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Umbagog Lake along the Maine border, approximately 12 sqmi , is a distant second.
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New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any state in the United States, approximately 18 miles long.
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About 7 miles offshore are the Isles of Shoals, nine small islands (four of which are in New Hampshire) known as the site of a 19th-century art colony founded by poet Celia Thaxter, and the alleged location of one of the buried treasures of the pirate Blackbeard.
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Average annual precipitation statewide is roughly 40 inches with some variation occurring in the White Mountains due to differences in elevation and annual snowfall.
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The center of population has moved south 12 miles since 1950, a reflection of the fact the state's fastest growth has been along its southern border, which is within commuting range of Boston and other Massachusetts cities.
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The most densely populated areas generally lie within 50 miles of the Massachusetts border, and are concentrated in two areas: along the Merrimack River Valley running from Concord to Nashua, and in the Seacoast Region along an axis stretching from Rochester to Portsmouth.
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Harvard defeated Yale in a 2 miles rowing race on Lake Winnipesaukee, the first meeting in a rivalry that continues to this day.
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The United States Geographical Survey (USGS) states that the geographic center of North America is "6 miles [10 km] west of Balta, Pierce County, North Dakota" at about Coord, about 15 miles from Rugby, North Dakota.
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Nonetheless, there is a 15 feet field stone obelisk in Rugby claiming to mark the center.
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The North American continental pole of inaccessibility is located 1650 kilometers from the nearest coastline, between Allen and Kyle, South Dakota at Coord.
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Climate west of the Cascades is described as being a temperate weather with average precipitation 20 inches .
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Stretching from the East Coast to eastern North Dakota, and stretching down to Kansas, is the continental-humid climate featuring intense seasons, with a large amount of annual precipitation, with places like New York City averaging 50 inches .
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This area has the wettest cities in the contiguous U.S. with annual precipitation reaching 67 inches in Mobile, Alabama.
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The Pan-American Highway route in the Americas is the portion of a network of roads nearly 48000 kilometers in length which travels through the mainland nations.
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However, the total length of the portion from Mexico to the northern extremity of the highway is roughly 16000 miles .
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The Canadian Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) had, by 1867, already accumulated more than 2055 kilometers of track by connecting Ontario with the Canadian Atlantic provinces west as far as Port Huron, Michigan, through Sarnia, Ontario.
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A helium-oxygen breathing gas is often used by deep-sea divers at depths of seawater over 55 meters .
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nameNetherlands literally means 'lower countries' in reference to its low elevation and flat topography, with only about 50% of its land exceeding 1.0 meters above sea level, and nearly 17% falling below sea level.
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The Caribbean Netherlands has a total area of 328 sqkm It lies between latitudes 50° and 54° N, and longitudes 3° and 8° E.
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The St. Elizabeth flood of 1421 and the mismanagement in its aftermath destroyed a newly reclaimed polder, replacing it with the 72 sqkm Biesbosch tidal floodplains in the south-centre.
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It became part of the larger Zuiderzee Works in which four polders totalling 2500 sqkm were reclaimed from the sea.
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The plan encompasses the reinforcement of the existing coastal defences like dikes and dunes with 1 meters of additional flood protection.
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Ice days—maximum temperature below 0.0 Coulomb —usually occur from December until February, with the occasional rare ice day prior to or after that period.
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Freezing days—minimum temperature below 0.0 Coulomb —occur much more often, usually ranging from mid-November to late March, but not rarely measured as early as mid-October and as late as mid-May.
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Warm days—maximum temperature above 20 Coulomb —are usually found in April to October, but in some parts of the country these warm days can also occur in March, or even sometimes in November or February (usually not in De Bilt, however).
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The Oosterschelde, formerly the northeast estuary of the river Scheldt was designated a national park in 2002, thereby making it the largest national park in the Netherlands at an area of 370 sqkm .
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The highest point is Mount Scenery, 887 meters , on Saba.
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3419 sqkm
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2814 sqkm
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13 sqkm
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People in the south are on average about 2 cms shorter than those in the north.
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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, located 9 kilometers southwest of Amsterdam, is the main international airport in the Netherlands, and the third busiest airport in Europe in terms of passengers.
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For the most part, the sea lies on the European continental shelf with a mean depth of 90 meters .
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The Devil's Hole lies 200 miles east of Dundee, Scotland.
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The Walde Lighthouse is 6 kilometers east of Calais (Coord), and Leathercoat Point is at the north end of St Margaret's Bay, Kent (Coord).
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In the North Sea the average tide difference in wave amplitude is between zero and 8 meters .text=An average is a single figure, not a range.
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The dikes have, over the years, been repeatedly raised, sometimes up to 9 meters and have been made flatter to better reduce wave erosion.
