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Shatt al-Arab [SEP] continent | Shatt al-Arab
Shatt al-Arab (, "River of the Arabs") or Arvand Rud (, "Swift River") is a river of some 200 km (120 mi) in length, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq. The southern end of the river constitutes the border between Ira... | Meshan
Meshan (Middle Persian: ����������) was a province of the Sasanian Empire. It consisted of the Parthian vassal kingdoms of Mesene and Characene and reached north along the Shatt al-Arab river and then the lower Tigris to Madhar and possibly further. Its inhabitants included Babylonians, Arabs, Iranians, and even... | 14,500 | zeroshot-train |
Silistra Knoll [SEP] continent | Silistra Knoll
Silistra Knoll ( \'vr&h si-'lis-tra\) rises to over in southern Levski Ridge, in the Tangra Mountains of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is bounded by Macy Glacier to the north and Boyana Glacier to the south.
Location.
The knoll is located at , which is southwest of Serdi... | links.
- Silistra Knoll. Copernix satellite image | 14,501 | zeroshot-train |
Silverstein Peak [SEP] continent | Silverstein Peak
Silverstein Peak is a prominent, peak on the west edge of the ice-covered Vinson Plateau in the Sentinel Range of Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts Roché Glacier to the north and Zapol Glacier to the southwest.
The peak was named by US-ACAN in 2006 after Dr. Samuel C. Silverstein, member of... | Peak
- Patton Glacier
- Podgore Saddle
- Ponor Saddle
- Príncipe de Asturias Peak
- Progled Saddle
- Rada Peak
- Ramorino Glacier
- Ranuli Ice Piedmont
- Ravulya Nunatak
- Roché Glacier
- Rumyana Glacier
- Saltzman Glacier
- Sanchez Peak
- Schatz Ridge
- Schoening Peak
- Severinghaus Glacier
- Shinn Ridge
- Shockey Pea... | 14,502 | zeroshot-train |
Skelton Glacier [SEP] continent | Skelton Glacier
Skelton Glacier is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica.
Discovery and naming.
Named after the Skelton Inlet by the New Zealand party of the CTAE, 1956-58. The glacier was chosen in 1957 as the Ne... | on the continent he became a well-respected member of the team (Huxley 1978), eventually having four features named after him: an inlet, a glacier, an icefall and a lévé.
On his return he married his fiancée, the New Zealander Sybil Devenish-Meares of Christchurch: they had two daughters and a son.
Later life.
From 190... | 14,503 | zeroshot-train |
Snegotin Ridge [SEP] continent | Snegotin Ridge
Snegotin Ridge (, ‘Snegotinski Rid’ \'sne-go-tin-ski 'rid\) is the ice-covered ridge rising to over 1200 m on the northwest side of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is overlooking Bransfield Strait to the north, and Prelez Gap and the head of Malorad Glacier to t... | Snegotin Ridge. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links.
- Snegotin Ridge. Copernix satellite image | 14,504 | zeroshot-train |
Snow Nunataks [SEP] continent | Snow Nunataks
Snow Nunataks () is a line of four widely separated nunataks on the coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. The peaks lie southward of Case Island and trend east-west for 20 miles. The nunataks were discovered by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939–41) and named for Ashley C. Snow, aviation pilot o... | used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present and the nunataks protrude above the sheet. Nunataks present readily identifiable landmark reference points in glaciers or ice caps and are often named. While some nunataks are isolated, sometimes they form dense clusters, such as Queen Louise Land in Greenland.
Nunat... | 14,505 | zeroshot-train |
Spartan Glacier [SEP] continent | Spartan Glacier
Spartan Glacier () is a short valley glacier lying between Callisto Cliffs and Tombaugh Cliffs on the east side of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The glacier was first mapped by the Overseas Surveys Directorate from satellite imagery supplied by U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in coope... | Spartan C3
The Spartan C3 was an American three-seat open cockpit biplane of the late 1920s.
Development.
The type originated as the Mid-Continent Spartan of 1926. The company was reorganised as Spartan Aircraft Company in 1928 and a series of Spartan C3 aircraft was built between that year and 1930 . The C3 was a tub... | 14,506 | zeroshot-train |
Takaki Promontory [SEP] continent | Takaki Promontory
Takaki Promontory () is a promontory at the northeast side of Leroux Bay, forming the west extremity of Barison Peninsula on Graham Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica. First seen and roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Charcot. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-N... | announced as an action fantasy RPG in Sep 2018 for the PlayStation 4 system, with Junji Tago as Director, and Ryosuke Aiba as Art Director.
Producer Kenichiro Takaki described the game as an open-world game, containing some RPG elements, with a focus on combat, including co-op multiplayer aspects - the game has a tradi... | 14,507 | zeroshot-train |
Telerig Nunatak [SEP] continent | Telerig Nunatak
Telerig Nunatak (Nunatak Telerig \'nu-na-tak te-le-'rig\) is a rocky peak of elevation 170 m projecting from the ice cap of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica in the southwest extremity of Dryanovo Heights.
The feature is named after the Bulgarian ruler Khan Telerig, 768-777 AD.
... | - Taran Plateau, Brabant Island
- Targovishte Glacier, Greenwich Island
- Taridin Ridge, Oscar II Coast
- Tarnovo Ice Piedmont, Livingston Island
- Tatarchev Nunatak, Oscar II Coast
- Tatul Island, Robert Island
- Tegra Nunatak, Alexander Island
- Telerig Nunatak, Greenwich Island
- Telish Rock, Livingston Island
- Tem... | 14,508 | zeroshot-train |
The Fid [SEP] continent | The Fid
The Fid () is a sharp peak rising to at the eastern side of the mouth of Cole Glacier in southern Graham Land, Antarctica. The peak was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service on September 28, 1940 and was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in December 1958. The name, ... | magazines, newspapers and blog sites have since adopted the style.
External links.
- i-D online
- www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/sep/01/interviews.onlinesupplement
- www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=21&fid=68 | 14,509 | zeroshot-train |
Ufs Island [SEP] continent | Ufs Island
Ufs Island () is a rocky island wide, lying in the east part of Howard Bay, Antarctica, just north of the Lachal Bluffs, and about west of Allison Bay. Cape Simpson, the north end of this island, was discovered by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson in Febr... | Island
- Tristan Island
- Trivelpiece Island ()
- Trivial Islands
- Trowbridge Island
- Trump Islands
- Trundle Island
- Trundy Island
- Tryne Islands
- Tsiolkovskiy Island
- Tukey Island ()
- Tupinier Islands
- Tupman Island
- Turnabout Island
- Turner Island
- Tvarditsa Rocks
- Twig Rock
- Two Hummock Island
- Two Su... | 14,510 | zeroshot-train |
Vaptsarov Peak [SEP] continent | Vaptsarov Peak
Vaptsarov Peak (Vaptsarov Vrah \vap-'tsa-rov 'vr&h\) rises to approximately 410 m in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak has steep and ice free western slopes, and surmounts Ihtiman Hook to the northwest and Sopot Ice Piedmont to ... | Peak, 620 m north-northwest of Paisiy Peak, 960 m northeast of Rodopi Peak, 5.07 km west by south of Renier Point, 1.92 km west of Besapara Hill and 2.01 km west by north of Kaloyan Nunatak (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
Vaptsarov Peak in popular culture.
The cover of the VA album "Under Heaven: Vinson Massif (2... | 14,511 | zeroshot-train |
Vratsa Peak [SEP] continent | Vratsa Peak
Vratsa Peak (Vrah Vratsa \'vr&h 'vra-tsa\) is a sharp rocky peak rising to 470 m in Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Musala Glacier to the northeast and Targovishte Glacier to the southwest and south.
