Geography Part 10

SEATTLE

* 2001 Mardi Gras riot in this city's Pioneer Square * ernie Whitebear founded the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in this city after helping stage a 1970 takeover of Fort Lawton, a former U.S. Army post in this city's Discovery (*) Park. * restored fishing rights to the Queets, Quinault and other indigenous peoples * 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott, this city's namesake ► chief secured a reservation at Port Madison * Kitsap County. * homelands of the Suquamish * "Jesus Christ Made [this city] Under Protest". * Kris Kime was murdered during this city's 2001 Mardi Gras Riots in Pioneer Squar * multi-site Mars Hill megachurch in this city disbanded after controversies involving its pastor Mark Driscoll. * alternative newspaper The Stranger was the first to run an advice column by (*) Dan Savage * Elliott Bay, one can find this city's Pike Place Market * SkyCity, a rotating restaurant 500 feet above ground. Frank Gehry designed this King County city's Experience Music Project, * imi Hendrix and Nirvana. * West Coast city home to the Space Needle. * Scandinavian immigrants live near canal locks in the Ballard neighborhood. * Bremerton and Bainbridge Island by ferry, * Industrial districts lie along the Duwamish river * Evergreen Point Floating Bridge to its suburb of Bellevue * home of the Pike Place market and Pioneer Square is the seat of King County, and visitors can ascend a structure, built for the 1962 World's Fair, whose circular observation deck offers views of Puget Sound. * Space Needle, the largest city in Washington State. * Vashon Island and southeast of Admiralty Inlet, and its Pioneer Square is home to the Smith Tower * Pike Market Place as well as a Central Library designed by Rem Koolhaas. * Lake Washington borders this city to the east, and the Duwamish River flows through this city before emptying into Elliot Bay * Bellevue and Redmond are a part of the metropolitan area of this city, which is home to a building designed by Frank Gehry, the Experience Music Project. * city's botched effort to shut down notorious underage prostitution club The Monastery led to an ordinance that idiotically wound up requiring most citizens to attend certain events in adult/minor pairs * Kris Kim * hearing of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was held in this city in the wake of the 1974 Boldt Decision * awful mayor Paul Schell * Frustration with this city's notoriously slow and deliberate political process drove the campaign of current mayor Michael McGinn, * decade-long dispute over replacing the (*) Alaskan Way Viaduct * Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee shot four police officers in 2009 in this city, where the Direct Action Network organized the "N-30" protests that exploded in violence during the 1999 WTO conference. * Mount Baker neighborhood lies on one of the "seven hills" that this city was built on. The suburb of Issaquah is on Lake Sammamish near it * Duwamish River flows into Elliott Bay near this city, and the Kitsap Peninsula lies to the west of this city * Bellevue is one of its eastern suburbs, and it is located near the Olympic Mountains. Known as the (*) "Emerald City", this seat of King County contains Pike Place Market. * 1962 World's Fair and has a "hovering disk" at its top. This city on Puget Sound features the Space Needle. * near Lake Washington, whose namesake ship canal is an important waterway for its commercial activities * important channel is the Duwamish Waterway * Harbor Island. * Kitsap Peninsula * 1983 Wah Mee Massacre i * architectural oddities include a three story triangular parking garage built on a hill that is nicknamed "The Sinking Ship". * features a 21 story construction topped with a 21 story tower that is capped with a gothic pyramid. * Smith Tower finished a library with an exterior composed entirely of glass and steel designed by Rem Koolhas * partially inspired by the image of smashed guitars and includes the Science Fiction Museum. * Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project hosted the Century 21 exposition for which it constructed a tower with a rotating restaurant at its top. * USA show The 4400, Jordan Collier takes over this city and renames it "Promise City." * location of the Work Bench where Sam Oliver works in the CW show Reape * Dark Angel was set in a futuristic version of this city, which is also home to the coffee shop (*) Cafe Nervosa * radio station KACL on another show. Characters who reside in this city on another show include Richard Webber, Miranda Bailey, and Meredith Gray. * amusement park named Playland once existed in this city's Bitter Lake neighborhood, and part of state route 99 through this city is known as the Alaskan Way Viaduct * former utilities plant gives its name to this city's Gas Works Park, and neighborhoods in this city include Green Lake and Rainier Beach * "Center" includes the Experience Music Project and a tower built for the 1962 World's Fair. * Puget Sound, for 10 points, name this large Washington city which includes the Space Needle

