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Knutzen Peak [SEP] continent | Knutzen Peak
Knutzen Peak is a sharp, rocky summit of elevation standing on the north edge of Taylor Ledge in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts Branscomb Glacier to the east and south.
The peak was named by US-ACAN in 2006 after Donald H. Knutzen, topographic engineer with the U.S.... | as the prediction had been made a year earlier in the “Leipziger Gelehrte Anzeigen”. He also suggested that Knutzen had not sufficiently proved the respective identities of the 1698 and 1744 comets. Knutzen and his students ignored Heyn's reference to Euler, just as they did Euler's original criticism.
Knutzen's unders... | 13,700 | zeroshot-train |
Komini Peak [SEP] continent | Komini Peak
Komini Peak ( \'vr&h ko-'mi-ni\) is a peak with an elevation of on the north slopes of Levski Peak, in the Tangra Mountains, in Livingston Island, Antarctica.
The peak has precipitous rocky western slopes and was first climbed by Lyubomir Ivanov from Camp Academia by way of its 212-m high western rock wall ... | by Lozen Saddle to Lozen Nunatak, Erma Knoll and Aheloy Nunatak.
The peak is named after the Bulgarian Zograf Monastery on Mount Athos.
First ascent by Lyubomir Ivanov from Camp Academia on 31 December 2004.
Location.
The peak is located 1.33 km north by west of Lyaskovets Peak, 4.26 km east by south of Pliska Peak, 1.... | 13,701 | zeroshot-train |
Kosar Point [SEP] continent | Kosar Point
Kosar Point () is a snow-covered headland forming the westernmost extremity of the Eroica Peninsula, situated in the southwest portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. it was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947 and mapped from these photographs by the Falkland Island... | - Week 3 – Sep 19 L 19–16 vs Cleveland Browns
The Raiders dominated the Browns early and led 13–0. Defensive tackle Chester McGlockton intercepted a Bernie Kosar pass which set up one of the Raiders two field goals. After that the Browns defense pressured Hostetler by sacking him six times and holding him to just 94 ya... | 13,702 | zeroshot-train |
Kostinbrod Pass [SEP] continent | Kostinbrod Pass
Kostinbrod Pass (, ‘Kostinbrodski Prohod’ \'ko-stin-brod-ski 'pro-hod\) is the ice-covered saddle of elevation 1100 m separating Doyran Heights from Flowers Hills in Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. It is part of the glacial divide between Valoga Glacier and Sikera Valley.
The pass is ... | features/
- Beloslav Peak
- Goreme Col
- Guerrero Glacier
- Hansen Glacier
- Hough Glacier
- Johnson Spur
- Kostinbrod Pass
- Manole Pass
- McPherson Peak
- Midzhur Peak
- Mount Benson
- Mount Havener
- Mount Mohl
- Mount Tuck
- Prosenik Peak
- Remington Glacier
- Sikera Valley
- Taylor Spur
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Kotick Point [SEP] continent | Kotick Point
Kotick Point () is the southern entrance point to Holluschickie Bay, on the west coast of James Ross Island, Antarctica. The name, recommended by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, arose from association with Holluschickie Bay: Kotick was the name of "The White Seal" in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle B... | as turning point for the company. In the early 1990s, LCI expanded its operations and began television production in 1992. This would include English-dubbing Japanese anime through its subsidiary 4Kids Productions, which the company would be mostly known for.
In 1987, Robert Kotick (now President and CEO of Activision ... | 13,704 | zeroshot-train |
Kouperov Peak [SEP] continent | Kouperov Peak
Kouperov Peak () is a peak rising to at the south end of the Demas Range in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for ionospheric physicist Leonid Kouperov... | 17-June-1985, peak 2-June-86)
- 46 weeks - "+" - Ed Sheeran (debut 3-Oct-11, peak 13-Aug-12)
- 45 weeks - "Crowded House" – Crowded House (debut 28-July-86, peak 8-June-87)
- 45 weeks - "The Dutchess" – Fergie (debut 25-Sep-06, peak 30-July-07)
- 43 weeks - "Escape" – Enrique Iglesias (debut 12-Nov-01, peak 26-Aug-02)
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Krause Point [SEP] continent | Krause Point
Krause Point () is a low, ice-covered point in Antarctica, fronting on Davis Sea midway between Cape Torson and Cape Filchner. It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Glenn R. Krause, a photogrammetrist wit... | - H. Klingenberg, "Die Runeninschrift aus Bülach". In: Helvetia archaeologica, 7, 1976, 116-121.
- S. Opitz, "Südgermanische Runeninschriften im älteren Futhark aus der Merowingerzeit". Freiburg i.Br. 1977.
- W. Krause, H. Jankuhn, "Die Runeninschriften im älteren Futhark". Göttingen 1966.
- J. H. Looijenga, "Runes aro... | 13,706 | zeroshot-train |
Kristin Peak [SEP] continent | Kristin Peak
Kristin Peak () is a peak rising to over at the north end of Giggenbach Ridge on Ross Island, Antarctica. The feature is south of Cape Tennyson. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2000) after Kristin Larson, who has participated in support activities to the United States Antarctic P... | Courland (b. 6 August 1940)
- Prince Michael Biron von Courland (b. 20 January 1944) married to Kristin von Oertzen on 1 July 1969, and has issue:
- Princess Veronika Biron von Courland (b. 23 Jan 1970)
- Prince Alexander Biron von Courland (b. 18 Sep 1972)
- Princess Stephanie Biron von Courland (b. 24 Sep 1975)
Title... | 13,707 | zeroshot-train |
Kvitkjølen Ridge [SEP] continent | Kvitkjølen Ridge
Kvitkjølen Ridge () is a rock ridge between ice filled Kvitsvodene Valley and Ising Glacier in the Sverdrup Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39). The ridge was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air... | (Ed.), "Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History". New York: Checkmark Books. .
External links.
- Korean War Map of N. end of Bloody Ridge: Heartbreak Ridge, Mungdung-ni Valley and Hill 1179
External links News.
- Allies Capture 'Bloody Ridge' - Toledo Blade, Sep. 5, 1951
- Yankees Seiz... | 13,708 | zeroshot-train |
LaForrest Rock [SEP] continent | LaForrest Rock
LaForrest Rock () is a rock outcrop west of the mouth of Strom Glacier, along the low, ice-covered north slopes of the Duncan Mountains, Antarctica. This area was first explored and mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30. The rock was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for B.A. ... | Laforrest H. Thompson
Laforrest H. Thompson (January 6, 1848 – June 22, 1900) was a Vermont attorney and politician who served as President of the Vermont State Senate and a Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
Biography.
Laforrest Holman Thompson was born in Bakersfield, Vermont on January 6, 1848. He was educated at... | 13,709 | zeroshot-train |
Lacuna Island [SEP] continent | Lacuna Island
Lacuna Island () is a small island lying east of Tula Point, the northern end of Renaud Island, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It was mapped from air photos obtained by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd, 1956–57, and was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee because the island lies in a lacuna (a g... | lack of water and fertile soil made the region unsuitable for colonisation.
Change of name.
After British colonisation, the name "New Holland" was retained for several decades and the south polar continent continued to be called "Terra Australis", sometimes shortened to "Australia". However, in the nineteenth century, ... | 13,710 | zeroshot-train |
Larsen Glacier [SEP] continent | Larsen Glacier
Larsen Glacier () is a glacier flowing southeast from Reeves Neve, through the Prince Albert Mountains and entering the Ross Sea just south of Mount Crummer in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the South Magnetic Party of Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, who follow... | Nils Larsen Glacier
Nils Larsen Glacier () is a glacier descending to the west coast of Peter I Island close northward of Norvegia Bay. In February 1929 the crew of the Norvegia carried out a series of investigations of this island, landing on February 2. Named for Nils Larsen, captain of the Norvegia. | 13,711 | zeroshot-train |
Laseron Islands [SEP] continent | Laseron Islands
The Laseron Islands are a chain of small ice-capped and rocky islands lying east of Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under Douglas Mawson, who named them for Charles F. Laseron, taxidermist with the expedition.
