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Jacobs Island [SEP] continent | Jacobs Island
Jacobs Island is a narrow island long between the Hellerman Rocks and Laggard Island, off the southwest coast of Anvers Island, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Paul F. Jacobs, Officer-in-Charge of Palmer Station in 1972.
See also.
- ... | release, it is "a large island off a newly discovered continent surrounded by deep creature infested waters. The island boasts beautiful beaches ripe for developing beachfront property, an old volcano with rumors of fierce creatures within, the outback is overrun with mutants, and an area with a high concentration of r... | 14,000 | zeroshot-train |
Jacoby Glacier [SEP] continent | Jacoby Glacier
Jacoby Glacier is a steep glacier draining the eastern slopes of the Ames Range between Mount Boennighausen and Mount Andrus, 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 Ant... | Mount Andrus, Mount Kosciusko and Mount Kauffman, and Mount Boennighausen.
Other Features.
There are several glaciers draining from the Ames Range:
- Coleman Glacier
- Jacoby Glacier
- Rosenberg Glacier
Other features include:
- Brown Valley
- Gardiner Ridge, connecting Mt. Kosciusko to Mt. Kauffman
- Lind Ridge
- Forr... | 14,001 | zeroshot-train |
Jamaica [SEP] continent | the Panama Canal and relative proximity to large markets in North America and emerging markets in Latin America, Jamaica receives high container traffic. The container terminal at the Port of Kingston has undergone large expansion in capacity in recent years to handle growth both already realised as well as that which ... | Stamford Hill Mine, Clarendon, Jamaica"
- "Jamaica Observer, Apr 22, 2007 - Sinkholes Disappearing in Southern Manchester"
- "Jamaica Observer, May 27, 2007 - Cavers Association Says Alpart Has No Regard for Jamaica's Natural Resources"
- "Jamaica Observer article, Sep 23, 2007 - Making Sinkhole Exploration Look Easy"
... | 14,002 | zeroshot-train |
Jang Bogo Station [SEP] continent | Jang Bogo Station
The Jang Bogo Station in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica is a permanent South Korean research station. It is the second base of South Korean Antarctic research mission (after King Sejong Station), and the first that is located in mainland Antarctica. Completed in February 2014, the station houses 15 people... | opened in 2007.
In popular culture.
- Portrayed by Choi Soo-jong and Baek Sung-hyun in the 2004-2005 KBS2 TV series "Emperor of the Sea".
See also.
- Yeom Jang
- Jang Bogo Station
- Cheonghaejin
External links.
- Jang Bogo - Ancient History Encyclopedia
- Chang Po Go festival on Wando Island
- ROK Navy profile of Jang ... | 14,003 | zeroshot-train |
Kennett Ridge [SEP] continent | Kennett Ridge
Kennett Ridge () is a rocky ridge, long, which descends eastward from the northeast end of Midnight Plateau in the Darwin Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1962–63) and named for J.P. Kennett, a geologist with the expedition. | of Sunyana Graef and the abbot of the TZC. Teacher at the Toronto Zen Centre.
5. Kjolhede, Peter Bodhin (1948-). Abbot at the Rochester Zen Center, Teacher at the Madison Zen Center, WI, US.
1. Odland, Kanja Sensei (1963-). Ordained as a priest in 1999. In 2001 she was authorised to teach by Kjolhede.
2. Ross, Lanny Se... | 14,004 | zeroshot-train |
Kenney Nunatak [SEP] continent | Kenney Nunatak
Kenney Nunatak () is a conspicuous nunatak rising in Waddington Glacier, south-southwest of Ugolini Peak, in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994 after Frank J. Kenney, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) cartographer... | The Saddlestone
The Saddlestone () is a small nunatak, 380 m, standing between Mount Carroll and The Pyramid, in the north part of Tabarin Peninsula in the Antarctic Peninsula. It rises 45 m above the ice sheet at the head of Kenney Glacier. Surveyed in 1955 by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who applied t... | 14,005 | zeroshot-train |
Krum Rock [SEP] continent | Krum Rock
Krum Rock ( \'kru-mov 'ka-m&k\) is a small nunatak rising to 208 metres on the southwest edge of Balkan Snowfield just north of Contell Glacier on Hurd Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island, one of the South Shetland Islands in Western Antarctica. The rock projects slightly above the ice sheet with some 3,00... | area.
Location.
The nunatak is located at which is 1 km east of Atlantic Club Ridge, 1.2 km southeast of Sinemorets Hill, 2.8 km west by north of Castillo Nunatak, and 1 km north by east of the highest point of Charrúa Ridge.
Krum Rock is named for Krum Velchev, meteorologist at St. Kliment Ohridski Base for several se... | 14,006 | zeroshot-train |
Kubusdalen [SEP] continent | Kubusdalen
Kubusdalen () is an ice-filled valley between Trollslottet Mountain and Kubus Mountain in the Filchner Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was plotted from surveys and air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named Kubusdalen (the cube valley) in association with Kubus Mo... | William Purefoy
William Purefoy (c. 1580 – 8 Sep 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.
Born into a long-established Warwickshire ... | 14,007 | zeroshot-train |
Kunino Point [SEP] continent | Kunino Point
Kunino Point (, ‘Nos Kunino’ \'nos ku-ni-'no\) is a rocky point on Blagoevgrad Peninsula, Oscar II Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica, the south extremity of an eponymous ridge extending 2.4 by 2 km on the north coast of Exasperation Inlet. Formed in 2002 as a result of the disintegration of Larsen Ice Shelf... | Island
- Krupen Ridge, Oscar II Coast
- Krusha Peak, Sentinel Range
- Kubadin Point, Smith Island
- Kuber Peak, Livingston Island
- Kubrat Knoll, Livingston Island
- Kudelin Point, Loubet Coast
- Kudoglu Point, Livingston Island
- Kukeri Nunataks, Livingston Island
- Kuklen Point, Livingston Island
- Kukuryak Bluff, Tr... | 14,008 | zeroshot-train |
Kyle Cone [SEP] continent | Kyle Cone
Kyle Cone () is an exposed volcanic cone near Cape Crozier, located west-northwest of the summit of The Knoll in eastern Ross Island, Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Philip R. Kyle, a geologist with the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, w... | Gamble Cone
Gamble Cone () is a cone south-southeast of Post Office Hill in the Kyle Hills of Ross Island. The feature rises to about . At the suggestion of P.R. Kyle, it was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2000) after John A. Gamble, a geologist at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand... | 14,009 | zeroshot-train |
Laine Hills [SEP] continent | Laine Hills
The Laine Hills () are a cluster of four mainly snow-covered hills that rise above the Dyer Plateau about northwest of the Welch Mountains, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey in 1974, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Daren Laine... | Wing Commander D.M. Strong Oct 1945 – Sep 1946
- Group Captain C. Crawford Sep 1946 – May 1947
- Group Captain E.J. Laine May 1947 – Mar 1949
- Flight Lieutenant A.P. Jones Mar 1949 – Nov 1949
- Squadron Leader R.A.R. Falconer D.F.M. Nov 1949 – Apr 1950
- Group Captain J.N. Jefferson O.B.E. Apr 1950 – Jun 1951
- Group ... | 14,010 | zeroshot-train |
Lake Whillans [SEP] continent | Lake Whillans
Lake Whillans is a subglacial lake in Antarctica. The lake is located under the Whillans Ice Stream at the southeastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf in the west of the continent. The lake surface is beneath the surface of the ice and the lake covers an estimated area of . Lake depths measured thus far have ... | glaciologist Dr. Ian Whillans.
Discovery.
The lake was first described in 2007 by Helen Fricker, a glaciologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Satellite laser altimeter data from NASA's ICESat had revealed the ice at that location rising and falling, leading her team to conclude the presence of the lake.
R... | 14,011 | zeroshot-train |
Lardigo Peak [SEP] continent | Lardigo Peak
Lardigo Peak (, ‘Vrah Lardigo’ \'vr&h lar-'di-go\) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1158 m in Snegotin Ridge on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.