WISCONSIN

* LaCrosse is on its western border with Minnesota. Name this state bordering the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that contains the city of Milwaukee. * Apostle Islands are in the northern part of this state, whose first European visitor was French trader Jean Nicolet in 1634 * Door Peninsula * Green Bay from Lake Michigan. * Apostle Islands, the largest of which is Madeline Island. * Ice Age Trail. * Lake Winnebago * version is surrounded by towns such as Neenah and Fond du Lac. * east coast includes the towns of Manitowoc and Sheboygan, and Washington Island is just past the end of its Door Peninsula. * Lake Winnebago is located in this state near the cities of Fond du Lac and Oshkosh. * Michel Cadotte led a trading post on Madeline Island, one of this state's black bear-filled Apostle Islands * most recent advance of the Laurentide ice sheet is a glaciation named for this state, the southwest area of which lacks significant till and outwash because it escaped that glaciation and is thus known as the "Driftless Area". * Sauk County was exalted in a book which coined the term "land (*) ethic" * sandstone gorge on this state's namesake river lends its name to a nearby waterpark-filled tourist trap, its namesake "Dells" * Door Peninsula separates Lake Michigan from Green Bay. * Brule River runs through the northwest * low frequency antenna was once operational in this polity's Chequamegon (SHWA-meh-gon) Nicolet National Forest * Washington Island is separated by "Death's Door" from Door * Stevens Point. The cities of Sheboygan and Kenosha lie on the shore of Lake Michigan. Name this state to the north of Illinois with capital at Madison

SASKATCHEWAN

* Mosaic Stadium within Taylor Field * not British Columbia, but this province's site of Deep Bay is the location of a meteor impact * Several locations named Waskesiu are located in a national park in this province, which, like a city here, is named after (*) Prince Albert * military air show demonstration team the Snowbirds is based near this province's city of Moose Jaw * eastern portion of Lake Athabasca * prairie province of Canada, located between Alberta and Manitoba and whose cities include Regina and Saskatoon * capital was the site of a 1912 "cyclone," the deadliest tornado in Canadian history * western red lily adorns the flag of this province, whose city of Preeceville is near the source of a river that flows east to another province's capital * source of the Assiniboine River * eastern portion and majority of Lake (*) Athabasca. * Sitting Bull settled his people in this province's Wood Mountain area following the Battle of Little Bighorn. * cities of Prince Albert and Moose Jaw * capital is Regina and whose largest city is Saskatoon. * polity's largest naturally occuring lake that is contained entirely within it is Long Lake, although the construction of the Qu'Apelle River Dam and Gardiner Dam created its largest man-made reservoir, Lake Diefenbaker * Wascana Creek * Cree Lake and Reindeer Lake * Yorkton, Swift Current and Moose Jaw * Deep Bay lies in the northeastern part of this province, like its popular fishing site of Reindeer Lake * Manitoba's Lake Winnipeg * Palliser's Triangle cuts across the center of this province, where the Stanley Mission * Lac la Rong * Fort La Jonquiere * Cree * Columbia Icefield and the Bow River. * Poundmaker is at Battleford in this province, which was also the site of the Battle of Batoche * Louis Riel. * Reindeer Lake lies on the eastern border of this province and Lake Athabasca on the western border. * Swift Current and Moose Jaw * Assiniboine River flows through the capital of this province. * Northwest Territories to the north, Manitoba to the east, and Alberta to the west * Cree word meaning "swift river". * Henry Kelsey was among the first Europeans to explore it, in the late 1500s, when in addition to the Cree he made contact with the Chipewyan and Blackfoot tribes along the namesake river. * Battle and Red Deer Rivers in Alberta * e North West Rebellion against Louis Riel, * Canadian province, and is considered one of the Prairie Provinces. Its center contains Prince Albert National Park

