San Francisco Peaks | Within Hopi religion, the kachinas are said to live on the | near Flagstaff, Arizona. The most important Hopi kachinas are called wuya |
Bermuda | In 1922, Merton and his father traveled to | , having left John Paul with his in-laws, the Jenkins family, in Douglasto ... |
Tenerife | ... I) (1973), which were based on his observations at the Teide Observatory in | . He is the co-author of Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe with ... |
Azores | ... any of these town residents were originally from the island of Faial in the | , and the neighborhood where many of them lived, located between Vineyard ... |
Azores | ... sixty years of immigration from Portuguese Atlantic islands (primarily the | , though also from Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands). There are strong B ... |
Andaman Islands | ... made a penal settlement when 700 convicts were transferred thither from the | . In 1805 Penang was made a separate presidency (ranking with Bombay and M ... |
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes | ... ous as the local myths described. In Alaska, a river which runs through the | is called River Lethe |
Erromango | ... ce. In 1825, trader Peter Dillon's discovery of sandalwood on the island of | began a rush that ended in 1830 after a clash between immigrant Polynesian ... |
Liverpool Range | ... on Union category is II. It is situated 30 kilometres east of Coolah in the | , on the Coolah Creek Road |
Madeira | ... on from Portuguese Atlantic islands (primarily the Azores, though also from | and the Cape Verde Islands). There are strong British influences, together ... |
Black Buttes | ... and disappeared through glacial erosion. The largest of these cones is the | edifice, active between 500,000 and 300,000 years ago and formerly bigger ... |
Saint Helena | ... S), which was set up in May 1975. The UN region also includes the island of | , a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean |
Nunivak Island | The Central Alaskan Yupik who live on | call themselves Cup'ig (plural Cup'it). Those who live in the village of C ... |
Devils Tower National Monument | National Monuments preserve a single unique cultural or natural feature. | was the first in 1906 |
Nevis | Grokster Ltd. was a privately owned software company based in | , West Indies that created the Grokster peer-to-peer file-sharing client i ... |
Útila | ... ifically Grenada, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and | . They have been introduced to Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida, ... |
Azores | ... y Islands to the Virgin Islands, then heading north to Bermuda, east to the | , back to Madeira, and then south to the Cape Verde Islands. During this p ... |
Bermuda | ... ful English settlements were at Jamestown (1607) (along with its satellite, | in 1609) and Plymouth (1620), in what are today Virginia and Massachusetts ... |
Faroe Islands | ... used on land as sea cliff warnings in rugged and hilly terrain in the foggy | . In the Canadian Maritimes, cairns have been used as beacons like small l ... |
Massif Central | ... dedications to Saint Hilary are to be found to the west (and north) of the | from which areas the cult eventually extended to Canada |
Tenerife | ... was announced in December 2005 that a musical called "Assuca" would open in | before touring the world. The name comes from Cruz's well-known catch phra ... |
Andaman | ... as hanged and several others were deported for life to the Cellular Jail in | . The Bengal Volunteers started operating in 1928. On 8 December 1930, the ... |
Hood | ... nstitutes much of other Cascade Range volcanoes such as Rainier, Adams, and | . From about 900,000 years ago to the present, numerous andesitic volcanic ... |
Izalco | ... ated a large reservoir, the Embalse Cerron Grande, in northern El Salvador. | has erupted at least 51 times since 1770. It earned the nickname "Lighthou ... |
Madeira | ... day voyages twice to the West Indies, three times to the Canary Islands and | , to America, to Norway, to Lisbon, as well as numerous visits to France, ... |
Île Amsterdam | ... he city has a total area of , all of it land. La Junta is directly opposite | , La Junta' |
Shiprock | ... ade from southeastern Utah, the extreme northeastern corner of Arizona, the | area of Northwestern New Mexico, and San Miquel, Dolores, Montezuma, and p ... |
Cascade Volcanic Arc | ... an or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the | and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States. It is the ... |
Mount Etna | ... s and it means "The Thunderer". Legend has it that the Cyclopes lived under | , where they crafted weaponry for Zeus and other Gods |
Faial | ... th century. Many of these town residents were originally from the island of | in the Azores, and the neighborhood where many of them lived, located betw ... |
Mayotte | ... ve overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion and | ) the total comes to 101 departments. In 2011, the overseas collectivity o ... |
Bermuda | ... development of the schooner is connected with that of the Bermuda sloop. In | , countless vessels of otherwise identical description were built with bet ... |
Azores | ... ry (10%), the result of immigration from Portuguese islands (especially the | ) during the past 160 years |
Nunivak Island | ... r East. The Yupiit speak the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language. The people of | , speakers of the Nunivak Island dialect of Central Alaskan Yup'ik, call t ... |
Tafahi | ... he first Westerners to visit the (Northern) Tonga islands: "Cocos Island" ( | ), "Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), and "Island of Good Hope" (Niuafo'ou) ... |
Arthur's Seat | ... Calton Hill. An older Edinburgh tradition has it that young women who climb | and wash their faces in the morning dew will have lifelong beauty |
Volcanoes National Park | ... of foreign exchange. Rwanda's tourism is centered around the attractions of | (PNV) with its six volcanoes and its protected population of mountain gori ... |
Taos Plateau volcanic field | ... st of Taos is the Rio Grande Gorge, cutting through the basalt flows of the | and crossed by the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, now a part of U.S. Route 64 |
1883 eruption of Krakatoa | ... d at the time, the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) was observed during the | , when the ash from the volcano was transported around the globe from east ... |