The peak is named after Lardigo Point on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.
Location.
Lardigo Peak is located at , which is 10.06 km northeast of Mount ... | - Lardeya Ice Piedmont, Sentinel Range
- Lardigo Peak, Trinity Peninsula
- Laskar Point, Graham Coast
- Latinka Cove, Danco Coast
- Lavrenov Point, Robert Island
- Lazuren Bryag Cove, South Orkney Islands
- Lebed Point, Clarence Island
- Ledenika Peak, Trinity Peninsula
- Leeve Island, Robert Island
- Lepitsa Peak, Tri... | 14,012 | zeroshot-train |
Lasher Spur [SEP] continent | Lasher Spur
Lasher Spur () is a prominent mountain spur trending northwest from the Kelvin Crests, east-northeast of the Triune Peaks, Fallières Coast, Antarctica. The spur was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947, and the U.S. Navy, 1966, and was surveyed by the Falkland Islands D... | Lasher (disambiguation)
Lasher is the second novel in the Anne Rice series "Lives of the Mayfair Witches".
Lasher may also refer to:
Geography.
- Lasher-Davis House historic home located at Nelliston in Montgomery County, New York
- Lasher Spur
Nature.
- Father-Lasher, Myoxocephalus scorpius fish
People.
- Fred Lasher ... | 14,013 | zeroshot-train |
Lazarev Trough [SEP] continent | Lazarev Trough
The Lazarev Trough () is an undersea trough off the coast of Antarctica. It was named for the Russian polar explorer Admiral Mikhail P. Lazarev, commanding officer of the sloop "Mirnyy" during the Bellingshausen expedition of 1819–1821. The name, proposed by Dr. G. Agapova of the Geological Institute of ... | - Boris Agapov, full cavalier of the Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR
- Galina Agapova, Russian geologist who named the undersea Kosminskaya Fracture Zone, Vinogradov Fracture Zone, Dubinin Trough, and Lazarev Trough
- Gennadiy Agapov ("Gennady Agapov"), Soviet Olympic race walker parti... | 14,014 | zeroshot-train |
Lerchenfeld Glacier [SEP] continent | Lerchenfeld Glacier
Lerchenfeld Glacier (, ) is a glacier flowing in a west-northwesterly direction between Bertrab Nunatak and the Littlewood Nunataks in Antarctica. It coalesces with the southern flank of Schweitzer Glacier before the combined flow discharges into the head of Vahsel Bay. The glacier was discovered by... | Lerchenfeld
Lerchenfeld may refer to:
People.
- Countess Lerchenfeld (died 1769), governess of Marie Antoinette
- Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg (1871–1944), German politician and Prime Minister of Bavaria
- Hugo Phillip Graf von Lerchenfeld auf Köfering und Schönberg (1848–1925), Bavarian ... | 14,015 | zeroshot-train |
Lindum Valley [SEP] continent | Lindum Valley
Lindum Valley is an ice-filled valley that opens northward to Hatherton Glacier, lying west-northwest of Derrick Peak in the Britannia Range, Antarctica. It was named in association with Britannia by a University of Waikato geological party, 1978–79, led by Michael Selby, "Lindum" being an old Roman place... | Lindum Hockey Club was created in their place.
Branding.
In order to strike a balance between the two clubs, the decision was made to start afresh with branding. The new club name wouldn't involve any merging of the two former names but instead adopt the name used at the Lindum Sports Association, which is also used by... | 14,016 | zeroshot-train |
Linwood Peak [SEP] continent | Linwood Peak
Linwood Peak () is an isolated peak on Hershey Ridge, standing west of Mount Ronne in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was discovered and mapped by the United States Antarctic Service (1939–41), and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Linwood T. Miller, a sailmaker ... | the area were the Glengarnock Steelworks and the Linwood car manufacturing plant. Outwith the furniture industry, a large proportion of the local population were employed within these industries. At its peak, the local "Steelworks" had 3,000 employees, but by the time it closed in 1985 it had been reduced to 200. The L... | 14,017 | zeroshot-train |
Maipo Island [SEP] continent | Maipo Island
Maipo Island () is a low, snow-covered island lying at the entrance to Buls Bay in eastern Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The island was first roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99. The name appears on a 1947 Chilean government chart and commemorates the work ... | Maipo
Maipo may refer to:
- Maipo, Chile, a town in Buin, Chile
- San José de Maipo, a town in Chile
- Maipo (volcano), a volcano on the border of Argentina and Chile
- Maipo River, the river that rises on the west slope Maipo volcano and flows through the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile
- Maipo Province, a provi... | 14,018 | zeroshot-train |
Maribor [SEP] continent | ARSO) on 8 August 2013.
Architecture.
Many historical structures stand in Maribor. Of the remains of city walls surrounding the old downtown, the most prominent are the Judgement Tower, the Water Tower, and the Jewish Tower. Maribor Cathedral was built in the Gothic style in the 13th century. Maribor Synagogue was buil... | Rohe Awards '10 Nomination for Farewell Chapel
- Nov 10 - Chernikhov prize 2010, selected nominee, ICIF, Moscow, RU
- Mar 10 - ArchDaily Building of the year 2009, Religious, Farewell Chapel
- Sep 09 - IOC/IAKS award, silver medal for Football Stadium Maribor
- May 9 - Mies van der Rohe Awards '08, Nomination for Footb... | 14,019 | zeroshot-train |
Matsumoto Pond [SEP] continent | Matsumoto Pond
Matsumoto Pond () is a pond south of Dais Col and west of Don Juan Pond in South Fork, Wright Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (1997) after Japanese chemist Genki I. Matsumoto, who was a member of four Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition fiel... | 17 Dec 2010, TBS) – as Haruki Wakabayashi
- "Q10" Episode 2 (23 Oct 2010, NTV) – as Chaka
- "Seicho Matsumoto Special: Kyūkei no Arano" (26–27 Nov 2010, CX) – as Detective Ogura
- "Heaven's Flower The Legend of Arcana" (12 Jan – 4 Mar/12–13 Sep 2011, TBS) – as Zenji Sudo
- "Try Age –Sansedai no Chōsen–" Episode 2 "Kazu... | 14,020 | zeroshot-train |
McCann Point [SEP] continent | McCann Point
McCann Point () is a point marking the east side of the mouth of Beaver Glacier, Antarctica, where the latter enters the Ross Ice Shelf. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for K.A. McCann, Master of the during U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze 1965. | 6 Sep 2018)
- Rodney McAree (14 Sep 2018 – 10 May 2019)
- Oran Kearney (3 July 2019 – )
Staff.
- President: Andy Magowan
- Chairman: Colin McKendry
- Vice Chairman: Raymond Smyth
- General Manager: Stevie McCann
- Matchday Secretary: Hunter McClelland
- Chaplain: Reverend Robert McMullan
- Assistant Manager: Trevor McK... | 14,021 | zeroshot-train |
McClintock Ridge [SEP] continent | McClintock Ridge
McClintock Ridge () is a prominent east–west ridge that is ice covered, north of Rubin Peak in the Carnegie Range of the Churchill Mountains, Antarctica. The ridge comprises several aligned summits that descend the east slope of the range for , ending at Algie Glacier. The western portion, near Manserg... | 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... | 14,022 | zeroshot-train |
Median Snowfield [SEP] continent | Median Snowfield
Median Snowfield () is a large snowfield in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica, between the Torbert Escarpment, in the Neptune Range, and the southern part of the Forrestal Range. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66, and was named by th... | Torbert Escarpment
Torbert Escarpment () is an escarpment, 15 nautical miles (28 km) long, marking the west margin of Median Snowfield in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956-66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Name... | 14,023 | zeroshot-train |
Medjerda River [SEP] continent | Medjerda River
The Medjerda River (), the classical Bagrada, is a river in North Africa flowing from northeast Algeria through Tunisia before emptying into the Gulf of Tunis and Lake of Tunis. With a length of , it is the longest river of Tunisia. It is also known as the Wadi Majardah or Mejerha ().