URAL MOUNTAINS

* Mugodzhar Hills, and its central Ore section contains Mount Yamantaw * mysterious isolated megaliths can be found on Vera Island. * rich in alexandrite that switches from green to red color, which was used by Peter Carl (*) Fabergé * Bashkirs live on both sides of this range, where industrial production is concentrated in Perm * Ob and Volga river basins are divided by - for 10 points - what Russian mountains that divide Europe from Asia? * west of this mountain range lies the Pechora basin, which includes the Illych and Usa rivers, and to its east lies the Ob basin * Kara Sea in the north, and its nether-polar region contains its highest peaks, including Mount Karpinsky * highest peak of this mountain range, Mount Narodnaya * World War II, the Soviet authority moved many factories to its foothills, which have long been regarded as the major mineral base of Russia. * Pay-Khoy Ridge forms a northern extension of this mountain range, through which the Pechora river flows. * Huge "fighting" dolomite rocks dot gorges formed by the Chusovaya River in this range, near which the city of Ufa lies * northern terminus is at Novaya Zemlya * Perm and Yekaterinburg, its highest peak is Mount Narodnaya * northern terminus of this mountain range is the minor Pay-Khoy Ridge, * southernmost extension is a region of uplands known as the Mughalzhar Hills * numerous indigenous group in this mountain range is the Bashkir people * minor groups include the Nenets, Mansi, and Khanty peoples * entire eastern slope of this mountain range is drained by the Ob river system, and a major river on the western slope is the Kama, a tributary of the Volga. * Pay-Khoy ridge forms an extension to the northern tip of this range, and the Mughalzhar Hills are a southern extension of this range * Perm, Orsk, and Orenburg are some of the industrial centers in it, and the Kama River collects water from much of its western slope

VICTORIA FALLS

* corpses of the crocodile victims Moss and Orchard were found at the second gorge of this natural feature, known as the Boiling Pot, following a 1910 hippo attack on their canoe * recession is expanding the Batoka Gorges. * small rock barrier within the Armchair section of this feature forms the treacherous Devil's Pool. Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park comprises the land on one side of this feature, which was bridged by the Cape to Cairo railway at the insistence of Cecil Rhodes. * overlooked by a bronze statue of David Livingstone. * site at which the Zambezi River becomes impassable to ships, an enormous waterfall found between Zambia and Zimbabwe

SENEGAL

* country is subject to a light precipitation that its natives call the heug, which is brought by the harmattan winds. * westernmost region, Kedougou, separated from Tambacounda, which contains this nation's highest point near Nepen Diakha. * MDFC has been a terrorist group active in Ziguinchor, a main city of its Casamance Region * Gorée Island * The House of the Slaves. * capital lies on the Cape Verde Peninsula * westernmost point of continental Africa * home to Léopold Sédar Senghor Airport * country is the only neighbor of another comprising the shores of a namesake river, at the mouth of which lies Banjul. * separated from its northern neighbor, Mauritania, by a river sharing its name * completely surrounds the Gambia and has capital at Dakar. * Female residents of this country can undergo a depigmentation of skin called xessal * national dish of this nation combines fish, rice, and tomato sauce with onions and peanut oil - it's called thieboudienne * popular resort for European travelers to this country is Cap Skirring * Kahone and Tambacounda. * smaller neighbor, this country's sabar drum is used in its mbalax dance music * late 1980s, this nation's army has dealt with conflict in its Casamance region, which is dominated by Jola people who agitate against the majority Wolof ethnic group * Ile de Goree in this nation's capital was a major point of the Atlantic slave trade. * Muslim nation has its capital on Cap-Vert peninsula, from which Cape Verde takes it name. * The Gambia and has a capital at Dakar. * Kaolack lies on the Saloum River * major river forms a so-called False Delta, which is home to the town of Richard-Toll, and its mouth is home to a former colonial capital. * consequence of its location within the Intertropical Convergence Zone, this nation's climate experiences a tripartite division into coastal, Sahelian, and Sudanian climates, and the majority of the agriculture is practiced in this country's Fouta region. * north of Guinea include the Casamance, from which guerilla fighters once operated during a conflict in neighboring Guinea-Bissau * Mauritania and its capital is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula on the Atlantic shore. Ethnic groups in this nation include the Serer, Malinke, and Fulani * Monument of African Renaissance, which was built by North Korean laborers and which this country's president claimed a thirty-five percent commission on because it was his idea. * smaller neighbor, this country is the site of over 1,000 stone circles used to mark burial mounds. Locations in this country that played an important role in the slave trade include Saint-Louis and the site of the Maison des Esclaves, the island of Goree. * Gambia is almost entirely surrounded by this country * home to the westernmost point in Africa and the city of Dakar. * Langue de Barbarie National Park, and its Louga Region contains the city of Linguere * northwest corner contains Savoigne and Biffeche, near the city of Saint-Louis, and its east contains the Faleme River * southeast is the city of Tambacounda, which lies in the sahehlian plains, as well as the World Heritage Site of Niokolo-Koba National Park and this country's highest peak near Nepen Diakha * Casamance River flows through its southeast, which passes through the city of Ziguinchor. The former seat of the Wolof Empire is found in this country * Yoff, Ouakam, and Ile de Goree are three communes d'arrondissements found in its capital city, which lies on the Cap-Vert peninsula * namesake river forms the northern border with Mauritania. * near-enclave of The Gambia * island in this nation was home to the mixed-race "signares" * Goree (GOR-ay) Island, was once the largest slave trading center in Africa. Though this country's official language is French, many inhabitants also speak Wolof. * nation is north of (*) Guinea-Bissau * eastern border is split between Mali and Mauritania. This country's Cap Vert [CAP VARE] peninsula contains the westernmost point in Continental Africa. * name this country that has capital at Dakar and completely surrounds the Gambia