Mauritius | Relations between Pakistan and | were first established in 2006. Pakistan has an embassy at Port Louis and ... |
Saint Helena | ... h throne. Napoleon abdicated, surrendered to the British, and was exiled to | , where he died in 1821 |
Bermuda | ... twards from the Canary Islands to the Virgin Islands, then heading north to | , east to the Azores, back to Madeira, and then south to the Cape Verde Is ... |
Arran | Further afield Telford designed a road to cross the centre of the Isle of | . Named the 'String road', this route traverses bleak and difficult terrai ... |
Mount Vesuvius | According to Barks and his successors, Magica lives on the slopes of | , next to Naples, Italy. Her primary motivation is to steal Uncle Scrooge' ... |
Mount St. Helens | ... t Hood, in their competition for the affection of a goddess, represented by | . Native American stories about the bridge differ in their details but agr ... |
Ol Doinyo Lengai | ... rbonate is quite rare and called natrite. Sodium carbonate also erupts from | , Tanzania's unique volcano, and it is presumed erupted from other volcano ... |
Emi Koussi | ... avy seasonal fluctuations, the lake is Africa's second largest wetland. The | , a dormant volcano in the Tibesti Mountains that reaches above sea level, ... |
Annobón Province | ... ira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Caribbean, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, | , Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trinda ... |
Mount Pinatubo | ... by several years of dark, deep red eclipses. The effect of the eruption of | on subsequent lunar eclipses was very noticeable, with the eclipse of 9 De ... |
Leizhou Peninsula | ... vince. Hainan is located in the South China Sea, separated from Guangdong's | to the north by the shallow and narrow Qiongzhou Strait |
Bora Bora | ... ntry, the Cook Islands Christian Church in Arutanga, was built by Papeiha ( | ) and Vahapata (Raiatea), two LMS teachers Williams had left behind |
Mount Etna | Bronte is located slightly northwest of | , on the side of the valley of the Simeto river. It is about 30 kilometers ... |
Mauna Kea | ... ng K-Ar dating, the present islands date from 0.4 million years ago (mya) ( | ) to 10mya (Necker). The oldest member of the Hawaiian archipelago still a ... |
Mauritius | ... ed the Dodo Tree, is a long-lived tree in the family Sapotaceae, endemic to | . The Dodo Tree is valued for its timber |
Mauritius | ... es—two from Guyana and one each from Honduras, Ireland, Malaysia, Maldives, | , the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand |
Mount Meager | ... e of other volcanoes in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, such as Mount St. Helens, | or Glacier Peak, nor has it erupted frequently. During this period, four e ... |
Mount Etna | ... enty-four hamlets of the surrounding area, which formed the town of Bronte. | nearly destroyed the town three times, in 1651, in 1832, and finally in 18 ... |
Bermuda | ... John Wentworth, who is recorded as capturing 67 slaves, who were removed to | . This is the first official record of slaves being held in the Territory |
Mayotte | ... ) the total comes to 101 departments. In 2011, the overseas collectivity of | became the 101st department |
Mount Hood | The geology of Parkdale is dominated by the geology of | , a nearby stratovolcano about 8 miles to the south of the town. A six-tho ... |
Avacha Bay | ... the peninsula; the home base of Russia's Pacific submarine fleet is across | from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at the Rybachy base. There are also several ... |
Glacier Peak | ... noes in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, such as Mount St. Helens, Mount Meager or | , nor has it erupted frequently. During this period, four episodes of magm ... |
El Chichón | ... both after the transient warming related to explosive volcanic eruptions of | and , this behavior of the global stratospheric temperature has been attri ... |
Sutter Buttes | The one notable exception to the flat valley floor is | , the remnants of an extinct volcano just to the northwest of Yuba City wh ... |
Niuafo'ou | ... nd" (Tafahi), "Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), and "Island of Good Hope" ( | ). On April 28 they discovered the Hoorn Islands (Futuna and Alofi), where ... |
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens | The | caused mudslides in the area, which reduced the Columbia's depth by for a ... |
Mayotte | This article is about the demographic features of the population of | , including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the ... |
Bermuda | ... the entire coastal region from South Carolina to Maine, plus the island of | . The London Company was incorporated as a joint stock company by the prop ... |
Bermuda | ... girl). Due to his father's work, Sheen also spent part of his childhood in | , where the family lived on St. John's Road, Pembroke. He graduated from C ... |
Mount Aetna | ... common destiny of many such archaic adversaries, or he was confined beneath | (Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.19–20; Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 370), where "his ... |
Tristan da Cunha | ... Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong; Queen Mary's Peak, the highest mountain in | ; and Queen Mary Land in Antarctica are named in her honour |
Azores | ... to fight the rematch, his Air France Lockheed Constellation crashed in the | , killing everyone on board |
Tibesti Mountains | ... s Africa's second largest wetland. The Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano in the | that reaches above sea level, is the highest point in Chad and the Sahara |
Queen Mary's Peak | ... 6; Queen Mary College, University of London; Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong | ;, the highest mountain in Tristan da Cunha; and Queen Mary Land in Antarc ... |
Mount Fuji | ... arded first prize for a design that would have been situated at the base of | ; the hall he conceived was a fusion of Shinto shrine architecture and the ... |
Springerville volcanic field | ... ders who referred to the surrounding volcanic lava field as "badlands." The | contains over 400 volcanoes within a fifty mile radius of Springerville, m ... |
Savai'i | ... Samoa to film Moana (1926). Flaherty shot Moana in Safune on the island of | where he lived with his wife and family for more than a year. The studio h ... |
Ailsa Craig | ... Bass mallow which is otherwise only found on a few other islands, including | and Steep Holm |
