277 metres (909 ft) above sea level. It is located 50 miles ... route linking the Mediterranean world with South Arabia, East Africa, and ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 03:48, 9 November 2022
- suddenly wary of the Korean threat at sea. In at least 23 major battles ... Koreans had an accurate knowledge of the South Korean coast, and Admiral ...34 KB (5,442 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- the coastal villages are only accessible by sea or air. The stage is set for ... on the west coast, the Salish on the south and east coasts, and the ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies on its eastern ... the power centers of China by mountains and sea, Fujian became a easy target ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- its burden and shook the Earth off into the sea. However, the god Batara-Guru ... he vowed to sink Ra'iatea below the sea. Te-aho-aroa and Ro'o ...29 KB (4,785 words) - 17:53, 11 November 2023
- South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United ... Located in the north-central United States, South Dakota is bisected ...41 KB (6,101 words) - 15:37, 4 February 2023
- * islands of the South Pacific, including Australia, New Zealand, ... . He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated ...24 KB (3,586 words) - 05:58, 10 January 2023
- in many parts of the world, and especially South Asia, which has a large vegetarian ... In South Asia, lentils are known as dal, as are most sorts of dried ...19 KB (3,083 words) - 16:15, 14 November 2023
- ) and lies about 125 miles (200 km) south of the Black Sea. The city ... for the commerce of goods between the Black Sea ports, Crimea, Armenia, and ...15 KB (2,370 words) - 06:36, 28 July 2023
- a domesticated, gregarious, high-altitude South American ungulate, Vicugna ... a wide variety of textiles and ponchos in South America, and sweaters, socks ...16 KB (2,563 words) - 08:21, 23 July 2023
- quot; in his book, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.Quan Nhu, [http://www ... theme was: "It is time for North and South Vietnam to find a way to ...19 KB (2,907 words) - 18:34, 30 April 2023
- above mean sea level. ==Layout of the Sanctuary== {{Infobox_protected_area ... continuous ridges on the north, east, and south sides, surrounds them. On ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 01:17, 11 November 2022
- running from New Zealand to Hawaii. It lies south of Samoa, east of Fiji, and ... them inhabited, lying along a general north-south line about 800 km in length ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 03:57, 1 May 2023
- In 1455 the first Portuguese installation south of Cape Bojador (in present ... Several species of sea turtle and dolphin, used by the fishermen to ...16 KB (2,318 words) - 17:29, 10 February 2023
- people engage in agriculture in the wetter south. Gold and cotton are its ... Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the southwest ...15 KB (2,110 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- Dubrovnik, formerly Ragusa, is a city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- and slightly less than that from north to south, although at its peak, the ... on the Acropolis and its access to the sea, which gave it a natural advantage ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912–1913 ... the denial of access to the Adriatic Sea of another major sea power ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. Some geographers ... between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea ranging from about 350 to ...32 KB (4,189 words) - 17:46, 11 May 2023
- northwestern Europe, bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium ... precise, since the provinces of North and South Holland in the western Netherlands ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana ... north to south. Much of the region was home to Native American tribes ...26 KB (3,847 words) - 07:33, 4 January 2024
- [[Image:Gypsum Australia.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Gypsum from New South ... urism/heritage_whitesands.htm "Sea of Sand,"] The Albuquerque ...8 KB (1,054 words) - 21:52, 28 July 2023
- roughly 1,245 miles (2,000 kilometers) north to south. The climate varies from north to south and from west to east; a marine ...27 KB (3,890 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- known in Spanish as the Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich ... Some Argentinians occupied South Georgia March 19, 1982. Initially ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Its name is derived from ... visiting communities of prophets further south and later himself dwelt there ...10 KB (1,644 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- tons annually, most of this from the Scotia Sea. Most krill is used for aquaculture ... from the north to the Mediterranean Sea. The four species of the genus ...32 KB (4,630 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- an additional manpower resource that the South would not emulate until the ... that they were free to leave. Also, the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- Bruce—had raised a rebellion in the south-west, seizing royal castles ... landed at St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay. Here Margaret ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 05:29, 5 November 2022