YANGTZE RIVER

* first bridge built to cross this river goes from Tortoise Hill to Snake Hill. * originates in the Tanggula [tahng-goo-lah] Mountains, and its source is generally considered to be the Wulanmulun * home of the baiji, a recently extinct species of dolphin. * 1994 to 2012, this river was the construction site of the most powerful hydroelectric project in the world, the Three Gorges Dam * flows into the East China Sea at Shanghai. Name this longest river in Asia, often referred to as Chang Jiang

SWITZERLAND

* geographical features include Lake Geneva and the Matterhorn, with its capital at Bern. * home of the vineyard terraces at Lavaux ("luh-VOE") is home to a castle where Lord Byron's poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" is set * yearly World Economic Forum at Davos. This country includes about eighty thousand speakers of Romansh, its fourth official language. * landlocked European country home to Lake Lucerne, whose Alps include the north face of the Matterhorn. * capital of the IOC, Lausanne, and Davos, which is home to the annual World Economic Forum * Romansh as one of four official languages, and its states, known as cantons, include (*) Lucerne, Geneva, and Zurich * Matterhorn lies on this country's southern border with Italy. The International Red Cross is based in, for 10 points, what famously neutral Alpine country with capital Bern? * central plateau of this country is bordered by the Jura Mountains to the north * Lake Maggiore is the lowest point in this country, only a short distance from the highest peak, Monte Rosa, located in the city of Valais in this country * Graubünden, are notable for speaking Romansh * Schaffhausen in this country, the Rhine River passes through the Rhine Falls, Europe's largest waterfal * spiral tunnels of the Gotthard line, and its Glacier Express railroad has a terminus at St. Moritz * Glarus, St. Gallen, and Ticino * northern part of Lake Maggiore, and the largest lake entirely within this country is Lake Neuchatel * namesake plateau lies between the Jura Mountains and the Alps * Lake (*) Constance with Germany and Austria, and it has four official languages, including Romansh * Bellinzona is known for three castles that guarded the route into its Ticino region, and other castles in this country include one in the center of the town of Neuchatel and the Chillon Castle near a city that hosts a popular jazz festival, Montreaux * Tourists are attracted to this country by resorts in Verbier and (*) Zermatt as well as a castle that may have been designed by Leonardo da Vinci in Locarno and the covered Chapel Bridge in Lucerne. * second most populous city of Basel is located on the Rhine, * seven-member Federal Council serves as the collective head of state, with the president, cur- rently Pascal Couchepin * Murten, the Northern part of Lugano, and the Southwestern part of Constance * home of Davos, the scenic host of the World Economic Forum. Its name is abbreviated CH, which stands for Confoederatio Helvetica.

