Struggles

Ho Chi Minh Trail

a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia

furrow

a long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow, especially for planting seeds or for irrigation

Larsen (Ice Shelf)

a long, fringing ice shelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula from Cape Longing to the area just southward of Hearst Island

loess

a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur, e.g., in eastern China and the American Midwest

Taal Volcano

a complex volcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is the second most active volcano in the Philippines with 33 historical eruptions

Festival of San Fermin

a deeply rooted celebration held annually from 12:00, 6 July, when the opening of the party is marked by setting off the pyrotechnic chupinazo, to midnight 14 July, with the singing of the Pobre de Mí

Coriolis force

a deflection of moving objects when they are viewed in a rotating reference frame

plebiscite

a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to vote on a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, or a law.

Woolwich

a district in southeast London, England, located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich

Exuma

a district of the Bahamas, consisting of over 360 islands, also called cays. The largest of the cays is Greater part, which is 37 mi in length and joined to another island, Little part by a small bridge

Kursk Oblast

a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kursk. Population: 1,127,081

Dagastan

a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea

Ingushetia (Republic)

a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital is the town of Magas

Atherton Tableland

a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It is located west to south-south-west inland from Cairns

Purple loosestrife

a flowering plant belonging to the family Lythraceae. It should not be confused with other plants sharing the name loosestrife that are members of the family Primulaceae

Saint Mary's City

a former colonial town and was Maryland's first colonial settlement and capital

Lake Balaton

a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe, and one of Hungary's foremost tourist destinations

Pato

a game played on horseback that combines elements from polo and basketball. It is the national sport of Argentina since 1953

wildebeest

a genus of antelopes, Connochaetes. They belong to the family Bovidae, which includes antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep and other even-toed horned ungulates

hydrilla

a genus of aquatic plant, usually treated as containing just one species, Hydrilla verticillata, though some botanists divide it into several species. Synonyms include H. asiatica, H. japonica, H. lithuanica, and H. ovalifolica

crocus (flower)

a genus of flowering plants in the iris family comprising 90 species of perennials growing from corms

melaleuca tree

a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae known for its worldwide ecological disruption. There are well over 200 recognised species, most of which are endemic to Australia

Tidewater

a geographic area of southeast Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, part of the Atlantic coastal plain. Portions of Maryland facing the Chesapeake Bay are also given this designation

Shenandoah Valley

a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States

Pocono Mountains

a geographical, geological, and cultural region located in northeastern Pennsylvania, United States

North Field

a geological extension of Iran's South Pars / North Dome Gas-Condensate field, which holds an additional 450 trillion cubic feet (13 trillion cubic metres) of recoverable natural-gas reserves

Iron Gates

a gorge on the River Danube. It forms part of the boundary between Serbia and Romania

South Shetland Islands

a group of Antarctic islands, lying about 120 kilometres north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of 3,687 square kilometres

South Shetland( Islands)

a group of Antarctic islands, with a total area of 3,687 square kilometres. The islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories, and they are free for use by any signatory for non-military purposes

Yanomami

a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200-250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil

Society Islands

a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. They are politically part of French Polynesia

Romance languages

a group of languages descended from Vulgar Latin. They form a branch of the Italic languages within the Indo-European language family

chlorofluorocarbons

a group of manufactured chemical compounds that contain chlorine, fluorine, and carbon

Haeinsa (Temple)

a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism in the Gaya Mountains, South Gyeongsang Province South Korea

Cape Bauld

a headland located at the northeasternmost point of Great Northern Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador

Kinnairds (Head)

a headland projecting into the North Sea, within the town of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire on the east coast of Scotland

Pine Barrens

a heavily forested area of coastal plain stretching across more than seven counties of southern New Jersey

Ahaggar

a highland region in the central Sahara, southern Algeria, along the Tropic of Cancer

Cappadocia

a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in the Nevşehir, Kayseri, Aksaray, and Niğde Provinces in Turkey

Harmattan winds

a hot, dry and dusty wind (continental trade wind) blowing over West Africa

Africanized bees

a hybrid of the Western honey bee species, produced originally by cross-breeding of the African honey bee, with various European honey bees such as the Italian bee A. m. ligustica and the Iberian bee A. m. iberiensis

mahogany

a kind of wood—the straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, part of the chinaberry family, Meliaceae, indigenous to the Americas

Biscayne Bay

a lagoon that is approximately 35 miles long and up to 8 miles wide located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida, United States

Lake of the Woods

a lake occupying parts of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and the U.S. state of Minnesota. It separates a small land area of Minnesota from the rest of the United States

Lake Constance

a lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps, and consists of three bodies of water: the Obersee, the Untersee, and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein

karst (formation) (formations)

a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks including limestone, dolomite and gypsum. It is characterized by sinkholes, caves, and underground drainage systems

Tswana

a language spoken in Southern Africa by about 6.1 million people

Antofalla

a large and very remote stratovolcano in Catamarca Province in northwestern Argentina. It is located on the northeastern edge of the Puna de Atacama, a high desert plateau east of the Atacama Desert

Kohunlich

a large archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located on the Yucatán Peninsula in the state of Quintana Roo about 25 km east of the Rio Bec region

steppe

a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia

Lake Gatun

a large artificial lake to the south of Colón, Panama. It forms a major part of the Panama Canal, carrying ships for 33 km of their transit across the Isthmus of Panama

Georgian Bay

a large bay of Lake Huron, located entirely within Ontario, Canada. The main body of the bay lies east of the Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island. To its northwest is the North Channel

Joseph Bonaparte (Gulf)

a large body of water off the coast of the Northern Territory, Australia and Western Australia and part of the Timor Sea

Allegheny (Plateau)

a large dissected plateau area in western and central New York, northern and western Pennsylvania, northern and western West Virginia, and eastern

Georges Bank

a large elevated area of the sea floor between Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. It separates the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean.

