Search results for "South Sea" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • stored in Haeinsa, a Buddhist temple in South Gyeongsang province, in South ... of the wood. Artisans soaked the wood in sea water for three years before ...
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  • markets of the Orient, da Gama extended the sea route exploration of his predecessor ... Da Gama's voyage was successful in establishing a sea route from ...
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  • Kodiak Island is a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state ... north and east, but fairly treeless on the south. The island has many ice ...
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  • St. Lawrence Island is an island in the Bering Sea just south of the Bering Strait, administratively belonging to the state of Alaska. The Danish ...
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  • The Republic of Yemen is a country on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south ...
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  • seals, from the eared seals (fur seals and sea lions) of the family Otariidae. ... seal was nearly exterminated and monk sea populations were greatly depleted; ...
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  • abalone), crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and sea urchins—and others including ... that were the "canaries of the sea" and alerted people to ...
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  • Flynn. His family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, when Flynn was a young ... friend David Niven, Dodge City (1939), The Sea Hawk (1940), and Adventures ...
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  • the Spanish Netherlands across the North Sea for a landing in south-east ... that had been constructed the length of the south coast of England. That same ...
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  • * Gossypium barbadens – Creole cotton or sea island cotton, native ... Gossypium barbadens was cultivated in South America about five thousand ...
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  • and Rome's loss of the Red Sea ports, Augustin F. C. Holl. Ethnoarchaeology ... before Christ. Rome's trade route by sea to southwest India opened ...
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  • predator, which typically moves into the sea to begin a predatory/parasitic ... Not all lampreys can be found in the sea. Some lampreys are landlocked ...
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  • connecting the Danube with the Black Sea. After its completion, he ... a popular story called Cast up by the Sea. In 1869, he traveled with ...
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  • sits near the center of Seoul and faces the south, located at the foot of mountains ... reserved only for the king. Hae T'ae (Sea Monsters), two large mythical ...
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  • Phillip was appointed Governor of New South Wales, the first European ... ==Governor of New South Wales== |right|250px|Arthur Phillip was the ...
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  • 3,900 to 4,900 feet (1,200 to 1,500 m) above sea level are realized in the ... desert the foreboding nickname of "The Sea of Death." While the ...
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  • Megalithic tombs are found from the Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts ... Dolmen sites fringe the Irish Sea and are found in southeast Ireland ...
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  • circulation cells. Other winds, such as sea breezes, are a consequence ... propel their ships from Europe to North and South America. Their name derives ...
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  • Round The World by Way of the Great South Sea (1726), by Captain George ... killed one of these birds on entering the south sea, and the tutelary spirits ...
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  • century C.E. Periplus of the Erythraean Sea as an important marketplace ... also controlled two harbors on the Red Sea: Adulis (near Massawa) and ...
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