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The Great Lakes coast measures approximately 10500 miles ;, but the length of a coastline is impossible to measure exactly and is not a well-defined measure (see Coastline paradox).
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According to the bi-national (U.S. and Canadian) resource book, The Great Lakes: An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book: "The largest Great Lakes fish harvests were recorded in 1889 and 1899 at some 67000 tonnes [147 million pounds]."
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One of the more common sights on the lakes has been since about 1950 the 1,000‑by‑105-foot (305-by-32-meter), 78850 long tons self-unloader.
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The largest and last major freighter wrecked on the lakes was the SS Edmund Fitzgerald , which sank on November 10, 1975, just over 17 miles offshore from Whitefish Point on Lake Superior.
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In August 2007, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society announced that it had found the wreckage of Cyprus, a 420 feet long, century-old ore carrier. ''
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It has an area of nearly 270000 sqkm and its population is estimated at million people.
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Gabon's largest river is the Ogooué which is 1200 kilometers long.
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In an effort to reduce Gabon's reliance on meat imports, the government set aside 200000 hectares in Gabon's unpopulated Savannah region for three ranches at Ngounie, Nyanga, and Lekabi.
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By international agreement and Gabonese law, an exclusive economic zone extends 200 miles off the coast, which prohibits any foreign company to fish in this zone without governmental authorization.
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The international border along the Philadelphi corridor between Egypt and the Gaza Strip is 7 miles long.
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According to PCHR, Israeli attacks take place up to approximately 1 kilometers from the border, making 17% of Gaza's total territory a risk zone.
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According to Diskin, Hamas and Islamic Jihad had smuggled in over "5,000 rockets with ranges up to 40 kilometers ."
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Khan Yunis is located 7 kilometers northeast of Rafah, and several towns around Deir el-Balah are located along the coast between it and Gaza City.
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The Gush Katif bloc of Israeli settlements used to exist on the sand dunes adjacent to Rafah and Khan Yunis, along the southwestern edge of the 40 kilometers Mediterranean coastline.
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The highest point is Abu 'Awdah (Joz Abu 'Auda), at 105 meters above sea level.
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Salah al-Din Road (also known as the Salah ad-Deen Highway) is the main highway of the Gaza Strip and extends over 45 kilometers , spanning the entire length of the territory from the Rafah Crossing in the south to the Erez Crossing in the north.
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Georgia covers an area of 69700 sqkm .
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Georgia has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 21946 sqkm in the Black Sea.
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In the west, the climate is subtropical to about 650 meters ; above that altitude (and to the north and east) is a band of moist and moderately warm weather, then a band of cool and wet conditions.
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Spanning a land mass of 238535 sqkm , Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east, and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. ''
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Ghana is geographically closer to the "centre" of the Earth geographical coordinates than any other country; even though the notional centre, (0°, 0°) is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 614 kilometers off the south-east coast of Ghana on the Gulf of Guinea.
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The CanSat was deployed 200 meters high from a helium-filled balloon and took some aerial images as well as temperature readings.
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Panorama view of Kakum National Park, located in the coastal environs of the Central region on the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, covers an area of 375 sqkm .
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Kakum National Park is the only national park in Africa with a canopy walkway, which is 350 meters long and connects seven canopy tree tops which provides access to the rainforests.
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The Volta Basin takes up most of south-central Ghana and Ghana's highest point is Mount Afadja which is 885 meters and is found in the Akwapim-Togo ranges.
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The 537 kilometers coastline is mostly a low, sandy shore backed by plains and scrub and intersected by several rivers and streams, most of which are navigable only by canoe.
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Right: Lake Volta, largest reservoir in the world, extending from the Akosombo Dam in southeastern Ghana to the town of Yapei, some 400 kilometers to the north.
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Volta Lake, the largest artificial lake in the world, extends from the Akosombo Dam in southeastern Ghana to the town of Yapei, 520 kilometers to the north.
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The port of Tema has 5 kilometers of breakwaters, 12 deepwater berths, an outsize oil tanker berth, a dockyard, warehouses, and transit sheds.
