These joined two other air stations already operating on Bermuda, the pre-war civil airport on Darrell's Island, which had been taken over by the RAF, and the Fleet Air Arm's Royal Naval Air Station, HMS Malabar, on Boaz Island.

The Wandering Albatross has the largest wingspan of any living bird, typically ranging from, with a mean span of in the Bird Island, South Georgia colony and an average of exactly in 123 birds measured off the coast of Malabar, New South Wales.

The atoll consists of a ring of four larger islands: counterclockwise, they are South Island ( Grand Terre, 116. 1 km² ), Malabar or Middle Island ( 26. 8 km² ), Polymnieli or Polymnie Island ( 4. 75 km² ) and Picard or West Island ( 9. 4 km² ).

Toplessness was the norm for women in several indigenous peoples of South India, including the Tamils along the Coromandel coast, Tiyan and other peoples on the Malabar coast, Kadar of Cochin Island, Toda, Nayar, Cheruman ( Pulayar ), Kuruba, Koraga, Nicobarese, and the Uriya until the 19th century or early 20th century.

In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.

Dutch factory of Hugly-Chinsurah in BengalVOC trading posts were also established in Persia, Bengal, Malacca, Siam, Canton, Formosa ( now Taiwan ), as well as the Malabar and Coromandel coasts in India.

Ports in the Malabar area also served as a stop-off point for much of the trade in other spices from farther east in the Indian Ocean.

A Mysorean force that had been besieging Tellicherry was broken, with its commander and his siege guns captured, and Coorg and Malabar were also descending into open rebellion.

East-Indian Lemon Grass ( Cymbopogon flexuosus ), also called Cochin Grass or Malabar Grass ( Malayalam: ഇഞ ് ച ി പ ് പ ു ല ് ല ്( inchippullu ), is native to Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Thailand while the West-Indian lemon grass ( Cymbopogon citratus ) is native to maritime Southeast Asia.

The East Syrian Rite ( also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite ) has historically been used in Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Malabar.

Malabar is also used by ecologists to refer to the tropical and subtropical moist broad-leaf forests of south-western India ( present day Kerala ).

The Malabar Coast is also sometimes used as an all encompassing term for the entire Indian coast from the western coast of Konkan to the tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin.

The Hanging Gardens, Mumbai, in Mumbai, India, also known as Pherozeshah Mehta Gardens, are terraced gardens perched at the top of Malabar Hill, on its western side, just opposite the Kamala Nehru Park.

It is also known as Malabar chestnut, Guiana chestnut, provision tree, or saba nut. Often sold with trunks braided.

Mohanlal has also appeared in several television commercials and advertisemens including Malabar Gold ad with Hema Malini and Sania Mirza, MCR ad with Sarath Kumar, Oceanus ad, Manappuram Gold Loan ad with Akshay Kumar, etc.

Cochin Jews, also called Malabar Jews ( Malabar Yehudan ) and Yuda Mappila, are the oldest group of Jews in India, with roots claimed to date to the time of King Solomon, though historically attested migration dates from the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE.

The Malabar Pied Hornbill ( Anthracoceros coronatus ) also known as lesser Pied Hornbill, is a hornbill.

This definition also embraces the descendants of the Indians from the old Portuguese colonies of both the Coromandel and Malabar Coasts, who joined the East India Company as mercenaries and brought their families with them.

Kerala is also home to one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world who are supposed to have arrived in the Malabar coast during the time of King Solomon.

There was also an indigenous head of the Church of Malabar, which, according to historians, means the “ head of the caste ”, that is the head of the St Thomas Christians but also the “ Archdeacon of All India ”.

Malabar Botanical Garden-the biggest one in Kerala is also in Pokkunnu.

It is also believed that Mar Abo actually volunteered to the Chera king to create a new sea port town near at Kollam instead of his request for renewing the almost vanishing Tyndis or Nelcynda inland sea port ( kore-ke-ni ) at Kollam, lying idle without trade for a few centuries because of the Cheras being overrun by pallavas in the 6th century AD ending the spice trade from Malabar coast.

A phylogenetic study in 2010 http :// www. sciencedirect. com / science / article / pii / S1055790310001405 1 has also indicated the likelihood of the existence of more undescribed species of channids in South East Asia, In June 2011, the Malabar snakehead Channa diplogramma from peninsular India was shown to be a distinct species, 146 years after its initial description and 134 years after it was synonymised with C. micropeltes, establishing it is an endemic species of peninsular India.