WYOMING

* highest point, Gannett Peak, lies in the Wind River Range. * Fremont County is home to the Boysen Resevoir. * southeastern portion contains both Bridger and Medicine Bow Peaks, * southern portion contains the town of Green River. * Shoshone National Forest, this state contains the oil hub of Rock Springs, and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway runs through one of its National Parks. * decimated by a 1988 forest fire, and contains the largest super volcano in North America, a namesake caldera. I * lone university lies in the city of Laramie, and it also includes the cities of Jackson Hole, and Casper * national parks was home to a 1972 meteor that was caught on film. * highest mountain is located in the Wild River range * Two parks in this state are connected by the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway * headwaters of the Snake River, and in 1995 the federal government controversially re-introduced wolves into this state * home to America's first National Monument, a massive igneous rock called Devil's Tower * cities as Gillette, Casper, and Cody, and most of Yellowstone National Park. * natural monument in this state can be viewed through a modern sculpture by Junkyu Moto called the Wind Circle. * Lake Gosiute contains Green River Formation fossils. * eastern part of this state is known as the High Plains. The Lower Basin of one area in this state contains the Fountain Paint Pot. * southern part of the largest sub-range of the Rocky Mountains, the Absaroka Range * Medicine Bow Mountains lie near its city of Laramie. * first to grant women's suffrage, for which it is called the Equality State. Franklin Roosevelt declared Jackson Hole a National Monument in this state, which includes Devil's Tower * geyser here erupts about once an hour and is called Old Faithful. For ten points, name this state which contains the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. * Medicine Mountain in this state, * location of the headwaters of the Belle Fourche River, which flows by the bright-red Spearfish Formation * number of plant fossils from the Eocene Epoch at Fossil Butte and its highest point is considered second only to Mt. McKinley in difficulty and contains a namesake glacier, the largest in the (*) Rockies. * Gannett Peak * highest in the Wind River Range, this state contains Independence Rock as well as a passage between the Sweetwater and Green Rivers * Reservoirs found within this state include the Alcova, Pathfinder, and Fontenelle, and it also contains the headwaters of the Belle Fourche River, * Crook County * Curt Gowdy State Park and Medicine Bow National Forest, * located next to the F.E. Warren Air Force Base at the junction of Interstates 25 and 80, the latter of which takes travelers by the cities of Green River and Rock Springs. * Bridger Wilderness Area is home to its highest point, ► Gannett Peak, * Niobrara County sees the origin of the Niobrara River, and the Flaming Gorge dam lies along the Green River, which originates in its Wind River mountains * Boysen Reservoir is formed by a dam on this state's Wind River

SICILY

* island contains the capes of Lilibeo, Passero, and Peloro. * naval commander decided to wait twenty-seven more days before leaving this island after seeing a lunar eclipse * defenders of this island were attacked during a festival to Artemis by Marcus Claudius Marcellus * giant mirror and a mechanical claw that could drag entire ships out of the water. Nicias was executed at the end of a military campaign against this island planned by Alcibiades. * drawing circles, Archimedes was killed by Roman soldiers on this island. * target of an Athenian "expedition" that failed to capture Syracuse. * Simeto River. The namesake of this region's most expansive plain is the city of Catania, which is the tenth largest city in its nation, just behind Bari * Off the northern coast of this island lies Lipari, which is part of the archipelago of the Aeolian Islands, which also includes Vulcano and (*) Stromboli * large island is broken up into nine provinces including Ragusa * proposed suspension bridge would link this massive island to Calabria across the Strait of Messina * Syracuse is located in, for 10 points, what largest island in the Mediterranean, located just southwest of Italy's boot * oldest known chestnut tree grows in this island's town of Naro. * Hyblaean Mountains are in this island's south, and the Madonie Mountains are in its north. On this island, the Salso River * province of Enna * Catania is on its coast, as is Marsala, while the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea * mainland of the country it belongs to would bridge the Strait of Messina * Syracuse and the volcano Mount Etna lie on this island, whose capital is Palermo * largest city on this island is enclosed by its namesake bay and the Golden Shell. * hot-blooded Lamachus got his army trapped in a ditch on this island, whose defense was galvanized by Gylippus. * Battle of the Crimissus was fought here. * Ancient cities on this island included Selinus * Aegadian Islands lie just to the west of this one, and a namesake strait to its south contains the Pelagie Islands, which include Linosa and Lampedusa * ncient home of Segesta, this island saw a huge eruption in 1669 that created Monti Rossi. Like the Isle of Man, this island's flag contains a triskelion * Simeto River passes near its plain of Catania. * mainland by the Strait of Messina, and the Tyrrhenian Sea lies to its north * large Italian island home to Mt. Etna and Palermo. * low, formerly submarine volcanic chain that includes Mount Raci on this island is known as the Hyblaean Mountains. * sulfur mining, including Lipari * Simeto River on this island rises in the Nebrodi Mountains. * island's southeast features thousands of square-cut rock tombs known collectively as the Necropolis of Pantalica * island contains the remains of the Greek colony of Selinunte as well as a number of Doric-style temples at Agrigento * Separated from mainland by the strait of Messina and located south of the Tyrrhenian Sea * major southeastern towns is found on the Hyblaei Hills, and much of its agriculture takes place on the Plain of Catania * Madonie Park is a major preserve in its north, and this home to such provinces as Enna and Raguse * Noto * autonomous region dominated by this territory also includes Pelagie, Panteleria, Egadi, and Lipari. * Mount Etna and Syracuse