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Gibraltar has 49 kilometers of highways, all of which are paved.
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Older roads in Gibraltar, primarily in the city centre, are fairly narrow with a typical speed limit of 50 kmph .
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The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands ( or officially also Archipel des Glorieuses) are a group of French islands and rocks totaling 5 sqkm .
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Grande Glorieuses is roughly circular and measures about 3 kilometers across.
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The Glorieuses have an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 48350 sqkm .
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There are anchorages offshore, and Grande Glorieuse has a 1300 meters long airstrip.
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The climate is tropical and the terrain is low and flat, varying from sea level to 12 meters .
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The gulf has an area of 30000 sqkm . [
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The depth of the Neva Bay is less than 6 meters ; therefore, a channel was dugdate=March 2019 at the bottom for safe navigation.
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The southern shores are smooth and shallow, but along the entire coast runs a limestone escarpment, the Baltic Klint, with a height up to 55 meters .
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The largest changes occur within 5 kilometers from the dam.
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This transit point will be moved from Saint Petersburg to the port Ust-Luga, which is about 110 kilometers west of Saint Petersburg, and within the Border Security Zone of Russia, as decided by the Russian government in 2003 (Order No.
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On 2 September 1939, 150 of them were deported to the Sicherheitsdienst camp Stutthof some 30 miles from Danzig, and murdered. [
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The city has moderately cold and cloudy winters with mean temperature in January and February near or below 0.0 Coulomb and mild summers with frequent showers and thunderstorms.
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January and February are the coldest months with the temperature sometimes dropping as low as -15.0 Coulomb .
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In 2011–2015 the Warsaw-Gdańsk-Gdynia railway route underwent a major upgrading costing $3 billion, partly funded by the European Investment Bank, including track replacement, realignment of curves and relocation of sections of track to allow speeds up to 200 kmph , modernization of stations, and installation of the mo...
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The Göta Canal is a part of a waterway 390 kilometers long, linking a number of lakes and rivers to provide a route from Gothenburg (Göteborg) on the west coast to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea via the Trollhätte kanal and Göta älv river, through the large lakes Vänern and Vättern.
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These cars have a top speed of 298 kmph and run 0–100 km/h in 3.8 seconds.
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The Zaragoza solar installation has about 2000000 sqft of roof at the plant and contains about 85,000 solar panels.
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GM began production of the Chevrolet Bolt EV in October 2016, the first ever mass market all-electric car with a range of more than 200 miles .
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mainspan = 4200 feet , about 0.79 miles (1.28 km)
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clearance = 14 feet at toll gates, trucks cannot pass
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below = 220 feet at high tide
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the 1.0 miles strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
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One who responded, Joseph Strauss, was an ambitious engineer and poet who had, for his graduate thesis, designed a 55 miles railroad bridge across the Bering Strait.
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Two out of the twelve workers survived the 200 feet fall into the icy waters, including the 37-year-old foreman, Slim Lambert.
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On the south side of the bridge a 36 inches cross-section of the cable, containing 27,572 wires, is on display.
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Until 1964, the Golden Gate Bridge had the longest suspension bridge main span in the world, at 4200 feet .
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The total length of the Golden Gate Bridge from abutment to abutment is 8981 feet .
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The total length of galvanized steel wire used to fabricate both main cables is estimated to be 80000 miles .
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The deck is about 245 feet above the water.
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After a fall of four seconds, jumpers hit the water at around 75 mph .
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Once thought to have been able to withstand any magnitude of foreseeable earthquake, the bridge was actually vulnerable to complete structural failure (i.e., collapse) triggered by the failure of supports on the 320 feet arch over Fort Point.
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With these improvements, the system was capable of transmitting signals up to 2 miles and over hills.
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A further series of demonstrations for the British followed, and, by March 1897, Marconi had transmitted Morse code signals over a distance of about 6 kilometers across Salisbury Plain.
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On 13 May 1897, Marconi sent the first ever wireless communication over open sea – a message was transmitted over the Bristol Channel from Flat Holm Island to Lavernock Point in Penarth, a distance of 6 kilometers .