The feature is named after the city of Vratsa in nor... | Voyvodovo, Vratsa Province
Voyvodovo (, ) is a village in Miziya municipality, Vratsa Province, Bulgaria, at . It was founded in 1900, mostly by Evangelist Czechs, but also by Slovaks, Banat Swabians and Banat Bulgarians, all settlers from the region of Banat, then in Austria-Hungary.
In 1904, Voyvodovo had a populatio... | 14,512 | zeroshot-train |
Willan Nunatak [SEP] continent | Willan Nunatak
Willan Nunatak is an ice-free tipped peak rising to 449 m on the glacial divide between Huntress Glacier and Balkan Snowfield on Hurd Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is linked to Burdick South Peak to the northeast by Willan Saddle and, via Castillo Nu... | - White Nunataks
- Willan Nunatak
- Windscoop Nunataks
- Yingling Nunatak
- Young Nunataks
- Zohn Nunataks
External links.
- Nunatak survival of the high Alpine plant Eritrichium nanum | 14,513 | zeroshot-train |
Witches Cauldron [SEP] continent | Witches Cauldron
Witches Cauldron () is an ice-filled basin on the west side of the Douglas Range, immediately west of Mount Egbert in the north part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The basin was first sighted from the air and roughly mapped by the British Graham Land expedition in 1937. More accurately mapped from ai... | and Mount Burkett and Burkett Needle, a pair of spires about to the northeast.
Notable features.
The most famous feature on the Devils Thumb among climbers is its Northwest Face, rising from the Witches Cauldron at its base to the summit, at an average angle of 67 degrees. This is the biggest rock face in North America... | 14,514 | zeroshot-train |
Yambol Peak [SEP] continent | Yambol Peak
Yambol Peak (Vrah Yambol \'vr&h 'yam-bol\) is a rocky peak rising to 300 m in the south extremity of Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and overlooking Tarnovo Ice Piedmont to the west and Prespa Glacier to the northeast. The ice-free surface are... | 2009 Yambol bus crash
The 2009 Yambol bus crash occurred on 28 May 2009 near the city of Yambol in southeastern Bulgaria. Eighteen people died, and at least 20 were injured.
Incident.
The victims had been walking up the Bakadzhik peak to attend a traditional Ascension Day ("Spasovden") feast and fair held on the summit... | 14,515 | zeroshot-train |
Yana Point [SEP] continent | Yana Point
Yana Point (, ‘Nos Yana’ \'nos 'ya-na\) is the point forming the west side of the entrance to Bruix Cove in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point separates the glacier termini of Huron Glacier to the northwest and Iskar Glacier to the southeast.
The feature is named ... | Yana
Yana may refer to:
Locations.
- Yana, an administrative capital in Bauchi State, Nigeria
- Yana, Burma, a village in Hkamti Township in Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma
- Yana, India, a village in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India
- Yana, Sierra Leone, a town in Northern Pr... | 14,516 | zeroshot-train |
Zalmoxis Peak [SEP] continent | Zalmoxis Peak
Zalmoxis Peak (, ‘Vrah Zalmoxis’ \'vr&h zal-'mok-sis\) is the rocky peak rising to 2500 m in Bearskin Ridge on the east side of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is surmounting Patton Glacier to the northwest and Crosswell Glacier to the southeast.
The feature is named after the mythic... | - Taylor Ledge
- Toros Peak
- Tulaczyk Glacier
- Tyree Ridge
- Valchan Peak
- Vanand Peak
- Veregava Ridge
- Versinikia Peak
- Vinson Massif
- Vinson Plateau
- Wahlstrom Peak
- Willis Ridge
- Zalmoxis Peak
- Zapol Glacier
- Zinsmeister Ridge
- Zvegor Saddle | 14,517 | zeroshot-train |
Adélie Valley [SEP] continent | Adélie Valley
Adélie Valley (), also variously known as Adilie Valley, Dumont d'Urville Trough or Adélie Trough, is a drowned fjord (undersea valley) on the continental margin of East Antarctica. Named in association with this long named portion of Wilkes Land on the Antarctic coast. Name approved by the Advisory Commi... | Adélie penguin
The Adélie penguin ("Pygoscelis adeliae") is a species of penguin common along the entire coast of the Antarctic continent, which is their only habitat. They are the most widely spread penguin species, as well as the most southerly distributed of all penguins, along with the emperor penguin. They are nam... | 14,518 | zeroshot-train |
Alamein Range [SEP] continent | Alamein Range
Alamein Range () is a mountain range lying west of Canham Glacier, in the Freyberg Mountains of Antarctica. Named in association with Lord Bernard Freyberg and the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force by the Northern Party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1963-64. The moun... | early May 1942. An Axis offensive in Libya forced an Allied retreat deep inside Egypt until Axis forces were stopped at El Alamein. On the Continent, raids of Allied commandos on strategic targets, culminating in the disastrous Dieppe Raid, demonstrated the Western Allies' inability to launch an invasion of continental... | 14,519 | zeroshot-train |
Alepu Rocks [SEP] continent | Alepu Rocks
Alepu Rocks (, ‘Skali Alepu’ \ska-'li a-le-'pu\) is the group of rocks off the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, situated in an area with a diameter of .
The rocks are named after the seaside locality of Alepu in Southeastern Bulgaria.
Location.
Alepu Rocks are centred a... | - Ahrida Peak, Sentinel Range
- Ahtopol Peak, Livingston Island
- Akaga Glacier, Nordenskjöld Coast
- Akin Island, Nelson Island
- Akra Peninsula, Oscar II Coast
- Aktinia Beach, Snow Island
- Alabak Island, Graham Coast
- Albatros Point, Trinity Island
- Albena Peninsula, Brabant Island
- Aldomir Ridge, Trinity Penins... | 14,520 | zeroshot-train |
Alexander Island [SEP] continent | Alexander Island
Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay an... | Nov 1756. Married Ann Cameron daughter of Sir Ewen 'Dubh' Cameron (17th Locheil)
- John Maclean, 11th Laird of Ardgour), born 1700 and died 2 Mar 1739 Island of Mull, Argyll. Married Marjorie MacLachlan 25 Dec 1735.
- Hugh MacLean, 12th Laird of Ardgour, born 1736 and died 4 Sep 1768 – Built Ardgour House in 1765; a ca... | 14,521 | zeroshot-train |
Alison Ice Stream [SEP] continent | Alison Ice Stream
Alison Ice Stream is an ice stream about long flowing into Eltanin Bay south of Wirth Peninsula, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Alison Cook, a British Antarctic Survey computer specialist, part of the United States-UK cooperative project to compile glaciolo... | evident in the melting of the ice sheets and the glaciers and the rising sea levels all over the world. Due to the Gulf Stream, Mexico and Iceland are closely linked in this endeavour. Flowing from Mexico into the North–Atlantic, the Gulf Stream encircles my country and constitutes the core of the conveyor belt of ocea... | 14,522 | zeroshot-train |
Arbanasi Nunatak [SEP] continent | Arbanasi Nunatak
Arbanasi Nunatak (Nunatak Arbanasi \'nu-na-tak ar-ba-'na-si\) is a 320 m high rocky peak in Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in Antarctica. The peak was named after the settlement and monastery of Arbanasi near the old Bulgarian capital of Veliko Tarnovo.
Location.
The peak is locate... | Bulgarian names bestowed on hitherto nameless geographical features by the Tangra 2004/05 Expedition.
Location.
The heights' midpoint is located at (UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapping in 1968, rough Argentine mapping in 1980, and Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05 and mapping in 2005 and 2009).
