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The first opened in 2007 and connects Shah Faisal Town in eastern Karachi to the industrial-estates in SITE Town 10 kilometers away.
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10504
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0
The second corridor connects Surjani Town with Shahrah-e-Faisal over a 19-kilometre span, while the third stretch 28 kilometers and connects Karachi's urban centre to the Gulistan-e-Johar suburb.
28
10,505
10505
161
4
0
From Hyderabad, motorways have been built, or are being constructed, to provide high-speed road access to the northern Pakistani cities of Peshawar and Mansehra 1100 kilometers to the north of Karachi.
1,100
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10506
91
3
0
The Pakistani Government is developing the Karachi Metrobus project, which is a multi-line 112 kilometers bus rapid transit system currently under construction.
112
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10507
22
2
0
Port Qasim is located 35 kilometers east of the Port of Karachi on the Indus River estuary.
35
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10508
89
4
0
In 1948, the Federal Capital Territory of Pakistan was created, comprising approximately 2103 sqkm of Karachi and surrounding areas, but this was merged into the province of West Pakistan in 1961.
2,103
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10509
68
4
0
They are among the most isolated places on Earth, located more than 3300 kilometers from Madagascar, the nearest permanently populated location.
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10512
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0
The highest point is Mont Ross in the Gallieni Massif, which rises along the southern coast of the island and has an elevation of 1850 meters .
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10513
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3
0
The Cook Ice Cap ( ), France's largest glacier with an area of about 403 sqkm , lies on the west-central part of the island.
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10514
63
3
0
Overall, the glaciers of the Kerguelen Islands cover just over 500 sqkm .
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10515
52
2
0
Armor (Base Armor), established in 1983, is located 40 kilometers west of Port-aux-Français at the bottom of Morbihan Gulf, for the acclimatization of salmon to the Kerguelen islands.
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Molloy (Pointe Molloy) is a former observatory 10 kilometers west of the present-day Port-Aux-Français, on the northern shore of the Golfe du Morbihan (Kerguelen).
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10517
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Port Jeanne d'Arc is a former whaling station founded by a Norwegian whaling company in 1908, and a former geomagnetic station, and lies in the northwestern corner of Presqu'île Jeanne d'Arc, looking across the Buenos Aires passage to Île Longue ( 4 kilometers northeast).
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10518
45
2
0
Île Foch in the north of the archipelago, at 54 sqkm , the second most important offlier in the Kerguelens.
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10519
18
2
0
It has an area of 45 sqkm .
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10520
26
3
0
Its highest point reaches 480 meters .
480
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10521
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2
0
Île du Port, also in the north in the Golfe des Baleiniers is the fourth largest satellite island with an area of 43 sqkm .
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10522
42
3
0
Near its centre it reaches an altitude of 340 meters .
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10523
34
2
0
Île de l'Ouest (west coast, about 33 sqkm )
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10524
29
2
0
Île Longue (southeast, about 35 sqkm )
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10,526
10526
59
3
0
Île Haute (western part of the Golfe du Morbihan, altitude 321 meters )
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10527
35
2
0
Îles de Boynes (four small islands 30 kilometers south of Presqu'ile Rallier du Baty on the main island)
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10528
28
2
0
Île du Cröy (a small island 20 kilometers off the coast of Grand Terre )
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30
2
0
Île du Roland (a small island 20 kilometers off the coast of Grand Terre )
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10530
127
1
0
Since 1992, the French Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) has operated a satellite and rocket tracking station, located 4 kilometers east of Port-aux-Français.
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10531
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There are also five fishing boats and vessels, owned by fishermen on Réunion Island (a department of France about 3500 kilometers to the north) who are licensed to fish within the archipelago's exclusive economic zone.
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The accumulation is of a considerable amount; basalt flows, each with a thickness of three to ten metres, stacked on top of each other, sometimes up to a depth of 1200 meters .
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Under the Köppen climate classification, Kerguelen's climate is considered to be an ET or tundra climate, which is technically a form of polar climate, as the average temperature in the warmest month is below 10 Coulomb .
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10536
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1
0
The coldest month of the year is August with an average temperature of 2 Coulomb .
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3
0
Port-aux-Français receives a modest amount of precipitation ( 708 mm per year) compared to the west coast which receives an estimated three times as much precipitation per year.
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10539
70
2
0
The west coast receives almost continuous wind at an average speed of 35 kmph because the islands are between the Roaring Forties and the Furious Fifties.