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The immense landslips occurred between 8150 BCE and 6000 BCE, and caused a tsunami up to 20 meters high that swept through the North Sea, having the greatest effect on Scotland and the Faeroe Islands.
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Countries that border the North Sea all claim the 12 nautical miles of territorial waters, within which they have exclusive fishing rights.
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The largest natural gas field in the North Sea, Troll gas field, lies in the Norwegian trench, dropping over 300 meters , requiring the construction of the enormous Troll A platform to access it.
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It saves an average of 250 nautical miles , instead of the voyage around the Jutland peninsula.
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Reagan became actively involved by traveling more than 250000 miles throughout the United States and several nations, visiting drug abuse prevention programs and drug rehabilitation centers.
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The New Brunswick Southern Railway, a division of J. D. Irving Limited, together with its sister company Eastern Maine Railway form a continuous 305 kilometers main line connecting Saint John and Brownville Junction, Maine.
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Its area of 55284 sqkm includes Cape Breton Island and 3,800 other coastal islands.
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Nowhere in Nova Scotia is more than 67 kilometers from the ocean.
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Cape Breton Island, a large island to the northeast of the Nova Scotia mainland, is also part of the province, as is Sable Island, a small island notorious for being the site of offshore shipwrecks, approximately 175 kilometers from the province's southern coast.
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At a land area of approximately 1144000 sqkm and a 2016 census population of 41,786, it is the second-largest and the most populous of the three territories in Northern Canada.
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It has a land area of 1183085 sqkm .
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Geographical features include Great Bear Lake, the largest lake entirely within Canada, and Great Slave Lake, the deepest body of water in North America at 614 meters , as well as the Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni National Park Reserve, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Its highest point is Mount Nirvana near the border with Yukon at an elevation of 2773 meters .
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The Northwest Territories extends for more than 1300000 sqkm and has a large climate variant from south to north.
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In winter in the south, it is not uncommon for the temperatures to reach -40.0 Coulomb , but they can also reach the low teens during the day.
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In the north, temperatures can reach highs of 30 Coulomb , and lows into the low negatives.
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In winter in the north it is not uncommon for the temperatures to reach -50.0 Coulomb but they can also reach single digits during the day.
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Between 1925 and 1999, the Northwest Territories covered a land area of 3439296 sqkm —larger than India.
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It starts just west of Dawson City, Yukon, and continues east for over 700 kilometers to Inuvik.
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The Nez Perce territory at the time of Lewis and Clark (1804–1806) was approximately 17000000 acres and covered parts of present-day Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho, in an area surrounding the Snake (Weyikespe), Grande Ronde River, Salmon (Naco’x kuus) ("Chinook salmon Water") and the Clearwater (Koos-Kai-Kai) (...
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The Nez Perce were pursued by over 2,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army on an epic flight to freedom of more than 1170 miles across four states and multiple mountain ranges.
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A majority of the surviving Nez Perce were finally forced to surrender on October 5, 1877, after the Battle of the Bear Paw Mountains in Montana, 40 miles from the Canada–US border.
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The total land area is about 1195 sqmi , and the reservation's population at the 2000 census was 17,959.
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At least seven stone circles, covering 25 acres , contain limestone pillars carved with animals, insects, and birds.
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Around 10,700–9400 BC a settlement was established in Tell Qaramel, 10 miles north of Aleppo.
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With the Seattle harbor being the US's closest to Japan at only nine days by boat, and having a lumber production market for arcade cabinets, Arakawa's real estate scouts found a 60000 sqft warehouse for rent containing three officesmdashone for Arakawa and one for Judy and Stone.
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Arakawa used these profits to buy 27 acres of land in Redmond in July 1982 113 and to perform the $50 million launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985 which revitalized the entire video game industry from its devastating 1983 crash.
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as of 2007 , the 380000 sqft Nintendo North Bend facility processes more than 20,000 orders a day to Nintendo customers, which include retail stores that sell Nintendo products in addition to consumers who shop Nintendo's website.
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The weight of each medal varies with the value of gold, but averages about 175 grams for each medal.
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In addition to the German annexation, Poland seized a narrow strip of land near Cieszyn on 2 October, while as a consequence of the Munich Agreement, Hungary demanded and received 12000 sqkm along their northern border in the First Vienna Award on 2 November.
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In France, an estimated 9000000 tonnes of cereals were seized during the course of the war, including 75 percent of its oats.
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In 1939, before Germany acquired control of the last two regions which had been in its control before the Versailles Treaty—Alsace-Lorraine, Danzig and the Polish Corridor—its area was 633786 sqkm .
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If, as has been claimed, parts of the eastern end of the Passage are barely 15 meters deep, the route's viability as a Euro-Asian shipping route is reduced.