Saipan | ... the Interior took over control, administering the territory from a base in | |
Mauritius | | has strong and friendly relations with the West, as well as with India and ... |
Spice Islands | ... an armada that would sail from the western coast of Mexico to China and the | . At great cost, he assembled and equipped 13 ships and approximately 550 ... |
Barat Daya Islands | ... n for its beaches and coral, as well as Jaco along with Wetar and the other | to the northeast constitute the Timor and Wetar deciduous forests ecoregio ... |
El Chichón | ... sed by transient volcanic warming after the explosive volcanic eruptions of | and Mount Pinatubo, little temperature trend has been observed since 1995 |
Bermuda | ... recommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She then made two cruises to | , training submariners, and returned to Philadelphia from the second cruis ... |
Faroe Islands | Already in 1907, the | passed a law prohibiting all sale of alcohol, which was in force until 199 ... |
Galápagos Islands | ... Chile, that do not have a border with Brazil. The country also includes the | in the Pacific, about west of the mainland |
Spice Islands | ... the Dutch in the late sixteenth century. Both came in search of the fabled | of Maluku. Portuguese first landed near modern Pante Macassar, and in 1556 ... |
Spice Islands | ... ustralian Company) with the goal to find a new route to the Pacific and the | , thereby evading the restrictions of the VOC. He contributed to the outfi ... |
Mount Pinatubo | ... t volcanic warming after the explosive volcanic eruptions of El Chichón and | , little temperature trend has been observed since 1995 |
Ailsa Craig | ... est in its own right, due to its gannet colony. It is sometimes called "the | of the East". It is of a similar geological form to nearby North Berwick L ... |
Isle of Arran | ... marks” of the relationship between the rock layers. On the 1787 trip to the | he found his first example of Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton ... |
Lake Toba | ... d the region with fertile land and beautiful sceneries, for instance around | . It also contains deposits of coal and gold. The volcanic activity stems ... |
Madeira | ... south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the Azores and | . It is not found in Iceland. In the south east, it reaches the Caucasus r ... |
Leizhou Peninsula | Hainan, separated by the Qiongzhou Strait (瓊州海峽) from the | (雷州半島) of Guangdong, is the largest island administered by the People's Re ... |
Madeira | ... outh to Lisbon (January 1873) and then on to Gibraltar. The next stops were | and the Canary Islands (both February 1873). The period from February to J ... |
Kahoʻolawe | ... esting ground for bombs, missiles, and other weapons in a manner not unlike | in the Hawaiian Islands |
Izalco | ... to five groups. The westernmost group, near the Guatemalan border, contains | and Santa Ana, which at 2,365 meters is the highest volcano in El Salvador ... |
Mount Hood | ... estern end of the Columbia River Gorge, about upstream, sighting and naming | . Broughton formally claimed the river, its drainage basin, and the nearby ... |
Mount Hood | ... ries as the result of a battle between gods, represented by Mount Adams and | , in their competition for the affection of a goddess, represented by Moun ... |
Black Buttes | ... 0,000 years old. The volcano sits atop a similar older volcanic cone called | , which was active between 500,000 and 300,000 years ago. Much of Mount Ba ... |
Mauritius | ... car, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, | , Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Moroc ... |
Lanzarote | ... rising as the species does not breed either in this island or in the nearby | , they are wintering exemplaries or just passing through during their long ... |
Iwo Jima | ... unkers, pillboxes, tunnels, and other fortifications, especially on Saipan, | , the Philippines, and Okinawa, where deeply dug-in Japanese troops refuse ... |
San Juan volcanic field | ... is in the Summitville caldera, one of many extinct volcanoes making up the | . One, La Garita Caldera, is in diameter. Large beds of lava, some extendi ... |
Rockall | ... batross when drunk on rum). Occasionally the penguins live on the island of | , where they occasionally set up a socialist commune |
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens | ... ped on the city's west end during this period. Billings was affected by the | in May; the city received about an inch of ash on the ground. The blankete ... |
Kauai | Apukohai is a marine monster in the mythology of the island of | , Hawaii. Kawelo, a giant of enormous strength, departs for Oahu and encou ... |
Volcanoes National Park | ... s to mark trails. Other examples of these can be seen in the lava fields of | in Hawaii to mark several hikes. Placed at regular intervals, a series of ... |
Marquesas Islands | Atanua (or Atanea), in Polynesian mythology (specifically: | ) is the goddess of the dawn and wife of Atea (Atea and Atanua emerged fro ... |
Mount St. Helens | ... ruptions like those of other volcanoes in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, such as | , Mount Meager or Glacier Peak, nor has it erupted frequently. During this ... |
Mauna Kea | ... of Hawaii and decided to climb Mauna Loa first, since it looked easier than | . On December 14 he hired about 200 porters, but after he left he realized ... |
Fuerteventura | Finally, the Robins which can be found in | are the European ones, which is not surprising as the species does not bre ... |
Iona | ... ldees of the 9th to the 12th century the direct successors of the Irish and | n monasticism of the 6th to the 8th century. Some have suggested that thes ... |
Mayotte | ... re Njazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali (Mohéli), Nzwani (Anjouan), and Mahoré ( | ). The islands' distance from each other—Njazidja is some 200 kilometers f ... |
Maluku Islands | ... iving letters written in Malay is letters from Sultan Abu Hayat of Ternate, | in present day Indonesia, dated around 1521–1522. The letter is addressed ... |
Mount Taranaki/Egmont | ... t of Stratford District, New Zealand. It lies beneath the eastern slopes of | , approximately half-way between New Plymouth and Hawera, near the geograp ... |
Azores | ... Lockheed L-749 Constellation crashed into Monte Redondo (São Miguel Island, | ), killing all 11 crew members and 37 passengers on board, including Cerda ... |