Course.
The Medjerd... | Kalâat el-Andalous
Kalâat el-Andalous is a town and commune in the Ariana Governorate, Tunisia. It is located 30 miles north of Tunis. As of 2004 it had a total population of 15,313.
Kalâat el-Andalous means "citadel of the Andalusians"; this refers to the seventeenth century when Moors who had been driven out of al-An... | 14,024 | zeroshot-train |
Midge Lake [SEP] continent | Midge Lake
Midge Lake is the largest among numerous freshwater lakes on the ice-free Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is arcuate in shape, extending 575 m in southwest-northeast direction and 125 m wide, surmounted by Chester Cone on the southeast, and draining t... | Creek and Lost Ledge sites).
343 hectares.
Kootenay Lake Provincial Park (Midge Creek site).
223 hectares.
Kootenay Lake Provincial Park (Campbell Bay site).
25 hectares.
Kootenay Lake Provincial Park (Coffee Creek site).
52 hectares.
External links.
- Kootenay Lake Provincial Park (Davis Creek and Lost Ledge sites)
- ... | 14,025 | zeroshot-train |
Midkiff Rock [SEP] continent | Midkiff Rock
Midkiff Rock () is a rock outcrop on the broad ice-covered ridge between Hammond Glacier and Swope Glacier, east-southeast of Mount West, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939–41) and by the United States Geological Survey from ... | Ezra Midkiff
Ezra Millington "Salt Rock" Midkiff (November 13, 1882 – March 20, 1957) was a Major League Baseball third baseman who played in with the Cincinnati Reds and in and with the New York Highlanders (renamed the New York Yankees for the 1913 season). Midkiff was nicknamed "Salt Rock" due to his birthplace of S... | 14,026 | zeroshot-train |
Migmatitovaya Rock [SEP] continent | Migmatitovaya Rock
Migmatitovaya Rock () is a rock at the eastern end of a spur, lying northeast of Terletskiy Peak in the Shcherbakov Range of the Orvin Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was roughly plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39, and was mapped from air photos and s... | William Purefoy
William Purefoy (c. 1580 – 8 Sep 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.
Born into a long-established Warwickshire ... | 14,027 | zeroshot-train |
Milosz Point [SEP] continent | Milosz Point
Milosz Point is a low-lying, ice-free cape on the northern coast of King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It lies 4.5 km west of North Foreland at the eastern entrance to Venus Bay and the western entrance to Emerald Cove. It has been identified as an Important Bird A... | Oscar Milosz
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz (; Polish: Oskar Władysław Miłosz) (28 May 1877 – 2 March 1939) was a French language poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and representative of Lithuania at the League of Nations. His literary career began at the end of the nineteenth century during "la Belle Époque" and r... | 14,028 | zeroshot-train |
Miscast Nunataks [SEP] continent | Miscast Nunataks
The Miscast Nunataks () are a group of four nunataks which rise to on the south side of Byrd Glacier in Antarctica. The outcrops lie between Mount Tadpole and Mount Madison in the Churchill Mountains. The feature was geologically mapped as Dick Formation, a clastic, sandstone unit, by the New Zealand G... | Gamble Glacier
- Horseshoe Nunatak
- Jorda Glacier
- Keating Massif
- Kelly Plateau
- Kent Plateau
- Kilroy Bluff
- Kiwi Pass
- Lee Glacier
- Mansergh Wall
- McLay Glacier
- Miscast Nunataks
- Mount Coley
- Mount Durnford
- Mount Frost
- Mount Hubble
- Mount Liard
- Mount Massam
- Mount Moa
- Mount Morse
- Nimrod Glaci... | 14,029 | zeroshot-train |
Mistake Crag [SEP] continent | Mistake Crag
Mistake Crag () is a slightly bowed crag in Antarctica, extending north from Cinder Spur and rising to about above the presently unnamed glacier on its west side. The name is derived from the mistaken belief that Cinder Spur was mainly composed of cinders from the supposed adjacent volcanic vent, now prove... | Praetiglian Stage on the continent, and tentatively correlated with the transition of Marine Isotope Stages 97 to 96.
Stratigraphy.
The borehole log has been given by West (1962). It was considered that the sedimentary sequence between – 7.6 and –49.7 m depth (grey sands, silts and clays) clearly belonged to the Crag ... | 14,030 | zeroshot-train |
Mjøllføykje Bluff [SEP] continent | Mjøllføykje Bluff
Mjøllføykje Bluff () is a prominent bluff at the east side of Belgen Valley, in the Kirwan Escarpment of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–52) and from additional air photos of 1... | Price's Missouri Expedition and reported 106 casualties. The unit participated in the following engagements:
- Devil’s Backbone, AR 1 Sep 1863
- Pine Bluff, AR 25 Oct 1863
- Camden Expedition March-May 1864
- Elkin’s Ferry, AR 3 Apr 1864
- Near Prairie D’Ane, AR 8 Apr 1864
- Prairie D’Ane, AR 9-12 April 1864
- Poison S... | 14,031 | zeroshot-train |
Mont Ventoux [SEP] continent | each kilometre are as follows:
Road cycling Transcontinental Race.
Mont Ventoux was used as the first checkpoint in the 2015 Transcontinental Race, which is a non-stop, unsupported bicycle race across Europe.
Road cycling Cycle tourists.
For loaded cycle tourists, the Ventoux presents a particular challenge and each of... | rider, Jacques Anquetil, was among several prominent competitors who said the law was badly written and unreliably carried out. Alec Taylor was manager of the British team in the 1967 Tour de France, in which Tom Simpson, his leading rider, died on Mont Ventoux after doping himself. Taylor said:
Race officials, federa... | 14,032 | zeroshot-train |
Monument Nunataks [SEP] continent | Monument Nunataks
The Monument Nunataks () are a group of nunataks in Antarctica that have numerous pinnacles and odd-shaped projections resembling monuments, situated north of Sculpture Mountain in the upper part of Rennick Glacier. The group was named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarct... | Outback Nunataks
Outback Nunataks () is a series of bare rock nunataks and mountains which are distributed over an area about 40 miles (60 km) long by 20 miles (32 km) wide. The group lies south of Emlen Peaks of the Usarp Mountains and west of Monument Nunataks and upper Rennick Glacier, adjacent to the featureless in... | 14,033 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Alf [SEP] continent | Mount Alf
Mount Alf () is a mountain rising over 3,200 m between Mount Sharp and Mount Dalrymple in the north part of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It surmounts Sabazios Glacier to the northeast.
The mountain was mapped by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party, 1957-58. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names... | Africa Leadership Forum
The Africa Leadership Forum (ALF) is a not-for-profit organization founded in Nigeria in 1988 by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo.
The primary focus of ALF is to help improve the current quality of leadership in Africa while at the same time helping to train the next generation of leaders f... | 14,034 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Bierle [SEP] continent | Mount Bierle
Mount Bierle () is a mountain (2,360 m) rising 4.5 nautical miles (8 km) north of Mount Granholm in the Admiralty Mountains of the major geographical location, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The topographical feature was so mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air pho... | Peak
- Helman Glacier
- Ironside Glacier
- Jennings Peak
- Kelly Glacier
- Kirk Glacier
- Lange Peak
- Lann Glacier
- Leander Glacier
- Luther Peak
- Lyttelton Range
- Man-o-War Glacier
- Massey Glacier
- Meier Peak
- Mount Achilles
- Mount Bierle
- Mount Brazil
- Mount Chider
- Mount Emerson
- Mount Eos
- Mount Faget
... | 14,035 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Bragg [SEP] continent | Mount Bragg
Mount Bragg is a mountain in Antarctica, high, standing southwest of Gambacorta Peak in the southern Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Ralph ... | relieved from assignment to the 82d Airborne Division.