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In 1602, George Weymouth became the first European to explore what would later be called Hudson Strait when he sailed ship Discovery 1602 ship 2 300 nautical miles into the Strait.
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They continued to the limits of the Alaskan peninsula and the start of the 1200 miles chain of Aleutian Islands.
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Confidence was high, as they estimated there was less than 500 kilometers remaining of unexplored Arctic mainland coast.
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In July 2010 Canadian archaeologists found his ship, HMS Investigator, fairly intact but sunk about 8 meters below the surface.
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After completing the Northwest Passage portion of this trip and having anchored near Herschel Island, Amundsen skied 800 kilometers to the city of Eagle, Alaska.
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He sent a telegram announcing his success and skied the return 800 kilometers to rejoin his companions.
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Although his chosen east–west route, via the Rae Strait, contained young ice and thus was navigable, some of the waterways were extremely shallow ( 3 feet deep), making the route commercially impractical.
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In June 1977, sailor Willy de Roos left Belgium to attempt the Northwest Passage in his 13 meters steel yacht Williwaw.
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They left Tuktoyaktuk on July 26, 1981, in the 18 feet open Boston Whaler and reached Tanquary Fiord on August 31, 1981.
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Their journey was the first open-boat transit from west to east and covered around 3000 miles , taking a route through Dolphin and Union Strait following the south coast of Victoria and King William islands, north to Resolute Bay via Franklin Strait and Peel Sound, around the south and east coasts of Devon Island, thro...
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Once they reached Tanquary Fiord, they had to trek 150 miles via Lake Hazen to Alert before setting up their winter base camp.
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In July 1986, Jeff MacInnis and Mike Beedell set out on an 18 feet catamaran called Perception on a 100-day sail, west to east, through the Northwest Passage.
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In July 1986, David Scott Cowper set out from England in a 12 meters lifeboat named Mabel El Holland, and survived three Arctic winters in the Northwest Passage before reaching the Bering Strait in August 1989.
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The 22000 miles Voyage of Rediscovery was intended to raise awareness concerning ''St.
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On September 1, 2001, Northabout, an 14 meters aluminium sailboat with diesel engine, built and captained by Jarlath Cunnane, completed the Northwest Passage east-to-west from Ireland to the Bering Strait.
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On May 19, 2007, a French sailor, Sébastien Roubinet, and one other crew member left Anchorage, Alaska, in Babouche, a 7 meters ice catamaran designed to sail on water and slide over ice.
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Following a journey of more than 7200 kilometers , Roubinet reached Greenland on September 9, 2007, thereby completing the first Northwest Passage voyage made in one season without engine.
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In April 2009, planetary scientist Pascal Lee and a team of four on the Northwest Passage Drive Expedition drove the HMP Okarian Humvee rover a record-setting 496 kilometers on sea-ice from Kugluktuk to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, the longest distance driven on sea-ice in a road vehicle.
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These trips included one by Eric Forsyth on board the 42 feet Westsail sailboat Fiona, a boat he built in the 1980s.
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On August 30, 2012 Sailing yacht ship Billy Budd , 110 feet , an English SY, successfully completed the Northwest Passage in Nome, Alaska, while sailing a northern route never sailed by a sailing pleasure vessel before.
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On August 29, 2012, the Swedish yacht Belzebub II, a 31 feet fibreglass cutter captained by Canadian Nicolas Peissel, Swede Edvin Buregren and Morgan Peissel, became the first sailboat in history to sail through McClure Strait, part of a journey of achieving the most northerly Northwest Passage.
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At 18:45 GMT on September 18, 2012, Best Explorer, a steel cutter 15 meters , skipper Nanni Acquarone, passing between the two Diomedes, was the first Italian sailboat to complete the Northwest Passage along the classical Amundsen route.
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Twenty-two Italian amateur sailors took part of the trip, in eight legs from Tromsø, Norway, to King Cove, Alaska, totalling 8200 nautical miles .
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The ship, carrying 481 passengers, for 26 days and 4800 nautical miles at sea, followed in the path of Captain Roald Amundsen. ''
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The Northwest Passage shortened the distance by 1000 nautical miles compared to traditional route via the Panama Canal.
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Also, Boundary Peak is less than 1.0 miles away from its higher neighbor.
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By contrast, the prominence of Wheeler Peak, 13063 feet , is quite large and in fact it is the twelfth largest in the contiguous United States.
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National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, N.C., and Storm Phillips, Stormfax, Inc. The coldest recorded temperature was -52.0 °F set in San Jacinto in 1972, in the northeastern portion of the state.
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The mountain ranges, some of which have peaks above 13000 feet , harbor lush forests high above desert plains, creating sky islands for endemic species.
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The terrain is also lower, mostly below 4000 feet , creating conditions for hot summer days and cool to chilly winter nights.
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