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area and former
The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.
The current use of exchange prefixes for each area code is listed by CNAC ; if an exchange changes from " plant test " to reclaimed or active, any former test numbers with the associated prefix are invalidated.
The area of the former NAS is now known as Alameda Point.
The choice of Bonn was made mainly due to the advocacy of West Germany's first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and a native of that area.
The former settled in the eastern coastal regions, while the latter settled primarily in the area known today as the Highveld — the large, relatively high central plateau of South Africa.
* Bourbonnais, an area derived from the former dukedom of Bourbon, France
In 1923 she bought a former deer park and vast sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farm, restoring its land, its thousands of Herdwick sheep, and establishing her as one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers in the area.
Throughout the 19th century and early 20th century, the area adjoining today's Battery Park City was known as the Greek quarter ; a long-standing reminder of the ethnic past was the former St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
In smaller boroughs, a town council was formed for the area of the abolished borough, while charter trustees were formed in other former boroughs.
The first elected trustees of the town were the slate of Denis Kearney's Workingman's Party, who were particularly favored in the working class area of the former Ocean View, now called " West Berkeley.
The Men of the Deeps are a male choral group of current and former miners from the industrial Cape Breton area.
The area formerly known as " County Dublin " is now defined in legislation solely as the " Dublin Region " under the Local Government Act, 1991 ( Regional Authorities ) ( Establishment ) Order, 1993, and this is the terminology officially used by the four Dublin administrative councils in press releases concerning the former county area.
There is a wide array of power-ups, such as a backpack that increases the player character's ammunition-carrying capacity, armor, first aid kits to restore health, the berserk pack ( a dark first aid box that puts the character into berserk mode, allowing him to deal out rocket launcher-level damage with his fists and potentially splattering former humans and imps, as well as setting the user's health to 100 % if it were lower ), supernatural blue orbs ( named soul spheres in the manuals ) that boost the player character's health up to a maximum of 200 %, nightvision, computer maps ( which show every area of the level ), partial invisibility, and protective suits that allow the player to survive in toxic acids.
The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.
The city is west of the former site of Times Beach, the site of dioxin contamination discovered in the 1980s ; the area was cleaned up and became Route 66 State Park.
The former is especially important in the area of intercultural relations and the latter in improving management operations in small businesses.
* the geographical area comprising the two westernmost provinces of the Flemish Region, West Flanders and East Flanders, parts of a former county named Flanders.
In recent years, the agency began undertaking a large-scale effort to consolidate its operations in the Washington Metropolitan Area from its main headquarters in Rockville and several fragmented office buildings in the vicinity to the former site of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in the White Oak area of Silver Spring, Maryland.
The main strongholds of the Red defence were the Workers Hall, the Railway station, the Red Headquarters of " Smolna " ( the former palace of the Russian governor-general, in southern Esplanade ), the Senate-University area, and the former Russian garrisons in Helsinki.
* 1920: Gdingen ( now named Gdynia ), along with other parts of former West Prussia, became a part of the new Republic of Poland ; simultaneously, the city of Danzig and surrounding area was declared a free city and put under the League of Nations, though Poland was given economic liberties and requisitioned for matters of foreign representation.
Roads from the Old Town valley lead towards the Victorian area of Clive Vale and the former village of Ore, from which " The Ridge ", marking the effective boundary of Hastings, extends north-westwards towards Battle.
Walking tour of the historic area of Ambridge, Pennsylvania: Being the former village of Economy, 1824 – 1902.

area and seabed
The International Seabed Authority ( ISA ) (, ) is an intergovernmental body based in Kingston, Jamaica, that was established to organize and control all mineral-related activities in the international seabed area beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, an area underlying most of the world ’ s oceans.
Studies over several years covering the key mineral area of the Central Pacific resulted in a technical study on biodiversity, species ranges and gene flow in the abyssal Pacific nodule province, with emphasis on predicting and managing the impacts of deep seabed mining A workshop at Manoa, Hawaii, in October 2007 produced a rationale and recommendations for the establishment of " preservation reference areas " in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, where nodule mining would be prohibited in order to leave the natural environment intact.
In its preamble, UNCLOS defines the international seabed areathe part under ISA jurisdiction — as “ the seabed and ocean floor and the subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction ”.
Mineral exploration and exploitation activities in any seabed area not belonging to these states would fall under ISA jurisdiction.
The International Seabed Authority Endowment Fund promotes and encourages the conduct of collaborative marine scientific research in the international seabed area through two main activities:
The surrounding elevated seabed is called the Rockall Bank, lying directly south from an area known as the Rockall Plateau.
Recent geological research has improved the likelihood of Iceland having sizable off-shore oil reserves within its 200 mile economic zone in the seabed of the Jan Mayen area.
Also, studies of seabed deposits at Caesarea have shown that a tsunami struck the area sometime between the 1st and 2nd centuries CE.
In modern times, with the shrinking of the Aral Sea, the extended " Aral Karakum " has appeared on the former seabed, with an estimated area of 15, 440 sq mi / 40, 000 km².
The treaty established guidelines for joint exploitation of seabed resources in the area of the " gap " left by then-Portuguese Timor in the maritime boundary agreed between the two countries in 1972.
According to the FAO, a fishery is typically defined in terms of the " people involved, species or type of fish, area of water or seabed, method of fishing, class of boats, purpose of the activities or a combination of the foregoing features ".
The sediment that formed the area first settled in the waters of a shallow sea, and compressive forces from a subduction zone in the mid-Paleozoic fused the seabed rocks and sediments, appending them to the continent.
Starting in the mid-Paleozoic and lasting into the early Mesozoic, a Convergent Plate Boundary transported many of the above-mentioned seabed sediments into the area of the park ( possibly during the Antler orogeny ).
Total mapping coverage of the INSS to end of 2005 was 432, 000 km² and taken along with an earlier DCENR Petroleum Affairs Division, over 81 % of the Irish designated seabed area ( at end 2005 ) has been mapped.
The INtegrated Mapping FOr the Sustainable Development of Ireland ’ s MArine Resource ( INFOMAR ) programme is a successor to the Irish National Seabed Survey ( INSS ) and concentrates on creating a range of integrated mapping products of the physical, chemical and biological features of the seabed in the near-shore area.
The low-lying areas and foothills of Mount Wellington were formed by slow geological upsurge when the whole Hobart area was a low-lying cold shallow seabed.
The Big Bank Shoals is an area on the sloping seabed between the continental shelf and the Timor Trough where a number of submerged banks are located.
In 2011 the United Nations endorsed the joint submission of Mauritius and Seychelles to extend their continental shelf of 396, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in the Mascarene region which gives the two countries sovereign right to jointly manage and exploit the seabed and subsoil of the joint area.
A 2001 survey of the seabed near McMurdo revealed 15 vehicles, 26 shipping containers, and 603 fuel drums, as well as some 1, 000 miscellaneous items dumped on an area of some 50 acres ( 20 hectares ).
At the southern end of the trench, off the coast of Marlborough, New Zealand, the seabed rises sharply, and because of the prevailing winds and tides in this area, many deep water species are found close to the shore.
The structure of the oceans, starting with the continents, begins usually with a continental shelf, continues to the continental slope – which is a steep descent into the ocean, until reaching the abyssal plain – a topographic plain, the beginning of the seabed, and its main area.
Benthos is the community of organisms which live on, in, or near the seabed, the area known as the benthic zone.

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