She carried, besides her captain, a crew of twenty-one and provisions for a voyage of exploration of the Arctic waters of North America.

This time he turned westward, to the middle Atlantic coast of North America.

A century of exploration had established that a great land mass, North and South America, lay between Europe and the Indies.

In western Europe and North America, where the level of economic development is higher, grains and other seed products furnish less than one-third of the food consumed.

Next we imagine our blizzard raging over all the land areas of the entire globe -- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, all covered with peas four feet deep ; ;

Their autumn tints are all fairly low keyed compared with the fiery stabs of crimson, gold, purple, bronze, blue and vermilion that flame up in North America.

Here the peoples spoke the tongue of Iceland because that island had gotten the jump on the Hawaiian-Americans who were busy resettling North America and the western half of South America after the Apocalyptic War.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

The cakes are marketed and can the found in cities either in Algeria or in Europe or North America.

A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.

The rough-skinned newt ( Taricha granulosa ) from North America and other members of its genus contain the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin ( TTX ), the most toxic non-protein substance known and almost identical to that produced by pufferfish.

Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common in West Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, southwestern North America, Spain ( usually in the Mudéjar style ), Eastern Europe and East Anglia, particularly Norfolk, known as ' clay lump.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

The Atlantic Ocean is bounded on the west by North and South America.

In modern times, some idioms refer to the ocean in a humorously diminutive way as the Pond, describing both the geographical and cultural divide between North America and Europe, in particular between the English-speaking nations of both continents.

The third is between Japan and western North America.

* Around 1010, Thorfinnr Karlsefni led an attempted Viking settlement in North America with 160 settlers, but was later driven off by the natives.

The Arctic Circle passes through the Arctic Ocean, the Scandinavian Peninsula, North Asia, Northern America and Greenland.

After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in 1916 ( first to Canada, then the United States ) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia.

Nobel travelled for much of his business life, maintaining companies in various countries in Europe and North America and keeping a permanent home in Paris from 1873 to 1891.

After the French and Indian War, the British were ceded all French possessions in North America east of the Mississippi River, aside from the tiny islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.

Although the War of the Austrian Succession was indecisive – despite French successes in India under the French Governor-General Joseph François Dupleix and Europe under Marshal Saxe – the Seven Years ' War, after early French successes in Minorca and North America, saw a French defeat, with the numerically superior British ( over one million to about 50 thousand French settlers ) conquering not only New France ( excluding the small islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon ), but also most of France's West Indian ( Caribbean ) colonies, and all of the French Indian outposts.

St. Peter's is one of North America's oldest European settlements, tracing its history to the 1630s when a small fortified settlement named Saint-Pierre was built by merchants from La Rochelle, France on the isthmus.

* Saint-Pierre and Miquelon ( France )-observes North American DST rules

Saint Pierre and Miquelon are situated south of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic Ocean.

France's colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, confirming Britain's position as the dominant colonial power in the eastern half of North America.

This represented the end of the French colonial empire in North America, except for the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which are still controlled by France today.

The French North American colonies ( apart from Saint Pierre and Miquelon ) were ceded to the British in the 1763 Treaty of Paris.

The two consecutive ' High Commissioners in the Antilles ' ( quite a misleading title: French Guyana is in continental South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon off the Canadian coast, so in North America ) held both administrative authority over the local Governors and equivalent officers ( rather like a gouverneur général did elsewhere on a permanent basis ) and military command in the ' Theater Atlantic West ':

France ceded almost all of its territory in mainland North America, but retained fishing rights off Newfoundland and the two small islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, where it could dry that fish.

The United States is effectively guaranteed control of any land it is able to gain possession of in North America, besides the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon which France had retained possession of after the Seven Years War, and of the Islands of Bermuda due to King Louis XVI of France, renouncing " for ever the possession of the Islands of Bermudas as well as of any part of the continent of North america which before the treaty of Paris in 1763. or in virtue of that Treaty, were acknowledged to belong to the Crown of Great Britain, or to the United States heretofore called British Colonies, or which are at this Time or have lately been under the Power of The King and Crown of Great Britain.

Miquelon-Langlade is the less populated of the two communes ( municipalities ) making up the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, in North America.

After the Seven Years ' War ended in 1763, France abandoned claims on Canada ( except for the two small islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon ) and Great Britain gave the West Indies islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique and some others back to France in the Treaty of Paris, at which time France limited its activities to parts of North America south of present-day Canada.