Bogoslof | ... has a very limited range in the Bering Sea, breeding only on the Pribilof, | and Buldir islands in the United States, and the Commander Islands in Russ ... |
Azores | ... n (including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland, Rockall, Sable Island, | , St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Caribbean, Ca ... |
Mauritius | ... r, French entrepreneurs shipped vanilla beans to the islands of Réunion and | in hopes of producing vanilla there. After Edmond Albius discovered how to ... |
Laguna de Bay | ... est by the city of Bacoor, Cavite; by the city of San Pedro, Laguna; and by | to the east, the largest lake in the country. It is classified as a Highly ... |
Bermuda | ... the "Preaching Braes" of Cambuslang in 1742—two to Ireland, and one each to | , Gibraltar, and the . He also came to America in 1738 following John Wesl ... |
Mayotte | ... an any other location. This list excludes the French-administered island of | which is claimed by the Comorian government |
Mauritius | Port Louis is the capital of | . It is the largest city of the country and main port, which borders the I ... |
Kauai | ... Niihau, aka 'the Forbidden Island' to tourists, off the southwest coast of | , is the one island where Hawaiian is still spoken by the entire populatio ... |
Mount St. Catherine | ... lain in a generally north-south trending axis of ridges and narrow valleys. | is the highest peak at 840 meters |
Iona | ... nals of Ulster, there was a serious attack on Lindisfarne's mother-house of | , which was followed in 795 by raids upon the northern coast of Ireland. F ... |
Bermuda | ... l 25, 1791, Kinglassie - d. October 31, 1858, London, England), governor of | (1839–46), Barbados (1846–48), and Malta (1851–58); knighted 185 |
Kīlauea | ... it and the southeastern flank of the volcano, including a separate volcano, | |
Bermuda | In 1999, Seirawan played a ten-game match against Michael Adams in | . The match was drawn +2–2=6 |
Marquesas Islands | In the mythology of the | , Atea is the giver of light. In one legend Atea and Tane are brothers, th ... |
Bermuda | ... grant, this bird has occurred as a vagrant to such distant areas as Hawaii, | , Greenland, Tristan da Cunha and the Falkland Islands |
Saint Helena | ... eterans of Napoleon's Imperial Guard to free Napoleon from his captivity on | , captures a slave ship, and encounters Simón Bolívar's army. He retires t ... |
Mount Etna | ... the Olympians, Zeus beat them back and punished Typhon by sealing him under | . However, Zeus allowed Echidna and her children to live as a challenge to ... |
Madeira | ... the northwestern Atlantic and have been spotted as far south as Bermuda and | . Ships are subject to superstructure icing in the extreme north from Octo ... |
Fernandina | ... as they moved away from the mantle plume, the youngest islands, Isabela and | , are still being formed, with the most recent volcanic eruption in April ... |
Madeira | ... islands), Ireland, Rockall, Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, | , Bermuda, Canary Islands, Caribbean, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, A ... |
Ross Island | ... ss Sea was discovered by James Ross in 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea is | with the Mt. Erebus volcano, in the east Roosevelt Island. The southern pa ... |
Mount Taranaki | The south-eastern face of | is in the Stratford district, the north-westernmost point of the district ... |
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park | ... f the Sun at the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, both located near its summit. | covers the summit and the southeastern flank of the volcano, including a s ... |
Mount Rainier | After | , Mount Baker is the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade Range volcanoes ... |
Massif Central | The department is in the | and boasts more than 80 volcanic craters. It is three hours from Paris and ... |
Niihau | The island named | , aka 'the Forbidden Island' to tourists, off the southwest coast of Kauai ... |
Marquesas Islands | ... ctures of life on board the Acushnet. Melville deserted the Acushnet in the | in July 1842. For three weeks he lived among the Typee natives, who were c ... |
Ararat | ... gners to visit the city in order to enjoy the view of the biblical mount of | , as the city lies on the feet of the mountain forming the shape of a Roma ... |
Yellowstone Caldera | Although much smaller than either the Island Park Caldera or the | , the Henry's Fork Caldera is still one of the largest calderas in the wor ... |
Mount Kerinci | ... ckbone of the island is the Barisan Mountain chain, with the active volcano | as the highest point at 3,805 m (12,467 ft), located at about the midpoint ... |
Azores | ... Virginia, and it was thought for many years that he had been buried in the | or at sea |
Pinta | ... 53 sea lions (13 pups, 25 youngsters, 9 males and 6 females) were killed at | , Galapagos Islands nature reserve, with their heads caved in. In 2001, po ... |
Emi Koussi | ... etland in Chad and the second largest in Africa. Chad's highest peak is the | in the Sahara, and N'Djamena, (formerly Fort-Lamy), the capital, is the la ... |
Tristan da Cunha | ... occurred as a vagrant to such distant areas as Hawaii, Bermuda, Greenland, | and the Falkland Islands |
Izalco | ... s. The country has over twenty volcanoes, although only two, San Miguel and | , have been active in recent years. From the early nineteenth century to t ... |
Hofsjökull | ... he latter (road F35) runs along the east side of Langjökull, between it and | . It is the main route across the interior between the main population cen ... |
Bermuda | ... Strait, and the northwestern Atlantic and have been spotted as far south as | and Madeira. Ships are subject to superstructure icing in the extreme nort ... |
Mount St. Helens | ... ple about skoocooms: a race of cannibalistic wild men living on the peak of | . The skoocooms appear to have been regarded as supernatural, rather than ... |
Bermuda | ... , Ireland, Rockall, Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, | , Canary Islands, Caribbean, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Pr ... |
Faroe Islands | ... re chiefly pagans from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. They also settled in the | , Ireland, Iceland, Scotland (Caithness, the Hebrides and the Northern Isl ... |
La Garita Caldera | ... , one of many extinct volcanoes making up the San Juan volcanic field. One, | , is in diameter. Large beds of lava, some extending under the floor of th ... |