- water supply is dependent on desalinization of sea water. ... coral shrimp, spiny lobsters, conches, sea urchins, sponges, porcupine ...23 KB (3,300 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- Kingdom located in the western Caribbean Sea. It is comprised of three ... British dependency located in the Caribbean Sea. Comprised of Grand Cayman ...26 KB (3,769 words) - 16:23, 3 December 2023
- the level of water moving into the North Sea from the Atlantic Ocean (Pierrot ... waters and shallow tide pools to the deep sea and polar regions. About half ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- In Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, Test cricket matches ... in all jurisdictions except the state of South Australia, where a public ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- town of Siem Reap, and a short distance south and slightly east of the ... prancing animals, and devatas, including (south of the entrance) the only ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 01:44, 9 January 2023
- frequencies centered in the area around the Sea of Japan, and particularly ... of the mountain (animals), then kamuy of the sea (sea animals), followed by ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 2023
- his pursuit of Andrea Doria in the Adriatic Sea, while capturing several fortresses ... new Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Red Sea Fleet based in Suez, Turgut ...33 KB (5,326 words) - 18:45, 6 November 2022
- and inundating coastal communities across South and Southeast Asia, including ... at a depth of 30 km (19 mi) below mean sea level (initially reported ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- Mexican volcanic belt. Popocatépetl, in south central Mexico, is in Puebla ... The monastic buildings, for the most part, were located to the south ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and Tambora ... At the north of the peninsula is the Flores Sea, and at the south is the 86 km ...27 KB (3,837 words) - 17:13, 6 December 2023
- . In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully ... in the early 1880s in the Natal province of South Africa, where his regiment ...20 KB (2,990 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- next king, Onjo and Biryu decided to head south with their people, along ... King Onjo moved the capital from the south to the north of the Han ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- where it eventually empties into the North Sea. Among the largest and most ... During its course from the Alps to the North Sea, the Rhine passes ...60 KB (9,463 words) - 23:58, 17 March 2023
- in all the oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. The species is relatively ... whale" (strictly, "sperm of the sea monster"). The common ...27 KB (4,253 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- South of the border lie the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila ... Over 135 million years ago, a warm shallow sea covered the Big Bend area ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 03:47, 1 October 2023
- inlet on the southeastern coastline of South America, extending ... Paraguay) covers approximately one fifth of South America, including area in ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- to have originated to the North of the Black Sea (today Eastern Ukraine and ... moving populations, summarized as the "Sea Peoples," leading to ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- , extending nearly 200 km (125 mi) from north to south and over 100 ... ** The entire South Alligator River * Six major landforms ...37 KB (5,617 words) - 02:27, 19 December 2022
- Relative Values, Nude with Violin and South Sea Bubble all failing to find much favor with critics or audiences. Despite this decline, he maintained ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 02:34, 16 November 2022
- in Tekoa, a town in Judah about six miles south of Bethlehem and 11 miles ... at Hazor, about ten miles north of the sea of Galilee, show that an unusually ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- of Mexico,Venezuela, Russia and the North Sea; by 1972, Conoco had diversified ... Indonesia, the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea. Research efforts resulted ...24 KB (3,330 words) - 18:20, 6 June 2023
- Its summit was 1,745 m (5,725 ft) above sea level, but only about 600 ... a height of up to 2,300 m (7,550 ft) above sea level, based on profile fitting ...24 KB (3,489 words) - 17:08, 10 November 2022
- by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the south-southeast, the Pacific Ocean ... Meridian. It borders both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 08:16, 10 January 2024
- weather was beginning to take hold. Rising sea levels swamped the coastal ... and habitat loss caused by a rising sea level that split the Santa ...14 KB (2,035 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- descended from an East African origin via South Asia, Central Asia, the Middle ... in the Middle East, near the Mediterranean Sea (Bar-Yosef and Vandermeersch ...8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