Gulf of Aqaba

a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian mainland. Its coastline is divided between four countries: Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia

Gulf of Honduras

a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras

Kodiak

a large island on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, separated from the Alaska mainland by the Shelikof Strait

Delmarva Peninsula

a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by most of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia

Tian Shan

a large system of mountain ranges located in Central Asia. The highest peak in the Tian Shan is Victory Peak, 7,439 metres

Romford(, UK)

a large urban area in northeast London, United Kingdom and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Havering

nutria

a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent and the only member of the family Myocastoridae

Gulf of Carpentaria

a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea

isobars

a line of equal or constant pressure on a graph, plot, or map; an isopleth or contour line of pressure

parallel

a line of latitude. All lines of latitude are parallel and never touch

Tiergarten

a locality within the borough of Mitte, in central Berlin. Notable for the great and homonymous urban park, before German reunification, it was a part of West Berlin

Bohemian Forest

a low mountain range in Central Europe. Geographically, the mountains extend from South Bohemia in the Czech Republic to Austria and Bavaria in Germany

Cotton Belt

a term applied to a region of the southern United States where cotton was the predominant cash crop from the late 18th century into the 20th century

(Prince) Rupert's Land

a territory in British North America, consisting the Hudson Bay drainage basin, which was nominally owned by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870

deposition

a thermodynamic process, a phase transition in which gas transforms into solid

permafrost

a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year, occurring chiefly in polar regions

emir

a title of high office used in a variety of places in the Arab world

Mopti

a town and an urban commune in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali

San Agustin

a town and municipality in the southern Colombian Department of Huila. The town is located 227 km away from the capital of the Department, Neiva. Population is around 30,000

Yarmouth

a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, located approximately ten to fifteen miles north of Portland. Its population was 8,349 in the 2010 census

Torres del Paine National Park

national park encompassing mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia

spring (tides)

occur when the sun and moon are directly in line with the earth and their gravitational pulls reinforce each other

Urubamba

a river in Peru. Upstream it is called by its Aymara name Willkanuta

Clyde

a river in Scotland. It is the ninth longest river in the United Kingdom, and the third longest in Scotland

myrrh

the aromatic resin of a number of small, thorny tree species of the genus Commiphora

Deir el-Bahri

a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt. This is a part of the Theban Necropolis

Crow

Native Americans, who in historical times lived in the Yellowstone River valley, which extends from present-day Wyoming, through Montana and into North Dakota, where it joins the Missouri River

Mount Aspiring

New Zealand's highest mountain outside the Aoraki/Mount Cook region. Set within Otago's Mount Aspiring National Park, it has a height of 3,033 metres

Pascagoula

Although the city's population seemed to peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s as Cold War defense spending was at its height, the city experienced some new growth and development in the years before Hurricane Katrina

Great Dividing Range

Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest land-based range in the world

Waltzing Matilda

Australia's most widely known bush ballad. A folk song, the song has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia".

Tuareg

Berber people with a traditionally nomadic pastoralist lifestyle. They are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa

Banff (National Park)

Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885 in the Rocky Mountains. The park, located 110-180 km west of Calgary in the province of Alberta, encompasses 6,641 km2 of mountainous terrain

Mile High (city)

Denver

qanats

In the early part of the first millennium B.C., Persians started constructing these elaborate tunnel systems for extracting groundwater in the dry mountain basins of present-day Iran

Institutional Revolutionary Party

a Mexican political party that held power in the country for 71 years, first as the National Revolutionary Party, then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution

90 (degrees)

How many degrees of latitude are there south of the equator?

key

In Florida and the West Indies, a small low-lying island usually made up of coral or sand is known by what term

Wrangell

a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,369

Lake Chapala

Mexico's largest freshwater lake. It lies in the municipalities of Chapala, Jocotepec, Poncitlán, and Jamay, in Jalisco, and in Venustiano Carranza and Cojumatlán de Régules, in Michoacán

Pacific Rim (National Park) (Reserve)

a Canadian national park reserve in British Columbia made up of parks of three separate regions: Long Beach, the Broken Group Islands, and the West Coast Trail

Manchu

a Chinese ethnic minority and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name

(Alvaro) Uribe

a Colombian politician who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010

Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve

a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán mountain range within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces

Renoir

a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style

(Eduard) Shevardnadze

a Georgian politician and diplomat. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party (GPC), the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985

Cyclades

a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece

Kasos

a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea, and is part of the Karpathos regional unit

Aristide

a Haitian former Catholic priest of the Salesian order and politician who served as Haiti's first democratically elected president

Poi

a Hawaiian word for the primary Polynesian staple food made from the underground plant stem or corm of the taro plant. It is a traditional part of Native Hawaiian cuisine

sirocco

a Mediterranean wind that comes from the Sahara and reaches hurricane speeds in North Africa and Southern Europe

Li

a river in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It flows 83 kilometres from Guilin to Yangshuo

Which agent of erosion is primarily responsible for creating limestone caves?

Water

Lena (River)

Which river flows from its source near Lake Baikal across Siberia to the Laptev Sea?

Washington

Which state produces the most apples annually?

Angara

a 1,779-kilometer-long river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, south-east Siberia, Russia. It is the river that drains Lake Baikal, and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisei River

Merrimack

a 117-mile-long (188 km) river in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire

Merrimack (River)

a 117-mile-long river in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire

Lake Winnebago

a 137,700-acre freshwater lake in eastern Wisconsin, United States

Santa Fe Trail

a 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico

Oregon Trail

a 2,200-mile (3,500 km) historic east-west large wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon

kora

a 21-string lute-bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa

Gadsden Purchase

a 29,640-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853

Overland Telegraph Line

a 3200 km telegraph line that connected Darwin with Port Augusta in South Australia

Assateague (Island)

a 37-mile long barrier island located off the eastern coast of Delmarva. The northern two-thirds of the island is in Maryland while the southern third is in Virginia

(Gulf of) Papua

a 400 kilometer wide region on the south coast of New Guinea

Lempa

a 422 km long river in Central America. Its sources are located in between the Sierra Madre and the Sierra del Merendón in southern Guatemala, near the town of Olopa

Min (river)

a 577 kilometres-long river in Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is the largest river in Fujian, and an important water transport channel

Kiel (Canal)

a 98-kilometre long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein

Belem

a Brazilian municipality, the capital and largest city of state of Pará in the country's north. It is the gateway to the River Amazon with a busy port, airport, and bus/coach station

Natal

a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Republic of Natalia

Pawnee

a Caddoan-speaking Midwestern Native American tribe. They are federally recognized as the "so-called" Nation of Oklahoma and have four confederated bands: the Chaui, Kitkehakhi, Pitahawirata, and Skidi

Hanseatic League

a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns that dominated trade along the coast of Northern Europe

Sheyenne National Grasslands

a National Grassland located in southeastern North Dakota in the United States, comprising 70,446 acres of public land amid 64,769 acres of privately owned land in a region of sandy soils in the vicinity of the Sheyenne River in Ransom and Richland Counties