- Assigned 1 May 1986 to the 82d Airborne Division and activated at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
- The Blue Devils deployed as a contingency force to OIF from Sep 2005 to Jan 2006 under the command of LTC Larry Swift. Acknowledged by only a handful in the 82d Airbor... | 14,036 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Eos [SEP] continent | Mount Eos
Mount Eos () is a mountain with a bare summit rising to about , north of Mount Adam in the Admiralty Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was visited in 1981–82 by Bradley Field, a geologist with the New Zealand Geological Survey, who suggested the name because the area provided excellent views of dawns... | differing features:
- Mount Adapter EF-EOS R
- Control Ring Mount Adapter EF-EOS R – the Mount Adapter EF-EOS R with a lens control ring
- Drop-In Filter Mount Adapter EF-EOS R – the Mount Adapter EF-EOS R with the ability to use drop-in filters, either a variable neutral density (V-ND) filter or circular polarising (C... | 14,037 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Ferranto [SEP] continent | Mount Ferranto
Mount Ferranto is a mountain which forms the extreme southwest projection of the main massif of the Fosdick Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by a sledging party of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition which visited this area in November–December 1934, and was named... | Mount Avers
Mount Avers () is a mountain north of Mount Ferranto in the Fosdick Mountains, in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered in December 1929 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition and named for Henry G. Avers, chief mathematician of the Division of Geodesy, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, who was a me... | 14,038 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Forecast [SEP] continent | Mount Forecast
Mount Forecast () is a large mountain comprising several peaks, standing just northeast of Mount Brown-Cooper and southwest of Mount Pollard in the Prince Charles Mountains of Antarctica. It was napped from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions surveys and air photos, 1956–65, and was mamed ... | future over the downstream continent. Sea ice began to be initialized in forecast models in 1971. Efforts to involve sea surface temperature in model initialization began in 1972 due to its role in modulating weather in higher latitudes of the Pacific.
Weather forecasting applications History.
In 1922, Lewis Fry Richar... | 14,039 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Francis [SEP] continent | Mount Francis
Mount Francis is a massive, ridgelike mountain, high, that overlooks Tucker Glacier from the north, standing between Tyler Glacier and Staircase Glacier in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–62, and was na... | home, some of which were published in 1920 as "An Irish peer on the continent (1801–1803) being a narrative of the tour of Stephen, 2nd earl Mount Cashell, through France, Italy, etc." These describe much detail of the Cashells' life and habits, including their lavish entertaining, especially during the first nine mont... | 14,040 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Freya [SEP] continent | Mount Freya
Mount Freya is a prominent peak east of Mount Thor in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (1958–59) after the Norse goddess Freya. | frequency radio signals were being transmitted across Britain from somewhere on the Continent, and he believed they came from a directional radar system. Within a few months of this discovery, Jones had identified several such radar systems, one of which was being used to detect British bombers; this was known as the "... | 14,041 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Gawn [SEP] continent | Mount Gawn
Mount Gawn () is a prominent peak, high, in the central part of the King Range in northwestern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The topographical feature was so named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1963–64, for J.E. Gawn, a radio operator at Scott Base, 1963–64, wh... | Hkun Saing
- 1775–1781 Ba Dwe Taw
- 1781 Ba Loi Lio
- 1781–1819 Ba Hkun Kein Möng
- 1819–1837 Ba Hkun Hso
- 1837–1846 Ba Hkun Tan Möng
- 1847 – 4 Sep 1856 Shwe Ok Hka (Shwe Taung Kyaw)
- 1856–1865 Hkun (Ba Hkam Hkun Shinye)
- 1865–1868 Aung Tha
- 1868–1877 Kwan Kon
- 1877–1887 Hkun Hkam Möng
- 1888–1897 Hkam Tan Möng (... | 14,042 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Hazlett [SEP] continent | Mount Hazlett
Mount Hazlett () is a mountain, high, at the south side of the mouth of Montecchi Glacier where the latter enters Tucker Glacier, in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the... | - McElroy Ridge
- McKellar Glacier
- Midway Glacier
- Millen Range
- Monteath Hills
- Montecchi Glacier
- Mount Bridger
- Mount Burrill
- Mount Burton
- Mount Crowder
- Mount Finch
- Mount Freeman
- Mount Frosch
- Mount Hancox
- Mount Harrington
- Mount Hazlett
- Mount Holdsworth
- Mount Hussey
- Mount Jennings
- Mount... | 14,043 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Judd [SEP] continent | Mount Judd
Mount Judd () is a prominent bare rock mountain, over high, surmounting the ridge running north from Mount White in the Supporters Range in Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Robert C. Judd, a United States Antarctic Research Program meteorologist at South Pole Station,... | award-winning author Alan Judd spins a wholly believable and interesting tale the book is terribly slow-moving in places and Thoroughgood, like his name, is not a very exciting character. However, the book is redeemed by its surprise ending."
Publication history.
- 2001, UK, HarperCollins, , Pub date 17 Sep 2001, Hardb... | 14,044 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Lampert [SEP] continent | Mount Lampert
Mount Lampert () is a mountain about west of Kelsey Cliff in the southeast part of the Guettard Range, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–67, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Irwin Ronal... | Rachel Lampert
Rachel Lampert is an American playwright, director and choreographer. She served as the artistic director at Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY from August 1997 until June 2017 when she retired after a successful twenty-year tenure.
Early life and education.
Lampert was born in Brooklyn, New York. She... | 14,045 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Morley [SEP] continent | Mount Morley
Mount Morley () is a mountain rising to about in the southern part of the Lassus Mountains, in northwestern Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was first mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947–48 by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960, and was... | is the first menthol flavored Morleys to appear on television.
- Daryl smokes Morley cigarettes, along with other group members, Merle Dixon and Abraham Ford.
- "Warehouse 13" "The Ones You Love" (24 Sep 2012): Mrs. Frederic and Steve Jinks enter The Library, a secret room in the Vatican. There is a pack of Morley ciga... | 14,046 | zeroshot-train |
Mount Rossman [SEP] continent | Mount Rossman
Mount Rossman () is a prominent wedge-shaped, ice-free mountain, 1,450 m, located at the north end of the Enterprise Hills between Union and Henderson Glaciers, in the Heritage Range in Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos from 1961-... | features/
- Ahrnsbrak Glacier
- Bell Valley
- Chappell Peak
- Connell Canyon
- Guarcello Peak
- Henderson Glacier
- Horseshoe Valley
- Mount Dolence
- Mount Rossman
- Parrish Peak
- Plummer Glacier
- Rhodes Bluff
- Schoeck Peak
- Seal Glacier
- Shoemaker Peak
- Strong Peak
- Sutton Peak
- Union Glacier
- Urban Point
se... | 14,047 | zeroshot-train |
O'Brien Island [SEP] continent | O'Brien Island
O'Brien Island is a small rocky island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It lies south-west of Aspland Island and rises to 540 m. The name dates back to at least 1822 and is now established in international usage.
Important Bird Area.
The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (I... | O'Brien 29 Sep 1582
- Conor O'Brien d. 1603
- Donough O'Brien, d. 1635
- Conor O'Brien, 1617–1651
- Donough O'Brien, 1642–1717
- Lucius O'Brien, 1675–1717
- Edward O'Brien, 1705–1765
- Lucius O'Brien, 1731–1795
- Edward O'Brien, 1773–1837
- Lucius O'Brien, 1800–1872
- Edward O'Brien, 1839–1900
- Lucius O'Brien, 1864–19... | 14,048 | zeroshot-train |
Ocoa Point [SEP] continent | Ocoa Point
Ocoa Point is a steep headland backed by raised beach terraces at the head of New Plymouth harbour in Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by 19th century sealers.
The feature is part of the Antarctic Specially Protected Area "ASPA 126 Byers Penin... | :
- broke up a Spanish sloop carrying plantains;
- took but then cut adrift the Spanish sloop "Nostra Senora del Carmen", which was carrying plantains;
- took, off Ocoa Point, the French Schooner "Capricieuse", which had been sailing from Jeremie to St. Thomas with a cargo of 115 bags of coffee, ;
- took another Spanis... | 14,049 | zeroshot-train |
Oreshak Peak [SEP] continent | Oreshak Peak
Oreshak Peak (, ‘Vrah Oreshak’ \'vr&h o-re-'shak\) is the peak rising to 2800 m in the Bangey Heights of north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is surmounting Patleyna Glacier to the south-southwest, Embree Glacier to the west and north, and Marsa Glacier to the east.