Efate | The municipality of Franceville (present-day Port Vila) on | was established during this period. In 1878 Britain and France declared al ... |
Marquesas Islands | ... n". Many other Polynesian names have been recorded, including Tau-ua in the | , Rehua in New Zealand, and Aa and Hoku-Kauopae in Hawaii |
Mount Fuji | ... cial Observatory; both offer a 360 degree view of Tokyo and, on clear days, | can be seen to the south. The two-floor Main Observatory, located at 145 m ... |
Gran Canaria | ... port , an international airport with flights to Palma de Mallorca, Antalya, | , Teneriffe, Rhodos, Heraklion and Fuerteventura (TUIfly), Berlin-Tegel (A ... |
Balleny Islands | Brown Peak is the highest point of the | . It is situated on the northern part of Sturge Island, near East Antarcti ... |
Ascension Island | ... the end of February, heading first due east and then due north, arriving at | at the end of March 1876. The period from early to mid-April was spent sai ... |
Chimborazo | The summit of | in Ecuador is farther from the Earth's centre than that of Everest , becau ... |
Island Park Caldera | Although much smaller than either the | or the Yellowstone Caldera, the Henry's Fork Caldera is still one of the l ... |
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens | ... 16 the "Year Without a Summer" in the whole northern hemisphere, whilst the | in Washington State ejected around of material. The largest known eruption ... |
Mount Adams | ... ibed in some stories as the result of a battle between gods, represented by | and Mount Hood, in their competition for the affection of a goddess, repre ... |
Mt. Erebus | ... by James Ross in 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea is Ross Island with the | volcano, in the east Roosevelt Island. The southern part is covered by the ... |
Rockall | ... ed in the Irish Sea—the clump becoming the Isle of Man, the pebble becoming | , and the void becoming Lough Neagh. Fingal's Cave in Scotland is also nam ... |
Saint Paul Island | ... tians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is the main settlement of | in the Pribilofs, a small island group in the Bering Sea. Saint Paul Islan ... |
Azores | ... e parents, Maria Manuela and António José Furtado, both immigrants from the | . She was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim. Her parents were born on ... |
Azores | ... attacked in Gouvea, Alentejo, Olivença, Santarém, and other places. In the | and the island of Madeira, mobs massacred former Jews. Because of these ex ... |
Crater Lake | ... Upper and Lower Table Rock lava formations and nearby Mount McLoughlin and | , which is the remains of Mount Mazama. In the late spring/early summer th ... |
Bora Bora | Aged emissary Hitu arrives by western sailing ship to the island of | , a small island in the South Pacific, on an important mission. He bears a ... |
Mount Ararat | ... şan (Dervishes) (1975-1976). Also, he founded Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi (Legend of | ) band. This band was dissolved in 1976 and 3 45 rpms. He migrated to Aust ... |
Mount Hood | ... The lower reaches of the ancestral river passed through a valley near where | later arose. Carrying sediments from erosion and erupting volcanoes, it bu ... |
Hawaii hotspot | ... ce then. Like all of the Hawaiian islands, Mauna Loa has its origins in the | —a plume of magma rising from deep in the Earth's mantle. The hotspot rema ... |
Mount Shasta | ... ome to trout fish in the Sacramento and McCloud Rivers, or to see and climb | , Castle Crags or the Trinity Alps. Visitors ski (both alpine and cross-co ... |
Mount Etna | ... fied by Greek colonists in southern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of | ) and Vulcanus of the Lipari islands. His forge was moved there by the poe ... |
Saint Helena | ... Howe. Arthur, coincidentally, stopped on his voyage at the little island of | and stayed in the same building to which Napoleon I would later be exiled |
Faroe Islands | ... lm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the | and Greenland. Its position gives Denmark complete control of the Danish S ... |
Mount McLoughlin | ... s demonstrated by the Upper and Lower Table Rock lava formations and nearby | and Crater Lake, which is the remains of Mount Mazama. In the late spring/ ... |
Madeira | On | and the Azores, the local population has been described as E. r. microrhyn ... |
Henry's Fork Caldera | ... r Island Park Caldera and the later Yellowstone Caldera. In addition to the | , about a third of what is known as Island Park, is north of this caldera ... |
Genovesa (Tower) Island | ... ere the waved albatross nests. Some of the birds have attempted to breed on | , but unsuccessfully. Española's steep cliffs serve as the perfect runways ... |
Soufrière Hills | A catastrophic eruption of | in June 1997 closed the W. H. Bramble Airport and seaport at Plymouth, cau ... |
Bermuda | S-1 began her service operations in July 1920 with a cruise to | attached to Submarine Division 2 (SubDiv 2), with subsequent operations ou ... |
The Somers Isles | ... exico, the English colonies of Virginia (with its North Atlantic off-shoot, | ) and New England, the French colonies of Acadia and Canada, the Swedish c ... |
Glen Coe | Glencoe Village (Gaelic: A’ Chàrnaich) is the main settlement near | , Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It lies at the north-west end of the glen, ... |
Crater of Diamonds State Park | ... n was 1,764 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Pike County. | is located just to the south. The "crater" is an eroded lamproite pipe whe ... |
Mount Etna | ... em to Zeus. Typhon was finally defeated by Zeus, who trapped him underneath | |
Iona | ... onicle, or at Dunnottar following the Prophecy of Berchán. He was buried on | . Máel Coluim's sons Dub and Cináed were later kings. American musician Jo ... |
Monti Sabatini | ... e northwest border is to be drawn is uncertain; probably as far west as the | and Lake Bracciano in the north and southward from there. The Romans place ... |
Savai'i | ... oa's warrior goddess hails from the village of Falealupo at the west end of | island, which is also the site of the entry into Pulotu, the spirit world. ... |
Southern Thule | ... northerly point of land on Earth. The southernmost point is the islands of | , although they are sometimes considered part of Antarctica |
Bermuda | ... ms and on other invertebrates. She commented in a letter: "The polyclads of | were so pretty that I could not resist collecting them and figuring out Ve ... |
