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* The Qattara Depression, north of the Kharga oasis and west of Cairo, is a large area of Egypt that lies below sea level.
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Qattara and Depression
The Qattara Depression, which includes the country's lowest point, encompasses, which is similar to the size of Lake Ontario.
Badlands, salt marshes, and salt lakes cover the sparsely inhabited Qattara Depression.
Only to the south of El Alamein the steep slopes of the Qattara Depression ruled out the possibility of armour moving around the southern flank of his defences and limited the width of the front he had to defend.
to the south of that lay the Qattara Depression.
The line the British chose to defend stretched between the sea and the Qattara Depression, which meant that Rommel could outflank it only by taking a significant detour to the south and crossing the Sahara Desert.
The Bab el Qattara box — some from the coast and southwest of the Ruweisat Ridge — had been dug but had not been wired or mined, while at the Naq Abu Dweis box ( on the edge of the Qattara Depression ), from the coast, very little work had been done.
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The Qattara Depression ( Munḫafaḍ al-Qaṭṭārah ) is a depression in the north west of Egypt in the Matruh Governorate and is part of the Libyan Desert.
The Qattara Depression contains the second lowest point in Africa at below sea level, the lowest being Lake Assal in Djibouti.
Map of the Qattara Depression.
View of the Qattara Depression
Sand dunes in the Qattara Depression
The Depression is an important habitat for the cheetah, with the largest number of recent sightings being in areas in the northern, western and northwestern part of the Qattara Depression, including the highly isolated, wild oases of Ain EI Qattara and Ein EI Ghazzalat and numerous Acacia groves both inside and outside the depression.
Gazelles ( Gazella dorcas and Gazella leptoceros ) also inhabit the Qattara Depression, being an important food source for the cheetah.
The largest gazelle population exists in the southwestern part of the Qattara Depression within a vast area of wetlands and soft sand.
The climate of the Qattara Depression is highly arid with annual precipitation between 25 to 50 mm on the northern rim to less than 25 mm in the south of the depression.
There is one permanent settlement in the Qattara Depression, the Qara Oasis.
The Qattara Depression contains numerous oil concessions and several operating fields.
Our knowledge about the geology of the Qattara Depression was greatly extended by Ralph Alger Bagnold, a British military commander and explorer, through numerous journeys in the 1920s and 1930s.
Six years later in 1933 Dr. Ball was the first to publish a proposal for flooding the region to generate hydro power in his article " The Qattara Depression of the Libyan Dessert and the possibility of its utilisation for power-production ".
Both the Axis and Allied forces built their defences in a line from the Mediterranean Sea to the Qattara Depression.
Qattara and north
Heavy fire from the Italian Brescia Motorised Division at El Mreir, however, north of the Qattara box, checked their progress and led XIII Corps to call off its attack.
The proposals call for a large canal or tunnel being excavated from the Qattara due north of depending on the route chosen to the Mediterranean Sea to bring seawater into the area.
Qattara and oasis
The Siwa Oasis ( Siwi: Isiwan ; Wāḥat Sīwah, ) is an oasis in Egypt, located between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert, nearly 50 km ( 30 mi ) east of the Libyan border, and 560 km ( 348 mi ) from Cairo.
Qattara and west
The Siwah Oasis, close to the Libyan border and west of Qattara, is isolated from the rest of Egypt but has sustained life since ancient times.
This depression, an area lower than the surrounding region, reaches to about-19 m. To the west the Jaghbub lies in a similar depression and to the east the large Qattara Depression also lies below sea level.
It was decided that the Eighth Army should make a stand just over west of Alexandria, at the railway siding of El Alamein, where the coastal plain narrowed between the Mediterranean Sea and the inhospitable Qattara Depression.
Qattara and is
There are seven important depressions in the Western Desert, and all are considered oases except the largest, Qattara, the water of which is salty.
This project is known as the Qattara Depression Project.
Because the Qattara Depression is in a very hot dry region with very little cloud cover the water released at the level would spread out from the release point across the basin and evaporate from solar influx.
In the center of the Governorate is the Qattara Depression, descending to 133 metres below sea level.
Qattara and large
The large size of the Qattara Depression and the fact that it falls to a depth of 133 m below mean sea level has led to several proposals to create a massive hydroelectric project in northern Egypt rivalling the Aswan High Dam.
Qattara and area
In the seventies and early eighties several proposals to flood the area were made by Friedrich Bassler and the Joint Venture Qattara, a group of mainly German companies.
Qattara and Egypt
* A detailed map of Egypt ( including the Qattara Depression ) from 1955 by the Army Map Service, US Army, scale 1: 250, 000
* Qattara Depression, in Egypt.