- about 40 to 55 miles (60km to 90km) of open sea. The three atolls are located ... un-named location about 16 feet (five meters) above sea level. ...17 KB (2,411 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- southern edge of Gdańsk Bay off the Baltic Sea, and is the central city within ... The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea ...22 KB (3,336 words) - 06:28, 18 April 2024
- Empire expanded as far as Sri Lanka in the south, and Kalinga (Orissa) in ... Pandyas in Malai-nadu (the west coast of South India) had been made. The ...31 KB (4,346 words) - 00:09, 8 December 2022
- harvest marine resources at a site along the Red Sea coast. ... on the northeast and east by the Red Sea. It is bordered by Sudan in ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- capital of Istanbul and provide a secure sea route for military and agricultural ... land trade routes to Europe, while no easy sea route existed. The White Sea ...37 KB (5,841 words) - 21:41, 25 June 2022
- and are made for specialized purposes. Sea kayaks, for example, are built ... of the Arctic Ocean, North Atlantic, Bering Sea, and North Pacific oceans ...36 KB (5,715 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- the triton and nereid who accompany the sea-god are not haloed. ... On painted wares from south Italy, radiant lines or simple halos appear ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South. ... Georgia is bordered on the south by Florida; on the east by the Atlantic ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 15:40, 29 November 2022
- with a few more species in Central and South America, and three in Australia. ... Bald eagles are part of a group of eagles known as "sea eagles ...30 KB (4,424 words) - 04:17, 11 January 2023
- for 410 miles (673 km) in a general north-south direction and averages 50 ... Since the surface of the lake lies 2,515 feet above sea level and ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 23:20, 21 October 2022
- of about 3.65 million, Busan is also South Korea's second largest ... War. The United Nations troops were driven south to Incheon, near Busan, and ...19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
- to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. The word "Ghana" ... descendants of that ancient empire migrated south and east and currently reside ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- Albatrosses range widely in the Southern Ocean (South Pole Ocean or ... where it can then glide back down to the sea. Albatross have high glide ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- to the northeast, Plateau to the east and south, Kogi to the southwest, and ... The city is 1180 feet (360 meters) above sea level. The city has several ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- before being eventually washed out to sea. The ritual precinct may only ... stm Parsis turn to solar power] BBC News South Asia, July 18, 2001. ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- in Africa, the Middle East, India, South East Asia, the Pacific Islands ... C.E. to 1910 C.E.), never to return to the south. However, Choe and other ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, 50 miles (80 km) northwest ... are considerably more battered by the sea and have been left largely ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic ... arc of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, 692 kilometers (430 miles ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- the black coral and swims jamantas, sharks, sea turtles and thousands of other ... in an area called Lajes, a broad, flat sea terrace that had been a farm ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- highly saline lakes in the Coorong region of South Australia. Dolomite crystals also occur in deep-sea sediments, where the content of organic matter ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 16:38, 29 January 2024
- and Marcory (also poor areas) lie to the south, Abobo-Doume and Yopougon ... Bassam Wharf, the current Port Bouët, south of the metropolitan area ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- Mae (Solmoe), Chu’ung-Chong Province (in South Central Korea. At the age ... That same year, he crossed the Yellow Sea to Shanghai, where he was ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 17:52, 27 July 2023
- After the Bantu expansion, many of the great kingdoms of South Africa ... in Rwanda, Angola, Burundi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, with some among other ...25 KB (3,899 words) - 07:30, 20 September 2023
- ships of the line west of Cape Trafalgar in south-west Spain. The French and ... Britain's sea-power would continue through until the end of World ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- dam, and various hunting lodges on the south side of the Senegal River. ... Located south of the city of Ndar, the Fauna Reserve of Gueumbeul ...21 KB (2,973 words) - 18:57, 22 December 2022