The peak ... | Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
References.
- Oreshak Peak SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer Antarctic Place-names Commission (in Bulgarian)
- Basic data (in English)
External links.
- Oreshak Peak. Copernix satellite image | 14,050 | zeroshot-train |
Paraguay [SEP] continent | Paraguay
Paraguay (; ; , ), officially the Republic of Paraguay (; ), is a country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Although it is one of only two landlocked countries in South America (the other is Bolivia), the co... | 1991 Chile 25 - 18 Paraguay
07 SEP 1991 Brasil 6 - 33 Paraguay
28 SEP 1991 Paraguay 10 - 37 Argentina
4th place
Sudamericano 1993 5 Naciones
28 SEP 1993 Chile 24 - 25 Paraguay
02 OCT 1993 Paraguay 3 - 67 Uruguay
10 OCT 1993 Paraguay 49 - 21 Brasil
16 OCT 1993 Argentina 51 - 3 Paraguay
3rd place
Sudamericano 1995 4 Naci... | 14,051 | zeroshot-train |
Parchevich Ridge [SEP] continent | Parchevich Ridge
Parchevich Ridge (Parchevich Rid \'par-che-vich 'rid\) is a partly ice-free ridge of elevation 370 m situated in Breznik Heights north of Hardy Cove, 690 m south of Benkovski Nunatak, and 1.7 km southwest of Santa Cruz Point on Greenwich Island, Antarctica. Surmounting Hardy Cove to the southwest and G... | Benkovski Nunatak
Benkovski Nunatak (\ben-'kov-ski 'nu-na-tak\) is a rocky peak of elevation 450 m projecting from the ice cap of Greenwich Island in the northeast extremity of Breznik Heights.
The peak was named after Georgi Benkovski (1843–76), a leader of the 1876 April Uprising for Bulgarian independence.
Location.... | 14,052 | zeroshot-train |
Petroff Point [SEP] continent | Petroff Point
Petroff Point (, ‘Petrov Nos’ \pe-'trov 'nos\) is a rocky point on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica projecting northeastwards 1.2 km into Hill Bay. Situated 3.85 km northwest of Mitchell Point and 6.8 km southwest of Spallanzani Point.
The point is named for the “Bulg... | Petkov Nunatak, Trinity Peninsula
- Petleshkov Hill, Astrolabe Island
- Petrelik Island, Anvers Island
- Petrich Peak, Livingston Island
- Petroff Point, Brabant Island
- Petrov Ridge, Danco Coast
- Petvar Heights, Sentinel Range
- Peychinov Crag, Oscar II Coast
- Peyna Glacier, Graham Coast
- Phanagoria Island, Zed Is... | 14,053 | zeroshot-train |
Prespa Glacier [SEP] continent | Prespa Glacier
Prespa Glacier (Lednik Prespa \'led-nik 'pre-spa\) on Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is situated east-northeast of Tarnovo Ice Piedmont, east of the head of Charity Glacier, southeast of Ruen Icefall and southwest of Macy Glacier. It is bounded to the east b... | Prespa (disambiguation)
Prespa is a region shared between Greece, Albania, and the Republic of Macedonia.
Prespa may also refer to:
- Lake Prespa, two lakes on the border between Albania, Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- The Prespa agreement, an agreement to resolve the Macedonia naming dispute
- ... | 14,054 | zeroshot-train |
Prior Island [SEP] continent | Prior Island
Prior Island () is an island 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) long, lying just east of Lamplugh Island, off the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The island was first charted and named by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, under Ernest Shackleton. It was probably named for George Thurland Prior, Keeper o... | Erinn, Avon (based on Stratford-upon-Avon), is able to be accessed by an item found in the first mainstream quest of that generation. As of Generation 15, Belvast Island was introduced (based upon the city Belfast). This island is accessible by taking a ship from the continent of Uladh.
Gameplay Character creation and ... | 14,055 | zeroshot-train |
Quinton Point [SEP] continent | Quinton Point
Quinton Point () is a point at the north side of the entrance to Perrier Bay, forming the northwest extremity of Goten Peninsula on the northwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, it was named by Charcot after Rene Qu... | - July 31, 1995: Bret Saberhagen was traded by the New York Mets with a player to be named later to the Colorado Rockies for Juan Acevedo and Arnold Gooch (minors). The New York Mets sent David Swanson (minors) (August 4, 1995) to the Colorado Rockies to complete the trade.
Regular season Major League debuts.
- Batters... | 14,056 | zeroshot-train |
Robert Point [SEP] continent | Robert Point
Robert Point is a rocky point at the end of a small peninsula projecting 2.7 km into Bransfield Strait from the southeast coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica to form the east side of the entrance to Devesil Bight.
The feature, which probably was known to the 19th century sealer... | )
- "Flash Point", (Viking Nov. 2012)
- "Yesterday's Kin", (Tachyon Publications Sep. 2014)
- The Sleepless
2. "Beggars and Choosers", (Tor Oct. 1994)
3. "Beggars Ride", (Tor Nov. 1996)
4. "Sleeping Dogs," (nv) Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, ed. Robert Silverberg, Avon Eos May ... | 14,057 | zeroshot-train |
Sally Rocks [SEP] continent | Sally Rocks
Sally Rocks is a small group of rocks trending southwestwards in South Bay just off the west coast of Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
The feature's name derives from the name 'Sallys Cove' applied in 1820-23 by James Weddell to a cove in the vicinity.
Location.
T... | 31: OK Go
- Aug 7: The Cat Empire
- Aug 14: Sally Seltmann
- Sep 4: Xavier Rudd
- Sep 18: Washington
- Sep 25: Yeasayer
- Oct 2: Old Man River
- Oct 9: Band of Horses
- Oct 16: Bret Easton Ellis
- Oct 30: Dan Kelly
- Nov 6: The Last Kinection
- Nov 13: Angus & Julia Stone
- Nov 20: Midnight Juggernauts
- Nov 27: Parkwa... | 14,058 | zeroshot-train |
San Antonio [SEP] continent | more) in the city in the past 122 years, about once every four years. Snow was most recently seen on December 7, 2017, when of snow coated the city. On January 13, 1985, San Antonio received a record snowfall of .
San Antonio and New Braunfels, to the northeast, are some of the most flood-prone regions in North America... | by Antonio Canales Rosillo invades south Texas and is repulsed near Fort Lipantitlán.
- Sep 11 - A division of the Mexican Army led by Gen. Adrián Woll invades Texas and captures San Antonio.
- Sep 18 - Col. Mathew Caldwell's and Capt. Jack Hays' companies attack General Woll's army at the Battle of Salado Creek.
- Sep... | 14,059 | zeroshot-train |
San Theodoros [SEP] continent | Ear" when the museum is closed and the janitor is dusting the exhibits and whistling, a map in the museum shows that San Theodoros and Nuevo Rico are somewhere near Guyana, bordering Venezuela and Brazil. In "Tintin and the Picaros", the Paris Flash report clearly claims that the country is in fact in South America, si... | Arvanitidis "PASOK"
- Aikaterini Markou "The River"
- Aristeidis Fokas "Union of Centrists"
Members of Parliament Members (Jan 2015- Sep 2015).
- Evangelia Ammanatidou-Paschalidou "SYRIZA"
- Sokratis Famellos "SYRIZA"
- Theodoros Karaoglou "New Democracy"
- Savvas Anastasiadis "New Democracy"
- Fotios Graikos "Golden D... | 14,060 | zeroshot-train |
Scesa Point [SEP] continent | Scesa Point
Scesa Point is a rounded, low ice-free tipped point on the west coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the north side of the entrance to Zornitsa Cove.