Napier(, New Zealand)

a New Zealand city with a seaport, located in Hawke's Bay on the eastern coast of the North Island. The population of Napier is about 61,100 as of the June 2014 estimate. About 18 kilometres south of Napier is the inland city of Hastings

Maasai

a Nilotic ethnic group of semi-nomadic people inhabiting southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

Little Missouri State Park

a North Dakota state park located along the southern banks of the Little Missouri River, north of Killdeer. Much of the park is not accessible by car

(Fridtjof) Nansen

a Norwegian explorer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth, he won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his North Pole expedition of 1893-96

(Ferdinand) Magellan

a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano

Sobo Katamuki National Park

a Quasi-National Park in Ōita and Miyazaki Prefectures, Japan. Established in 1965, the park derives its name from Mount Sobo and Mount Katamuki

(Basilica of) Our Lady of Peace

a Roman Catholic minor basilica dedicated to Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, the administrative capital of Côte d'Ivoire

!Kung

a San people living in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, Botswana and in Angola

Afrikaners

a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Pizarro

a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire. Pizarro González was born in Trujillo, Spain, the illegitimate son of Gonzalo Pizarro, an infantry colonel, and Francisca González, a woman of poor means

Balboa

a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513

Isle Royale (National Park)

a U.S. National Park on the namesake island and adjacent islands in Lake Superior, in the state of Michigan

Sleeping Bear Dunes (National Lakeshore)

a United States National Lakeshore located along the northwest coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan in Leelanau and Benzie counties

Great Smoky Mountains (National Park)

a United States National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site that straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain

Great Basin National Park

a United States National Park located in White Pine County in east-central Nevada, near the Utah border. The park was established in 1986

Great Sand Dunes (National Park)

a United States National Park located in the San Luis Valley, in the easternmost parts of Alamosa County and Saguache County, Colorado, United States

Big Cypress National Preserve

a United States National Preserve located in southern Florida. The 2,900 km2 Big Cypress, along with Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas, became the first national preserves in the United States National Park System when they were established

Petrified Forest (National Park)

a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

a United States national park that preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in Northeast Ohio

rumba

a ballroom dance derived from a Cuban rhythm and dance called the bolero-son

midnight baseball

a baseball game played every summer solstice at Growden Memorial Park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States

Pomeranian Bay

a basin in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the shores of Poland and Germany

Narragansett Bay

a bay and estuary on the north side of Rhode Island Sound. Covering 380 km2 - 312 km2 in Rhode Island—the Bay forms New England's largest estuary, which functions as an expansive natural harbor, and includes a small archipelago

Bonne Bay

a bay in Newfoundland, Canada. It is located on the western side of Newfoundland and separates Great Northern Peninsula from the rest of the island. It is a part of Gros Morne National Park

Tokyo Bay

a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan, and spans the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture

Monterey Bay

a bay of the Pacific Ocean located off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The bay is south of the major cities of San Francisco and San Jose, and between the cities of Santa Cruz and Monterey

Roebuck (Bay)

a bay on the coast of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Its entrance is bounded in the north by the town of Broome, and in the south by Bush Point and Sandy Point

Terai

a belt of marshy grasslands, savannas, and forests located south of the outer foothills of the Himalaya, the Siwalik Hills, and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and their tributaries

taiga

a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches

chernozem

a black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus (7% to 15%), and high percentages of phosphoric acids, phosphorus and ammonia

Bridge of Sighs

a bridge located in Venice, northern Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars

peat

a brown, soil-like material characteristic of boggy, acid ground, consisting of partly decomposed vegetable matter. It is widely cut and dried for use in gardening and as fuel

Erie Canal

a canal in New York that originally ran about 363 miles from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie

Cape Cod

a cape jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months.

Cape Hatteras

a cape on the coast of North Carolina, and is protected as the namesake feature of the National Seashore

Cape Roca

a cape which forms the westernmost extent of mainland Portugal and continental Europe

Prudhoe Bay

a census-designated place located in North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska

Adam's Bridge

a chain of limestone shoals, between Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, off the southeastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and Mannar Island, off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka

Torino

a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River, in front of Susa Valley and surrounded by the western Alpine arch

Padua

a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the namesake province and the economic and communications hub of the area. It's population is 214,000

Bisbee

a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, 92 miles southeast of Tucson. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city was 5,575.

Fayetteville

a city in Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat of Cumberland County, and is best known as the home of Fort Bragg, a major U.S. Army installation northwest of the city

Beverly

a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 39,502 at the 2010 census. A resort, residential, and manufacturing community on the Massachusetts North Shore, it includes the namesake Farms and Prides Crossing

Bratsk

a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast namesake Reservoir

Auburn

a city in King County and additionally Pierce County, Washington, United States; with the majority of spatial land area within King County. The population was 70,180 at the 2010 United States Census

Walvis Bay

a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies

Andersonville

a city in Sumter County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 255

Tuscumbia

a city in and the county seat of Colbert County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,423. The city is part of The Shoals metropolitan area

Huntsville

a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas, United States. The population is 38,548 as of the 2010 census

Bowling Green

a city in and the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky, United States. As of 2012, its population of 60,600 made it the third-most-populous city in the state after Louisville and Lexington

Nimes

a city in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France. It is the capital of the Gard department. The city is located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Cévennes mountains

Launceston

a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after Hobart

Spokane

a city in the state of Washington, in the northwestern United States. It is the seat of Spokane County

Macon

a city located in central Georgia, United States. Founded at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is part of the Macon metropolitan area, and is the county seat of Bibb County

Port Said

a city that lies in north east Egypt extending about 30 kilometres along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 603,787

Acapulco

a city, municipality and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 380 kilometres southwest from Mexico City

Broome

a coastal and pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 2,240 km north of Perth

Inside Passage

a coastal route for oceangoing vessels along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific coast of North America

(Fort) McHenry

a coastal star-shaped fort best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy in Chesapeake Bay September 13-14, 1814

Labrador Current

a cold current in the North Atlantic Ocean which flows from the Arctic Ocean south along the coast of Labrador and passes around Newfoundland, continuing south along the east coast of Nova Scotia

Kerch Peninsula

a major and prominent geographic feature located at the eastern portion of Crimea. Stretching towards the Taman peninsula, it is reminiscent of an isthmus between two neighboring seas: Azov Sea and Black Sea

Canary Wharf

a major business district located in Tower Hamlets, London. It is one of the Great Britain's two main financial centres - along with the traditional City of London - and contains many of the European Union's tallest buildings