Yellowstone Caldera | ... the same hotspot that created the earlier Island Park Caldera and the later | . In addition to the Henry's Fork Caldera, about a third of what is known ... |
Tenerife | ... Royal Albert Hall Jarre met Brian May, who proposed he create a concert in | for the International Year of Astronomy, but a lack of sponsorship meant t ... |
Coso Range | ... arley, who came to the area in 1860 and discovered silver ore in the nearby | . The name "Olancha" is believed to be derived from the nearby Yaudanche t ... |
Mount Tambora | ... her comparison, the largest volcanic eruption in historic times, in 1815 at | (Indonesia), ejected the equivalent of around of dense rock and made 1816 ... |
Mount Rainier | ... d Tukullum or Nahcullum (in the language of the unidentified "Koma tribe"). | , called "Tacoma", effectively means "larger than Koma (Kulshan)" |
Cotopaxi | ... n the Sierra region. Its largest city is Guayaquil, in the Guayas Province. | , which is just south of Quito, features one of the world's highest active ... |
Azores | ... rn Siberia, south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the | and Madeira. It is not found in Iceland. In the south east, it reaches the ... |
Leizhou Peninsula | ... ainan" (海南) describes its location south of the Qiongzhou Strait, while the | is also called Haibei (海北) as it is located north of the strait |
Bermuda | Early in its history, | had unusual connections with Ireland. It has been suggested that St. Brend ... |
Saipan | ... o screen the aircraft carriers in heavy air raids on the islands of Tinian, | , and Guam. During these air attacks on the Marianas, the Alabama, while f ... |
Bouvet Island | ... slands, Tierra del Fuego, South Georgia Island, South Sandwich Islands, and | |
Mount Hood | ... The wagons were stopped at The Dalles, Oregon by the lack of a road around | . The wagons had to be disassembled and floated down the treacherous Colum ... |
Bermuda | defence of | is the responsibility of the United Kingdo |
Bermuda | ... as by other Amerindians. In 1648, the Eleutherian Adventurers migrated from | . These English Puritans established the first permanent European settleme ... |
Azores | ... , but the French using their normal callsigns. The Paris-Caracas route (via | ) began on 10 April. The US Congress had just banned Concorde landings in ... |
Efate | ... noe departed the Coral Sea to deliver its remaining fuel to Allied ships at | |
Mount Kenya | ... ngle largest ethnic group in Kenya, and are concentrated in the vicinity of | . The exact place that the Kikuyu's ancestors migrated from after the init ... |
Kauai | ... er havoc. A decision to change the film's setting to the Hawaiian island of | was an important choice in defining the plot more clearly. No other animat ... |
Moorea | ... beachcomber and island rover (Omoo in Tahitian) eventually crossing over to | . He then signed articles on yet another whaler for a six-month cruise (No ... |
Maluku Islands | ... tronesian languages are related to languages spoken in the Halmahera in the | and Western New Guinea |
Mount Tauhara | ... ing are located at several places in the vicinity. The volcanic mountain of | lies six kilometres (4 mi) to the east. Some forested area exists near Tau ... |
Suwanosejima | ... with a group of Japanese back-to-the-land drop-outs known as "the Tribe" on | (a small Japanese island in the East China Sea), where they combed the bea ... |
Faroe Islands | ... nd established a separate commission – along with Norway, Greenland and the | – for the conservation, management, and study of marine mammals. Since the ... |
Bermuda | Making their debuts were Algeria, | , Brazil, Honduras, Ireland and Swaziland (as well as the previously menti ... |
Sigiriya | Frescoes also can be found in | , situated in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka, which are reminisc ... |
Moluccas | ... he trade in the Straits, and especially the spices from the Celebes and the | , moved under its protection and through its markets |
Island Park Caldera | ... eruption than the super eruption of 2.1 million years ago that created the | in Idaho, USA. The eruption was also about three times the size of the lat ... |
Mauritius | ... t in the last 90 years. They have disappeared from the waters of Hong Kong, | , and Taiwan, as well as parts of Cambodia, Japan, the Philippines and Vie ... |
Ascension Island | ... e from the UK, Cyprus (see Europe), the large BBC Atlantic Relay Station on | , and the smaller Lesotho Relay Station and Indian Ocean Relay Station on ... |
Crozet Islands | ... The islands visited during this period were the Prince Edward Islands, the | , the Kerguelen Islands, and Heard Island. February 1874 was spent travell ... |
Crater Lake | ... g, and world-class trout fishing, as well as Oregon's only National Park at | , contribute to the economy of the area. A complex of six National Wildlif ... |
Mount Taranaki | The headwaters of the Patea River are on the eastern face of | , above Stratford. From there the river flows eastwards, its upper catchme ... |
Mauna Kea | ... approximately , although its peak is about lower than that of its neighbor, | . The Hawaiian name "Mauna Loa" means "Long Mountain". Lava eruptions from ... |
Mount Ararat | ... ian. While looking in the direction of Yerevan, after the ark had landed on | and the flood waters had receded, Noah is believed to have exclaimed, "Yer ... |
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory | The | maintains seismic sensors and a web cam on Mokuāweoweo |
Ascension Island | ... of February 2008. In a very few cases, 15400 kHz from the relay station in | still becomes listenable, as are some frequencies directed to Africa |
Mauritius | ... isiting Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, | , South Africa and Canada. No royal had undertaken such an ambitious tour ... |
El Hierro | ... y beginning to diverge genetically. Robins from the western Canary Islands: | , La Palma and La Gomera (E. (r.) microrhynchus) are similar to the Europe ... |
Mauritius | Diwali is an official holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, | , Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Malaysia, Singapore, and |
Hawaii hotspot | ... rocks are not older than 200,000 years. The volcano's magma comes from the | , which has been responsible for the creation of the Hawaiian island chain ... |