Qattara and below
He discovered that the spring Ain EI Qattara lay about below sea level.
Qattara and sea
The Alamein sector did not present such a broad front as had been the case in other desert battles, and any armoured thrust would have to pass between the sea, in the North, and the Qattara Depression, in the South, which was impassable for tanks.
Qattara and .
Italian XX Corps was to follow the Afrika Korps and deal with the Qattara box while the Italian Littorio Armoured Division and German reconnaissance units would protect the right flank.
He also gave the region its name ' Qattara ' after the spring Ain EI Qattara where the first readings were taken.
Depression and north
The first such prehistoric lake is named " Lake Amora ", which was a freshwater or brackish lake that extended at least south of the current southern end of the Dead Sea and north, well above the present Hula Depression.
Nearly 80 % of the republic lies within the Turan Depression, which slopes from south to north and from east to west.
At the beginning of 1932, as an austerity measure to save money during the Great Depression, Milton County to the north and Campbell County to the southwest became part of Fulton County.
The government of Campbell County went bankrupt in 1931 during the Great Depression and it, along with Milton County to the north, was absorbed into Fulton County when 1932 began.
The Great Depression exacerbated the economic slump, and as a result city leaders enthusiastically embraced the concept of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s, receiving considerable federal funds used to demolish much of the north side of Merrimack Street, most of the Federal homes along Water Street ( dating from the city's first hundred years of development ), and throughout downtown.
The book grapples, " with the social and historical reality of Depression suffering in the north of England ,-Orwell does not wish merely to enumerate evils and injustices, but to break through what he regards as middle class oblivion ,-Orwell's corrective to such falsity comes first by immersion of his own body-a supreme measure of truth for Orwell-directly into the experience of misery.
The north was hit so hard in the Great Depression because of the structural decline in British industry.
The north of the Darling River is in the Southeast Australia temperate savanna ecoregion and the south west of the Darling is part of the Murray Darling Depression ecoregion.
The company would build a hydro dam along the Du Lièvre River, just north of Buckingham, at the start of the Great Depression.
The lions were originally nicknamed " Leo Astor " and " Leo Lenox ", for the two private libraries that formed the collection's core, but mayor Fiorello La Guardia renamed them for qualities New Yorkers were showing in weathering the Great Depression — " Patience " ( on the left or south ) and " Fortitude " ( on the right or north ) — and those names have stuck.
During the Great Depression, one of Vancouver's several hobo jungles sprang up on the False Creek flats opposite Granville Island's north shore.
Dances such as the Black Bottom, charleston and tap dance travelled north with Dixieland jazz to New York, Kansas City, and Chicago in the Great Migration ( African American ) of the 1920s, where rural blacks travelled to escape persecution, Jim Crow laws, lynching and unemployment in the South ( during the Great Depression ).
The Kuma – Manych Depression (), is a geological depression in southwestern Russia that separates the Russian Plain ( north ) from the Fore-Caucasus ( south ).
The system slowly organize while tracking across the Atlantic Ocean and much of the Caribbean Sea ; it developed into Tropical Depression Eight while located north of Panama on September 14.
The remnant area of disturbed weather from Tropical Depression Six continued moving west-northwest into the southwest north Atlantic.
Based on surface and satellite data, it is estimated the system developed into Tropical Depression Three at 1800 UTC on July 24 near Isla Margarita, off the north coast of Venezuela.
Alongside the Great Depression, many musicians from poor, rural Southern states like Louisiana moved to the north, especially New York City and Chicago, Louis Armstrong was among them, and he helped make Chicago the center for musical innovation in the country before moving on to New York, where clubs like Cotton Club, Village Vanguard and Minton's were flourishing.
To the south, in Xinjiang in Western China, north of Tibet, in the Turfan Depression, lay Kro Nasa.
The Kalaus River, when reaching the thalweg of the Kuma-Manych Depression at, would split: the left distributary, flowing north and then west, toward Lake Manych-Gudilo, would become the source of the West Manych, while the right distributary, flowing south and then east, would become the headwaters of the East Manych.
The plateau continues to about 8 degrees north before descending to the Benué Depression in abrupt cliffs and active volcanoes ( though this transitional zone is mostly in the North Province ).
His final major project, cut short by the Great Depression, was a " Miami Beach of the north " at Montauk, located at the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.
Nesbitt had followed parts of the course of the Awash in 1928, he turned away from the river at Asaita and proceeded north through the Afar Depression to the Red Sea.
It flows north and northeast to join the Lualaba from the left where the southern Katanga plateau drops into the Upemba Depression, near Bukama.
They are bordered in the north by the Făgăraș Depression, through which the Olt river flows, and in the west by the Olt Valley ( Valea Oltului ).
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