See als... | 14,523 | zeroshot-train |
Arumbakkam [SEP] continent | one of Asia's Largest Bus Terminus, is just across the 100 feet Road opposite to Arumbakkam.
- Ampa Skywalk, a Shopping Mall opened on the Nelson Manickam Road — P.H.Road Junction.
- This mall also brings to Chennai, its first ever PVR Cinemas, a leading multiplex operator in the country and Tata-Trent's Star Bazaar, a... | - In Arumbakkam
- Siva Medicals, Valluvar Salai
- Jai Nagar park opposite CMBT;another park is on construction at opposite to this.
- Tamil Nadu pollution control board (TNPCB) in PH road
- Chennai Metro Rail Limited has started its construction work in Arumbakkam with the pile foundation work
- Arumbakkam will also ha... | 14,524 | zeroshot-train |
Barton Peninsula [SEP] continent | Barton Peninsula
Barton Peninsula is a small peninsula separating Marian Cove and Potter Cove at the southwest end of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1963 for Colin Barton, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey geologist who worke... | )
- 1875 – Dec 1880: William O'Carroll (as the de facto editor, officially edited by the managing editor Gresley Lukin)
- Jan 1881– Sep 1883: William O'Carroll (as the de facto editor, although officially edited by the managing editor Charles Hardie Buzacott)
- Sep 1883 – Oct 1887: Carl Adolph Feilberg
- Oct 1887 – Dec... | 14,525 | zeroshot-train |
Barwick Valley [SEP] continent | Barwick Valley
Barwick Valley is an ice-free valley north of Apocalypse Peaks, extending from Webb Glacier to Victoria Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE) (1958–59) for R.E. Barwick, summer biologist with the New Zealand party of the Co... | , and in 1606 at age 16 was admitted sizar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1611, M.A. in 1614, and was college chaplain from 1616 to 1626. He was incorporated at Oxford on 14 July 1618, and in 1639 was created D.D.
Watts travelled on the continent of Europe after leaving college, and beca... | 14,526 | zeroshot-train |
Brown Bluff [SEP] continent | Brown Bluff
Brown Bluff is a basalt tuya located on the Tabarin Peninsula of northern Antarctica. It formed in the past 1 million years, which erupted subglacially within an englacial lake. The volcano's original diameter is thought to have been about 12-15 kilometers, and probably formed by a single vent. Brown Bluff ... | 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... | 14,527 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Garry [SEP] continent | Cape Garry
Cape Garry is a cape forming the south-western extremity of Low Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was charted and named by a British expedition under Henry Foster, 1828–31, and was more accurately mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1959 from aerial photographs taken by... | Garry
Garry may refer to:
Names.
- Gary (given name) or Garry
- Garry (surname)
Places.
- Cape Garry, South Shetlands
- Fort Garry, Winnipeg, a district in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Garry Lake, Nunavut, Canada
- Garry No. 245, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Garry River, New Zealand
- Loch Garry, Scotland
- River Garry, Inve... | 14,528 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Irwyn [SEP] continent | Cape Irwyn
Cape Irwyn () is a rock cape at the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf forming the northern extremity of the Lillie Range in the foothills of the Prince Olav Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the southern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1963–64) for Irwyn Smith, a relief radio... | Krout and Harwell Glaciers. Named by US-ACAN for James Smithson, English philanthropist. In 1835, his property came into the possession of the United States Government, having been bequeathed by him for the purpose of founding an institution at Washington, DC, to be called the Smithsonian Institution for the increase a... | 14,529 | zeroshot-train |
Cape Jules [SEP] continent | Cape Jules
Cape Jules () is a rocky cape with a small cove along its northern end, west of Zelee Glacier Tongue, Antarctica. It was discovered and named by the French expedition under Dumont d'Urville, 1837–40. Jules is the given name of the discoverer, Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, as well as his son. The area was c... | Wildlife in Canada as endangered.
In fiction and popular culture.
Cape Bathurst features as a key location in Jules Verne's novel The Fur Country. In this novel, Cape Bathurst is not a fixed geographical feature but is instead a large iceberg anchored to the continent. A Hudson's Bay Company expedition is ordered to es... | 14,530 | zeroshot-train |
Chapanov Peak [SEP] continent | Chapanov Peak
Chapanov Peak (, ‘Chapanov Vrah’ \cha-'pa-nov 'vr&h\) is the rocky, partly ice-free peak rising to 600 m in Metlichina Ridge on Oscar II Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica. It is overlooking Punchbowl Glacier to the north-northeast and Borima Bay to the south.
The feature is named after the meteorologist Ts... | - Catalunyan Saddle, Livingston Island
- Cavarus Point, Oscar II Coast
- Chakarov Peak, Oscar II Coast
- Chapanov Peak, Oscar II Coast
- Chargan Ridge, Graham Coast
- Charrúa Gap, Livingston Island
- Chavdar Peninsula, Graham Land
- Chavei Cove, Livingston Island
- Chayka Passage, Trinity Island
- Chelopech Hill, Trini... | 14,531 | zeroshot-train |
Chaplin Peak [SEP] continent | Chaplin Peak
Chaplin Peak () is the peak rising to 1978 m on the west side of Bender Glacier, 5 mi southwest of Mount Craddock and 1.3 miles north of Gilbert Spur in the Sentinel Range of Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. Surmounting Nimitz Glacier to the west.
The peak was named by US-ACAN in 2006 after Stephen Neville... | the continent through the Great Depression, along with a conversation with Mahatma Gandhi in which they discussed modern technology. Chaplin did not understand why Gandhi generally opposed it, though he granted that "machinery with only consideration of profit" had put people out of work and ruined lives.
Chaplin began... | 14,532 | zeroshot-train |
Cheal Point [SEP] continent | Cheal Point
Cheal Point is a rocky headland east-south-east of Return Point, the south-western extremity of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica.
History.
The headland was first surveyed in 1933 by DI personnel, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Joseph J. Cheal of the Falkl... | 1950.
Important Bird Area.
A 194 ha tract of land, including both Cheal Point and Return Point, has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 38,000 pairs of chinstrap penguins which nest on places which are free of ice cover. | 14,533 | zeroshot-train |
Chelyabinsk [SEP] continent | Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk () is a city and the administrative center of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located in the northeast of the oblast, south of Yekaterinburg, just to the east of the Ural Mountains, on the Miass River, on the border of Europe and Asia. Population:
History.
History Ancient Vedic Civilization.
Archae... | the only known impact in historical times to have resulted in a large number of injuries, with the possible exception of the possibly highly deadly but poorly documented 1490 Ch'ing-yang event in China. The approximately 20 meter Chelyabinsk meteor is the largest recorded object to have impacted a continent of the Eart... | 14,534 | zeroshot-train |
Chilean South Pole Expedition [SEP] continent | Chilean South Pole Expedition
The Chilean South Pole Expedition (2004–2005) was a Chilean expedition to Antarctica organized by the Chilean Navy, Centro de Estudios Científicos and INACh. The expedition travelled to Antarctica from Chile in a chartered Ilyushin Il-76 and two Hercules C-130 owned by the Chilean Air Forc... | to South Pole began in October 2004 – a century after a historic expedition led by William Speirs Bruce, Edinburgh's "unknown" explorer, who Craig Mathieson views as "truly the greatest polar explorer of all time".
- 2004 – Together to the Pole – a Polish four-man expedition led by Marek Kamiński, with Jan Mela (a teen... | 14,535 | zeroshot-train |
Chocolate Nunatak [SEP] continent | Chocolate Nunatak
Chocolate Nunatak () is an isolated nunatak of reddish-brown color at the east side of the head of Mariner Glacier, west-southwest of Mount McCarthy, Barker Range, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. A descriptive name apparently applied by B.W. Riddolls and G.T. Hancox, geologists with the New Zealand Anta... | Canadian Wild Game Cookbook (Sep/14)
List of cookbooks Special Occasion Series.