Mauritius | ... own descriptions of the bird were made by Dutch travellers to the island of | , east of Madagascar. Only a dozen such contemporary accounts based on obs ... |
Tristan da Cunha | ... pent crossing the Atlantic from Bahia to the Cape of Good Hope, touching at | on the way |
Spice Islands | ... ent by Amsterdam merchants to Lisbon to discover as much information on the | as he could. At the same time as he returned to Amsterdam, Jan Huygen van ... |
Prescott Park | At nearly , this south Medford park is the second largest in the city ( | is the largest at 1,740 acres). Bear Creek Park is bordered on the west by ... |
Iona | ... f the Clyde and Tweed valleys on their way between the religious centres of | and Holy Island. A Celtic stone carved with cup and rings/channels, known ... |
Rockall | ... e Islands, Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland, | , Sable Island, Azores, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary ... |
Bermuda | | has five television stations, a small cable microwave system, two cellular ... |
Spice Islands | ... ute to India. This led to the establishment of direct trade with India, the | , China, and Japan. Importers could now avoid the heavy duties imposed by ... |
Island Park Caldera | ... Fork Caldera that was created by the same hotspot that created the earlier | and the later Yellowstone Caldera. In addition to the Henry's Fork Caldera ... |
Nevis | ... sugar cane plantations. They arrived from the nearby islands of St. Thomas, | , St. Kitts, St. Croix, and many other Caribbean islands, some of them arr ... |
Saint Helena | | has — paved and unpaved — of roads. The only major harbour is James Bay at ... |
Bermuda | ... islands were mostly deserted from 1513 to 1648, when English colonists from | settled on the island of Eleuthera |
Mauna Kea | ... ountains are sometimes claimed as alternative "tallest mountains on Earth". | in Hawaii is tallest when measured from its base; it rises over when measu ... |
Ascension Island | ... São Tomé and Príncipe, Annobón Province, Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, | , Saint Helena, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island (A ... |
Laguna de Bay | ... ated at 14°40' N 121°3 E, Metro Manila is situated on an isthmus bounded by | to the south-east and Manila Bay to the west, opening to the South China S ... |
Iona | ... ad to visit Ireland a century after St Mobhi's death in 544. St. Columba of | is thought to have studied under St. Mobhi, but left Glasnevin following a ... |
Tongariro National Park | ... as it offers panoramic views over the lake and to the volcanic mountains of | to the south. It offers a number of tourist activities including sky divin ... |
Arthur's Seat | ... most of East Lothian, and high points in the Lothians and Borders, such as | , and the Lammermuir |
Gran Canaria | ... t" or "good port", after its similar geographical features to the island of | in the Canary Islands. In 1521, the newer settlement was given its formal ... |
Lake Taupo | Taupo is a town on the shore of | in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the seat of the Ta ... |
Spice Islands | ... etersz Coen of the VOC claimed infringement of its monopoly of trade to the | . Le Maire and Schouten were arrested and the Eendracht was confiscated. A ... |
Mount Hood | ... ving at the Columbia at The Dalles and stopped by the Cascade Mountains and | , some gave up their wagons or disassembled them and put them on boats or ... |
La Gomera | ... enetically. Robins from the western Canary Islands: El Hierro, La Palma and | (E. (r.) microrhynchus) are similar to the European (Erithacus rubecula) |
La Palma | ... to diverge genetically. Robins from the western Canary Islands: El Hierro, | and La Gomera (E. (r.) microrhynchus) are similar to the European (Erithac ... |
Mauritius | ... s, especially on Mauritius. The dodo rampant appears on the coat of arms of | . A smiling dodo is the symbol of the Brasseries de Bourbon, a popular bre ... |
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Pitcairn | ... Terra Australis, Spanish explorers in the 17th century also discovered the | and Vanuatu archipelagos. Most significantly, from 1565 Spanish fleets exp ... |
Henry's Fork Caldera | ... The area known as Island Park is mostly a large crater or caldera named the | that was created by the same hotspot that created the earlier Island Park ... |
Mount Hood | ... r, manufacturing, and commerce have been the principal economic activities. | , the only year-round ski resort in the United States and the site of Timb ... |
Prince Edward Islands | ... rallel of 60 degrees south. The islands visited during this period were the | , the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and Heard Island. February 18 ... |
Faroe Islands | ... the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) was established by the | , Greenland, Iceland, and Norway under the Agreement on Cooperation in Res ... |
Marquesas | ... ands, several naval expeditions also discovered the Tuvalu archipelago, the | , the Solomon Islands and New Guinea in the South Pacific. In the quest fo ... |
Mount Etna | ... ir home. Only Zeus stood firm, and the battle raged, ending when Zeus threw | on top of Typhon, trapping him |
Suwanosejima | ... g for a while with a group of other people on the small, volcanic island of | . His previous study of written Chinese assisted his immersion in the Zen ... |
Cascadia subduction zone | The depth of the basins is a result of the Sound being part of the | , where the terranes accreted at the edge of the Juan de Fuca Plate are be ... |
Faroe Islands | ... wfoundland (including hundreds of surrounding islands), Greenland, Iceland, | , Great Britain (including numerous surrounding islands), Ireland, Rockall ... |
Lake Taupo | Taupo is located at the outlet of | , New Zealand's largest lake, in the northeast part of the lake where it d ... |
Taveuni | ... s on the island. They are now present on the islands of Laucala, Matagi and | |
Mauritius | ... hus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of | . It stood about a metre (3.3 feet) tall, weighing about . The species los ... |
Mount Vesuvius | ... is unable to do so. He ultimately commits suicide by throwing himself into | , after having left a written account of his origin with a sympathetic pri ... |
Azores | On Madeira and the | , the local population has been described as E. r. microrhynchos, and alth ... |
Hualālai | ... ntly, the hotspot feeds activity at five volcanoes: Mauna Loa, Kīlauea, and | on the Big Island, Haleakalā on Maui, and Loihi, a submarine volcano south ... |