See also... | )
- Laplace Island
- Lapteva Island
- Larrouy Island
- Laseron Islands ()
- Lauff Island
- Låvebrua Island
- Lavoisier Island
- Law Islands
- Latady Island ()
- Lecointe Island
- Leeve Island
- Leningradskiy Island
- Léonie Island
- Léonie Islands
- Lesidren Island
- Leskov Island
- Levy Island
- Lewis Island
- Liard I... | 13,712 | zeroshot-train |
Law Promontory [SEP] continent | Law Promontory
Law Promontory in Antarctica was named after Phillip Law, who flew over and photographed this feature in February 1954.
The promontory is about long, situated just west and north-west of Stefansson Bay. This feature appears to have been first mapped with an accuracy by William Scoresby in February 1936. ... | " promontory on Oronce Fine's world map, and indicates that the Dieppe Maps appear to have conflated Marco Polo's Greater Java with Fine's "Regio Patalis" and "Brasielie Regio". On the Dieppe Maps, the great promontory of (Greater Java) extends, like the "Regio Patalis," northward from the Austral continent. The evolut... | 13,713 | zeroshot-train |
LeMay Range [SEP] continent | LeMay Range
The LeMay Range () is a mountain range long with peaks rising to , extending in a northwest–southeast direction from Snick Pass to the north side of Uranus Glacier in the central portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was first seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and the north ... | SAC Forces West of the 180th meridian.
Career Chief of staff to General Curtis E. LeMay.
Sep 1952-Sep 1956
The assignment which did most to shape his subsequent career was that of chief of staff, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, in September 1952, a post he held until September 1956... | 13,714 | zeroshot-train |
Lemaire Channel [SEP] continent | Lemaire Channel
Lemaire Channel is a strait off Antarctica, between Kiev Peninsula in the mainland's Graham Land and Booth Island. Nicknamed "Kodak Gap" by some, it is one of the top tourist destinations in Antarctica; steep cliffs hem in the iceberg-filled passage, which is 11 km long and just 1,600 metres wide at its... | Detour Island
Detour Island () is an island lying west of False Cape Renard, on the west side of Lemaire Channel in the Wilhelm Archipelago. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 because the islan... | 13,715 | zeroshot-train |
Leningradskiy Bay [SEP] continent | Leningradskiy Bay
Leningradskiy Bay is an indentation in the ice shelf fringing Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, immediately west of Lazarev Ice Shelf. Leningradskiy Island is at the head of the bay. It was mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1959 and named by them for the Russian city that at that time was named ... | Ostryy Point
Ostryy Point () is a projecting point of the ice shelf that fringes the coast of Queen Maud Land. The feature forms the west side of the entrance to Leningradskiy Bay. Mapped by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1959 and named Mys Ostryy (angular point). | 13,716 | zeroshot-train |
Linton-Smith Nunataks [SEP] continent | Linton-Smith Nunataks
The Linton-Smith Nunataks () are a group of nunataks between Jennings Promontory and the Reinbolt Hills on the east side of the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica. They were first photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47), and the position was fixed by intersection from the Corry Rocks and R... | Smith Nunataks
Smith Nunataks () are two nunataks close together, lying 5 nautical miles (9 km) north-northeast of Whitmill Nunatak in the northwest part of Grossman Nunataks, Palmer Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1961–68, and Landsat imagery, 1973-... | 13,717 | zeroshot-train |
Longstaff Peaks [SEP] continent | Longstaff Peaks
The Longstaff Peaks () are a series of high peaks standing just west of Davidson Glacier in the north-central part of the Holland Range in Antarctica. They were discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04), and named "Mount Longstaff" for Llewellyn Wood Longstaff, a principal contri... | Sunburst Peaks
Sunburst Peaks is a mountain summit located in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Wedgwood Peak, to the south. The mountain is situated immediately southeast of Sunburst Lake, west of Lake Magog, and south of Cerulean Lake.
H... | 13,718 | zeroshot-train |
Loren Nunataks [SEP] continent | Loren Nunataks
The Loren Nunataks () are a line of low nunataks standing east of the Rivas Peaks in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Name... | Ridge
- Gambacorta Peak
- Hannah Ridge
- Heiser Ridge
- Hill Nunatak
- Hinckley Rock
- Hudson Ridge
- Jones Valley
- Kaminski Nunatak
- Kinsella Peak
- Loren Nunataks
- Madey Ridge
- Meads Peak
- Median Snowfield
- Miller Valley
- Mount Bragg
- Mount Cowart
- Mount Dover
- Mount Ege
- Mount Feldkotter
- Mount Hawkes
- ... | 13,719 | zeroshot-train |
Lozen Saddle [SEP] continent | Lozen Saddle
Lozen Saddle (Lozenska Sedlovina \'lo-zen-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is a 437 m high saddle situated between Lozen Nunatak and Zograf Peak in Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica which provides overland access from the Wörner Gap area to the Shipka Valley. The sadd... | References.
- Lozen Saddle. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links.
- Lozen Saddle. Copernix satellite image | 13,720 | zeroshot-train |
Luna-Devyat' Mountain [SEP] continent | Luna-Devyat' Mountain
Luna-Devyat' Mountain () is a mountain, high, forming the eastern end of the Eidshaugane Peaks in the Humboldt Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was discovered and plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39, and was mapped from air photos and surveys by th... | Francisco de Sales Arrieta Ortiz (13 Jul 1840 – 4 May 1843) Died
- Francisco Javier Luna-Pizarro y Pacheco de Chávez (24 Apr 1845 – 4 February 1855) Died
- José Manuel Pasquel Losada (28 Sep 1855 – 15 October 1857) Died
- José Sebastian Goyeneche y Barreda (26 Sep 1859 – 19 February 1872) Died
- Manuel Teodoro del Vall... | 13,721 | zeroshot-train |
Lyddan Island [SEP] continent | Lyddan Island
Lyddan Island is an ice-covered island located at the southwestern extremity of the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, separating it from the Brunt Ice Shelf, about off the Princess Martha Coast of Antarctica. It is about long and has three narrow arms in the form of a trefoil. It was discovered and plotted by W.R.... | Bakewell Island
Bakewell Island is a small ice-covered island near Princess Astrid Coast and east of Lyddan Island in the south part of the Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf. The island was discovered November 5, 1967, in the course of a U.S. Navy Squadron VXE-6 flight over the coast in LC-130 aircraft, and was plotted by the Un... | 13,722 | zeroshot-train |
Låvebrua Island [SEP] continent | Låvebrua Island
Låvebrua Island is an island, high, lying east of South Point, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica. It was charted by a British expedition under Henry Foster, 1828–31. The name was given by Norwegian whalers operating from Deception Island, and was in use as early as 1927; it ... | )
- Laplace Island
- Lapteva Island
- Larrouy Island
- Laseron Islands ()
- Lauff Island
- Låvebrua Island
- Lavoisier Island
- Law Islands
- Latady Island ()
- Lecointe Island
- Leeve Island
- Leningradskiy Island
- Léonie Island
- Léonie Islands
- Lesidren Island
- Leskov Island
- Levy Island
- Lewis Island
- Liard I... | 13,723 | zeroshot-train |
MacKay Peak [SEP] continent | MacKay Peak
MacKay Peak is an ice-covered pyramidal peak rising to 770 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is linked by Pleven Saddle to Tervel Peak to the east-northeast, and surmounts Peshtera Glacier to the north and Charity Glacier to the south.