It may also include communities in little parts of Canada ( Eastern Ontario, small communities in Manitoba, and Western New Brunswick ), Saint Pierre et Miquelon, New England, the Mid-Western states, Louisiana, California, New York, Florida, Mexico ( state ), Mexico City, Sinaloa, Jalisco, and Veracruz in North America.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United States, Canada, French possessions of St. Pierre and Miquelon, Bermuda, the US territories in the Pacific of Guam, Wake Island, Northern Mariana Islands and three states in free association with the United States-Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia-is officially organized as the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.

The destructiveness of the Luftwaffe ( air force ) and Kriegsmarine ( navy ) in the Battle of Britain and Battle of the Atlantic alarmed military planners in the United States who theorized that the Nazis could in future establish a beachhead on the island of Newfoundland and the adjacent French islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon and use it for launching air attacks and eventually land and sea attacks on the industrial heartland of North America.

* Saint Pierre and Miquelon ( France )-observes North American DST rules

Located in the North Atlantic, west of Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula, it covers a total of 35 square miles ( 91 km² ), and is linked to Miquelon Island by an 8-mile ( 12 km ) sandy isthmus called La Dune that was formed in the late 18th century.

The minister, describing the attacks which led up to the appeal, said that 60,000 Communist North Vietnamese were fighting royal army troops on one front -- near Thakhek, in southern-central Laos.

A 62-year-old Smithfield man, Lester E. Stone of 19 Beverly Circle, was in satisfactory condition last night at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, North Providence, with injuries suffered when a car he was driving struck a utility pole on Woonasquatucket Avenue in North Providence near Stevens Street.

South Australia was officially proclaimed as a new British colony on 28 December 1836, near The Old Gum Tree in what is now the suburb of Glenelg North.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

Among these may be mentioned: the Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona ; Red Feather Lakes, near Ft Collins, Colorado ; Amethyst Mountain, Texas ; Yellowstone National Park ; Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; Haywood County, North Carolina ; Deer Hill and Stow, Maine and in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada.

They settled down near Kurile Lake, which was inhabited by the Kamchatka Ainu and North Kuril Ainu.

From his fort at Athelney, an island in the marshes near North Petherton, Alfred was able to mount an effective resistance movement, rallying the local militias from Somerset, Wiltshire and Hampshire.

However, some believe that Amos was actually from a Tekoa in the North, near Galilee.

The average elevation of the continent approximates closely to above sea level, roughly near to the mean elevation of both North and South America, but considerably less than that of Asia,.

The aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California on Friday, 5 May 1972.

In 2006, shortly after Hurricane Ernesto affected Bath, North Carolina, eleven year-old Kevin Schanze discovered a piece of metal debris on the ground near his beach home.

Annual sunshine hours vary from 2200 near Cranbrook and Victoria to less than 1300 in Prince Rupert, located on the North Coast, just south of the Alaska Panhandle.

After successfully ransoming its inhabitants, he ran Queen Anne's Revenge aground on a sandbar near Beaufort, North Carolina.

* In Scotland, Western Europe's largest hot strip steel mill Ravenscraig steelworks, near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, was closed by British Steel in 1992, leading to huge unemployment in the area.

A five-masted schooner built in 1919, the Carroll A. Deering was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on January 31, 1921.

There is a spectacular viewing point on the top of the cliffs opposite the entrance to the Céide Fields near Ballycastle in North Mayo.

The Merchandise Mart, once first on the list of largest buildings in the world, and still listed as 20th, has its own ZIP code, and stands near the junction of the North and South branches of the Chicago River.

Mather was buried on Copp's Hill, near Old North Church.

It was built in 1850 as a shooting lodge and was part of the Hesleyside estate ( Hesleyside house is situated in the North Tyne valley near Bellingham ).

The biggest CBD of Casablanca and Maghreb is in the North of the town in Sidi Maarouf near the mosque of Hassan II and the biggest project of skycrapers of Maghreb and Africa Casablanca Marina.

Circuit Park Zandvoort is a motorsport race track located in Burgemeester van Alphenstraat 108, 2041 KP in the dunes north of the town of Zandvoort, in the Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line.

The North West Company's Fort Nez Percés was established near the Snake River junction several years later.

Several of the levels take place near the North Pole.

* 1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.