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BBC Wales, The transmitting equipment was almost immediately relocated to Brean Down Fort on the Somerset coast, stretching the range to 16 kilometers .
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He soon made the announcement that the message was received at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland (now part of Canada) on 12 December 1901, using a 500 feet kite-supported antenna for reception—signals transmitted by the company's new high-power station at Poldhu, Cornwall.
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The distance between the two points was about 2200 miles .
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During the daytime, signals had been received up to only about 700 miles , less than half of the distance claimed earlier at Newfoundland, where the transmissions had also taken place during the day.
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Its length is 93 kilometers .
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The locks make the river navigable, even for large cargo vessels ( 88 meters long).
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Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13676 kilometers in length, featuring many islands, of which 227 are inhabited.
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Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous, with Mount Olympus being the highest peak at 2918 meters .
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Mount Olympus, the mythical abode of the Greek Gods, culminates at Mytikas peak 2918 meters , the highest in the country.
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The Pindus, a continuation of the Dinaric Alps, reaches a maximum elevation of 2637 meters at Mt. Smolikas (the second-highest in Greece) and historically has been a significant barrier to east–west travel.
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A modern intercity rail connection between Athens and Thessaloniki has also been established, while an upgrade to double lines in many parts of the 2500 kilometers network is underway.
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There are over 35000 kilometers of fiber optics and an extensive open-wire network.
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dual gauge: 23 kilometers combined 1435mm and 1000mm gauges (three rail system) (2004)
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Established in 1974, and expanded to its present size in 1988, it protects 972001 sqkm of the interior and northeastern coast of Greenland and is bigger than all but twenty-nine countries in the world.
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The highest point on Greenland is Gunnbjørn Fjeld at 3700 meters of the Watkins Range (East Greenland mountain range).
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The majority of Greenland, however, is less than 1500 meters in elevation.
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The weight of the ice sheet has depressed the central land area to form a basin lying more than 300 meters below sea level, DK Atlas, 2001.
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If the Greenland ice sheet were to melt away completely, the world's sea level would rise by more than 7 meters .
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Between 1989 and 1993, US and European climate researchers drilled into the summit of Greenland's ice sheet, obtaining a pair of 3 kilometers long ice cores.
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Other research has shown that higher snowfalls from the North Atlantic oscillation caused the interior of the ice cap to thicken by an average of 6 cms /y between 1994 and 2005. [
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The climatic glacier snowline (ELA) was at about 800 meters .
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The only exception is a gravel road of 3 miles length between Kangilinnguit and the now abandoned former cryolite mining town of Ivittuut.
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SFJ is far from the vicinity of the larger metropolitan capital areas, 317 kilometers to the capital Nuuk, and airline passenger services are available.
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Nuuk Airport (GOH) is the second-largest airport located just 6 kilometers from the centre of the capital.
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Kangerlussuaq Airport around 100 kilometers inland from the west coast is the major airport of Greenland and the hub for domestic flights.
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The lowest elevation is sea level and the highest elevation is the summit of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, the highest point in the Arctic at 3694 meters .
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In Nuuk, the capital, average winter temperatures are only -9.0 Coulomb .
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In comparison, the average winter temperatures for Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, are around -27.0 Coulomb .
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Conversely, summer temperatures are very low, with an average high around 10 Coulomb .
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The record high temperature at Summit Camp is 2 Coulomb .
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There are mountains over 1500 meters high surrounding the valley, which protect it from cold, fast winds travelling across the ice sheet.
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It is the only natural forest in Greenland, but is only 15 kilometers long.
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The Greenland ice sheet is 3 kilometers thick and broad enough to blanket an area the size of Mexico.
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2004, Greenland Ice Sheet: increased Coastal Thinning, Geophysical Research Letters, 31 L24402 A complete loss of ice on Greenland would cause a sea level rise of as much as 6 meters .
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In September 2005 Dennis Schmitt discovered an island 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland which he named Uunartoq Qeqertaq, Inuit for "warming island". [
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