Th... | " (2004/Sep)
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- "Tails of Love" (2009/Jun) (with Lori Foster, Stella Cameron, Kate Angell, Dianne Castell, Ann Christopher, Marcia James, Donna MacMeans, Sarah McCarty, Patricia Sargeant)
- "Time travel romance"
- "Irish romance"
Bibliography As Allie Mac... | 13,724 | zeroshot-train |
Magdalena River [SEP] continent | History.
Due to its geographical position in the north of South America, the Magdalena River was since precolumbian times a route towards the interior of today Colombia and Ecuador. Several Carib speaking peoples such as the Panche and the Yariguí ascended through the western bank of the river, while its eastern portio... | oldest airline.
After Avianca was purchased by Brazilian entrepreneur German Efromovich's company Synergy Group in 2004, the full name of the company was changed to Airline of the American Continent ("Aerovías del Continente Americano"), retaining the brand name Avianca.
History.
SCADTA started out as a small airmail c... | 13,725 | zeroshot-train |
Mahalak Bluffs [SEP] continent | Mahalak Bluffs
The Mahalak Bluffs () are a discontinuous line of bluffs, long, on the north side of Solberg Inlet, Bowman Coast, Antarctica. The bluffs rise to about , east of Robillard Glacier, forming part of the southwest coast of Joerg Peninsula. The feature was photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth, Novem... | Style and Criticism.
While with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds as a nineteen-year-old, Nolan was involved in an altercation with R.J. Mahalak of the Plymouth Whalers in March, 2009. In an unprovoked attack, Nolan punched Mahalak twice in the face, giving him a concussion as he fell to the ice and struck his head. As a... | 13,726 | zeroshot-train |
Marion Nunataks [SEP] continent | Marion Nunataks
The Marion Nunataks are a small group of nunataks rising to about on Charcot Island, in the eastern Bellinghausen Sea of Antarctica. They form a 12 km chain of rocky outcrops on the mid-north coast of the island, stretching from Mount Monique at the western end to Mount Martine in the east.
History.
The... | case of petrels and other flying seabirds, the ability to nest on nunataks may have allowed them the ability to stay on the continent during the glacial period and fly down to the edge of the ice for food. However, this was most likely not the case with colony forming species such as the Adélie penguin and the Antarcti... | 13,727 | zeroshot-train |
Melville Highlands [SEP] continent | Melville Highlands
The Melville Highlands () are an ice-covered upland rising to about and forming the central part of Laurie Island between Pirie Peninsula and the south coast, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. The name derives from James Weddell's map of 1825 whereon the name "Melville Island" appears for t... | Leslie-Melville, 11th Earl of Leven,
- Hon. Norman (5 Feb 1839-13 Nov 1923),
- Lady Ann Sophia (5 Jul 1843-11 Dec 1898),
- Hon. Ernest (20 Jan 1845-1 Sep 1862)
- Lady Florence Lucy (15 August 1848-22 July 1930)
He was succeeded by Alexander Leslie-Melville, 10th Earl of Leven, 9th Earl of Melville (1817–1889).
He is bu... | 13,728 | zeroshot-train |
Meoto Rocks [SEP] continent | Meoto Rocks
The Meoto Rocks () are two large rocks lying just west of Cape Hinode, off the coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. They were mapped from surveys and air photos by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, 1957–62, and named "Meotoiwa" (husband and wife rocks). | Tokyo Theatre, Osaka Kousei-nenkin-Kaikan Geizyutsu Hall) Sep.-Oct. 2005
- Sakura no Sono (Aoyama round Theatre) Jun.-Jul. 2007
- Love 30 vol.2 (PARCO Theatre, Aichi-ken Kinro-Kaikan, Osaka Theatre Drama City) Aug.-Sep. 2007
- Genroku Meoto Gassen ~Ogata Kōrin and Tayo~ (Osaka Shin-Kabuki-za, Chunichi Theatre, Meiji-za... | 13,729 | zeroshot-train |
Mercury Bluff [SEP] continent | Mercury Bluff
Mercury Bluff is a perpendicular bluff on Gerlovo Beach in the northwest of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The feature is named after the British sealing ship "Mercury" under Captain Robert Wethe... | - Astronomical transit
- Black drop effect
- Transit of Mercury from Mars
- Transit of Venus
- Vulcan (hypothetical planet)
- Transit of minor planets
References.
References Sources.
- Cunningham, Clifford J., "Mercury's Time to Shine," "Mercury" Sep–Oct 2006.
External links.
- NASA: Transits of Mercury, Seven Century ... | 13,730 | zeroshot-train |
Metchnikoff Point [SEP] continent | Metchnikoff Point
Metchnikoff Point is a point forming the western extremity of Pasteur Peninsula in northern Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was first charted by the Third French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for Russian-born zoologist and bacteriologist Él... | At 1886, Russian emigrant Elie Metchnikoff—discoverer of phagocytes mediating innate immunity—was welcomed to Paris by Louis Pasteur with an entire floor at the Pasteur Institute. As did Paul Ehrlich—theorist on antibody mediating acquired immunity—and as did Pasteur, Metchnikoff believed nutrition to influence immunit... | 13,731 | zeroshot-train |
Mezzo Buttress [SEP] continent | Mezzo Buttress
Mezzo Buttress () is a rocky buttress at the head of Barilari Bay just east of Lawrie Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 because the face... | Range, the "East Face" of The Moose's Tooth, the "Moonflower Buttress" on Mount Hunter, and a one-day solo of Denali's "Cassin Ridge".
Climber Conrad Anker credits Stump as an influential climbing mentor in the film Meru.
Stump along with his geologist brother contributed to field safety for the United States Antarcti... | 13,732 | zeroshot-train |
Mime Glacier [SEP] continent | Mime Glacier
Mime Glacier () is a small glacier at the south (upper) end of Tiw Valley in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name is one in a group given by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee from Norse mythology. In "Der Ring des Nibelungen", Mime is the smith who aids Siegfried to win the... | - Bartley Glacier
- Beowulf Glacier
- Conrow Glacier
- Commonwealth Glacier
- Decker Glacier
- Ferguson Glacier
- Fountain Glacier
- Godwit Glacier
- Heimdall Glacier
- Meserve Glacier
- Mime Glacier
- Newall Glacier
- Norris Glacier
- Nylen Glacier
- Repeater Glacier
- Schlatter Glacier
- Sykes Glacier
- Valhalla Glac... | 13,733 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Atkinson [SEP] continent | Mount Atkinson
Mount Atkinson () is a prominent mountain 3.5 miles (6 km) west-southwest of Mount Craddock in the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1957-60. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Richard C.... | Sunday Times Sep 2, 2007) link
- "Soft Centered" by Pierre Perrone (The Independent Sep 11 2007) link
- Album Review by Andy Gill (Uncut Sept 2007) link
- Album Review by Mike Barnes (Mojo Sept 2007) link
- "Kevin Ayers" by Mike Atkinson (Stylus Oct 23 2007) link
- "Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt" by Simon Reynolds (Reyn... | 13,734 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Betty [SEP] continent | Mount Betty
Mount Betty is a small ridge overlooking the Ross Ice Shelf, on the north side of Bigend Saddle, at the north-eastern extremity of the Herbert Range in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered in November 1911 by Captain Roald Amundsen, and named by him for Betty Andersson, nurse and housek... | Box Rag Jul-54
- P. 1130 Bill O'Connor To Be Your Love / The Words That I Whisper Sep-54
- P. 1131 Johnny Brandon with the Phantoms Tomorrow / High As A Mountain Sep-54
- P. 1132 Betty Garrett Go / (I Gotta Do) Soft Shoe Sep-54
- P. 1133 Jerry Wallace Dixieanna / Runnin' After Love Sep-54
- P. 1134 Danny Capri You're S... | 13,735 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Cowart [SEP] continent | Mount Cowart
Mount Cowart is a peak in Antarctica, high, midway along Gale Ridge in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and air photos, 1956–66, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Master Sergeant Ray J. Cowart of the Uni... | Ridge
- Gambacorta Peak
- Hannah Ridge
- Heiser Ridge
- Hill Nunatak
- Hinckley Rock
- Hudson Ridge
- Jones Valley
- Kaminski Nunatak
- Kinsella Peak
- Loren Nunataks
- Madey Ridge
- Meads Peak
- Median Snowfield
- Miller Valley
- Mount Bragg
- Mount Cowart
- Mount Dover
- Mount Ege
- Mount Feldkotter
- Mount Hawkes
- ... | 13,736 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Fourcade [SEP] continent | Mount Fourcade
Mount Fourcade () is a mountain standing southwest of Cape Anna and Anna Cove and east of Orne Harbour, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for the South A... | Fourcade
Fourcade may refer to:
Art.