Amu Darya

a major river in Central Asia. It is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers and flows into the Aral Sea

Lagan

a major river in Northern Ireland which runs 53.5 miles from the Slieve Croob mountain in County Down to Belfast where it enters Belfast Lough, an inlet of the Irish Sea

Ob

a major river in western Siberia, Russia and is the world's seventh longest river

Delaware

a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its watershed drains an area of 14,119 square miles in five U.S. states—New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware

Salina Cruz

a major seaport on the Pacific coast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It is the state's third-largest city and is municipal seat of the municipality of the same name

Laptev Sea

a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the northern coast of Siberia, the Taimyr Peninsula, Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands

Appalachian (Trail)

a marked hiking trail in the eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine

free market

a market system in which the prices for goods and services are set freely by consent between sellers and consumers

Bayous

a marshy outlet of a lake or river in the southern US

projections

a mathematical expression that is used to represent the round, 3D surface of the earth on a flat, 2D map

National Prisoner of War Museum

a memorial to all American prisoners of war. Exhibits use art, photographs, displays and video presentations to focus on the capture, living conditions, hardships and experiences of American prisoners of war in all periods.

Gakkel Ridge

a mid-oceanic ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate. It is located in the Arctic Ocean between Greenland and Siberia, and has a length of about 1,800 kilometers

(French) Foreign Legion

a military service wing of the French Army established in 1831, unique because it was exclusively created for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces

Earthquake of 1949

a moment magnitude of 6.7 on April 13 at 11:55 local time. It is the largest recorded earthquake to occur in the Puget Sound region of Washington and was felt throughout the state

Yucca Mountain

a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas

(Mount) (Mt) (Mt.) Smith

a mountain over 1,400 m, standing north of Mawson Glacier and 7 miles north-northwest of Mount Murray in Victoria Land, Antarctica

Pamirs

a mountain range in Central Asia formed by the junction of the Himalayas with Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, and Hindu Kush ranges

Altai (Mountains)

a mountain range in East-Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together, and are where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters

Brooks Range

a mountain range in far northern North America stretching some 1100 km from west to east across northern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory

Altun Shan

a mountain range in northwestern China that separates the eastern Tarim Basin from the Tibetan Plateau

Tibesti Mountains

a mountain range in the central Sahara, primarily located in the extreme north of Chad, with a small extension into southern Libya

Bavarian Alps

a mountain range in the north-eastern part of the Alps in Austria and southern Germany

San Andres Mountains

a mountain range in the southwestern U.S. state of New Mexico, in the counties of Socorro, Sierra, and Doña Ana

Sierra Nevada

a mountain range in the western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Basin and Range Province

Dolomites

a mountain range located in northeastern Italy. They form a part of Southern Limestone Alps and extend from the River Adige in the west to the Piave Valley in the east

Kjolen

a mountain range that runs through the Scandinavian Peninsula

Wasatch Range

a mountain range that stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States

Mount of Olives

a mountain ridge east of and adjacent to the Jerusalem's Old City. It is named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes

Shan (Plateau)

a mountainous area that extends through Yunnan to Burma and Thailand. The area is made up of numerous mountain ranges separated by intermontane basins or narrow valleys

Santos

a municipality in the São Paulo state of Brazil, founded in 1546 by the Portuguese nobleman Brás Cubas. It is partially located on the island of São Vicente, which harbors both the city of Santos and the city of São Vicente, and partially on the mainland

Dardanelles

a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara

Badlands (National Park)

a national park in southwestern South Dakota that protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States

Sareks National Park

a national park in the Jokkmokk Municipality of Lapland province, northern Sweden. It borders two other national parks: Stora Sjöfallet and Padjelanta

Lake Champlain

a natural freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada-United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec

Chicle

a natural gum traditionally used in making chewing gum and other products. It is collected from several species of Mesoamerican trees in the Manilkara genus

Sundarbans

a natural region in Bengal. It is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world

Donana National Park

a natural reserve in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the provinces of Huelva and Seville. It covers 543 km², of which 135 km² are a protected area

York (River)

a navigable estuary, approximately 34 miles long, in eastern Virginia in the United States. It ranges in width from 1 mile at its head to 2.5 miles near its mouth on the west side of Chesapeake Bay

Chalkidiki

a peninsula and regional unit of Greece, part of the Region of Central Macedonia in Northern Greece

Door Peninsula

a peninsula in eastern Wisconsin, separating the southern part of the Green Bay from Lake Michigan

Guajira (Peninsula)

a peninsula in northern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela in the Caribbean

Kola Peninsula

a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely to the north of the Arctic Circle and is bordered by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the east and southeast

Yamal Peninsula

a peninsula located in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of northwest Siberia. Russia. It extends roughly 700 km and is bordered principally by the Kara Sea, Baydaratskaya Bay on the west, and by the Gulf of Ob on the east

Valdes Peninsula

a peninsula on the Atlantic coast in the Viedma Department in the north east of Chubut Province, Argentina

Irish Potato Famine

a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852

Nunivak

a permafrost-covered volcanic island lying about 30 miles offshore from the delta of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers in the state of Alaska, at about 60° North latitude

Blue Ridge

a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range. This province consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap

Blue Ridge Mountains

a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range. This province consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap

Colorado Plateau

a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States

terrace

a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively receding flat surfaces or platforms, which resemble steps, for the purposes of more effective farming

Thingvellir National Park

a place in Bláskógabyggð in southwestern Iceland, near the peninsula of Reykjanes and the Hengill volcanic area

gourd

a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria or the fruit of the two genera of "calabash tree", Crescentia and Amphitecna

Jos (Plateau)

a plateau located near the centre of Nigeria. It covers 8600 km² and is bounded by 300-600 meter escarpments around much of its circumference

asthenosphere

a portion of the upper mantle just below the lithosphere that is involved in plate tectonic movements and isostatic adjustments

Altaic

a proposed language family of central Eurasia

Cotopaxi National Park

a protected area in Ecuador situated in the Cotopaxi Province, Napo Province and Pichincha Province, roughly 50 km south of Quito

Southern Highlands

a province in Papua New Guinea. Its provincial capital is the town of Mendi. According to Papua New Guinea's national 2011 census, the total population of it is 515,511 spread across 15,089 square kilometers

Remember the Maine

a rallying cry for action, which came with the Spanish-American War later that year. While the sinking of the Maine was not a direct cause for action, it served as a catalyst, accelerating the approach to a diplomatic impasse between the U.S. and Spain

