Despite the fact that Barks had done little traveling his adventure stories often had the duck clan globe trotting to the most remote or spectacular of places.

Despite official persecution, some local leaders and minority ethnic practices survived in remote regions.

Despite its remote location, the school has been involved in state and national activities, hosting the military's " Operation Arctic Care " outreach health program in 2002, and briefly becoming involved with reporting for CNN Student Bureau that same year.

Despite its abundance of wilderness, recreational opportunities, hunting and fishing resources, and resplendent natural beauty, tourism is not a major sector of the local economy — largely due to the city's remote location.

Despite this, SRI scientists and remote viewers have claimed that a number of " natural " psychics were crucial in a number of intelligence operations.

Despite its remote location and barren nature, the island has seen commercial activities in past centuries, such as coal mining, fishing and whaling.

Despite this history, in some remote areas, the use of teonanácatl has remained.

Despite its location in a remote corner of Pennsylvania ( two hours ' drive from Pittsburgh ), the house ( according to the informational pamphlet distributed on the grounds ) currently hosts more than 150, 000 visitors each year.

Despite East Renfrewshire's assurance that a local government office would be set up within Ralston, locals were concerned that the district would be no more than a remote outpost, linked to the rest of the authority by a narrow strip of countryside with no direct road or public transport links connecting the two.

Despite his controversial methods, Count Von Rosen would be remembered as one of the characters that helped modernize relief efforts to remote conflict zones via mercy flights. One of the interesting characters assisting Count Carl Gustav von Rosen was Lynn Garrison, an ex-RCAF fighter pilot.

Despite it being a reprint by the end, Vid Kid lasted until Busters final issue at the beginning of 2000, although Jack drew one final page (" How It All Ends ", which revealed what eventually happened to all the characters ) revealing that the millennium bug had affected Vid Kid's remote, meaning the entire universe was turned off after he pressed " Power Off " on it.

Despite the change in name and affiliation of TND-34, Seven Central remained as a fully Seven Network-aligned service for remote Australia.

Despite the influences of foreign culture, some remote Indonesian regions still preserve uniquely indigenous culture.

Despite the overwhelming scenic beauty of its landscape and colourful local minorities, mass tourism hasn't developed in this region, mainly due to its remote location, lack of a nearby airport, and until fairly recent, relative inaccessibility due to bad road conditions.

Despite its lofty status, the volcano languishes in obscurity due to its extremely remote location.

Despite its remote location – Corrour boasts a direct connection to London via the Caledonian Sleeper to and from London Euston ( daily except Saturday nights in each direction ), The journey from London to Corrour takes just under twelve hours.

Despite being located in a remote setting, the school has always been an example in quality education and personality development.

Despite its large population, the city remains remote, having little connection to surrounding provinces or to Kinshasa and Lubumbashi.

Despite the harsh conditions the islands do support vegetation and have been described as the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion, which includes South Georgia, the volcanic South Sandwich Islands and the South Orkneys in the Scotia Sea as well as the remote South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula and the small isolated volcano Bouvet Island.

Despite persecution, Ismailism has survived in the remote Pamir Mountains

Despite its relatively remote position, Rhossili is a popular tourist destination: the views from the headland and the Down are panoramic ; several pleasant walks begin, end, or pass through the village ; Iron Age remains are found on Rhossili Down ; and the 4 mile ( 6. 4 km ) long beach attracts surfers, particularly at the Llangennith ( northern ) end.

Despite the technology having been used with great success in remote areas of Canada, it proved to be unsuitable when placed in a British urban setting.

Despite the extent of its eruptions, the threat to humans from Quizapu is relatively small because of the remote location of Cerro Azul.

Despite this and the views offered from its bare, alpine summit, it is not visited by as many hikers outside of aspiring members of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers ; it is rather remote from the nearest trailhead and the approach from either direction is steep and challenging.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Despite its location in the tropics and the many micro climates found within the country, Guatemala City ’ s elevation and the resulting moderating influence of the higher altitude enable it to enjoy a subtropical highland climate ( Köppen Cwb ), though depending on location, it also borders on a tropical savanna climate ( Köppen Aw ).

Despite the speech's prominent place in the history and popular culture of the United States, the exact wording and location of the speech are disputed.

Despite its isolated location the Great Victoria is bisected by very rough tracks including the Connie Sue Highway and the Anne Beadell Highway.

Despite its northern location, the climate is relatively mild compared to other locations in similar latitudes, or even somewhat farther south, mainly because of the Gulf Stream.

Despite the difference in methodology, location, and theory, the results attained by Eysenck and Ferguson matched ; simply rotating Eysenck's two factors 45 degrees renders the same factors of Religionism and Humanitarianism identified by Ferguson in America.

( Despite recent finds indicating a Roman presence near the modern city of Minden, its location remains disputed ; other sites near Minden or Rinteln have been suggested by the historian Hans Delbrück ( 1848 – 1929 ) and the military writer Kurt Pastenaci ( 1894 – 1961 ), respectively.

Despite the seaside location, the tourist appeal of Kerch today is limited because of the industrial character of the city and associated pollution.

Despite its location near the equator, Malabo features a tropical wet and dry climate.

Despite its name, based on a Berber expression meaning " place of the winds ", the city was selected as the capital city for its moderate climate and central location within the country.

Despite the common interpretation, the location was not midway between the national seats of DC and of the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) in Rome ( in this case to symbolize the end of the Historic Compromise, the alliance between DC and PCI sought by Moro ), but towards the Tiber River, near the Ghetto.

Despite this, Le Havre became the location of one of the biggest Replacement Depots, or " Repple Depples " in the European Theatre of operations in WWII.

Despite its location in the tropics, in stark contrast with most of South India, Ooty generally features pleasantly mild conditions throughout the year.

Despite its location in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, Park County is part of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area.

Despite its location in the Rocky Mountains, Gilpin County is part of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area.

Despite its location on the eastern plains, Elbert County is part of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area.

Despite the similar name, it is not the location of Squaw Valley Ski Resort or the 1960 Winter Olympics.

Despite its small size, the town's scenic location on a headland surrounded by the Pacific Ocean has made it extremely popular as an artist colony and with vacationers.

Despite this there is a Somali Community Center and a Muslim Prayer Center in the location previously afformentioned.

) Despite its location at the confluence of two substantial roads and close to many tourist locations the town is notable for having no hotels or motels, the nearest options being in Farmington, New Mexico to the East and Cortez, Colorado to the North.

Despite the village's location in the northern state of Wisconsin, studies demonstrated that it was feasible for new buildings to achieve a majority of their heat from solar energy.

Despite the location of the ground several miles outside the city boundaries and a poor public transport service the new ground averaged 3, 000 supporters for the first three months.