1. Company's Coming For Christmas (Oct/96)
2. Easy Entertaining (Oct/98)
3. Millennium Edition (Sep/99)
4. Chocolate Everything (Oct/00)
5. Gifts From the Kitchen (Sep/01)
6. Cooking For the Seasons (Apr/02)
7. Home for the Holidays (Oct/02... | 14,536 | zeroshot-train |
Columbia River [SEP] continent | Columbia River
The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It flows northwest and then south into the US state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state of O... | .
The interior of British Columbia around the upper Fraser River was called New Caladonia. Goods were carried from Fort Chipewyan up the Peace River (1,500 foot elevation gain and only one significant portage at Hudson Hope, British Columbia) to Fort McLeod and carried over the mountains. It normally took two years for... | 14,537 | zeroshot-train |
Cosgrove Glacier [SEP] continent | Cosgrove Glacier
Cosgrove Glacier is a small glacier entering the south part of Stefansson Bay just west of Mulebreen Glacier, Kemp Land, Antarctica. Seen from an Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft in 1956 and later mapped, it was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for M. Cosgr... | University.
- Cosgrove, D. (2002). Introduction: Mapping Meaning. In D. Cosgrove (Ed.), Mappings (pp. 1–23). London: Reaktion Books Ltd.
- Harley, J. B. (1991). The New History of Cartography. Unesco Courier, 44, 10-15.
- Kirchhoff, P, Güemes, L, & Reyes, L. (1976). Historia Tolteca Chichimeca. Mexico: IMA-SEP-CISINAH.... | 14,538 | zeroshot-train |
Dismal Mountains [SEP] continent | Dismal Mountains
Dismal Mountains is a group of nunataks about southwest of Rayner Peak in Antarctica. They were photographed from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) aircraft in 1956, and surveyed by G.A. Knuckey during a dog-sledge journey from Amundsen Bay to Mawson Station in December 1958. T... | to return to America. His sisters Matilda McDuck and Hortense McDuck go to America with him. Also in 1902, Scrooge's father Fergus McDuck dies, aged 67, in Dismal Downs. Scrooge, Matilda and Hortense are the last of the McDuck clan. Scrooge settles in the small village of Duckburg, Calisota, United States, which he cho... | 14,539 | zeroshot-train |
Edwards Gap [SEP] continent | Edwards Gap
Edwards Gap () is a pass at about through the Walton Mountains, southward of Mount McArthur, on Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Christopher W. Edwards, a British Antarctic Survey geologist at Stonington Island, 1973–75, who mapped this area.
See also.... | - Gettysburg Campaign Jun 03 - Aug 01, 1863
- Battle, Gettysburg, Pa. Jul 01 - Jul 03, 1863
- Retreat to near Manassas Gap, Va. Jul 05 - Jul 24, 1863
- Skirmish near Manassas Gap, Va. Jul 23, 1863
- Battle, Chickamauga, Ga. Sep 19 - Sep 21, 1863
- Siege, Chattanooga, Tenn. Sep 24 - Oct 30, 1863
- Engagement, Wauhatchie... | 14,540 | zeroshot-train |
Ellyard Nunatak [SEP] continent | Ellyard Nunatak
Ellyard Nunatak () is a nunatak on the north side of Scylla Glacier, about south-southeast of Mount Bechervaise, in the Prince Charles Mountains of Antarctica. It was plotted from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions air photos of 1965, and named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Austral... | Nunataks
- Bond Ridge
- Bosse Nunatak
- Brocklehurst Ridge
- Carpenter Nunatak
- Carter Peak
- Chapman Nunatak
- Clague Ridge
- Collins Glacier
- Cumpston Massif
- Davern Nunatak
- Dohle Nunatak
- Edwards Nunatak
- Edwards Pillar
- Ellyard Nunatak
- Ely Nunatak
- Fisher Massif
- Flagstone Bench
- Foale Nunatak
- Fossil... | 14,541 | zeroshot-train |
Erlanger Spur [SEP] continent | Erlanger Spur
Erlanger Spur () is a rock spur from the southwestern extremity of Lexington Table, Forrestal Range, in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. The spur lies south of Abele Spur and extends west toward Blount Nunatak. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, at the suggestion of United St... | - Dyrdal Peak
- Erlanger Spur
- Fierle Peak
- Ford Ice Piedmont
- Franko Escarpment
- Gabbro Crest
- Grob Ridge
- Haskill Nunatak
- Henderson Bluff
- Herring Nunataks
- Hodge Escarpment
- Huie Cliffs
- Kent Gap
- Kovacs Glacier
- Lance Rocks
- Larson Nunataks
- Magnetite Bluff
- Mathis Spur
- May Valley
- McCauley Rock... | 14,542 | zeroshot-train |
Esteverena Point [SEP] continent | Esteverena Point
Esteverena Point is the rocky point projecting 700 m into Boyd Strait to form the west extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is named by Argentina.
Location.
The cape is located at which is 2.89 km south-southwest of Byewater Point, 9.08 km north-northwest of C... | 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 ... | 14,543 | zeroshot-train |
Evison Glacier [SEP] continent | Evison Glacier
Evison Glacier () is a small glacier draining from the south end of Molar Massif in the Bowers Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. This glacier was so named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1967–68, for F.F. Evison, New Zealand's first professor of geophysics. The glacier li... | 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... | 14,544 | zeroshot-train |
Farnell Valley [SEP] continent | Farnell Valley
Farnell Valley () is an ice-free valley, long, a tributary to Beacon Valley, descending to the latter from the southeast side, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for James B.H. Farnell, who assisted in supplying field parties at McMurdo Station... | F. David Farnell
F. David Farnell (born 1958) is an American New Testament scholar, Christian minister and professor of New Testament studies at The Master's Seminary in Sun Valley, California. He promotes a conservative approach to New Testament studies. Farnell's works include the book "The Jesus Crisis: The Inroads ... | 14,545 | zeroshot-train |
Ferguson Ridge [SEP] continent | Ferguson Ridge
Ferguson Ridge () is a ridge trending north-northwest to south-southeast, rising to 855 m southwest of Nodwell Peaks and surmounting to the southwest Mundraga Bay on Nordenskjöld Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica. The ridge was named in 1983 by the UK-APC after Harry G. Ferguson (1884-1960), British pione... | (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... | 14,546 | zeroshot-train |
Field Névé [SEP] continent | Field Névé
Field Névé () is a large névé between the Homerun Range and the Findlay Range in the Admiralty Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The feature lies between the upper reaches of Ebbe Glacier, which flows northwest, and Tucker Glacier, which flows southeast. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-... | Snow field
A snow field, snowfield or neve is an accumulation of permanent snow and ice, typically found above the snow line, normally in mountainous and glacial terrain.
Glaciers originate in snowfields. The lower end of a glacier is usually free from snow and névé in summer. In the upper end and above the upper bound... | 14,547 | zeroshot-train |
Flynn Glacier [SEP] continent | Flynn Glacier
Flynn Glacier () is a glacier about long, draining eastward from Mount Nares in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica, and entering Starshot Glacier south of Kelly Plateau. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Commander William F. Flynn (CEC), U.S. Navy, commanding officer Mobile ... | Cobham Range
- Darley Hills
- Holyoake Range
- Nash Range
- Surveyors Range
Sub−ranges Other features.