Circassia

a region and historical country in the North Caucasus and along the northeast shore of the Black Sea

East Anglia

a region of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the level of NUTS 2 for statistical purposes. It is one of three constituent parts of the East of England - a first level region

Sun Belt

a region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the Southeast and Southwest. Another rough boundary of the region is the area south of the 36th parallel, north latitude

Lake Sakakawea

a reservoir in the north central United States, located in the Missouri River basin in central North Dakota

gaucho

a resident of the South American pampas, Gran Chaco, or Patagonian grasslands, found principally in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Southeastern Bolivia, Southern Brazil and Southern Chile

Shatt al Arab

a river in Southwest Asia of some 200 km in length, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq

Otava

a river in West and South Bohemia, Czech Republic. It is 112 kilometres (70 mi) long and is a left tributary of the Vltava

Rappahannock (River)

a river in eastern Virginia, in the United States, approximately 195 miles in length

Drava

a river in southern Central Europe, a tributary of the Danube. It sources in Italian South Tyrol, at the drainage divide of Toblach (Dobbiaco) in the Puster Valley

Adour

a river in southwestern France. It rises in High-Bigorre, at the Col du Tourmalet, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean near Bayonne

Victoria

a river in the Northern Territory, Australia. Flowing for 560 kilometres (348 mi) from its source, south of the Gregory National Park, until it enters Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in the Timor Sea, this river is the longest singularly named permanent river in the Northern Territory

James (River)

a river in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is 348 miles long, extending to 444 miles if one includes the Jackson River, the longer of its two source tributaries. The river drains a catchment comprising 10,432 square miles

Loch Linnhe

a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland

Bass (Strait)

a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria

Ceviche

a seafood dish popular in the coastal regions of the Americas, especially Central and South America

Newport

a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. It is located 23 miles south of Providence, and 61 miles south of Boston

Chaco

a semi-arid region in Paraguay, with a very low population density. The area is being rapidly deforested

Karoo

a semi-desert natural region of South Africa. There is no exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo, and therefore also not its extent

slurry

a semiliquid mixture, typically of fine particles of manure, cement, or coal suspended in water

equatorial (tides)

a semimonthly tide that appears when the moon is over the equator

Fleet Forces Command (US Navy)

a service component command of the United States Navy that provides naval resources that are under the administrative control of the Secretary of the Navy

dike

a sheet of rock that formed in a crack in a pre-existing rock body

Mount Waileale

a shield volcano and the second highest point on the island of Kauaʻi in the Hawaiian Islands. Its name literally means "rippling water" or "overflowing water"

chaparral

a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico

POW camp

a site for the containment of enemy combatants captured by a belligerent power in time of war

Sark

a small island in the Channel Islands in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, France

Black Hills

a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, USA. Harney Peak, which rises to 7,244 feet, is the range's highest summit

microbursts

a small-scale downburst, thus a very localized column of sinking air caused by a small and intense downdraft (the air does not spin like it does in the case of a cyclone or tornado) within a thunderstorm

Puget Sound

a sound along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea

Patagonia

a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains as well as the deserts, steppes and grasslands east of this southern portion of the Andes

asian longhorned beetles

a species native to eastern China, Japan, and Korea. This species has now been accidentally introduced into the United States, where it was first discovered in 1996. This beetle is believed to have been spread from Asia in solid wood packaging material.

Mediterranean Fruit fly

a species of fruit fly capable of causing extensive damage to a wide range of fruit crops

Malagasy Republic

a state situated in Southeast Africa. It was established in 1958 as an autonomous republic within the newly created French Community and existed until the proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in 1975

Makassar (Strait)

a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia

Aozou

a strip of land in northern Chad which lies along the border with Libya, extending south to a depth of about 100 kilometers into Chad's Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region

mistral

a strong, cold and northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean

Jura Mountains

a sub-alpine mountain range located north of the Western Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhône rivers and forming part of the watershed of each

Mercosur

a sub-regional bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. Its purpose is to promote free trade and the fluid movement of goods, people, and currency

Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

a temple located beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings in Egypt

Lalibela

a town in northern Ethiopia that is famous for its 11 monolithic rock-cut churches. Lalibela is one of Ethiopia's holiest cities, second only to Aksum, and is a center of pilgrimage for much of the country

Bosra(, Syria)

a town in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Daraa District of the Daraa Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 19,683 in the 2004 census

Chincoteague

a town on the namesake island in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,941 at the 2010 census

Gomati

a tributary of the Ganges River. According to Hindu mythology the river is the daughter of Sage Vashist, and bathing in the waters of the Gomati on Ekadashi can wash away one's sins

Hadley cell

a tropical atmospheric circulation that is defined by the average over longitude, which features rising motion near the equator, poleward flow 10-15 kilometers above the surface, descending motion in the subtropics, and equatorward flow near the surface

Benelux

a union of states comprising three neighbouring countries in midwestern Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg

Mesabi (Range)

a vast deposit of iron ore and the largest of four major iron ranges in the region collectively known as the Iron Range of Minnesota

Tibetan Plateau

a vast elevated plateau in Central Asia or East Asia, covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in western China, as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir state of India

Llanos

a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the flooded grasslands and savannas biome

Monterey pine

a versatile, fast-growing, medium-density softwood, suitable for a wide range of uses that is a species of pine native to the Central Coast of California and Mexico

Kuril (Islands)

a volcanic archipelago that stretches approximately 1,300 km (810 mi) northeast from Hokkaido, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean

Shoshone (falls)

a waterfall on the Snake River in southern Idaho, located approximately five miles east of the city of Twin Falls

anticyclones

a weather system with high atmospheric pressure at its center, around which air slowly circulates in a clockwise (northern hemisphere) or counterclockwise (southern hemisphere) direction

Caroline Islands

a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea

buran

a wind which blows across eastern Asia, specifically Xinjiang, Siberia, and Kazakhstan

Canary (Current)

a wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre

cassava

a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae family native to South America extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates

Spodosol

acid soils characterized by a subsurface accumulation of humus that is complexed with Al and Fe

Candomble

an Afro-American religion, practiced mainly in Brazil by the "povo de santo" (people of the saint). It is a mixture of traditional Yoruba, Fon, and Bantu beliefs

(General) (William) (Tecumseh) Sherman

an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65)

Filchner Ronne (Ice Shelf)

an Antarctic ice shelf bordering the Weddell Sea

Plymouth (Colony)

an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691. The first settlement of the colony was at New Plymouth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith

Gran Paradiso (National Park)

an Italian national park in the Graian Alps, between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont regions

(Mount) Saint Helens

an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States

Popocatepetl

an active volcano, located in the states of Puebla, Mexico, and Morelos, in Central Mexico, and lies in the eastern half of the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt

Herculaneum

an ancient Roman town destroyed by volcanic pyroclastic flows in 79 AD. Its ruins are located in the commune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy.