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4
0
The maximum depth of this channel is 6100 feet , and the channel is 30 miles wide.
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1
0
Although the channel is only about 8 miles at its shortest point, it is one of the windiest and roughest in the Hawaiian Islands.
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0
The Kaokinaiwi Channel (also known as the Molokai Channel) separates the islands of Oʻahu and Molokaʻi, and is 26 miles wide.
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4
0
Maximum depth is 2300 feet . ''
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separates the islands of Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, at a distance of 72 miles .
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0
It is 17 miles wide.
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The koala has one of the smallest brains in proportion to body weight of any mammal, being 60% smaller than that of a typical diprotodont, weighing only 19 grams on average.
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7
0
The koala's geographic range covers roughly 1000000 sqkm , and 30 ecoregions.
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10554
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3
0
Koalas consume up to 400 grams of leaves a day, spread over four to six feeding sessions.
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As with all marsupials, the young are born while at the embryonic stage, weighing only 0.5 grams .
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2
0
At 13 weeks, the joey weighs around 50 grams and its head has doubled in size.
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3
0
By nine months, it weighs over 1.0 kilograms and develops its adult fur colour.
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1
0
Gradually, it spends more time away from its mother, and at 12 months it is fully weaned, weighing around 2 kilograms .
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0
In 2000, Australia ranked fifth in the world by deforestation rates, having cleared 564800 hectares .
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2
0
On the night of December 8, Carson, a naval lieutenant, Edward Fitzgerald Beale and an Indian scout left Kearny to bring reinforcements from San Diego, 25 miles away.
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10561
29
3
0
The Mescalero Apaches walked 130 miles to the reservation.
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22
2
0
Residents had to walk 12 miles to find firewood.
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10563
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2
0
In January 1864, Carson swept through the 35 miles Canyon with his forces including Capt.
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10564
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6
0
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900000 sqkm , covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa.
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10565
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7
0
The surrounding Kalahari Basin covers over 2500000 sqkm extending further into Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, and encroaching into parts of Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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10566
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For the same reason, summer temperatures certainly can be very hot, but not in comparison to regions of low altitude in the Sahel or Sahara, where some stations record average temperatures of the warmest month around 38 °C, whereas the average temperature of the warmest month in any region in the Kalahari never exceeds...
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6
0
It may have once covered as much as 120000 sqkm .
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2
0
Rainfall is about 49 inches . [
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10569
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Kathmandu is also known as the city of temples, with one of the oldest Pagodas, known as Pashupatinath Temple, standing at an elevation of approximately 1400 meters above sea level in the bowl-shaped Kathmandu Valley in central Nepal.
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10570
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0
Kathmandu is in the northwestern part of the Kathmandu Valley to the north of the Bagmati River and covers an area of 50 sqkm .
50
10,571
10571
25
4
0
The average elevation is 1400 meters above sea level.
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10,572
10572
34
2
0
The average winter temperature is 10 Coulomb .
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10573
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3
0
Unpredictable weather is expected, given that temperatures can drop to 1.0 Coulomb or less during the winter.
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10576
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4
0
The annual amount of precipitation was 1124 mm for 2005, as per monthly data included in the table above.
1,124
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10577
32
3
0
For example, 2001 recorded only 356 mm of precipitation due to an extraordinarily weak monsoon season.
356
10,578
10578
73
4
0
In contrast, 2003 was the wettest year ever in Kathmandu, totalling over 2900 mm of precipitation due to an exceptionally strong monsoon season.
2,900
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10581
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2
0
About 11 kilometers from the centre and northeastern outskirts of Kathmandu, the stupa's massive mandala makes it one of the largest spherical stupas in Nepal.
11
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2
0
The palace area covers ( 30 hectares ) and is fully secured with gates on all sides.
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10583
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5
0
The total length of roads in Nepal is recorded to be ( 17182 kilometers ), as of 2003–04.
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The main international airport serving Kathmandu valley is the Tribhuvan International Airport, about 6 kilometers from the city centre, operated by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal [http://www.caanepal.org.np/tia.htm it has two terminals, one domestic and one international.
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10585
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2
0
A ropeway operated between Kathmandu and Hetauda over a length of 43 kilometers which carried 25 tonnes of goods per hour.
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10586
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0
During the Rana period, a ropeway was constructed between Kathmandu (then Mathathirtha) to Dhorsing (Makawanpur) of over 22 kilometers in length, which carried a cargo of 8 tonnes per hour.