- Denning & Fourcade, Inc., French interior design firm
Geography.
- Fourcade Glacier, glacier at the head of Potter Cove, Maxwell Bay, King George Island
- Mount Fourcade, mountain standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) southwest of Cape Anna and Anna Cove on the west coast of Graham L... | 13,737 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Gavaghan [SEP] continent | Mount Gavaghan
Mount Gavaghan () is a mountain in the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica, between Mount Kirkby and Mount Creighton. It was plotted from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions air photos, and was named for E.J. Gavaghan, a radio operator at Mawson Station in 1963. | Massif
- Crohn Massif
- Cutcliffe Peak
- Hulcombe Ridge
- Martin Massif
- Morgan Ridge
- Mount Canham
- Mount Creighton
- Mount Eather
- Mount Gaston
- Mount Gavaghan
- Mount Kerr
- Mount Kirkby
- Mount Leckie
- Mount Lied
- Mount McCarthy
- Mount Mervyn
- Mount Pollard
- Mount Small
- Mount Tarr
- Mount Ware
- O'Shea ... | 13,738 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Gran [SEP] continent | Mount Gran
Mount Gran () is a large flat-topped mountain, high, standing at the north side of Mackay Glacier and immediately west of Gran Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, which named it for Tryggve Gran, a Norwegian naval officer who was a ski expert ... | News announced that the Gran Hotel in Costa Rica became a member of the Choice International and Reals Hotels & Resorts chain resulting in renaming the hotel. The hotel name was changed to The Gran Hotel Costa Rica Ascend Collection and announced on December 14 through a press release.
Effective Sep 10 2018 it will be ... | 13,739 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Hastings [SEP] continent | Mount Hastings
Mount Hastings () is a low mountain southeast of Mount Rigby in the Karo Hills, at the west side of Scott Glacier in Antarctica. It was first sighted by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for James V. Hastings, who carried out geomagnetic st... | continent.
Flora Arboretum.
In 1964, the New South Wales Forestry Commission planted various exotic conifers amidst the cool temperate rainforest at Banda Banda. Arboretum species include the monkey puzzle tree, Cunninghamia, Cryptomeria, Douglas fir, radiata pine, Ponderosa Pine and the Sierra redwood. The possibility... | 13,740 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Henksen [SEP] continent | Mount Henksen
Mount Henksen () is an elongated mountain with several peaks, standing between Peacock Ridge and Mount Parviainen in the northern part of the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land, Antarctica. It was plotted from air photos taken from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft in 1956 and 1957, ... | Named Tula mountains.
- Mount Bartlett
- Mount Degerfeldt
- Mount Denham
- Mount Dungey
- Mount Hampson
- Mount Hardy
- Mount Harvey
- Mount Henksen
- Mount Keyser
- Mount King
- Mount Letten
- Mount Lunde
- Mount Mateer
- Mount Morrison
- Mount Parviainen
- Mount Porteus
- Pythagoras Peak
- Mount Reed
- Mount Renouard... | 13,741 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Johnstone [SEP] continent | Mount Johnstone
Mount Johnstone () is a mountain, high, standing at the east side of Liv Glacier, about southwest of Mount Blood, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for C. Raymond Johnstone, a United States Antarctic Research Program logistics officer at... | officer George Johnstone (1730–1787).
Another brother, Patrick, died in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
In 1765 Johnstone married Elizabeth Caroline Keene, daughter of a Colonel Keene from Northamptonshire, and niece of the diplomat Sir Benjamin Keene. They had one son and daughter. His son, James Raymond Johnstone of Alva... | 13,742 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Kenya [SEP] continent | Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro. The highest peaks of the mountain are Batian (), Nelion () and Point Lenana (). Mount Kenya is located in the former Eastern and central provinces of Kenya, now Meru, Embu, Laikipia, Kirinyaga, Nyeri and Tharak... | grow and split the glacier in two by 2007.
To the north of Kilimanjaro lies Mount Kenya, which at is the second tallest mountain on the continent. Mount Kenya has a number of small glaciers that have lost at least 45% of their mass since the middle of the 20th century. According to research compiled by the U.S. Geologi... | 13,743 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Kropotkin [SEP] continent | Mount Kropotkin
Mount Kropotkin is a peak on the west side of Jøkulkyrkja Mountain in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Norsk Polarinstitutt from surveys and air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60. The peak was also mapped by the Soviet Antarctic ... | , The Geographical Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Sep. 1898), pp. 306–310, JSTOR
- "Russian Schools and the Holy Synod," 1902
- Mr. Mackinder; Mr. Ravenstein; Dr. Herbertson; Prince Kropotkin; Mr. Andrews; Cobden Sanderson; Elisée Reclus, "On Spherical Maps and Reliefs: Discussion", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3.... | 13,744 | zeroshot-train |
Mount LeResche [SEP] continent | Mount LeResche
Mount LeResche is a prominent mountain (2,040 m) at the extreme north end of Homerun Range in the Admiralty Mountains, in the Victoria Land region of Antarctica. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1960–63.
The range was named by the Advisor... | Granholm
- Mount Greene
- Mount Hart
- Mount Herschel
- Mount Humphrey Lloyd
- Mount Kyle
- Mount LeResche
- Mount Lozen
- Mount Midnight
- Mount Parker
- Mount Pearigen
- Mount Pew
- Mount Pittard
- Mount Ruegg
- Mount Schaefer
- Mount Shadow
- Mount Shelton
- Mount Titus
- Mount Von Braun
- Mount Whewell
- Mount Wrig... | 13,745 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Lister [SEP] continent | Mount Lister
Mount Lister is a massive mountain, high, forming the highest point in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) which named it for Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society, 1895–1900.
See also.
- List of Ultras ... | : 1–4, tabs 524–525.
- Lister, G. (1913). Mycetozoa found during the Fungus Foray in the Forres District, 12 to 20 Sep 1912, with the description of a new species. "Transactions of the British Mycological Society" 4: 38–44, 1 plate.
- Lister, G. (1925). "A Monograph of the Mycetozoa. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Spec... | 13,746 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Littlepage [SEP] continent | Mount Littlepage
Mount Littlepage is a mountain in the Head Mountains, over high, standing between Mount DeWitt and Mount Dearborn, just west of the north end of the Willett Range, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Jack L. Littlepage, a biologist at McMurdo Stat... | Head Mountains
The Head Mountains () are a group of mountains to the south of Gateway Nunatak and the head of Mackay Glacier near the interior ice plateau of Victoria Land. From west to east the group includes Mount DeWitt, Mount Littlepage, Mount Dearborn and Coalbed Mountain. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarc... | 13,747 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Menzies [SEP] continent | Mount Menzies
Mount Menzies is the culminating peak (3,355 m; 11,007 ft) on the large massif between Mount Mather and Mount Bayliss, standing on the south side of Fisher Glacier, Antarctica. It was sighted by Flying Officer J. Seaton from an ANARE Beaver aircraft in 1956, and mapped by an ANARE southern seismic party u... | a race, was the inaugural co-winner in 2004.
Higher Australian mountains.