- Ahern Glacier
- Algie Knoll
- Alligator Eyes
- Black Icefalls
- Bradshaw Peak
- Brecher Glacier
- Byrd Glacier
- Carlstrom Foothills
- Carr Crest
- Cerberus Peak
- Chapman Snowfield
- Cooper Snowfield
- Cupcake Peak... | 14,548 | zeroshot-train |
Francis Island [SEP] continent | Francis Island
Francis Island is an island which is irregular in shape, long and wide, lying east-northeast of Choyce Point, off the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was discovered and photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Depen... | area near the South Pole, which is warmed by volcanic activity. Passing a white marble figure at the entrance to a harbor, they arrive in the city of Hili-li at 89°S latitude. Hili-li Island is one of over 200 islands in a great inland sea, surrounded by a ring-shaped continent. The continent consists of volcanic mount... | 14,549 | zeroshot-train |
Gamble Glacier [SEP] continent | Gamble Glacier
Gamble Glacier () is a glacier flowing northwest from Chapman Snowfield, and located between Green Nunatak at the southwest and Keating Massif at the northeast, in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. It was named in honor of John A. Gamble, a geological scientist at the Victoria University of Wellingt... | 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... | 14,550 | zeroshot-train |
Gannutz Glacier [SEP] continent | Gannutz Glacier
Gannutz Glacier () is a smooth glacier which flows north from the Bowers Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica and enters the eastern part of Rennick Bay between Weeder Rock and Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont. It was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 19... | 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... | 14,551 | zeroshot-train |
Gateway Pass [SEP] continent | Gateway Pass
Gateway Pass () is a mountain pass about long lying between the mountain Astarte Horn and Offset Ridge in eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with ... | - List of passes of the Rocky Mountains
- South Pass City, Wyoming
Further reading.
- Bagley, Will. "South Pass: Gateway to a Continent"(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014) 325 pp
External links.
- History and virtual tour of South pass
- "Ramsay Crooks 1856 letter", XMission.com
- South Pass National Historic ... | 14,552 | zeroshot-train |
Gerlovo Beach [SEP] continent | Gerlovo Beach
Gerlovo Beach (, ‘Gerlovski Bryag’ \'ger-lov-ski 'bryag\) is a beach extending 2 km on the northwest coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It stretches both south and northeast of Mercury Bluff, facing San Telmo Island to the north by west. Sn... | visited by early 19th century sealers.
The beach is named after the Gerlovo region in northeastern Bulgaria.
Location.
Gerlovo Beach is centred at . British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Spanish in 1991 and Bulgarian in 2009 and 2017.
Maps.
- Cape Shirreff, ASPA No. 149: Breeding wildlife sites and human features. Punta A... | 14,553 | zeroshot-train |
Gerov Pass [SEP] continent | Gerov Pass
Gerov Pass (, ‘Gerov Prohod’ \'ge-rov 'pro-hod\) is a pass of elevation 400 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated on Rozhen Peninsula, 1.6 km south-southeast of Pleven Saddle. Bounded by Shumen Peak to the east-northeast, and Gabrovo K... | Gabrovo Knoll
Gabrovo Knoll (Vrah Gabrovo \'vr&h 'ga-bro-vo\) is a peak rising to 500m in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island. The peak surmounts Charity Glacier to the north and Tarnovo Ice Piedmont to the southeast, and is separated from Shumen Peak to the east-northeast by Gerov Pass. The knoll ... | 14,554 | zeroshot-train |
Ghiaurov Peak [SEP] continent | Ghiaurov Peak
Ghiaurov Peak (Gyaurov Vrah \gya-'u-rov 'vr&h\) is a rocky 250 m peak in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is named after the famous Bulgarian singer Nicolai Ghiaurov (1929–2004).
Location.
The peak is located at , which is 960 m south... | Pass, Livingston Island
- Gerritsz Bay, Anvers Island
- Gesha Point, Clarence Island
- Ghiaurov Peak, Livingston Island
- Mount Ghiuselev, Brabant Island
- Gigen Peak, Trinity Peninsula
- Gilbert Spur, Sentinel Range
- Giridava Glacier, Clarence Island
- Glarus Island, Trinity Island
- Glavinitsa Peak, Fallières Coast
... | 14,555 | zeroshot-train |
Girdler Island [SEP] continent | Girdler Island
Girdler Island is a small island at the south side of Mutton Cove, lying southwest of Cliff Island and west of Prospect Point, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37, under John Rymill.
See also.
- List of Antarctic and sub-A... | Other uses.
- Girdler, Kentucky
- Girdler Island
See also.
- Girdler sulfide process, industrial production method for making heavy water (deuterium oxide) | 14,556 | zeroshot-train |
Glaciologist Bay [SEP] continent | Glaciologist Bay
Glaciologist Bay () is an ice-filled bay about long in the southwest part of the Jelbart Ice Shelf along the coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–52) and named "Glasiologbukta" ... | Austin Post
Austin S. Post (16 March 1922 – 12 November 2012) was a photographer, glaciologist, and mountaineer known for his aerial photography of the mountains and glaciers of North America, particularly the North Cascades of Washington and Glacier Bay, Alaska.
Post worked for many years as a research scientist for t... | 14,557 | zeroshot-train |
Gould Peak [SEP] continent | Gould Peak
Gould Peak () is a peak standing north of Tennant Peak in the southern group of the Rockefeller Mountains, on Edward VII Peninsula in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1929, and named by Richard E. Byrd for Charles ("Chips") Gould, a carpenter on the expeditio... | 31 Aug – Kate Millett
- 7 Sep – Elliott Gould
- 14 Sep – John Fairchild
- 21 Sep – Skyjacking
- 28 Sep – The Arab Guerillas
- 5 Oct – Richard Nixon
- 12 Oct – Gamal Abdel Nasser
- 19 Oct – Salvador Allende
- 26 Oct – Battle for the Senate
- 2 Nov – The Urban Guerillas
- 9 Nov – Blue Collar Power
- 16 Nov – Adlai Steven... | 14,558 | zeroshot-train |
Greenshields Peak [SEP] continent | Greenshields Peak
Greenshields Peak () is a peak between Leroux Bay and Bigo Bay, rising west of the Magnier Peaks on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Name... | 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)
... | 14,559 | zeroshot-train |
Grotto Glacier [SEP] continent | Grotto Glacier
Grotto Glacier is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, which flows east into George VI Sound between Belemnite Point and Ablation Point. It is long, wide where it emerges from the coastal mountains, and wide at its mouth. It was first photographed from the air on 23 November 1935,... | and Ned Anderson as vice-president.
Grottos of the NSS.
Here are the Grottos of the NSS as listed in 2009.