- above the plain and 1069 meters (3,507 ft) above sea level. ... of these dreaming tracks lead as far as the sea in all directions. ...28 KB (4,287 words) - 01:31, 3 May 2023
- retain warm moist air originating from the sea. As a result, the area has ... example of Chinese subtropical forests and South Chinese rain forests' ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- known as the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, was the largest naval battle ... battles: The Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, the Battle of Surigao Strait ...48 KB (7,546 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... sloping pastures, with many good views down to the sea coast. ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- of the country. Liaoning borders the Yellow Sea (Korea Bay) and the Bohai ... and Qian Shan ranges, which extend into the sea to form the Liaodong Peninsula ...23 KB (3,109 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- The Republic of South Africa, most commonly referred to as South Africa ... South Africa experienced a significantly different evolution from ...35 KB (4,809 words) - 15:13, 27 April 2023
- Migrating birds and sea turtles, as well as human sailors following ... permanent magnets have both a north and a south pole. (Magnetic poles always ...54 KB (8,712 words) - 10:50, 9 March 2023
- Columbus. Other Europeans arriving in South America called the same culture ... the Caribs, from whom the Caribbean Sea gets its name. Easily dominated ...23 KB (3,719 words) - 18:05, 20 January 2024
- embracing each other within the primeval sea. Ninhursag/Ki is thus both ... while the mother goddess Nammu, the primeval sea goddess, makes different kinds ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- eastern coast. Tianjin borders Hebei to its south and northeast, while Beijing ... Pacific Ocean. It serves a vital role as a sea passage route to Beijing, ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- and land mammals make the Island their home, sea ice discourages marine mammals ... ice, with Manson Icefield and Sydkap in the south; Prince of Wales Icefield ...20 KB (2,966 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- and Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America. A ship sailing from ... de Lesseps, began construction on a sea-level canal (without locks ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- in both the Americas (North, Central, and South America) and in East Asia ... Mexico and Central America to southern South America (McDiarmid et al ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- the Summer Solstice, was Watcher of the South. Antares, marking the Autumn ... with the four quarters of north, east, south, and west. In some Traditions ...12 KB (1,932 words) - 20:02, 31 January 2023
- large valley that stretches from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. ... Rekem is an ancient name for Petra and appears in Dead Sea scrolls ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- up the tree (and surrounded by an impassable sea), and the underworld nestled ... Given that the river Tanaquisl was understood to flow into the Black ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ... completed his internship and met South African missionary Robert ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- River, it served as a gateway to the South American heartland, and was ... upon a promontory 141 feet (43 meters) above sea level on the left bank of ...19 KB (2,690 words) - 18:39, 19 August 2023
- by North Vietnamese, American, and South Vietnamese military forces—fighting ... on men and material being moved into South Vietnam over the Ho Chi Minh ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- Fogo, which reaches 9,281 ft (2,829 m) above sea level. Peaks on Santo Antão ... it is cool and dry, with temperatures at sea level averaging 70°F (21°C ...19 KB (2,758 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- Harbour.JPG|thumb|250 px|Dover Castle Kent, south coast of England, overlooking ... weaknesses. They include invasion by land, sea, or air, or any combination ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- The first part, All Rivers Run in to the Sea, appeared in 1995, and the ... Ethiopian Jews, the victims of apartheid in South Africa, Argentina's ...25 KB (3,747 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- watched as the water receded, revealing a sea floor littered by lost cargo ... affected by the catastrophe. Throughout the south of the country, in particular ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- ==Expeditions to South America== [[Image:Conquest peru 1531.jpg|thumb ... The first attempt to explore western South America was undertaken ...25 KB (4,083 words) - 04:54, 9 April 2024
- Churchill, on Hudson Bay, is the only Canadian Arctic Sea deep water ... American states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south. ...41 KB (6,242 words) - 11:07, 9 March 2023