Higher peaks exist within territory administered or claimed by Australia: outside the continent are Mawson Peak () on Heard Island and Dome Argus (), Mount McClintock () and Mount Menzies () in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
In popular cultu... | 13,748 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Pendragon [SEP] continent | Mount Pendragon
Mount Pendragon is a mountain (975 m high) north-west of Cape Lookout, Elephant Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was mapped by the UK Joint Services Expedition, 1970-71. The name was applied to this highest mountain on Elephant Island by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Co... | D. C Pendragon Press, in association with the U. S. Library of Congress, 2005.
- Ramey, Phillip. "Sergei Prokofiev: The Modern Classicist". Time-Life booklet, 1975.
- Ramey, Phillip. "Rachmaninoff: His Life and Times". Funk & Wagnalls booklet, 1975
External links.
- Interview with Phillip Ramey about Irving Fine biogr... | 13,749 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Phoebe [SEP] continent | Mount Phoebe
Mount Phoebe () is a mountain between the heads of Neptune Glacier and Saturn Glacier near the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature is situated at the junction of four radial ridges. The summit is a small mesa of conglomerate rising to about 300 m above the surrounding ice. First photogr... | September 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Sep. 2 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Sep. 4
All fixed commemorations below celebrated on September 16 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For September 3rd, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 21.
Saints.
- Saint Phoebe,... | 13,750 | zeroshot-train |
Mummery Cliff [SEP] continent | Mummery Cliff
Mummery Cliff () is a cliff situated in Antarctica rising to about 1,250 m to the southeast of Whymper Spur in the Pioneers Escarpment, Shackleton Range. In association with the names of pioneers of polar life and travel grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK... | Sheffield
- Mount Skidmore
- Mount Weston
- Mummery Cliff
- Nostoc Lake
- Petersen Peak
- Pioneers Escarpment
- Pointer Nunatak
- Pratts Peak
- Ram Bow Bluff
- Recovery Glacier
- Sauria Buttress
- Shotton Snowfield
- Slessor Glacier
- Stephenson Bastion
- Stratton Glacier
- Turnpike Bluff
- Warden Pass
- Wedge Ridge
- ... | 13,751 | zeroshot-train |
Murtaugh Peak [SEP] continent | Murtaugh Peak
Murtaugh Peak () is a sharp peak, 3,085 m, surmounting a ridge 4 nautical miles (7 km) west-northwest of Mount Minshew in the Wisconsin Range, Horlick Mountains, Antarctica. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64. Named by Advisory Committee on Anta... | Hispanic baseball player (an honor belonging to Minnie Miñoso), Clemente's charisma and leadership in humanitarian causes made him an icon across the continent. During his playing career, Clemente was often overlooked, but today many consider him to have been one of the greatest right fielders in baseball history.
Even... | 13,752 | zeroshot-train |
Neofit Peak [SEP] continent | Neofit Peak
Neofit Peak (, ‘Vrah Neofit’ \'vr&h ne-'o-fit\) is an ice-covered peak rising to 1750 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 1.12 km south-southwest of Slaveykov Peak, 3.1 km southwest of the summit Mount Foster, 2.38 km northeast of Riggs Peak and 10.98 km nort... | slavyanskiy".
Neofit Rilski made the first popular translation of the New Testament in modern Bulgarian language (not a mixture between Church Slavonic and vernacular elements), commissioned, edited and distributed by the American missionary Elias Riggs.
Rilski considered Old Church Slavonic as synonymous with Old Bulg... | 13,753 | zeroshot-train |
Oberbauer Point [SEP] continent | Oberbauer Point
Oberbauer Point (, ‘Nos Oberbauer’ \'nos 'o-ber-ba-u-er\) is the point on the west side of the entrance to Gerritsz Bay on the north coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.
The point is named after the Austrian Bulgarian artist Joseph Oberbauer (1853-1926).
Location.
Oberbauer Poin... | .
External links.
- Oberbauer Point. Copernix satellite image | 13,754 | zeroshot-train |
Organic Lake [SEP] continent | Organic Lake
Organic Lake is a lake in the Vestfold Hills in eastern Antarctica. It was formed 6,000 years ago when sea levels were higher; it is isolated, rather shallow (7.5m), meromictic, a few hundred meters in diameter and has extremely salty water. It has the highest recorded concentration of dimethyl sulfide in ... | high insolation levels. This explains both the transgressive event recognised at the margins of the Old Red continent, caused by thermal expansion of the oceans, and the formation of the Achanarras lake within the continent due to the increased intensity of monsoon conditions.
Extinctions.
The Kačák Event was a period ... | 13,755 | zeroshot-train |
Palindrome Buttress [SEP] continent | Palindrome Buttress
Palindrome Buttress () is a conspicuous rock buttress, rising to about 905 m, marking the southern extremity of the north group of the Walton Mountains, in central Alexander Island, Antarctica. The buttress was first sighted from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and roughly mapped ... | Caninus Nunatak
Caninus Nunatak () is a nunatak, about high, located east of Palindrome Buttress and the northern part of the Walton Mountains, Alexander Island. In the 1974–75 field season, the British Antarctic Survey reduced its number of dog teams. The name derives from the burial of nine dogs near the nunatak, "ca... | 13,756 | zeroshot-train |
Pennell Coast [SEP] continent | Pennell Coast
Pennell Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica between Cape Williams and Cape Adare. To the west of Cape Williams lies Oates Coast, and to the east and south of Cape Adare lies Borchgrevink Coast. Named by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) in 1961 after Lieutenant Harry Pennel... | (in French), Paris: France Empire.
- Pennell, C.R. (1986) "A Country with a Government and a Flag: The Rif War in Morocco, 1921-1926", Menas: UK. .
- Pennell, C. R. (2000) "Morocco since 1830: A History", Hurst: London. .
- Tamburini, F. (Sep 2005) "I gas nella guerra del Rif", "Storia Militare", n.145, a.XIII
- Woolma... | 13,757 | zeroshot-train |
Peshtera Glacier [SEP] continent | Peshtera Glacier
The Peshtera Glacier (Bulgarian "Lednik Peshtera") is a glacier on the Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated southwest of Ruen Icefall and north of Charity Glacier.
The head of the glacier is bounded by MacKay Peak (approx. 700 m) to the southwest and Te... | - Pelishat Point, Greenwich Island
- Perelik Point, Robert Island
- Peristera Peak, Sentinel Range
- Perivol Rock, Snow Island
- Perkos Dome, Danco Coast
- Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast
- Perperek Knoll, Livingston Island
- Mount Persenk, Nordenskjöld Coast
- Perunika Glacier, Livingston Island
- Peshev Ridge, Livings... | 13,758 | zeroshot-train |
Porro Bluff [SEP] continent | Porro Bluff
Porro Bluff () is a bluff lying south of Birdsend Bluff and overlooking Errera Channel on the Danco Coast, western Graham Land, Antarctica. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Ignazio Porro (1795–1875), Italian engi... | Orel Ice Fringe
Orel Ice Fringe () is a strip of coastal ice bordering the south side of Errera Channel between Beneden Head and Porro Bluff, on the west coast of Graham Land. Mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57. Named by the United Kingdom ... | 13,759 | zeroshot-train |
President Beaches [SEP] continent | President Beaches
President Beaches is a series of beaches which extend for 6 nautical miles (11 km) along the broad western end of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica between Start Point to the north and Devils Point to the south.
The name "West Beaches" was proposed by K.R. Ev... | sites are in Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana in South America, Antigua and Barbuda, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, and Gabon in Central Africa. The beaches of Mayumba National Park in Mayumba, Gabon, host the largest nesting population on the African continent and possibly worldwide, with nearly 30,000 turtl... | 13,760 | zeroshot-train |
Probe Ridge [SEP] continent | Probe Ridge
Probe Ridge () is a prominent, snow-free, terraced ridge forming part of the north flank of Viking Valley, situated in the southeast portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The ridge was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1993 after the space probe which surveyed the pl... | multiple space weather effects: SEP, CME, Forbush decrease, ground level enhancement, geomagnetic storm, etc..