The leftist elements in the Kerala Provincial Congress were also active in the politics of Malabar in the late thirties.

Kingdom of Cochin ( also known as Perumpadappu Swaroopam, Mada-rajyam, Gosree Rajyam, or Kuru Swaroopam ; Malayalam: ക ൊ ച ് ച ി or പ െ ര ു മ ് പടപ ് പ ്‌ ) was a late medieval Hindu kingdom and later Princely State on the Malabar Coast, South India.

It is also known as Malabar biriyani, which is the made all along the Malabar area in Kerala from Kozhikkodu ( Calicut ) to Kasargod, with minor or no taste variation.

At this time, he was only accompanied by a Jesuit student, Álvaro Ferreira, a Chinese man called António and a Malabar servant called Christopher.

The original commercial town was laid out between Light Street, Beach Street ( then running close to the seashore ), Malabar Street ( subsequently called Chulia Street ) and Pitt Street ( now called Masjid Kapitan Keling Street ).

The Malayalam Calendar ( called Kollavarsham ) originated in 825 CE, based on general agreement among scholars, with the re-opening of the city of Kollam ( on Malabar Coast ), which had been destroyed by a natural disaster.

The name is sometimes extended to the entire south-western coast of the peninsula, called the Malabar Coast.

Because of their orientation to the sea and to maritime commerce, the coastal cities of Malabar are very cosmopolitan and have hosted some of the first groups of Christians ( now known as Syrian Malabar Nasranis ), Anglo-Indians, Jews ( today called as Cochin Jews ), and Muslims ( at present known as Mappilas ) in India.

In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople ; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron ( al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347 ); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities ; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, " en roialme daresten " ( Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria ), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself ; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe ( Quilon on the Malabar coast ), and still seemed to feel the better ; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory ( Sumatra ), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north ; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean ; had been at Cansay ( Hangchow-fu ) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann ; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean ; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near " Milstorak " ( i. e. Malasgird in Armenia ); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout ; and had written his book as a consolation for his " wretched rest ".

The tract called the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, contains sailing directions for merchants from the Red Sea to the Indus and Malabar, and even indicates that the coast from Barygaza ( Baroch ) had a general southward direction down to and far beyond Cape Komari ( Comorin ).

By 1995, when Malabar was handed over to the Government of Bermuda, the Royal Naval presence in the North-Western Atlantic and Caribbean had been reduced to the West Indies Guard Ship ( now called Atlantic Patrol Task ( North )), a role which was rotated among the frigates of the fleet, which took turns operating extended patrols of the West Indies.

Until recently called the ' Malabar Special Programs Centre ', the MSPC is a maximum through to minimum security facility which houses many different types of inmates.

Cochin Jews, also called Malabar Jews ( Malabar Yehudan ) are the ancient Jews and their descendants of the erstwhile state of Kingdom of Cochin which includes the present day port city of Kochi.

The waterbody behind the original settlement, forming an arc between the former Colaba island and Bombay island, up to the Malabar Hill promontory or peninsula, was similarly called Back Bay.

The location was called South Malabar by the British Colonial administration.

Mappila (, alternatively Mopla, Moplah ) refers to the largest Muslim community in Kerala state, India primarily distributed in the northern region called Malabar, which arose as a result of the pre and post Islamic Arab contacts.

They are an established merchant community in Malabar and unlike other Muslims, they follow a matrilinial system of inheritance called Marumakkathayam.

A few Mappila traders from Malabar settled in Coorg ( also called Kodagu ) district of Karnataka.

Judeo-Malayalam is the traditional language of the Cochin Jews ( also called Malabar Jews ), from Kerala, in southern India, spoken today by a few dozens of people in Israel and by probably fewer than 25 in India.

The dynasty ruled the whole of modern Kerala state ( Malabar or Kudamalainadu ), Guddalore and some parts of Nilgiri district and Salem-Coimbatore region in southern India between 9th and 12th centuries AD mostly from the outskirts of the sea port Muziris, called Mahodayapuram, on the banks of River Periyar.

The original synagogue was built in the 4th century in Kodungallur ( Cranganore ) when the Jews had a mercantile role in the South Indian region along the Malabar coast now called Kerala.