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10587
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Kington Magna is a village and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale in the English county of Dorset, situated about 3 miles south-west of the town of Gillingham, in the North Dorset administrative district.
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4
0
The parish covers about 2000 acres and, as well as the main village, includes the small settlement of Nyland in the west.
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They proved this was not the case in a remarkable 1000 kilometers journey across the inland ice that almost killed them.
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3
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The island has the greatest land area of any coral atoll in the world, about 388 sqkm ; its lagoon is roughly the same size.
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Despite being 2460 kilometers east of the 180 meridian, a 1995 realignment of the International Date Line by the Republic of Kiribati moved Kiritimati to west of the dateline.
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10604
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4
0
It has a paved runway with a length of 6900 feet and was for some time the only airport in Kiribati to serve the Americas, via an Air Pacific (now Fiji Airways) flight to Honolulu, Hawaii.
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10605
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2
0
Exports of the atoll are mainly copra (dried coconut pulp); the state-owned coconut plantation covers about 51 sqkm .
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3
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Kiritimati's roughly 320 sqkm lagoon opens to the sea in the northwest; Burgle Channel (the entrance to the lagoon) is divided into the northern Cook Island Passage and the southern South Passage.
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10607
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3
0
The southeastern part of the lagoon is partially dried out today; essentially, progressing SE from Burgle Channel, the 160 sqkm main lagoon gradually turns into a network of subsidiary lagoons, tidal flats, partially hypersaline brine ponds and salt pans, which as a whole has about the same area again as the main lagoo...
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2
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It is a sand/coral island of 19 hectares , divides Burgle Channel into the northern and the southern entrance, and has a large seabird colony.
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2
0
Joe's Hill (originally La colline de Joe) near Artemia Corners on the southeastern peninsula is the highest point on the atoll, at about 13 meters ASL.
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10612
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4
0
On the other hand, in some exceptionally wet years abundant downpours in March–April may result in a total annual precipitation of over 2500 mm .
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The latter species is dominant on the drier parts of the lagoon flats where it grows up to 2 meters tall.
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While this has been since shown to be feasible, E.g. on remote and rugged subantarctic Marion Island with 290 sqkm land area it is not clear whether even a severe curtailing of the cat population would be desirable.
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0
Kandahar is located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of 1010 meters .
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Deh Morasi Ghundai, the first prehistoric site to be excavated in Afghanistan, lies 27 kilometers southwest of Kandahar (Dupree, 1951).
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10617
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2
0
Temperatures peak in July with a 24-hour daily average of around 31 °C .
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10618
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1
0
Temperatures average 5 °C in January, although lows can drop well below freezing.
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2
0
The annual mean temperature is 18 °C .
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10620
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2
0
The grave of Hazratji Baba, 23 feet long to signify his greatness, but otherwise covered solely by rock chips, is undecorated save for tall pennants at its head.
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10621
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2
0
About 20 miles north of the city is the Dahla Dam, the second largest dam in Afghanistan.
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10622
6
2
0
About 10 kilometers east of Kandahar, a huge industrial park is under construction with modern facilities.
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10623
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The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O'odham Nation, 88 kilometers west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona.
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M1892 rifle, is 49 inches in overall length weighing 9.3 pounds with a 30-inch (760 mm) barrel and a magazine cut off that operates in the up position.
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2
0
In 1902, 100 rifles were made with 26 inches barrels in an effort to develop one model acceptable to both infantry and cavalry.
26
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10634
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3
0
In 2017, the height of Anak Krakatau was reported as over 400 meters above sea level; following a collapse in December 2018, the height was reduced to 110 meters (361 ft).
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10637
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2
0
By the 1880s, the islands were without permanent inhabitants; the nearest settlement was the nearby island of Sebesi (about 12 kilometers away) with a population of 3,000.
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10639
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2
0
Ash was propelled to a height of 80 kilometers .
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10640
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2
0
The sound of the eruption was so loud it was reported that if anyone was within 10 miles , they would have gone deaf.
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10642
13
1
0
His lease of 8 sqkm (basically the eastern half of the island), was to be for 30 years.
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10643
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2
0
Handl found un-burned wood below the 1883 ash deposits while digging, and fresh water was found below 18 feet .
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4
0
Khunjerab Pass ( ; ) (elevation 4693 meters ) is a high mountain pass in the Karakoram Mountains in a strategic position on the northern border of Pakistan (Region of Gilgit–Baltistan’s Hunza and Nagar Districts) and on the southwest border of China (the Xinjiang region)
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