- The 2000 Bastille Day event coincided with exceptionally bright aurora.
- April 21, 2002, the Nozomi Mars Probe was hit by a large SEP event that caused large-scale failure. The mission, which was already ab... | 13,761 | zeroshot-train |
Quaver Nunatak [SEP] continent | Quaver Nunatak
Quaver Nunatak () is a small nunatak rising to about 250 m, lying in the northernmost exposure of the Walton Mountains, situated in the central portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The site was so named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 after the musical term, reflecting t... | 1960. The nunatak was named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977 after Colin Shaw (1944–78), British Antarctic Survey surveyor who worked in Alexander Island, from 1975 to 1976.
See also.
- Dione Nunataks
- Franck Nunataks
- Quaver Nunatak | 13,762 | zeroshot-train |
Ross Ice Shelf [SEP] continent | Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (as of 2013 an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between high above the water surface. Ninety percent of the floati... | the island. The style, "James" Ross Island is used to avoid confusion with the more widely known Ross Island in McMurdo Sound.
It is one of several islands around the peninsula known as Graham Land, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent.
The island was connected to the Antarctic mainlan... | 13,763 | zeroshot-train |
Saburro Peak [SEP] continent | Saburro Peak
Saburro Peak is a peak in Antarctica to the south of Doll Peak in the south part of Ravens Mountains, Britannia Range. Named after Colonel Richard M.Saburro, Commander, Operation DEEP FREEZE who was assigned to this position from the 109 AG of the New York Air National Guard. Saburro was the first US Air F... | Ridge
- Marty Nunataks
- Menster Ledge
- Metaris Valley
- Moore Pinnacle
- Mount Aldrich
- Mount Askin
- Mount Brunswick
- Mount Henderson
- Mount McClintock
- Mount Quackenbush
- Mount Rhone
- Mount Selby
- Nebraska Peaks
- Onnum Ridge
- Onnum Valley
- Operose Peak
- Peckham Glacier
- Pontes Ridge
- Pritchard Peak
- R... | 13,764 | zeroshot-train |
Scarab Bluff [SEP] continent | Scarab Bluff
Scarab Bluff is a bluff north of Giza Peak overlooking Fossil Bluff hut on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. A small plateau above the bluff contains a permanent melt pool which is a designated biological research site. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1993 in keepin... | Fazio
- Mount Masley
- Pain Mesa
- Pinnacle Gap
- Scarab Peak
- Sheehan Mesa
- Siders Bluff
- Tobin Mesa
- Veto Gap
- Watchtower Hill | 13,765 | zeroshot-train |
Schaus Ice Rises [SEP] continent | Schaus Ice Rises
Schaus Ice Rises () is a group of small ice rises merged within the Wilkins Ice Shelf, aligned east-west just off the north side of Eroica Peninsula, situated off the southwest coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from U.S. Navy aerial photographs take... | named in honor of William Schaus
See also.
- Schaus Ice Rises, a group of small ice rises in Wilkins Ice Shelf
- Schaus's crow ("Euploea blossomae"), a butterfly endemic to the Philippines
- Schaus' swallowtail ("Papilio aristodemus"), a species of American butterfly in the family Papilionidae | 13,766 | zeroshot-train |
Slavotin Point [SEP] continent | Slavotin Point
Slavotin Point (, ‘Nos Slavotin’ \'nos 'sla-vo-tin\) is the low rocky point on the southeast coast of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the east side of the entrance to Tuida Cove.
It is situated 4.47 km west-southwest of Duthoit Point, 4.17 km east-northeast of Ivan Alexand... | Island
- Slav Point, Oscar II Coast
- Slaveykov Peak, Smith Island
- Slavotin Point, Nelson Island
- Slavyanka Beach, Elephant Island
- Sliven Peak, Livingston Island
- Slomer Cove, Trinity Peninsula
- Smilets Point, Nelson Island
- Smilyan Bastion, Loubet Coast
- Smin Peak, Trinity Peninsula
- Smirnenski Point, Robert... | 13,767 | zeroshot-train |
Spartacus Peak [SEP] continent | Spartacus Peak
Spartacus Peak (Vrah Spartak \'vr&h spar-'tak\) is an ice-covered 650 m peak in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak overlooks Sopot Ice Piedmont to the northwest and Strandzha Glacier to the east-southeast.
The peak was named afte... | - Spartacus Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links.
- Spartacus Peak. Copernix satellite image | 13,768 | zeroshot-train |
St. Ivan Rilski Chapel [SEP] continent | St. Ivan Rilski Chapel
The St. Ivan Rilski Chapel (St. John of Rila Chapel, ) at the Bulgarian base St. Kliment Ohridski on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands is the first Eastern Orthodox edifice in Antarctica, the southernmost Eastern Orthodox building of worship in the world (cf. Trinity Church, Antarct... | Rilski
Rilski may refer to:
- BC Rilski Sportist, Bulgarian basketball club
- PFC Rilski Sportist Samokov, Bulgarian football club
- Ivan Rilski (876- c. 946), Bulgarian hermit and saint
- Neofit Rilski (1793-1881), the Neophyte of Rila, Bulgarian monk and teacher
- Rilski Manastir, also Rila Monastery, the monastery o... | 13,769 | zeroshot-train |
Stackpole Rocks [SEP] continent | Stackpole Rocks
Stackpole Rocks is a group of rocks, the largest of them linked by a spit to the east extremity of South Beaches in Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The feature is named after Edouard Stackpole, Curator of t... | A Secret Atlas
A Secret Atlas is the first book in the Age of Discovery series of fantasy novels by Michael Stackpole. It was published by Bantam Books in 2005.
Background.
The book is set on one continent in a world gradually recovering from a cataclysm known as the Time of Black Ice. More than seven centuries previou... | 13,770 | zeroshot-train |
Studena Point [SEP] continent | Studena Point
Studena Point (, ‘Nos Studena’ \'nos stu-'de-na\) is a rocky point forming the west side of the entrance to Dalchev Cove on the north coast of Parker Peninsula in the northeast part of Anvers Island, the Palmer Archipelago in Antarctica. It projects 1.4 km northwards into Fournier Bay and separates the te... | Stoyanov Cove, Livingston Island
- Stoykite Buttress, Nordenskjöld Coast
- Strahil Peak, Sentinel Range
- Strandzha Glacier, Livingston Island
- Strelcha Spur, Graham Coast
- Stresher Peninsula, Graham Coast
- Stribog Mountains, Brabant Island
- Strinava Glacier, Sentinel Range
- Struma Glacier, Livingston Island
- Str... | 13,771 | zeroshot-train |
Ticha Peak [SEP] continent | Ticha Peak
Ticha Peak (Vrah Ticha \'vr&h 'ti-cha\) is a 790 m peak on the east side of Omurtag Pass in Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is overlooking Perunika Glacier and Wörner Gap to the southwest, Huron Glacier to the southeast, and Kaliakra Glacier to the north.
T... | 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
References.
- Ticha Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links.
- Ticha Peak. Copernix satellite image | 13,772 | zeroshot-train |
Togo [SEP] continent | Togo
Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (), is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. The sovereign state extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its capital Lomé is located. Togo covers , making it one of the smallest countries in Africa, with... | to restore Olympio's right to hold office and he became the Prime Minister of the Togo colony and began pressing for independence.
From 1958 until 1961 he served as the Prime Minister of Togo and also served as the Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Justice for the colony. He connected wi... | 13,773 | zeroshot-train |
Toynbee Glacier [SEP] continent | Toynbee Glacier
Toynbee Glacier () is a glacier situated in the northeast portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica, extending 17 nautical miles (31 km) long and 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide, lying between Mount Huckle, Mount Spivey and Mount Stephenson of the northern portion of the Douglas Range on the west and Mount T... | from the air in 1937 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill. Surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named for Patrick A. Toynbee, FIDS air pilot at Stonington Island in 1948 and 1949.