Alabama
- Birmingham Grotto
- Central Alabama Grotto
- Cullman Grotto
- Gadsden Grotto
- Huntsville Grotto
- Jackson County Grotto
- Montgomery Grotto
Alaska
- Glacier Grotto
Arizona
- Central Arizona Grotto
- Coc... | 14,560 | zeroshot-train |
Guesalaga Peninsula [SEP] continent | Guesalaga Peninsula
Guesalaga Peninsula is a small, L-shaped, low-lying shingle covered peninsula on the east side of Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the northwest coast of Iquique Cove and the north side of its entrance. The feature is projecting southwestwards and wid... | is named after Captain Federico Guesalaga, leader of the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition in the frigate "Iquique" and the transport ship "Angamos" that established Arturo Prat Base, while Reyes Point and Reyes Spit are named after Navigation Second Sergeant Camilo who was in charge of navigation instruments in the "I... | 14,561 | zeroshot-train |
Haag Nunataks [SEP] continent | Haag Nunataks
The Haag Nunataks () in Antarctica are a group of three low elevations aligned nearly north-south. The dominant central nunatak and the southern elevation have definite rock exposures; the minor northern elevation may be entirely snow-covered. The feature was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Exp... | the Library of Congress
- Wetmore Glacier - Named for Alexander Wetmore, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
- Irvine Glacier - Named for George J. Irvine, of the Engineer Depot at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
- Quilty Nunataks - Named for Patrick Quilty, geologist with the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Mount Coman ... | 14,562 | zeroshot-train |
Hackapike Bay [SEP] continent | Hackapike Bay
Hackapike Bay is an anchorage northwest of Ryswyck Point, entered west of False Island along the northeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37, under John Rymill. | False Island
False Island () is the largest of three islands lying at the east side of Hackapike Bay, off the northeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Two islands were charted in this approximate position by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. False Island was name... | 14,563 | zeroshot-train |
Hannah Point [SEP] continent | Hannah Point
Hannah Point is a point on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It forms the east side of the entrance to Walker Bay and the west side of the entrance to South Bay. Surmounted by Ustra Peak to the north, with Liverpool Beach extending between the peak and the tip ... | upon entering Congress.
Family.
On October 31, 1813, Orville Hungerford married Elizabeth Porter Stanley, known as Betsy, from Wethersfield, Connecticut". She was the daughter of George and Hannah (Porter) Stanley. The couple had the following children: Mary Stanley (May 6, 1815-Mar. 13, 1893), Marcus (Aug. 30, 1817-Se... | 14,564 | zeroshot-train |
Harsewinkel [SEP] continent | Harsewinkel
Harsewinkel is a town in Gütersloh District in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies on the river Ems, some 15 km north-west of Gütersloh.
It is the home and domicile of Europe's leading combine harvester manufacturer CLAAS, which is a major employer in the town.
Notable native.
- Adrian Wew... | Claas
Claas is an agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1913, based in Harsewinkel, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany, in the state of North Rhine Westphalia. The product range includes combine harvesters, forage harvesters, balers, mowers, rakes, tractors, tedders and other harvesting machines. Claas produced its 4... | 14,565 | zeroshot-train |
Henry Ice Rise [SEP] continent | Henry Ice Rise
Henry Ice Rise is a triangular-shaped ice rise about long located between Korff Ice Rise and the southern portion of Berkner Island in the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica. It was first visited by the United States International Geophysical Year geophysical traverse party from Ellsworth Station, 1957–58, and ... | in the case of the Antarctic, may trigger an accumulation of additional ice mass. If an ice sheet were ablated down to bare ground, less light from the sun would be reflected back into space and more would be absorbed by the land. The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 84% of the island and the Antarctic Ice Sheet covers appro... | 14,566 | zeroshot-train |
Horsa Nunataks [SEP] continent | Horsa Nunataks
The Horsa Nunataks () are an isolated group of about five partly snow-covered nunataks, more than high, which rise above Roberts Ice Piedmont, north of Mount Calais, in the northeastern part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. They were first photographed from the air in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expe... | Horsa (disambiguation)
Horsa is an Anglo-Saxon leader in British legend.
Horsa may also refer to:
- HORSA, a UK government hut-building programme to support expansion under the Education Act 1944
- Airspeed Horsa, a British World War II troop-carrying glider
- G-AAUC "Horsa" a biplane airliner built in 1931 by Handley ... | 14,567 | zeroshot-train |
Howard-Williams Point [SEP] continent | Howard-Williams Point
Howard-Williams Point () is a prominent point extending into the Ross Ice Shelf, located just north of Beaumont Bay, north east of the Surveyors Range, Antarctica. It was named in honor of Clive Howard-Williams, an ecologist who led several research events in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Darwin Glacie... | , directed by Andrew Woolner (joint production with Yokohama Theatre Group)
May 2009: "Oliver!", music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, directed by Lou McLeod
Jul 2009: "Honiefaith" by Monty DiPietro, directed by Jonah Hagans (Second Stage production)
Sep 2009: "Greater Tuna" by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard, d... | 14,568 | zeroshot-train |
Huma Nunatak [SEP] continent | Huma Nunatak
Huma Nunatak (, ‘Nunatak Huma’ \'nu-na-tak 'hu-ma\) is the rocky hill rising to 580 m in the west part of Zavera Snowfield, in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.
The nunatak is named after the settlement of Huma in Northeastern Bulgaria.
Loc... | . The film was released in June 2017.
Personal life.
Sikander Rizvi was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan to a Pakistani father, Akbar Hussain Rizvi, and French mother, Florence Villiers Rizvi. His paternal grandmother, actresssinger Noor Jehan, and grandfather, film producer Shaukat Hussain Rizvi, were the most influen... | 14,569 | zeroshot-train |
Hushen Glacier [SEP] continent | Hushen Glacier
Hushen Glacier () is a glacier lying at the southwestern part of the base of the Mendelssohn Inlet, an inlet lying between Derocher Peninsula and Eroica Peninsula indenting the north face of Beethoven Peninsula, in the southwestern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The glacier flows northeast whil... | " 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... | 14,570 | zeroshot-train |
Hyperion Nunataks [SEP] continent | Hyperion Nunataks
The Hyperion Nunataks () are a group of about 10 nunataks lying south of Saturn Glacier and west of the Corner Cliffs, in the southeastern part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The group was first seen and photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and mapped from these photo... | also.
- Appalachia Nunataks
- Franck Nunataks
- Hyperion Nunataks
- Enceladus Nunataks | 14,571 | zeroshot-train |
Intuition Peak [SEP] continent | Intuition Peak
Intuition Peak (Vrah Intuitsiya \'vr&h in-tu-'i-tsi-ya\) is a sharp Antarctic peak of elevation 780 m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is surmounting Iskar Glacier to the east and Devnya Valley to the west. The peak was named in apprecia... | . Published in "Aboriginal".
- "Intuition: The Guide Who Needs Steering" (1987). Published in "Intuit".
- "The Magic Picture" (1989). Published in "L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future v5".
- "Whatever Happened to the Science in Science Fiction?" (sep 1993). Published in "Science Fiction Age".
- "Ardent Thuria... | 14,572 | zeroshot-train |
Isingsalen Saddle [SEP] continent | Isingsalen Saddle
Isingsalen Saddle () is an ice saddle between Isingen Mountain and Salknappen Peak in the Sverdrup Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39). It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the ... | of the flap and against the leg. If not wide enough, the leg can get pinched. Some new designs, such as the "swinging fender", that incorporates the western-style stirrup leather, have attempted to address this issue. Some saddles, particularly some designs sold in the United States also add a western-style saddle horn... | 14,573 | zeroshot-train |
Ivaylo Cove [SEP] continent | Ivaylo Cove
Ivaylo Cove (, ‘Ivaylov Zaliv’ \i-'vay-lov 'za-liv\) is the 500 m wide cove indenting for 900 m the east coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Bounded by the two arms of the small Hall Peninsula, the south one extended by a chain of rocks.
The cove is named after Czar Ivaylo of Bul... | (2013)
- Branko Ivanković (Sep 2, 2013 – Oct 22, 2013)
- Zoran Mamić (Oct 22, 2013 – Jul 1, 2016)
- Zlatko Kranjčar (Jul 1, 2016 – Sep 24, 2016)
- Željko Sopić (interim) (Sep 25, 2016 – Sep 28, 2016)
- Ivaylo Petev (Sep 29, 2016 – Jul 13, 2017)
- Mario Cvitanović (Jul 13, 2017 – Mar 10, 2018)
- Nikola Jurčević | 14,574 | zeroshot-train |
Jaeger Hills [SEP] continent | Jaeger Hills
The Jaeger Hills () are a group of hills and nunataks, rising to about and running northeast–southwest for between Matthews Glacier and McCaw Ridge on the Orville Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. The feature was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photogr... | Union Square plc Sep 1990 aged 26.