The feature is named after Benjamín Scesa, a crewman of the Argentine Navy Lockhe... | mill worker and still later a missionary and famous explorer of Africa.
Some place names on the island are given by Argentina and Chile, such as Charrúa Ridge, Scesa Point, Arroyo Point, Bruix Cove, Ocoa Point, Dreyfus Point, Mansa Cove, Agüero Point etc. Several Argentine names commemorate crewmen of the Argentine Nav... | 14,061 | zeroshot-train |
Schokalsky Bay [SEP] continent | Schokalsky Bay
Schokalsky Bay () is the easternmost bay of Alexander Island, Antarctica, 9 nautical miles (17 km) wide at its entrance and indenting 6 nautical miles (11 km) lying between Mount Calais and Cape Brown along the east coast of Alexander Island whilst adjacent to the George VI Ice Shelf in George VI Sound. ... | and glacier as an inland sledging route onto northeast Alexander Island. The bay was first sighted from a distance in 1909 and roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot who, thinking it to be a strait, gave the name "Detroit Schokalsky" after Yuliy M. Shokal'skiy, Russian geographer, meteorologis... | 14,062 | zeroshot-train |
Shimla [SEP] continent | Church, the Jakhoo Temple, the Mall Road and the Ridge, which together form the city centre. The Kalka–Shimla Railway line built by the British, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is also a major tourist attraction. Owing to its steep terrain, Shimla hosts the mountain biking race MTB Himalaya, which started in 2005 and is ... | 7 months.
In 1972, Shah organized demonstrations against Hindus in Jammu and was arrested under Defence of Indian Rules Act (DIR) and detained in Central Jail, Srinagar for eleven months. During this period, the political scenario of sub-continent was going through a new metamorphosis as Pakistan had split into two and... | 14,063 | zeroshot-train |
Slogen [SEP] continent | , and the fact that it's rising directly from the fjord.
Legend has it that Slogen was first climbed in 1870 by Jon Klokk. Later on that year it was climbed by the famous climber and alpine explorer William Cecil Slingsby. The latter wrote about the view from Slogen as "one of the proudest in Europe". | Slogen
Slogen is a mountain rising up from Hjørundfjorden in the municipality of Ørsta in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The mountain is located just west of the municipal boundary with Stranda and just north of the nearby mountain Jakta. Many famous Norwegians have been on the top of this mountain, including most not... | 14,064 | zeroshot-train |
Sparadok Point [SEP] continent | Sparadok Point
Sparadok Point (, ‘Nos Sparadok’ \'nos spa-ra-'dok\) is a sharp ice-free point projecting 200 m from the coast of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica with a shingle spit extending further 300 m northwards into Barclay Bay. It is surmounted by Tsamblak Hill. The ... | is named after the Bulgarian educator Nedelya Petkova – ‘Baba (Grandma) Nedelya’ (1826–1894).
Location.
Nedelya Point is located at , which is 1.8 km southwest of Bilyar Point, 5.37 km west-northwest of Rotch Dome, 1.58 km northeast of Sparadok Point and 2.86 km east of Lair Point. British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1... | 14,065 | zeroshot-train |
St. Cyril Peak [SEP] continent | St. Cyril Peak
St. Cyril Peak (Vrah Sv. Kiril \'vr&h sve-'ti 'ki-ril\) rises to 1,505m in Friesland Ridge in Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is linked to St. Methodius Peak to the southwest by Vladaya Saddle and surmounts Ruen Icefall to the west, Macy Glacier t... | Cirkevná spojená škola Humenné
Cirkevná spojená škola Humenné is a Roman catholic school. The institution comprises three schools:
Nursery school of St. Thérèse of Lisieux ,
Primary school of Sts. Cyril and Methodius and
Grammar school of Sts. Cyril and Methodius (a four-year study programme and an eight-year study pr... | 14,066 | zeroshot-train |
Stigant Point [SEP] continent | Stigant Point
Stigant Point is a conspicuous point, 65 m high, lying south-west of Davey Point on the north coast of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was charted in 1935 by DI personnel, and named for G. B. Stigant, Chief Civil Hydrographic Officer of the Hydrographic Department of th... | Usher Glacier
Usher Glacier () is a glacier nearly 4 nautical miles (7 km) long, flowing northwest
into the sea between Stigant Point and Davey Point on the north coast of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for J. Usher, Maste... | 14,067 | zeroshot-train |
Strover Peak [SEP] continent | Strover Peak
Strover Peak () is a low rock peak along the coast of Antarctica, standing 6 nautical miles (11 km) west-northwest of Mount Caroline Mikkelsen. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named "Svartmulen" (the black snout). Renamed by Antarctic... | feature. Acceptance of Strover Peak curtails the repetitive use of "Svart" (black) in Antarctic names. | 14,068 | zeroshot-train |
Titania Peak [SEP] continent | Titania Peak
Titania Peak () is a rock peak, rising to about 1,250 m, lying near the head of Uranus Glacier, 11 nautical miles (20 km) west-northwest of Mount Umbriel, situated in the central portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. First mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947–4... | in some "Voyager" images near the south-eastern limb of Oberon, which may be the central peak of a large impact basin with a diameter of about 375 km. Oberon's surface is intersected by a system of canyons, which, however, are less widespread than those found on Titania. The canyons' sides are probably scarps produced ... | 14,069 | zeroshot-train |
Troll Satellite Station [SEP] continent | Troll Satellite Station
Troll Satellite Station (), commonly abbreviated TrollSat, is a satellite ground station located at Troll in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The earth station is owned by Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), a joint venture between the Kongsberg Group and the Norwegian Space Center. The radomes are... | of Norse mythology. The station facilities are owned by the Government of Norway through the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property. Operation of the facility is carried out by the Norwegian Polar Institute. The facilities consist of a module-built new section that is , and the old section that is . ... | 14,070 | zeroshot-train |
Tsarigrad Peak [SEP] continent | Tsarigrad Peak
Tsarigrad Peak (, ‘Vrah Tsarigrad’ \'vr&h 'tsa-ri-grad\) is sharp ice-covered peak rising to 1760 m in Imeon Range, Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Overlooking Armira Glacier to the southeast.
The peak is named after the 1876 Constantinople Conference (Tsarigrad is the Bulgarian n... | - Trifonov Point, Elephant Island
- Trigrad Gap, Livingston Island
- Troyan Peak, Livingston Island
- Tryavna Peak, Livingston Island
- Tsamblak Hill, Livingston Island
- Tsarevets Buttress, Trinity Peninsula
- Tsarigrad Peak, Smith Island
- Tsepina Cove, Robert Island
- Mount Tsotsorkov, Danco Coast
- Tuida Cove, Nels... | 14,071 | zeroshot-train |
Tufft Nunatak [SEP] continent | Tufft Nunatak
Tufft Nunatak () is a small nunatak 3 nautical miles (6 km) southwest of Mount Bradley and 4.6 km south of Senokos Nunatak, Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Roger Tufft of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), a m... | Hondius Inlet
Hondius Inlet (, ‘Zaliv Hondius’ \'za-liv 'hon-diy\) is the 5.7 km wide ice-filled inlet indenting for 6.7 km the tip of Joerg Peninsula, Bowman Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula southeast of Three Slice Nunatak. Its head is fed by Getman Ice Piedmont.
The feature is named after the Flemish cartographer Jo... | 14,072 | zeroshot-train |
Vestfold Hills [SEP] continent | Vestfold Hills
The Vestfold Hills are rounded, rocky, coastal hills, in extent, on the north side of Sorsdal Glacier on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. The hills are subdivided by three west-trending peninsulas bounded by narrow fjords. Most of the hills range between in height, wit... | smaller Krok Lake.
History and naming.
