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Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.
The Great Rift, a series of dark patches in the Milky Way, is more visible and striking in the southern hemisphere than in the northern.
The older hypothesis is that it lies in a true rift zone, an extension of the Red Sea Rift, or even of the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa.
The Dead Sea basin is another part of the Great Rift Valley.
The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trench, approximately in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa.
The Great Rift Valley as originally described was thought to extend from Lebanon in the north to Mozambique in the south, and constitutes one of two distinct physiographic provinces of the East African mountains.
* Africa's Great Rift Valley, 2001, ISBN 0-8109-0602-3
* Tribes of the Great Rift Valley, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8109-9411-9
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Thus, the Beqaa Valley is part of the Great Rift system, which stretches from southern Turkey to Mozambique in Africa.
In the valley created by the fault, called the Great Rift, the Red Sea was formed.
The Great Rift runs from the Mediterranean along both sides of the Red Sea south through Ethiopia and the lake country of East Africa, gradually disappearing in the area of Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
These fault lines are believed to be the northern and final portion of the Great Rift and are presumed to be the result of the slow rotation of the Arabian Peninsula counterclockwise in a way that will, in approximately 10 million years, close off the Persian Gulf and make it a lake.
On the peninsula, the eastern line of the Great Rift fault is visible in the steep and, in places, high escarpment that parallels the Red Sea between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Aden.
One of Tanzania's most important archeological sites is Engaruka in the Great Rift Valley which includes an irrigation and cultivation system.
One of Tanzania's most important archeological sites is Engaruka in the Great Rift Valley which includes an irrigation and cultivation system.
West of those mountains is the Gregory Rift, which is the eastern arm of the Great Rift Valley.
Previous studies, which were focused mainly on lions from eastern and southern parts of Africa, already showed these can be possibly divided in two main clades: one to the west of the Great Rift Valley and the other to the east.
Xenopus laevis and Xenopus muelleri occur along the western boundary of the Great African Rift.

Great and Africa's
To the north and west are the Great Lakes of respectively Lake Victoria ( Africa's largest lake ) and Lake Tanganyika ( the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish ) – and to the southwest lies Lake Nyasa.
The widest interstate war in modern African history, it directly involved nine African nations, as well as about twenty armed groups, and earned the epithet of " Africa's World War " and the " Great War of Africa.
The southern border of the Highveld rises to form the Great Escarpment, the semicircle of mountain ranges roughly paralleling South Africa's coastline.
Haggard knew Africa well, having travelled deep within the continent as a 19-year-old during the Anglo-Zulu War and the First Boer War, where he had been impressed by South Africa's vast mineral wealth and by the ruins of ancient lost cities being uncovered, such as Great Zimbabwe.
The Egyptian Sand Sea is the Egyptian part of the Great Sand Sea of Africa's Libyan Desert.
* Extremes: Survival in the Great Deserts of the Southern Hemisphere: explored some of the world's great southern deserts, tracing the history, culture and commonalities of Southern Africa's Namib and Kalahari deserts, South America's Atacama, and Australia's Red Centre ( December 2004-August 2005 )
* The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart
Hopetown lies at the edge of the Great Karoo in South Africa's Northern Cape province.
Haggard was also heavily influenced by other larger-than-life adventurers he later met in Africa, most notably the American Scout Frederick Russell Burnham, by South Africa's vast mineral wealth, and by the ruin of ancient lost civilizations being uncovered in Africa, such as Great Zimbabwe.
It covers a total surface area of 250 km² and is a part of Africa's Great Lakes system but is not itself considered one of the Great Lakes.
When the show was stopped, the SABC claimed that their definition of a Great South African was actually someone who contributed to South Africa's development " and the promotion of humanity ".< ref > and the fact that quite a few people on the list did not fit this description contributed to the decision to stop the show.
The reader is taken all over the globe, visiting Africa's Great Rift Valley, the top of Mount Everest, Tunguska, an ancient Chinese tomb, and even into space as the events of the series unfold, eventually leading up to what will bring about World War III.
He returned to the State Department as Special Advisor to the Secretary for Africa's Great Lakes Region.
The Park is nestled in a 4, 000-square-km section of the Great African Rift Valley system, Africa's most dramatic geological feature.
* The Great Trek, a 19th century migration of Africa's Boers

Great and wild
For example, the Chamber of Commerce of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, sponsors special camera tours into the Great Smoky Mountains to get pictures of the profusion of wild flowers flourishing in these wooded regions.
Great controversy rages because the use of greyhounds to hunt wild animals is a fairly common occurrence.
Escaped swarms ( known as " wild " bees, but actually feral ) spread rapidly as far as the Great Plains, usually preceding the colonists.
Great danes were originally bred to hunt deer and wild boar.
: Introduction into the wild of species that are not native to Great Britain or are otherwise banned
Around 260 various bird species nest here ( wild geese and ducks, Great White Egret, White Stork, Black Stork, White-tailed Eagle, crows, coots, gulls, terns, kingfishers, European Green Woodpecker, etc.
American Mink have found their way into the wild in Europe ( including Ireland and Great Britain ) and South America, after being released from mink farms by animal rights activists or otherwise escaping from captivity.
Among his best-known guitar playing is the riff to Tom Tom Club's " Genius of Love ", the overdriven solos on Talking Heads ' " The Great Curve ", the wild slide melodies on his own Top 10 hit " Oh Daddy " and the careening elephant impressions on King Crimson's " Elephant Talk ".
On average, Great Grey Shrikes get a chance at four breeding attempts during their life, with most birds in the wild getting eaten by a bird of prey or carnivorous mammal or dying of other causes before the end of their fifth winter.
In Great Britain their numbers have declined as a breeding bird, retreating north to breed wild only in the Outer Hebrides and the northern mainland of Scotland.
The " wild " population is believed to be declining in Great Britain due to over-hunting.
) In the Great Lakes some maize and wild rice could be obtained locally.
Among the latter, the Great Horned Owl ( Bubo virginianus ) and the Eurasian Eagle-owl ( B. bubo ) are noted predators of Barn Owls ( though there is little evidence for predation on wild birds by Great Horned Owls ).
The Great Pampanga River nourished wild, fruit-bearing trees, served as home to an abundance of fish and made possible lush, teeming woodlands that sheltered animals.
One statement within the Wilbraham Town History Book of 1963 states that a trustee of the Wilbraham & Monson Academy was attending Oxford University and found the following in a history book: That the two villages of Little Wilbraham and Great Wilbraham came into existence because Alfred the Great, an English King who upon hunting wild boar in a very good spot about 60 miles northeast of London, designated that spot as Wild Boar Haven.
The frequently cleansed Chenango River is a haven for wild life, such as the Great Horned Owl and the Eastern Opossum.
Although common in France, the wild boar became extinct in Great Britain and Ireland by the 17th century, but wild breeding populations have recently returned in the Weald, following escapes from boar farms.
Having no wild game to hunt and no place to plant vegetation, the Great Spirit killed all of the trees on the top of the mountain so the surviving people could plant their crops.
Great Horned Owl eggs, nestlings and fledgings may be preyed on by foxes, coyotes ( Canis latrans ), or wild or feral cats.
The Foxtail Pine is closely related to the bristlecone pines, being classified in the same subsection Balfourianae ; it has been hybridised with the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in cultivation, though no hybrids have ever been found in the wild.
In Great Britain the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 prevents the introduction of any animal not naturally occurring in the wild, and also any of a list of both animals or plants which have been introduced previously and have proved to be invasive.

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