- New Guinea is a large island located north of Australia, and south ... severed about 10,000 years ago due to rising sea levels that overflowed the ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- in the city of Shimonoseki, on Japan's south island of Kyūshū, where ... would serve to make Russia a great sea power, on top of the strength ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- decided to transfer his operations to the south of the peninsula,John Bagnell ... An attempt to relieve Naples by sea was badly bungled when Totila ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 04:44, 1 May 2023
- a landlocked country entirely surrounded by South Africa. The name Lesotho ... industry. Lesotho is working jointly with South Africa in the preservation ...23 KB (3,416 words) - 00:48, 7 March 2023
- Amsterdam, located in the south of the province North Holland in the ... Ships sailed from Amsterdam to the Baltic Sea, North America, Africa, and ...29 KB (4,176 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea served as the principal harbor ... 270 m from east to west and 200 m from north to south *Byblos Wax Museum ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
- Rio Grande do Norte states. Located in the South Atlantic Ocean, they are ... Located in the open ocean between the South American and African continents ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- by the Canadian province of Ontario, on the south by the U.S. states of Ohio ... a mean elevation of 571 feet (174 m) above sea level. It has a surface area ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 23:16, 21 October 2022
- Gadsden Purchase extended U.S. territory south of the Gila. ... and Imperial valleys on the north and south side of the Salton Sea respectively ...22 KB (3,316 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- South America [[Image:LocationSouthAmerica.png|190px]] {| style="background: ... South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- in Nanortalik Municipality in the extreme south near Cape Farewell. The terrain ... The Atlantic Ocean borders Greenland's southeast; the Greenland ...37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
- warmer waters. Steering west and then south along the North American ... the Mohawk River, its major tributary. Just south of there is the Hudson River ...23 KB (3,395 words) - 12:16, 4 February 2023
- ), or "Way of the Sea." It became an important military ... nearby, just a little less than 1 km away to the south. ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- Sea level measured by coastal tide gauges may also be strongly affected ... A tide is a repeated cycle of sea level changes in the following stages: ...37 KB (5,992 words) - 23:32, 30 April 2023
- " Dacia was a large district of South Eastern Europe, bounded on ... as the Danube, where it runs from north to south at Waitzen (Vác). Julius ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. She became famous when ... Naval Staff and the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral K. P. ...35 KB (5,047 words) - 18:20, 22 December 2022
- iseki), with its shell mounds, including sea oyster shells and buried human ... remained a vital connection, by land and sea, between Yamato (modern day ...25 KB (3,427 words) - 19:39, 20 July 2023
- Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is one of South Africa ... the first permanent European settlement in South Africa. ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- Atlas Mountains), and much of Asia, as far south as Indonesia, and has been ... Novosibirsk), the boundary turned steep south, encircled the Altai Mountains ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- relation to the Deben estuary and the North Sea, and their relation to other ... Woodbridge. About 7 miles (15 km) from the sea, it overlooks the inland waters ...29 KB (4,604 words) - 00:30, 27 February 2023
- life. Known as "rainforests of the sea" and "oases in the ... "Saving rainforests of the sea: An analysis of international ...54 KB (8,146 words) - 03:01, 8 January 2024
- site in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north ... destruction of the palaces is related to the Sea People who destroyed the Hittite ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- the Rimutaka Range to the Wairarapa (the south-eastern corner of the North ... his canoe (waka) or Te Waka a Maui was the South Island. To the Maori, the ...30 KB (4,384 words) - 20:30, 18 January 2024
- the Drakensberg mountains, embedded between South Africa in the west and Mozambique ... In 1949 the British government rejected a South African request for ...20 KB (2,991 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- a notorious English pirate in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic during ... or Jamaica as his home. Teach went to sea at an early age. He served ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- he co-wrote the screenplay for Way Down South. Further hopes by Hughes ... *The Big Sea. New York: Knopf, 1940 *Famous American Negroes. 1954 ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- the northern region of Korea, from just south of Pyongyang. The Unified ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- during the seventh voyage and was buried at sea off the Malabar coast near ... its naval power to the maritime states of South and Southeast Asia. The Chinese ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