The Vestfold Hills were discovered and a landing was made in the northern portion on February 20, 1935, by Captain Klarius Mikkelsen together with his wife and seven crew members (including the ship's dentist, Lief Sørsdal) of the Norwegian whaling ship "Thorshavn" sent out by Lar... | 14,073 | zeroshot-train |
Victory Mountains [SEP] continent | Victory Mountains
The Victory Mountains () is a major group of mountains in Victoria Land, Antarctica, about long and wide, which is bounded primarily by Mariner and Tucker glaciers and the Ross Sea. The division between these mountains and the Concord Mountains (to the NW) is less precise but apparently lies in the vi... | rider Stefan Denifl (), who took the first victory of his professional career. Denifl finished 37 seconds clear of Spain's Delio Fernández, riding for the squad, while the podium was completed by Colombian Miguel Ángel López of , 59 seconds down on Denifl but a winner of the race's queen stage to the Kitzbüheler Horn. ... | 14,074 | zeroshot-train |
Vinson Plateau [SEP] continent | Vinson Plateau
Vinson Plateau is the summit plateau of Vinson Massif, Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It extends for 9 km between Goodge Col and Hammer Col linking it to the north-central part of Sentinel Range to the north-northwest and to Craddock Massif to the south-southeast respectively, and 4.5... | in turn, clearly differentiate three geographic areas in the Land of O'Higgins: the western slope, the central plateau and the eastern slope.
Antartandes reach the 3239 meters of altitude in the Mount Hope.
Within the land claimed by Chile, in southwest of the territory are the highest summits of the Antarctic continen... | 14,075 | zeroshot-train |
Vivaldi Glacier [SEP] continent | Vivaldi Glacier
Vivaldi Glacier () is a glacier lying between the Colbert Mountains and the Lully Foothills, flowing south from Purcell Snowfield into the head of Schubert Inlet on the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature appears to be first shown on maps of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS)... | " by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961, after Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), Venetian composer. The name was amended to Vivaldi Glacier following review of Landsat program imagery, 1979, displaying flow lines in the feature.
See also.
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic
- Balakirev Glacier
- Fore... | 14,076 | zeroshot-train |
Vladaya Saddle [SEP] continent | Vladaya Saddle
Vladaya Saddle (Vladayska Sedlovina \vla-'day-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is a saddle of elevation 1000 m in the Friesland Ridge of Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Bounded by St. Cyril Peak to the northeast, and by St. Methodius Peak to the southwest. Overlooking Ru... | , Livingston Island
- Vilare Island, Robert Island
- Vineh Peak, Rugged Island
- Vinitsa Cove, Davis Coast
- Vinogradi Peak, Trinity Peninsula
- Vinson Plateau, Vinson Massif
- Vishegrad Knoll, Trinity Peninsula
- Vishna Pass, Oscar II Coast
- Viskyar Ridge, Greenwich Island
- Vit Ice Piedmont, Sentinel Range
- Vitosha... | 14,077 | zeroshot-train |
Willan Saddle [SEP] continent | Willan Saddle
Willan Saddle (Sedlovina Willan \se-dlo-vi-'na 'wi-l&n\) is a flat, crescent-shaped and ice-covered saddle extending 1 km in the northeast-southwest direction between Burdick South Peak and Willan Nunatak in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The saddle has an elevation o... | km east-northeast of Willan Saddle, 2.21 km southeast of Rezen Saddle, 3.87 km southwest of Omurtag Pass, 6.82 km west-southwest of Pirdop Gate, 3.61 km west of Camp Academia site, 5.29 km west of Lozen Saddle and 5.48 km northwest of Catalunyan Saddle (Detailed Spanish mapping in 1991, elevation and distances accordin... | 14,078 | zeroshot-train |
Windscoop Nunataks [SEP] continent | Windscoop Nunataks
Windscoop Nunataks () is a cluster of four gable-shaped nunataks rising to about 400 m between Porphyry Bluff and Tower Peak on Nordenskjold Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) following British Antarctic Survey (BAS) geological work, 19... | - White Nunataks
- Willan Nunatak
- Windscoop Nunataks
- Yingling Nunatak
- Young Nunataks
- Zohn Nunataks
External links.
- Nunatak survival of the high Alpine plant Eritrichium nanum | 14,079 | zeroshot-train |
Yakoruda Glacier [SEP] continent | Yakoruda Glacier
Yakoruda Glacier (Lednik Yakoruda \'led-nik ya-ko-'ru-da\) is a glacier on the west slopes of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated west of Teteven Glacier and northwest of Murgash Glacier. It extends 3.5 km in north-south direction and 2.5 km in east-wes... | Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
References.
- Yakoruda Glacier. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links.
- Yakoruda Glacier. Copernix satelli... | 14,080 | zeroshot-train |
Yamato Glacier [SEP] continent | Yamato Glacier
The Yamato Glacier () is a glacier about 6 miles (10 km) wide, flowing west between Mount Fukushima and Mount Eyskens in the Queen Fabiola Mountains of Antarctica.
Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Guido Derom, October 7, 1960, and named after an old name of the cove of Honshū. Yamato ... | .
- Yamato Glacier
- Yamato Mountains
Meteorites.
- Yamato 691, 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite
- Yamato 791197, lunar meteorite found on Earth
- Yamato 000593, Martian meteorite found on Earth
Ships.
- "Yamato" (ship), several Japanese ships of this name
- Yamato-class battleship
- Japanese battleship "Yamato"
- Japane... | 14,081 | zeroshot-train |
Young Glacier [SEP] continent | Young Glacier
Young Glacier () is a glacier which flows from Mount Gozur and Ichera Peak in Maglenik Heights eastwards for 8 miles (13 km) and terminates at the north end of Barnes Ridge on the east side of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. It was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey (US... | Eocene–Oligocene extinction event). The term Late Cenozoic Ice Age is used to include this early phase.
During this last glacial period there were alternating episodes of glacier advance and retreat. Within the last glacial period the Last Glacial Maximum was approximately 22,000 years ago. While the general pattern of... | 14,082 | zeroshot-train |
Adélie Land [SEP] continent | Adélie Land
Adélie Land ("French: Terre Adélie") is a claimed territory on the continent of Antarctica. It stretches from a coastline area along the Great Southern Ocean inland all the way to the South Pole. France administrates it as one of five districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands since 1955 and apply... | Island in North America and French Southern and Antarctic Lands which include Scattered Islands in Africa, St. Paul and Amsterdam islands on the Australian Plate, and Kerguelen Islands, Crozet Island and Adélie Land in Antarctic. French sovereignty on Adélie Land is under the Antarctic Treaty System.
Non-contiguous Afr... | 14,083 | zeroshot-train |
Amery Peaks [SEP] continent | Amery Peaks
The Amery Peaks () are a group of peaks which extend for about along the southeast side of Nemesis Glacier, in the eastern Aramis Range, Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. They were discovered by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions southern party of 1956–57 and so named because of thei... | Ritchie Point
Ritchie Point () is a well defined point at the extremity of the large, flat rock feature extending northeastward from Amery Peaks in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) air photos taken in 1956 and 1960. Named by Antarctic Names Committee ... | 14,084 | zeroshot-train |
Amiot Islands [SEP] continent | Amiot Islands
The Amiot Islands are two groups of islands and rocks, the Ward Islands and Cumbers Reef, respectively, lying west of Cape Adriasola, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. They were discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, and were named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for A. Amiot, engineering director of... | Ward Islands
Ward Islands () is a group of two small islands and off-lying rocks forming the southern part of the Amiot Islands, off the southwest part of Adelaide Island. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Herbert G.V. Ward, Chief Engineer of RRS John Biscoe, 1948–1962, which ship... | 14,085 | zeroshot-train |
Andersson Island [SEP] continent | Andersson Island
Andersson Island (historically Rosamel Island) is an island located at the eastern end of the Tabarin Peninsula, Antarctica.
The island was first named by the French Antarctic Expedition in 1838, who called it "le Rosamel" in honor of Vice Admiral Claude Charles Marie du Campe de Rosamel, French Naval ... | Jonassen Island
Jonassen Island is one of several Antarctic islands around the peninsula known as Graham Land, which is closer to South America than any other part of that continent.