Saint Helena | ... cipe, Annobón Province, Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Ascension Island, | , Trindade and Martim Vaz, Tristan da Cunha, Gough Island (Also known as D ... |
Mauritius | ... ar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, | , Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago,( Zi ... |
Mauritius | ... esiding on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, were expelled to | in the 1960s, in connection with the erection of an American strategic mil ... |
Mount Fuji | ... ne tradition, the earliest veneration of Konohanasakuya-hime at the base of | was in the 8th month of the 3rd year of the reign of Emperor Suinin |
Tristan da Cunha | ... onha, Rocas Atoll, Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trindade and Martim Vaz, | , Gough Island (Also known as Diego Alvarez), Falkland Islands, Tierra del ... |
Azores | ... was bolstered by a number of Portuguese sailors, many of whom were from the | , and came to live in Provincetown after being hired to work on US ships. ... |
Decade Volcanoes | ... iew of the hazards it poses to population centers, Mauna Loa is part of the | program, which encourages studies of the most dangerous volcanoes. Mauna L ... |
Fingal's Cave | ... sle of Man, the pebble becoming Rockall, and the void becoming Lough Neagh. | in Scotland is also named after him, and shares the feature of hexagonal b ... |
Mount Pinatubo | ... afterglows and pre-sunrise glows. A number of eruptions, including those of | in 1991 and Krakatoa in 1883, have produced sufficiently high stratospheri ... |
Gran Canaria | The most distinct birds are those of | (E. r. marionae) and Tenerife (E. r. superbus), which may be considered tw ... |
Mayotte | ... e maintains a small maritime base and a Foreign Legion Detachment (DLEM) on | |
Mauritius | ... s in their favour, they have not been allowed to return from their exile in | , although there are signs that financial compensation and an official apo ... |
Bermuda | In | and the Bahamas local leaders were angry at the food shortages caused by B ... |
Murray Island | ... been quite ill. On 5 May, in a bad storm nearing their first destination of | , the ship dragged anchor on the Barrier Reef and the expedition almost me ... |
Kauai | ... 626 survives his escape attempt to Earth, landing on the Hawaiian island of | , but is knocked unconscious by a passing truck, and is taken to an animal ... |
Spice Islands | ... e South Seas. Fifteenth-century Portuguese sailors from Goa en route to the | often made stopovers on the island which they called Pulo Pinaom. Early Ma ... |
Devils Tower National Monument | ... ns in Wyoming include Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park, | , Independence Rock and Fossil Butte National Monument. Each year Yellowst ... |
Bermuda | The defence of | remains the responsibility of the National (British) Government, rather th ... |
Kīlauea | ... otspot. Currently, the hotspot feeds activity at five volcanoes: Mauna Loa, | , and Hualālai on the Big Island, Haleakalā on Maui, and Loihi, a submarin ... |
Arthur's Seat | ... edimentary rock near the centre of Edinburgh, at Salisbury Crags, adjoining | : this is now known as Hutton's Section. He found other examples in Gallow ... |
Arthur's Seat | ... ommon by 800 which are recorded in various place names and features such as | indicating Arthur was a hero known and associated with many locations acro ... |
Uinkaret volcanic field | Between 1.8 million and 10,000 years ago, massive flows of basalt from the | in northern Arizona dammed the Colorado River within the Grand Canyon. At ... |
Tenerife | The most distinct birds are those of Gran Canaria (E. r. marionae) and | (E. r. superbus), which may be considered two distinct species or at least ... |
Madeira | ... tejo, Olivença, Santarém, and other places. In the Azores and the island of | , mobs massacred former Jews. Because of these excesses, the king began to ... |
Bermuda | ... s of the board were paid large sums illegally through a SABENA affiliate in | . When Paul Reutlinger became the CEO of the company, he stopped the illeg ... |
Cascade Volcanic Arc | ... has not had highly explosive eruptions like those of other volcanoes in the | , such as Mount St. Helens, Mount Meager or Glacier Peak, nor has it erupt ... |
Niihau | ... earl Harbor. It involved three Japanese Americans on the Hawaiian island of | assisting a Japanese pilot who crashed there. Despite the incident, the Te ... |
Mount Hood | ... The Dalles Methodist Mission was founded by Reverend Jason Lee just east of | on the Columbia River. In 1836, Henry H. Spalding and Marcus Whitman trave ... |
Gough Island | ... Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Trindade and Martim Vaz, Tristan da Cunha, | (Also known as Diego Alvarez), Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, South G ... |
Krakatoa | ... glows. A number of eruptions, including those of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 and | in 1883, have produced sufficiently high stratospheric sulfuric acid cloud ... |
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory | ... e most dangerous volcanoes. Mauna Loa has been intensively monitored by the | since 1912. Observations of the atmosphere are undertaken at the Mauna Loa ... |
Mount Mazama | ... ations and nearby Mount McLoughlin and Crater Lake, which is the remains of | . In the late spring/early summer the snow on the slopes of Mount McLoughl ... |
Saint Helena | ... at Rochefort. The Allies exiled him to the remote South Atlantic island of | , where he died on 5 May 1821 |
Arthur's Seat | ... are a couple of related volcanic formations within nearby Edinburgh, namely | and Castle Rock |
eruption of Mount St. Helens | In 1980, the | deposited large amounts of sediment in the lower Columbia, temporarily red ... |
Pitcairn Islands | ... igh led to several of the mutineers escaping the Royal Navy and settling on | , which later became a British colony |
Pacaya | ... e visible from the city, two of them active. The nearest and most active is | , which at times expels a considerable amount of ash |
Iona | ... are thought to have led their first raids in Scotland on the holy island of | in 794, the year following the raid on the other holy island of Lindisfarn ... |
Norfolk Island | ... the Christmas Island Territory, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Territory, the | Territory and the Australian Antarctic Territory are managed by Parks Aust ... |