See also.
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic
- Paulus Glacier
- Transition Glacier
- Yozola Glaci... | 13,774 | zeroshot-train |
Waitabit Cliffs [SEP] continent | Waitabit Cliffs
Waitabit Cliffs () is a line of sedimentary cliffs on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, which faces east onto George VI Sound and extends 3 nautical miles (6 km) north from the mouth of Mercury Glacier. The cliffs were probably first sighted by Lincoln Ellsworth, who flew directly over it ... | Waitabit Peak
Waitabit Peak is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1900.
See also.
- List of peaks on the British Columbia-Alberta border
- Mountains of Alberta
- Mountains of British Columbia | 13,775 | zeroshot-train |
Walsham Rocks [SEP] continent | Walsham Rocks
Walsham Rocks is a group of rocks lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) east of Buff island, at the southwest end of the Palmer Archipelago, off the coast of Antarctica.
The rocks were surveyed by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-57 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committe... | ho were attacked on Liancourt Rocks waters by a mono-propellered aircraft bearing the US insignia that disappeared in the direction of Japan after dropping four bombs. The Republic of Korea Navy had initially submitted an itinerary to the United Nations Naval Commander in Busan (CTG 95.7) on Sep 7 of the expedition to ... | 13,776 | zeroshot-train |
West Aisle Ridge [SEP] continent | West Aisle Ridge
West Aisle Ridge () in Antarctica is a named from the position of the ridge in a group of three ridges in relation to The Stage. | Central Aisle Ridge
Central Aisle Ridge () is a north-south ridge immediately east of The Stage on the north side of lower Renegar Glacier, Scott Coast. The name is derived from the position of the ridge relative to West Aisle Ridge, East Aisle Ridge, and its proximity to The Stage. It was named by the New Zealand Geog... | 13,777 | zeroshot-train |
Wignall Nunataks [SEP] continent | Wignall Nunataks
The Wignall Nunataks () are two snow-covered nunataks standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northwest of Mount Starlight in the Athos Range, Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. Mapped from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) surveys and air photos, 1955–65. Named by Antarctic Name... | Mount Moonie
- Mount Peter
- Mount Seedsman
- Mount Stalker
- Smith Nunatak
- Svensson Ridge
- Weasel Gap
- Whelan Nunatak
- Wignall Nunataks
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Worcester Summit [SEP] continent | Worcester Summit
Worcester Summit is the crest of a ridge rising to about 2,030 m at the east end of Jaeger Table, Dufek Massif, in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1979 after Robin D. Worcester who, with David W. Bennett, comprised the first ... | Baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals.
- Bruno Haas, former Major League Baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics)
External links.
- Worcester Technical High School School fusion portal.
- Worcester Technical High School official site.
- Worcester Technical High School secondary site
- CBS 4 Boston, Sep 22, 2006 7... | 13,779 | zeroshot-train |
Adams Nunatak [SEP] continent | Adams Nunatak
Adams Nunatak () is a nunatak on the south side of Neptune Glacier, west of Cannonball Cliffs, and lies about inland from George VI Sound in eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. Mapped by Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by NASA in cooperation with U.S. Geological Survey. N... | Table Nunatak
Table Nunatak () is a flat-topped, rectangular nunatak lying 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) east of Cape Agassiz on the east coast of Palmer Land. This is probably the feature first seen in 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) and described as a snow-covered island close east of Cape... | 13,780 | zeroshot-train |
Agüedo Point [SEP] continent | Agüedo Point
Agüedo Point is the point forming the north extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and the west side of the entrance to Guayaquil Bay. The adjacent ice-free area of Flamingo Beach on the west covers , and ends in Terimer Point, the east entrance point of
Skaptopara Cove.
Lo... | 560 m south-southwest of Orión Point, 990 m southwest of Spark Point, 1.16 km north-northwest of Serrano Point and 2.56 km east-southeast of Agüedo Point (detailed Ecuadorian mapping in 2007, Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
Maps.
- L.L. Ivanov et al. . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names C... | 13,781 | zeroshot-train |
Alligator Ridge [SEP] continent | Alligator Ridge
Alligator Ridge () is a spectacular serrated rock ridge in Antarctica, extending northeast for from Alligator Peak in the Boomerang Range into Skelton Neve. It was mapped and named for its shape by the 1957–58 New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956–58. | worked in Hollywood as Production Designer, Art Director, and Director of Concept Design for the motion picture Red Velvet. He also did digital animation and 2nd unit direction (the alligator scene) for the film.
In 2010, Goss moved to Palm Springs, California where he opened a gallery, Swank Modern Design. Swank Moder... | 13,782 | zeroshot-train |
Amphitheatre Glacier [SEP] continent | Amphitheatre Glacier
Amphitheatre Glacier () is a moraine-covered glacier that flows north from The Amphitheatre into Roaring Valley, in the Royal Society Range of Antarctica. It was named by a New Zealand Geographical Society field party in the area, 1977–78, in association with The Amphitheatre.
See also.
- List of g... | The Amphitheatre
The Amphitheatre () is a large bowl-shaped depression, 0.75 nautical miles (1.4 km) in diameter, at the south side of the head of Northeast Glacier on Graham Land. The feature lies adjacent to former bases of the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1934–37, and the United States Antarctic Service (U... | 13,783 | zeroshot-train |
Amundsen Icefall [SEP] continent | Amundsen Icefall
Amundsen Icefall () is a steep and turbulent icefall where the Axel Heiberg Glacier descends from the polar plateau between Mount Fridtjof Nansen and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. Named by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Exp... | , arm of the Southern Ocean
- Amundsen Plain, abyssal plain in the Southern Ocean
- Amundsen Bay
- Amundsen Coast
- Amundsen Glacier
- Amundsen Icefall
- Mount Amundsen
Places Arctic.
- Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower, research tower in Svalbard, jointly named with Umberto Nobile
- Amundsen Basin, abyssal plain in... | 13,784 | zeroshot-train |
Anderson Scarp [SEP] continent | Anderson Scarp
Anderson Scarp () is an upward slope and cliff high, about west of Hall Bluff on the Dais, Wright Valley, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2004 after Kent Anderson of the Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, fr... | the fault. Because the scarp is not present along the entire length of the fault, it is subdivided in a southeastern section in Comanche County and a northwestern section in Kiowa County, with only the southeastern section featuring a scarp. the scarp marks the Holocene section of the fault. The Meers fault is the only... | 13,785 | zeroshot-train |
Aprilov Point [SEP] continent | Aprilov Point
Aprilov Point (Aprilov Nos \a-'pri-lov 'nos\) is a point on the north coast of Greenwich Island, Antarctica situated 6.9 km east of Duff Point, 2.1 km east-southeast of Kabile Island, 2.2 km east-northeast of Crutch Peaks, 1.8 km south of Ongley Island, 5.5 km west of Agüedo Point, and 2.3 km north-northw... | Point, 2.25 km west-southwest of Aprilov Point, 3.55 northwest of Sevtopolis Peak, 2.82 km north of Panagyurishte Nunatak, 2.67 km east of Greaves Peak and 1.19 km east of Hrabar Nunatak
(British mapping in 1935 and 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).
See also.
- Dryanovo Heights
- Greenwich Island
Maps.
- L.L. Iva... | 13,786 | zeroshot-train |
Ardery Island [SEP] continent | Ardery Island
Ardery Island is a steep, rocky island, about long, lying west of Odbert Island in the Windmill Islands of Antarctica.
History.
The island was first mapped from air photos taken by the US Navy's Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. It was named by the US Advisory Committee on Antarc... | , and named by ANCA.