Richard is still the youngest chairman in Premiership history.
Engineered reversal of Leeds United into Caspian plc in Aug 1996.
Director of Leeds from 1996-1999
He was the director of Leeds Utd until March 1999.
He bought 90% of Mackintosh Ltd in 2000 and sold to Japanese group Yagi ... | 14,575 | zeroshot-train |
Johnson Bluff [SEP] continent | Johnson Bluff
Johnson Bluff () is a conspicuous rock bluff east-northeast of Ranfurly Point, overlooking the east side of Keltie Glacier at its confluence with Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Dwight L. Johnson, a United States Antarctic Research Program biolo... | 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... | 14,576 | zeroshot-train |
Johnston Glacier [SEP] continent | Johnston Glacier
Johnston Glacier () is a glacier flowing in a southeasterly direction along the north side of Mount Owen to the head of Nantucket Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, under Finn Ronne, who named it for Freeborn Johns... | 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... | 14,577 | zeroshot-train |
Kazanlak Peak [SEP] continent | Kazanlak Peak
Kazanlak Peak (Vrah Kazanlak \'vr&h ka-zan-'l&k\) is a rocky peak rising to 430 m in Delchev Ridge of Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Bruix Cove to the northwest, Iskar Glacier to the southwest and Sopot Ice Piedmont to the east. The peak is named... | . Zherkovo Area – Museum and Monument of Chavdartsi.
81. The Balkan Mountains — Chavdar Hut.
82. Smolyan — Regional historical museum, the Smolyan Lakes.
83. the Rhodope Mountains — Pamporovo Holiday Resort.
84. the Rhodope Mountains — Persenk Peak, the Wonderful Bridges.
85. Stara Zagora — Regional Museum of History, ... | 14,578 | zeroshot-train |
Ketchum Glacier [SEP] continent | Ketchum Glacier
Ketchum Glacier () is an eastward flowing glacier at the base of Palmer Land, Antarctica, about long, descending between the Latady Mountains and the Scaife Mountains into Gardner Inlet. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, under Finn Ronne, who named it for Comm... | Brown Glacier, Palmer Land
Brown Glacier () is a large glacier on the west side of Latady Mountains, flowing south-southeast to join Ketchum Glacier, west of Gardner Inlet, on Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1961-67. Named ... | 14,579 | zeroshot-train |
Kienle Cirque [SEP] continent | Kienle Cirque
Kienle Cirque () is an ice-filled cirque, wide, the largest cirque on the west side of White Island, in the Ross Archipelago, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (1999) after Juergen Kienle of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, a team leader for th... | than to the east and west carved cirques into the slopes of the volcano. The George Lake and Dry Creek cirques, which face north and northeast, respectively, show evidence of holding glaciers similar to those documented at Canyon Creek cirque on Three Fingered Jack with moraines. Wood and Kienle (1990) estimate that Mo... | 14,580 | zeroshot-train |
Kiletangen Ice Tongue [SEP] continent | Kiletangen Ice Tongue
Kiletangen Ice Tongue () is a narrow projection of the ice shelf on the east side of Tangekilen Bay, along the coast of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was first mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Kiletangen (the b... | ANARE)'s glaciological program. Radok Lake is the deepest (362 m) known lake on the Antarctic continent and the only known freshwater lake to host a floating ice tongue glacier. Drained by 3 miles long Pagodroma Gorge in to Beaver Lake. | 14,581 | zeroshot-train |
Kirton Island [SEP] continent | Kirton Island
Kirton Island is a small coastal island of the Robinson Group, lying west of Cape Daly, Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica, and about south of Macklin Island. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and was named by the Antarctic Names Commi... | Inglis, daughter of Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford and the wife of Major-General Sir John Eardley Inglis, who commanded the British troops at the Siege of Lucknow. After calling at Madras on 13 February, the "Ava" departed for Suez; her captain, Captain Kirton, had been instructed to land at Trincomalee with a... | 14,582 | zeroshot-train |
Kitching Ridge [SEP] continent | Kitching Ridge
Kitching Ridge () is a prominent rock ridge on the west side of Shackleton Glacier, between Bennett Platform and Matador Mountain, in the Queen Maud Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for South African vertebrate paleontologist James W. Kitching who first f... | skull with the ventral surface of the dermal bones present. The palate and braincase are not preserved. An additional paratype specimen called AMNH 9556 includes an impression of the skull roof, but no preserved bones. AMNH 9503 was found on Kitching Ridge (which is also named after James Kitching) near Shackleton Glac... | 14,583 | zeroshot-train |
Kuvungen Hill [SEP] continent | Kuvungen Hill
Kuvungen Hill () is a hill just southeast of Framranten Point, near the southwest end of the Kirwan Escarpment in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped and named by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian–British–Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949–52) and additional air p... | Operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Va. Jun 16 - Jul ??, 1864
- Assault, Petersburg, Va. Jun 18, 1864
- Sheridan's Campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, Va. Aug 07 - Nov 28, 1864
- Engagement, Cedarville, Guard Hill (Front Royal), Va. Aug 16, 1864
- Action, Bunker Hill, W. Va. Sep 02 - Sep 03, 1864
- Battle, Opequ... | 14,584 | zeroshot-train |
Kvitholten Hill [SEP] continent | Kvitholten Hill
Kvitholten Hill () is a snow-clad hill at the east side of Austreskorve Glacier, standing just south of Sagbladet Ridge in the Mühlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was plotted from surveys and air photos by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named Kvitholten (t... | Hamarglovene Crevasses
- Hamarøya Mountain
- Hamarskorvene Bluff
- Hoggestabben Butte
- Høgsenga Crags
- Huldreskorvene Peaks
- Jaren Crags
- Jøkulfallet
- Jøkulhest Dome
- Jøkulkyrkja Mountain
- Kapellet Canyon
- Katedralen Canyon
- Kaye Crest
- Kvea Valley
- Kvithamaren Cliff
- Kvitholten Hill
- Kyrkjebakken Slope
- ... | 14,585 | zeroshot-train |
Lambert Graben [SEP] continent | Lambert Graben
Lambert Graben is a graben in Antarctica. It intersects the coast at Prydz Bay and contains the largest glacier in the world, Lambert Glacier. The graben is a Permian rift which contains coal beds. The graben has been correlated with the coal bearing Godavari Valley of the Indian Peninsula prior to the b... | Sep Lambert
Septimus Drummond "Sep" Lambert (3 August 1876 in Dublin, Ireland – 21 April 1959 in Dublin) was an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, he played 14 times for the Ireland cricket team between 1896 and 1921, including seven first-class matches.
Lambert was educated at Rathmines School ... | 14,586 | zeroshot-train |
Laussedat Heights [SEP] continent | Laussedat Heights
The Laussedat Heights () are a series of elevations extending eastward for in the southwest part of Arctowski Peninsula, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and were named by... | Deville Glacier
Deville Glacier () is a glacier flowing along the south side of the Laussedat Heights into Andvord Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. The glacier is shown on an Argentine government chart of 1952. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Edouard G. Deville, Surveyor-General... | 14,587 | zeroshot-train |
Leopold and Astrid Coast [SEP] continent | Leopold and Astrid Coast
The Leopold and Astrid Coast () is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between the western extremity of the West Ice Shelf, at 81°24′E, and Cape Penck, at 87°43′E. It is located in the eastern half of Princess Elizabeth Land. It was discovered and explored in an airplane flight from t... | According to the "Great Soviet Encyclopedia", it stretches from 87°E to 98°E, and is up to deep. Its area is given as only . Other authorities such as National Geographic assign it a much smaller extent.