Stabiae

an ancient Roman town, located close to the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia approximately 4.5 km southwest of Pompeii. It was positioned on a 50 m high headland overlooking the Gulf of Naples.

Toltec

an archaeological Mesoamerican culture that dominated a state centered in Tula, in the early post-classic period of Mesoamerican chronology

Huli

an indigenous people who live in the Southern Highlands districts of Tari, Koroba, Margaraima and Komo, of Papua New Guinea

Lofoten Islands

an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude

Orkney Islands

an archipelago in northern Scotland, 16 kilometres north of the coast of Caithness

Falkland Islands

an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf

San Juan Islands

an archipelago in the northwest corner of the contiguous United States between the US mainland and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. They are part of the U.S. state of Washington

Channel Islands

an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy

Andros

an archipelago within the Bahamas, the largest of the 26 inhabited Bahamian Islands

Bellingshausen Sea

an area along the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, west of Alexander Island, east of Cape Flying Fish on Thurston Island, and south of Peter I Island

Jaffna Peninsula

an area in Northern Province, Sri Lanka. It is home to the namesake capital city of the province and comprises much of the former land mass of the medieval namesake kingdom

Cotswolds

an area in south central England containing the Cotswold Hills, a range of rolling hills which rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment, known as the Cotswold Edge, above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale

Parliament Hill

an area of Crown land on the southern banks of the Ottawa River in Downtown Ottawa, Ontario

Promontory

an area of high ground 32 mi west of Brigham City, Utah and 66 mi northwest of Salt Lake City

floodplain

an area of land adjacent to a stream or river that stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls and experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

Gascony

an area of southwest France that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the French Revolution

(Battle of the) Little Bighorn

an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred June 25-26, 1876

frankincense

an aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae

solstice

an astronomical event that occurs twice each year as the Sun reaches its highest or lowest excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere

Lowell Observatory

an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. This observatory was established in 1894, placing it among the oldest observatories in the United States

La Rioja

an autonomous community and a province in Spain, located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital is Logroño

Asturias

an autonomous community in north-west Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias, and contains most of the territory that was part of the Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages

trade deficit

an economic measure of a negative balance of trade in which a country's imports exceeds its exports

Tarim( Basin)

an endorheic basin in northwest China occupying an area of about 906,500 km². Located in China's Xinjiang region, it is sometimes used synonymously to refer the southern half of the province, or Nanjiang

doldrums

an equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds

Sinhala

an ethnic group native to the island of Sri Lanka. They constitute 75% of the Sri Lankan population and number greater than 15 million

Fifty Four Forty or Fight

an example of the concept known as "Manifest Destiny"

(Mount) (Mt) (Mt.) Elgon

an extinct shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya, north of Kisumu and west of Kitale. The mountain's highest point, named "Wagagai", is located entirely within the country of Uganda

Circle of Latitude

an imaginary east-west circle connecting all locations (not taking into account elevation) having a given latitude

International Date Line

an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth that runs from the north to the south pole and demarcates backward calendar day from the next.

Norfolk(, Virginia)

an independent city in Virginia. At the 2010 census, the population was 242,803; in 2013, the population was estimated to be 246,392, making it the second-most populous city in Virginia, behind neighboring Virginia Beach

Williamsburg(, Virginia)

an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2012 census, the population was 15,167. Located on the Virginia Peninsula, it is in the northern part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area

Virginia Beach

an independent city located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 437,994. In 2013, the population was estimated to be 448,479. It is the most populous city in Virginia as well as the 39th most populous in the United States

Guarani

an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupi-Guarani subfamily of the Tupian languages

Otavalo

an indigenous people native to Imbabura Province in northern Ecuador

Scottish Highlands

an inspiring region of magnificent mountains, enchanting lochs and sandy beaches. Discover wonderful wildlife, local produce, outdoor activities and historic attractions, all set against world-renowned landscapes such as Ben Nevis and Loch Ness.

barometer

an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude

Macdonnell Ranges

an interim Australian bioregion, are located in the Northern Territory, and are a 644 km (400 mi) long series of mountain ranges located in the centre of Australia, and consist of parallel ridges running to the east and west of Alice Springs

IMF

an international organization that was initiated in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries

Formosan termite

an invasive species of termite. It has been transported worldwide from its native range in southern China to Formosa and Japan

San Salvador

an island and district of the Bahamas. It is widely believed that during Christopher Columbus' first expedition to the New World, this island was the first land he sighted and visited on 12 October 1492

Mont Saint Michel

an island commune in Normandy, France

Robben Island

an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island"

Ibaza

an island in the Mediterranean Sea, 79 kilometres off the coast of the city of Valencia, in eastern Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain

Baranof

an island in the northern Alexander Archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, in Alaska. The name was given in 1805 by Imperial Russian Navy captain U. F

(Isthmus of) Tehuantepec

an isthmus in Mexico. It represents the shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, and prior to the opening of the Panama Canal was a major shipping route known simply as the namesake route

Dodona

an oracle devoted to a Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione, who was joined and partly supplanted in historical times by the Greek god Zeus

till

an unconsolidated and unsorted mixture of sediment, clay, gravel, and rocks deposited by a glacier

Adirondack (Mountains)

an unusual geological formation located in the northeastern lobe of Upstate New York in the United States

moraine

any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris that occurs in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions on Earth, through geomorphological processes

rosewood

any of a number of richly hued timbers, often brownish with darker veining but found in many different hues

Grimaldi

associated with the history of the Republic of Genoa, Italy and of the Principality of Monaco

Gold Rush of 1849

began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.[1] All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad

France

began work on the canal in 1881, but had to stop because of engineering problems and high mortality due to disease

Lederhosen

breeches made of leather; they may be either short or knee-length. The longer ones are generally called Bundhosen or Kniebundhosen

Swiss Open Air Museum

century old buildings from all over the country form this open-air museum of Swiss cultural history near the small town of Interlaken

tamarisk

composed of about 50-60 species of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa

Prairie Provinces

comprise the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, as they are partially covered by prairie (grasslands)

alluvial fan

cone-shaped deposit of sediment crossed and built up by streams

Rideau Canal

connects the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on the Ottawa River to the city of Kingston, Ontario, on Lake Ontario

Diomede (Islands)

consists of Big and Small, located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia, with the Chukchi Sea to the north and the Bering Sea to the south

politburo

created in Russia by the Bolshevik Party in 1917 to provide strong and continuous leadership during the Russian Revolution occurring during the same year

(Treaty of) Tordesillas

divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands

Canyon de Chelly (National Park)

established on April 1, 1931 as a unit of the National Park Service. It is located in northeastern Arizona within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation

barter

exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money

Pretoria

executive and de facto capital of South Africa

pampas

fertile South American lowlands, covering more than 750,000 km², that include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Córdoba

Mapocho

flows from the Andes mountains onto the west and divides Chile's capital Santiago in two

Chinook winds

foehn winds in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains meet various mountain ranges

Amboseli (National Park)

formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is a national park in Kajiado District, Rift Valley Province in Kenya

Six Day War

fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic), Jordan, and Syria

Mosquito Coast

historically comprised an area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras. It formed part of the Western Caribbean Zone

(La) Isabela(, Dominican Republic)

in the Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic; was one of the first European settlements in America

Bloemfontein

judicial capital of South Africa

Cape Town

legislative capital of South Africa

Gwadar (Bay)

located in the Gulf of Oman on the maritime border of Pakistan and Iran. The name is from Persian, Khalij-e Gavader or 'Gulf of Gwadar' on Arabian Sea

Kanem (Bornu) (Empire)

located in the present countries of Chad, Nigeria and Libya. At its height it encompassed an area covering not only much of Chad, but also parts of southern Libya and eastern Niger, northeastern Nigeria and northern Cameroon

Cape Breton Highlands (National Park)

located on northern Cape Breton Island in the province of Nova Scotia. One-third of the Cabot Trail passes through the park featuring spectacular ocean and mountain views

Sonmiani (Bay)

located on the Arabian Sea in Lasbela District, Balochistan, Pakistan

Ashburton

located within the Pilbara region of Western Australia

monotremes

mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials and placental mammals

macadamia nuts

one of the few Australian endemic plant foods produced and exported in the quantities of a commodity.

Arnhem (Land)

one of the five regions of the Northern Territory of Australia. It is located in the north-eastern corner of the territory and is around 500 km from the territory capital Darwin

Chapultepec (Park)

one of the largest city parks in the Western Hemisphere, measuring in total just over 686 hectares

Fulani

one of the largest ethnolinguistic groups in Africa, numbering approximately 40 million people in total. These people are a mixture of both sub-saharan and North African living in the Sahel area

Elkhorn

one of the largest tributaries of the Platte River, flowing 290 miles and joining the Platte just southwest of Omaha, approximately 1 mile south and 3 miles west of Gretna

Rio Grande de Santiago

one of the longest rivers in Mexico, measuring up 433 km (269 mi) long. The river begins at Lake Chapala and continues roughly north-west through the Sierra Madre Occidental, receiving the Verde, Juchipila, Bolaños, and other tributaries

Cantabrian Mountains

one of the main systems of mountain ranges in Spain. They stretch for over 300 km across northern Spain, from the western limit of the Pyrenees to the Galician Massif in Galicia, along the coast of the Cantabrian Sea.

Ebro (River)

one of the most important rivers on the Iberian Peninsula. It is the second longest river in the Iberian peninsula after the Tagus and the second biggest both by discharge volume and by drainage area after the Duero

Grampian (Mountains)

one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, occupying a considerable portion of the Scottish Highlands in northeast Scotland

Block (Island)

part of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean about 13 miles (21 km) south of the coast of Rhode Island, 14 miles (23 km) east of Montauk Point on Long Island

Allegheny (Mountains)

part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada where it posed a significant barrier to land travel in less technologically advanced historical eras

Westerlies

prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude

Severn (River)

runs 14 miles through Anne Arundel County in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is located south of the Magothy River, and north of the South River

Dampier Strait

separates Umboi Island and New Britain, linking the Bismarck Sea to the north with the Solomon Sea to the south

laterite

soil types rich in iron and aluminium, formed in hot and wet tropical areas

Chechnya

sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, is a federal subject of Russia

theory of continental drift

states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core. The fossil record supports and gives credence to the theory

James Buchanan

the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War

Rio Muni

the Continental Region of Equatorial Guinea, and comprises the mainland geographical region, covering 26,017 km². The name is derived from the Muni River

kaiser

the German title meaning "emperor"

Plains Indians

the Native Americans or First Nations who lived on the plains and rolling hills of the Great Plains of North America

Alaska Purchase

the acquisition of Russian America by the United States from the Russian Empire in 1867 by a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate

Gulf of Cadiz

the arm of the Atlantic Ocean between Cabo de Santa Maria, the southernmost point of Mainland Portugal and Cape Trafalgar at the western end of the Strait of Gibraltar

(Lake) Peipus

the biggest transboundary lake in Europe on the border between Estonia (part of European Union) and Russia

tropopause

the boundary in the Earth's atmosphere between the troposphere and the stratosphere

Benguela (Current)

the broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre

Port Harcourt

the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria. It lies along the Bonny River and is located in the Niger Delta. According to the 2006 Nigerian census, this city has a population of 1,382,592

Loop

the central business district of Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the city's 77 designated community areas. It is home to Chicago's commercial core, City Hall, and the seat of Cook County

Twin Falls

the county seat and largest city of the namesake county in Idaho, United States. The city had a population of 44,125 as of the 2010 census. It is the largest city of Idaho's Magic Valley region

Mobile

the county seat of (the names-sake) County, Alabama. The population within the city limits was 195,111 as of the 2010 United States Census, making it the third most populous city in the State of Alabama

copra

the dried meat, or kernel, of the coconut used to extract coconut oil

treeline

the edge of the habitat at which trees are capable of growing

Berbers

the ethnicity indigenous to North Africa west of the Nile Valley

Lewis and Clark expedition

the first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States, departing in May, 1804, from near St. Louis on the Mississippi River, making their way westward through the continental divide to the Pacific coast

Royal Chitwan National Park

the first national park in Nepal. It was established in 1973 and granted the status of a World Heritage Site in 1984

runoff

the flow of water that occurs when excess water from rain, meltwater, or other sources flows over the earth's surface