Mast Point is the westernmost point of the island. It was named by US-ACAN for Clarence W. Mast, a member of the Wilkes Station party of 1958.
Hiegel Passage is the sea passage between Ardery Island and Holl and Ford Islands to the south. It was named by the US-ACAN for Commander James A. Hiegel, l... | 13,787 | zeroshot-train |
Artigas Base [SEP] continent | Artigas Base
The General Artigas Station (), also referred to as the Artigas Base is the larger of the two Uruguayan scientific research stations in Antarctica, the other one being Elichiribehety Base. It is one of the 68 bases in Antarctica.
Organization.
The Artigas Base depends on the Uruguayan Antarctic Institute P... | Antarkos I
In December 1984 Antarkos I, the first Uruguayan Antarctic expedition, arrived in King George Island in order to establish a permanent base on the Antarctic Continent.
It was a scientific and logistic exercise supported by the Uruguayan Antarctic Institute and was led by Lt. Col Omar Porciúncula who was in c... | 13,788 | zeroshot-train |
Assender Glacier [SEP] continent | Assender Glacier
Assender Glacier is a glacier flowing west into Spooner Bay in Enderby Land, Antarctica. It was plotted from air photos taken from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft in 1956, and named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Pilot Officer Ken J. Assender, RAAF, pilot ... | Hazel Assender
Hazel Elaine Assender , is a Professor of Materials in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. She is an expert in polymer chemistry, thin film electronics and nanomaterials. Assender is a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.
Education.
Assender studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the U... | 13,789 | zeroshot-train |
Azuki Island [SEP] continent | Azuki Island
Azuki Island is a small island in Antarctica west of Rundvågs Head in the southeast part of Lutzow-Holm Bay. It was mapped from surveys and from air photos by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), 1957–1962, and named "Azuki-shima" ("azuki bean island").
See also.
- List of antarctic and sub-a... | magazine" vol.6 (25 Dec 2014)
- "Shin-Keisei Electric Railway" "CiaO" Vol.122 Cover Page Model & Gourmet Report (20 Sep 2015, Shin Keisei Electric Corporation)
Filmography (individually) Internet contents.
- "Yahoo! Life Magazine"
- "Hikomaro × Azuki Moeno Takes Off! How to Enjoy Delicious Food Gourmet" (11 May 2016)
-... | 13,790 | zeroshot-train |
Barrientos Island [SEP] continent | Barrientos Island
Barrientos Island is an ice-free island in the Aitcho group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending , surface area . The area was visited by early 19th century sealers. Barrientos Island is a popular tourist site frequented by Antarctic cruise ships.
The... | Rock
- Bakewell Island
- Balaena Islands
- Balleny Islands ()
- Borradaile Island ()
- Buckle Island ()
- Sabrina Island ()
- Sturge Island ()
- Young Island ()
- Balsha Island
- Bandy Island ()
- Barlow Island
- Barratt Island
- Barrett Island
- Barrientos Island
- Baseline Rock
- Basso Island
- Baurene Island
- Bayar... | 13,791 | zeroshot-train |
Bowling Green Plateau [SEP] continent | Bowling Green Plateau
Bowling Green Plateau () is a small but prominent ice-covered plateau at the north side of the Brown Hills in the Cook Mountains in Antarctica It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) (1962–63); Professor Charles C. Rich, geologist and deputy leader of the... | Bowling Green Col
Bowling Green Col () is an ice-filled east-west col between Reeves Plateau and Bowling Green Plateau in the Cook Mountains. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in association with Bowling Green Plateau. | 13,792 | zeroshot-train |
Brusen Point [SEP] continent | Brusen Point
Brusen Point (, ‘Nos Brusen’ \'nos 'bru-sen\) is the narrow rocky point projecting 200 m in north-northwest direction and forming the north extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
The point is named after the settlements of Brusen in Northwestern and Western Bulgaria.
Locat... | - Bratsigovo Hills, Trinity Peninsula
- Brenitsa Glacier, Oscar II Coast
- Brentopara Inlet, Oscar II Coast
- Breste Cove, Tower Island
- Breze Peak, Alexander Island
- Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island
- Brichebor Peak, Vinson Massif
- Brocks Peak, Sentinel Range
- Bruguière Peak, Sentinel Range
- Brusen Point, Greenw... | 13,793 | zeroshot-train |
Buena Nueva Cove [SEP] continent | Buena Nueva Cove
Buena Nueva Cove is a small open cove, 900 m wide and indenting for 200 m the northwest coast of False Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica southeast of MacGregor Peaks and east of Castro Peak on Hurd Peninsula. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The feature... | On February 25, Santa Anna's council of war at Agua Nueva advised retreat. Taylor led his army back to Nueva, but he did not pursue Santa Anna any further south.
Buena Vista County, Iowa, in 1859, was named in honor of the battle, as were Buena Vista Township, in Michigan's Saginaw County, and the cities of Buena Vista... | 13,794 | zeroshot-train |
Burdick Peak [SEP] continent | Burdick Peak
Burdick Peak is the summit of Burdick Ridge rising to 773 m southwest of Mount Bowles on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee in 1958 for Christopher Burdick, Master of the American schooner "Huntress of Nantucket", who visited ... | Burdick West Peak
Burdick West Peak (Vrah Zapaden Burdick \'vr&h 'za-pa-den 'b&r-dik\) rises to 455 m at the northwest extremity of Burdick Ridge in eastern Livingston Island. The peak is partly ice-free.
The feature takes its name from Burdick Peak, the summit of the eponymous ridge.
Location.
The peak is located at w... | 13,795 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Fanning [SEP] continent | Cape Fanning
Cape Fanning () is a cape which forms the north side of the entrance to Violante Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service in a flight from East Base on December 30, 1940, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Edmu... | Fanning, but Fanning ambushes the city from underground and slaughters almost all of its occupants. After losing Carter's army to sunlight, Amy opts not to flee the continent aboard the Bergensfjord, instead choosing to confront Fanning in New York City. Once there, she and Peter confront Fanning, during which Peter be... | 13,796 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Healy [SEP] continent | Cape Healy
Cape Healy () is a prominent, square-shaped rock cape forming the north side of the entrance to Lamplugh Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by members of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) who explored this coast by land and from the air in 1940, and was named for ... | percent to 36 percent women faculty. In June 2013, Duke University professor of sociology Kieran Healy stated that "out of all recent citations in four prestigious philosophy journals, female authors comprise just 3.6 percent of the total." The editors of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy have raised concerns abo... | 13,797 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Kolosov [SEP] continent | Cape Kolosov
Cape Kolosov () is a point along the west side of the ice-covered peninsula that forms the east side of the entrance to Amundsen Bay, Antarctica. It was photographed in 1956 from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft, and rephotographed in 1958 by a Soviet expedition. The cape was nam... | Sheelagh Islands
Sheelagh Islands is a group of small islands lying south of Cape Kolosov, near the mouth of Amundsen Bay in Enderby Land. They were possibly the site of the landing from an aircraft by Riiser-Larsen on December 22, 1929. An ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) party landed on them... | 13,798 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Maude [SEP] continent | Cape Maude
Cape Maude () is a high ice-covered cape forming the east end of Vaughan Promontory in the Holland Range, Antarctica, overlooking the Ross Ice Shelf. It was discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition (1907–09) and named for Colonel I.A. Maude, who donated the "Maudgee" pony ration for the expedition. | , Kensington.
Gilbert Wood Family.
He married Ann Fraser, born Muckle Row, Shetland Islands 1829 – 27 November 1920); they had four daughters and three sons; they lived at "Seaton Cottage", Magill Road, North Kensington:
- Peter Wood (22 June 1855 – 21 December 1921) married Alice Maude Johnson on 23 May 1882
- Annie W... | 13,799 | zeroshot-train |
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