It is said to be a particularly rocky island, long. It is located north of Andersson Island/
It was first named Irizar Island by Otto Nor... | 14,086 | zeroshot-train |
Augen Bluffs [SEP] continent | Augen Bluffs
Augen Bluffs () is a group of rock bluffs between Orr Peak and Isocline Hill along the west side of Marsh Glacier, in the Miller Range of Antarctica. They were so named by the Ohio State University Geological Party, 1967–68, because rocks of the locality include augen gneiss. | to avoid the high bluffs, and the neighborhood of Quality Hill at its south edge. TWA, which was headquartered in Kansas City at the time, had an overhaul base with a landing strip surrounded by open farm land north of downtown in rural Platte County, Missouri. The airport was listed on maps as Mid-Continent Internatio... | 14,087 | zeroshot-train |
Bahrain [SEP] continent | are:
The Central Governorate was abolished in September 2014, its territory divided between the Northern Governorate, Southern Governorate, and Capital Governorate.
The United States designated Bahrain a major non-NATO ally in 2001. , Bahrain is ruled by an "authoritarian regime" and is rated as "Not Free" by the U.S.-... | Affairs", March 1999
- List of terrorist incidents in Bahrain MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
- Amnesty International: A human rights crisis (Sep 25, 1995)
- Human Rights Watch: Routine Abuse, Routine Denial: Civil Rights and the Political Crisis in Bahrain (June 1997)
- Voice of Bahrain (mouthpiece of Bahrain Freedom Mo... | 14,088 | zeroshot-train |
Baker Nunatak [SEP] continent | Baker Nunatak
Baker Nunatak is a nunatak standing northwest of Mount Brecher in the northern Wisconsin Range of the Horlick Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–60, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Travis... | Perkins Canyon along the northern side of the range. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-60. Named for Lieutenant Peter P. Ruseski (MC) U.S. Navy, of the Byrd Station winter party, 1958.
Features.
- Angus Nunatak
- Baker Nunatak
- Brinton Nunatak
- Davisville Glacier
- Feeley Peak
- Ford Nunataks... | 14,089 | zeroshot-train |
Baliza Hill [SEP] continent | Baliza Hill
Baliza Hill is the conspicuous rocky hill rising to 40 m in the southeast extremity of Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting Menguante Cove to the north-northwest, McFarlane Strait to the northeast and east, and Mugla Passage to the south. The area was visited by early 1... | in a 2000 publication following Argentine ornithological research on the island, and in the 2005 and 2009 Bulgarian maps of Livingston Island.
Location.
The hill located at which is 1.03 km south by east of Gabriel Hill, 1.2 km west of Baliza Hill, 6.11 km west-northwest of Renier Point, livingston Island, 4.05 km nort... | 14,090 | zeroshot-train |
Bolgar Buttress [SEP] continent | Bolgar Buttress
Bolgar Buttress (, ‘Rid Bolgar’ \'rid 'bol-gar\) is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1500 m on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated between the upper courses of Pyke and Albone Glaciers. It has steep and partly ice free west, south and east s... | names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links.
- Bolgar Buttress. Copernix satellite image | 14,091 | zeroshot-train |
Boulton Peak [SEP] continent | Boulton Peak
Boulton Peak () is a peak at the southeast side of Curtiss Bay, about south of Cape Andreas in Graham Land, Antarctica. It surmounts Pirin Glacier to the north and Gregory Glacier to the south.
It was mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd (1955–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Nam... | Newcomen steam engine principles. However, he was only able to obtain speeds of about 3 miles per hour, whereas Fitch and Voigt ultimately obtained speeds of about 6 to 8 miles per hour. The first suggestion Voigt made was that they build a working model steam engine. When completed, it was the first steam engine that ... | 14,092 | zeroshot-train |
Britten Inlet [SEP] continent | Britten Inlet
Britten Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet and the only inlet on Monteverdi Peninsula indenting the southwest side of the Peninsula, south Alexander Island, Antarctica. The inlet was delineated from U.S. Landsat imagery of January 1973. In association with the names of composers grouped in this area, it was ... | .
See also.
- Britten Inlet
- Kirwan Inlet
- Stravinsky Inlet | 14,093 | zeroshot-train |
Buchen [SEP] continent | sights and buildings.
- The Roman Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes, the greatest ground monument in Europe runs round the edge of the city area Walldürn through Buchen, in the direction of Osterburken. Until around the year 260 the Romans used the Limes as a protective wall keeping them safe from the Alamanni and from oth... | Russian speaking readers. It was the special publication to the 125 Anniversary of the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, where the article "Marina Tsvetaeva in America" was written by the Dr. Uli Zislin, the Founder and Director of the "Washington Museum of Russian Poetry and Music", Sep/Oct 2017.
- 2017: ""Новый Континен... | 14,094 | zeroshot-train |
Camelback Ridge [SEP] continent | Camelback Ridge
Camelback Ridge () is a short rock ridge in Antarctica, with topographic highs of at the ends, located just west of Pemmican Bluff in the Jones Mountains. It was mapped by the University of Minnesota Jones Mountains Party, 1960–61, who named it for its humped appearance. | South Mountain
- Piestewa Peak (formerly named "Squaw Peak")
- Mummy Mountain
- Camelback Mountain
- Sunnyslope Mountain
Other features.
The mountains contain the Phoenix Mountain Preserve which includes the Dreamy Draw Recreation Area, Lookout Mountain Preserve, North Mountain Preserve and Piestewa Mountain Park.
The ... | 14,095 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Geddes [SEP] continent | Ferguslie Peninsula
Ferguslie Peninsula is a peninsula long, lying between Browns Bay and Macdougal Bay on the north coast of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. The peninsula was charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under William Speirs Bruce, who named it for Ferguslie, ... | The nearest port is the Argentine city of Ushuaia, which is away. The base has 11 buildings and four main topics of research: continental glaciology, seismology, sea-ice-zone glaciology (since 1985) and meteorological observations (since 1903).
Orcadas was the only station on the islands for 40 years until the British ... | 14,096 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Ingrid [SEP] continent | Cape Ingrid
Cape Ingrid () is a dark rock promontory separating Norvegia Bay and Sandefjord Cove on the west side of Peter I Island, Antarctica. It was discovered in 1927 by a Norwegian expedition under Eyvind Tofte in the "Odd I", a vessel of Lars Christensen's whaling fleet, and named for Ingrid Christensen, the wife... | Jeremy
- Right The Stars
- Riley and the Roxies
- The Rival
- Robbie Wyckoff
- Rose Cousins
- Simon Lynge
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- The Steps
- Sugar & The Hi-Lows
- Tom Jordan
- Trent Dabbs
- Trigger Code
- William Fitzsimmons
- Yael Naim
- Zuzuka Poderosa
Releases.
- Ingrid Michaelson - "Slow the Rain" (Jan 10, 2005)... | 14,097 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Jones [SEP] continent | Cape Jones
Cape Jones () is the cape lying immediately southeast of Mount Lubbock and marking the southern tip of the Daniell Peninsula in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered in January 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross who named it for Captain William Jones, Royal Navy. | May 6, 2013,
- "Alyson's Orchard." Sep. 2002 (travel),
- "Hidden Cape Ann." Sep. 2000 (travel),
- "Seeking Charlotte and Wilbur." Sep. 1999 (travel),
- "Good Living: Dead Set in Dublin." Dec. 2002 (travel),
- "Still Life With Jelly." Jan. 2002 (art),
- "The University That Misogyny Built." Jan. 29, 2005 (op-ed on | 14,098 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Longing [SEP] continent | Cape Longing
Cape Longing () is a rocky cape on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, forming the south end of a large ice-covered promontory which marks the west side of the south entrance to Prince Gustav Channel. It was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld in 1902, and so named... | is the tip of Longing Peninsula (), which is long and situated at the northeast end of Nordenskjöld Coast where it separates the Larsen Ice Shelf from the Prince Gustav Ice Shelf. It was roughly charted by Nordenskiöld, and named after the cape by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) following British Antarc... | 14,099 | zeroshot-train |
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