It washes the coast of Princess Elizabeth Land (there only Leopold and Astrid Coast), Kaiser Wilhelm II Land, Pravda... | 14,588 | zeroshot-train |
Level Valley [SEP] continent | Level Valley
Level Valley () is a distinctive ice-free valley which descends northeastward from the Pivot Peak cirque, in the Wilkniss Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The name does not refer to the local topography, but is one of a group of names in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by the New ... | level in the football-only Missouri Valley Football Conference, and the other is an all-sports member of the FCS Ohio Valley Conference. After dropping football, the AMCU (informally known as the "Mid-Continent") became the Mid-Continent Conference in 1989, and adopted its current name of The Summit League in 2007. Cur... | 14,589 | zeroshot-train |
Lewis Bay [SEP] continent | Lewis Bay
Lewis Bay is a bay indenting the north coast of Ross Island, Antarctica, between Mount Bird and Cape Tennyson.
History.
The bay was charted by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, 1901–04. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for Captain Price Lewis... | - Cook Strait: Ship Wrecks, Swells and Gales
- New Zealand's Cook Strait Rail Ferries – NZ National Maritime Museum
- Cook Strait rail ferries – New Zealand History, by Ministry for Culture and Heritage
- Cook Strait Swim
- NZ: Chance to turn the tide of power supply EnergyBulletin.net
- Lewis, Keith "Submarine cables"... | 14,590 | zeroshot-train |
Lientur Rocks [SEP] continent | Lientur Rocks
Lientur Rocks is a group of prominent adjacent rocks lying off the north coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and extending in east-west direction and in north-south direction. The area was visited by early 19th-century sealers operating from nearby Clothier Harbour.
The featur... | Peralta Rocks
Peralta Rocks is a group of about 8 small rocks covering an area 4 nautical miles (7 km) by 2 nautical miles (3.7 km), lying 7 nautical miles (13 km) north of Cape Ducorps, Trinity Peninsula. Named by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1949–50, for Lieutenant Roberto Peralta Bell, second-in-command of the ... | 14,591 | zeroshot-train |
Lom Peak [SEP] continent | Lom Peak
Lom Peak (Vrah Lom ) is a peak rising to 870 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica which overlooks Ruen Icefall to the north. It is named after the Bulgarian town of Lom.
Location.
The peak is located at which is 790 m northwest of St. Methodius Pea... | Gorni Lom
Gorni Lom () is a village in north-western Bulgaria, Vidin Province. The population of Gorni Lom is 784.
The village is situated in a mountainous region, on the upper stream of the Lom River. It is located in the foot of Midzhur, the highest peak in western Stara Planina. Gorni Lom is a starting point for the... | 14,592 | zeroshot-train |
Lowe Peak [SEP] continent | Lowe Peak
Lowe Peak () is a peak rising to , south west of Mount Kolp, at the north west end of the Nash Range in Antarctica. It was named in honor of P. A. Lowe, a member of the 1961 Cape Hallett winter-over team, working as a technician on the geomagnetic project. | ) Wg. Cdr. A.E. Lowe
Chief Instructors Fighter Wing, CGS:
- Mar 1942 to Sep 1942 Sqn. Ldr, A.R. Wright
- Oct 1942 to Feb 1943 Sqn. Ldr. P.W. LeFevre
- Feb 1943 to Jun 1943 Sqn. Ldr, T. Balmforth
- Jun 1943 to Sep 1943 Sqn, Ldr. R.C Dafforn (K)
- Sep 1943 to (Feb 1944) Sqn. Ldr. A. Winskill
The Central Gunnery School tr... | 14,593 | zeroshot-train |
Markham Island [SEP] continent | Markham Island
Markham Island () is a small but conspicuous island lying just off Oscar Point in the northern part of Terra Nova Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered in February 1900 by the British Antarctic Expedition (1898–1900) under C.E. Borchgrevink, who named it for Sir Clements Markham.
See also.
- ... | to 28 JAN 1923
- MG Baird H. Markham 28 JAN 1923 to 30 JUN 1925
- MG Charles F. Barrett 1 JUL 1925 to 19 SEP 1939
- BG Louis A. Ledbetter 20 SEP 1939 to 13 SEP 1940
- MG George A. Davis 14 SEP 1940 to 6 MAY 1947
- MG Roy W. Kenny 7 MAY 1947 to 7 MAR 1965
- MG LaVern E. Weber 8 MAR 1965 to 30 SEP 1971
- MG David C. Matt... | 14,594 | zeroshot-train |
Marty Nunataks [SEP] continent | Marty Nunataks
The Marty Nunataks () are a group comprising about six nunataks in the western part of the Britannia Range, Antarctica. The group lies midway between Haven Mountain and Vantage Hill and extends east–west for . The nunataks rise to over , with local relief on the order of . They are named after Jerry W. M... | 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... | 14,595 | zeroshot-train |
Mawson Glacier [SEP] continent | Mawson Glacier
Mawson Glacier () is a large glacier on the east coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, descending eastward from the polar plateau, to the north of Trinity Nunatak and the Kirkwood Range, to enter the Ross Sea, where it forms the Nordenskjöld Ice Tongue. The glacier was first mapped by the British Antarctic... | Denman Glacier
Denman Glacier is a glacier wide, descending north some , which debouches into the Shackleton Ice Shelf east of David Island, Queen Mary Land. It was discovered in November 1912 by the Western Base party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Sir Douglas Mawson. Mawson named the glacier for Lord ... | 14,596 | zeroshot-train |
McKenzie Peak [SEP] continent | McKenzie Peak
McKenzie Peak is a peak just south of Mount Albion in the Athos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. It was plotted from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions air photos of 1965, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for J.F. McKenzie, a radio technician at... | , a UK record crowd for a Heineken Cup quarter final, witnessed Edinburgh become the first Scottish club to reach the Heineken Cup semi-final.
Transfers 2011/2012.
Transfers 2011/2012 Players in.
- Steven Lawrie from Doncaster
- Matthew Scott - Currie RFC
- Sean Cox - Sale Sharks
- Chris Leck - Sale Sharks
- Alex Black... | 14,597 | zeroshot-train |
Merrick Point [SEP] continent | Merrick Point
Merrick Point () is an ice-covered point on the east side of Hamilton Ice Piedmont, Bear Peninsula, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959–66, and was named by the Advisory Committee on ... | 29: Hole
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- Jun 12: Mix Master Mike
- Jul 3: Something For Kate
- Jul 10: Marilyn Manson
- Jul 17: Custard
- Jul 24: Sepultura
- Jul 31: Reef
- Aug 7: Moby
- Aug 14: Merrick and Rosso
- Aug 28: Richard and Geno from Filter
- Sep 4: Silverchair
- Sep 11: Monster Magnet
- Sep 25: Rebecca and Shane from ... | 14,598 | zeroshot-train |
Millen Range [SEP] continent | Millen Range
The Millen Range () is a prominent northwest–southeast trending mountain range, located west of the Cartographers Range in the Victory Mountains of Antarctica. Peaks in the range include Inferno, O'Donnell, Omega, Le Couteur, Head, Cirque, Gless, Turret and Crosscut, and Mount Aorangi. It was named by the ... | May was involved in another manhunt, this time for Albert Johnson, soon known as the "Mad Trapper of Rat River." While serving a search warrant for illegal trapping on the Rat River, Constable King of the RCMP was shot and wounded by Johnson, sparking off a long chase that became front-page news across the continent. J... | 14,599 | zeroshot-train |
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