TAIWAN

* island formerly known as Formosa * Latin name Lake Candidus is sometimes given to its central Sun Moon Lake, where the Thao people live * Dutch East India Company built Fort Zeelandia * 730-ton ribbed yellow ball that acts as a tuned (*) mass damper * nearby islands of Quemoy and Matsu were shelled during this island's namesake "Straits Crises." * Pescadores are administered from this island, whose large cities include Kaohsiung * mostly ruled by the Kuomintang party since 1949, whose capital is home to the skyscraper Taipei 101. * three of the four branches of the Austronesian language family are exclusive to this island, it is believed to be that family's homeland * Mark Moskowitz studied the odd practice of stripping at funerals on this island. * Kavalan tribe, tribes of aboriginal plains-dwellers have not been recognized on this island, though they still typically support the Pan-Blue Coalition. * fault lines caused the 1999 921 earthquake on this island, where the formerly Dutch fort Zeelandia * Portuguese named this island for its beauty and named a group of islands to the west after their fisherman * Pescadores are located west of this island, where a giant New Year's fireworks show takes place at a tower with 101 floors. For 10 * scholarly consensus, a set of native tribes that make up 2% of its population descend from the original speakers of the Austronesian language family * home of bird species Styan's Bulbul and Steere's Liocichla ("lee-yo-cheech-la"). Yu Shan is the highest point of this island's Chung-yang range and this island's Liwu river carved its Taroko Gorge * southernmost point is at Eluanbi, seventy miles below the port of Kaohsiung. * escadores islands, along with Quemoy and Matsu, populate the Formosa Strait, which separates this island from the mainland. * lies at the intersection of the Okinawa, Philippine, and Yangtze tectonic plates. For 10 points, name this large island off the coast of China whose largest city is Taipei. * island off the coast of this larger island was the home of a nuclear waste facility at Dragon Gate, is located north of the Bashi channel, and is governed by Lanyu * Orchid Island, the Penghu archipelago is located to the west of this island. The Batanes Islands and the (*) Babuyan Islands are located south of this island, and this island's Ali Mountain contains sites called the Grand Sea of Clouds and the Flamboyant Cherry Blossom * highest peak is at Yushan, and it is located north of the island of ? Luzon * southern tip of this island is Eluanbi, in the Hengchun region * highest peak is Yushan * north-south Central Mountain Range * port of Kaohsiung * Pescadores are found to the west of this island, which was hit by Typhoon Morakot in 2009

YUCATAN PENINSULA

* namesake state's capital is Merida, northwest of the state of Quintana Roo. * west is the Bay of Campeche, t * island of Cozumel lies near its eastern shore * Chicxulub (chick-shoo-loob) (*) Crater off its northwest coast is hypothesized to be the landing spot of the impact that caused the K-T Extinction. H * Cancun, name this Mexican peninsula that separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea

SVALBARD

* peak named Ben Nevis is located in this island group. * Global Seed Vault is found on its largest island, Spitsbergen. * archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, whose largest city is Longyearbyen, the world's most northernmost town. * archipelago consisting of islands like Edgeoya, Spitsbergen, and Nordaustlandet * midway between a European country and the North Pole. * Norwegian archipelago means "cold shores," and its three inhabited islands are Spitzbergen, Bear Island, and Hopen

YENISEI RIVER

* recent papers by Edward Vajda, the language family named for this river is genetically related to the Na-Dene languages * Extinct languages spoken along this river, including Yugh, Pumpokol, and Arin, are documented by early records of the fur trade, * northern reaches are presently inhabited by the Ket people. * used to transport nickel from the mines at (*) Norilsk, * two of its branches meet at the city of Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva * Tributaries of this river include the Podkamennaya Tunguska and the Angara, which drains Lake ? Baikal. * river of central Siberia, whose basin lies between the Ob-Irtysh and the Lena