Amarillo

the fourteenth most populous city in the state of Texas, also the largest City in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census

Independence

the fourth-largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri

meridian

the half of an imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, terminated by the North Pole and the South Pole, connecting points of equal longitude

(Mount) (Mt) (Mt.) Rainier

the highest mountain in both the State of Washington and the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest. It is a large active stratovolcano located 54 miles southeast of Seattle in the state of Washington, United States

(Pico) Duarte

the highest peak in all the Caribbean islands and is located about 53 miles north-east of the lowest point, Lake Enriquillo

Mount Washington

the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288 ft (1,917 m) and the most prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River

(Mount) (Mt) (Mt.) Washington

the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288 ft and the most prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River. It is famous for dangerously erratic weather

Sami

the indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway

Olympic (Peninsula)

the large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Hood Canal

Great Artesian BAsin

the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, stretching over 1,700,000 square kilometres

Great Northern Peninsula

the largest and longest peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada, approximately 225 km long and 80 km wide at its widest point and encompassing an area of 17,483 km²

Great Basin

the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America. It is noted for both its arid climate and the Basin and range topography

Burgas Bay

the largest bay of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and one of the largest ones in the Black Sea, located between the coastline and the straight line joining Cape Emine and Cape Maslen nos

Fargo

the largest city in the State of North Dakota, accounting for nearly 16% of the state population. Fargo is also the county seat of Cass County

Southampton

the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated 75 miles south-west of London and 19 miles north-west of Portsmouth

Wilmington

the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River

Manchester

the largest city in the state of New Hampshire, the tenth largest city in New England, and the largest city in northern New England, an area comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont

Barrow

the largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska and is located above the Arctic Circle

Lake Okeechobee

the largest freshwater lake in the state of Florida

Tasman Glacier

the largest of several glaciers which flow south and east towards the Mackenzie Basin from the Southern Alps in New Zealand's South Island. It is New Zealand's longest glacier

Istria

the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea

Kanto Plain

the largest plain in Japan located in the Kanto Region of central Honshū

Chagres

the largest river in the Panama Canal's watershed. The river is dammed twice, and the resulting reservoirs—Gatun Lake and Lake Alajuela—form an integral part of the canal and its water system

Yenisei

the largest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean

thermosphere

the layer of the Earth's atmosphere directly above the mesosphere and directly below the exosphere. Within this layer, ultraviolet radiation (UV) causes ionization

Grand Canal

the longest canal or artificial river in the world and a famous tourist destination in China

Helmand

the longest river in Afghanistan and the primary watershed for the endorheic Sistan Basin

Vltava

the longest river in the Czech Republic, running north from its source near the German border in Šumava through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice, and Prague, merging with the Elbe at Mělník.

Plain of Catania

the most extensive and most important plain in Sicily

Altiplano

the most extensive area of high plateau on Earth outside of Tibet

Tropic of Cancer

the most northerly circle of latitude on the Earth at which the Sun may appear directly overhead at its culmination

Alderney

the most northerly of the Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is 3 miles long and 1 ¹⁄₂ miles wide

Tabriz(, Iran)

the most populated city in the northwest of Iran, one of the historical capitals of Iran, and the present capital of East Azerbaijan Province

New Providence

the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population

Ross Sea

the most pristine marine ecosystem on earth. Unlike most of the world's oceans it has remained free from widespread pollution, invasive species, mining and overfishing.

subsidence

the motion of a surface (usually, the Earth's surface) as it shifts downward relative to a datum such as sea-level

(London) Docklands

the name for an area in east and southeast London. It forms part of the boroughs of Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Newham and Greenwich

Kuna

the name of an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia

CFA franc

the name of two currencies used in Africa which are guaranteed by the French treasury

(Strait of) Messina

the narrow passage between the eastern tip of Sicily and the western tip of Calabria in the south of Italy. It connects the Tyrrhenian Sea to the north with the Ionian Sea to the south, within the central Mediterranean

Straits of Tiran

the narrow sea passages, about 13 km wide, between the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas which separate the Gulf of Aqaba from the Red Sea

Copts

the native Christians of Egypt and the largest Christian denomination in the country

snow line

the point above which snow and ice cover the ground throughout the year

aphelion

the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is furthest from the sun

trade winds

the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator

Eureka

the principal city and county seat of Humboldt County in the Redwood Empire region of California

Continental Divide (of the Americas)

the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas

glaciation

the process, condition, or result of being covered by glaciers or ice sheets

lithosphere

the rigid, outermost shell of a rocky planet, and can be identified on the basis of its mechanical properties

al Sabah

the ruling family of Kuwait

Portsmouth

the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Located mainly on Portsea Island, it is the United Kingdom's only island city

Raiatea

the second largest of the Society Islands, after Tahiti, in French Polynesia. The island is widely regarded as the 'centre' of the eastern islands in ancient Polynesia

Mandalay(, Myanmar)

the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma. Located 716 km north of Yangon on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, the city had a population of 1,225,553

Valley Forge (National Historical Park)

the site of the third winter encampment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, taking place from December 19, 1777 to June 19, 1778

Brownsville(, Texas)

the sixteenth most populous city in the state of Texas with a population of 181,860. It is located on the southernmost tip of Texas, United States on the northern bank of the Rio Grande

Cumberland (Plateau)

the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. It includes much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and portions of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia

Cape Horn

the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island

Barbary (Coast)

the term used by Europeans from the 16th until the 19th century to refer to much of the collective land of the Berber people

Alice Springs

the third largest town in the Northern Territory, Australia

equinox

the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length (about September 22 and March 20)

insolation

the total amount of solar radiation energy received on a given surface area during a given time

Nowruz

the traditional Iranian festival of spring which starts at the exact moment of the vernal equinox, commencing the start of the spring. It is considered as the start of the New Year among Iranians

mezzogiorno

the traditional term for the southern regions of Italy, encompassing the southern section of the continental Italian Peninsula and the island of Sicily

Agulhas (Current)

the western boundary current of the southwest Indian Ocean

Spencer Gulf

the westernmost of two large inlets on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight

Cape Mendocino

the westernmost point on the coast of California

Manifest Destiny

the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent

Aldabra

the world's second largest coral atoll. It is situated in the Aldabra Group of islands in the Indian Ocean that are part of the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.

Bantu

they inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes region down to Southern Africa

pull factor

what draws people to a new location

(Mount) (Mt) (Mt.) Kilimanjaro

with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira, is a dormant volcanic mountain in Tanzania