La Grande Chartreuse is a Carthusian abbey north of Grenoble, France

Two volcanoes form the island's most prominent topographic features: La Grille in the north, with an elevation of 1, 000 meters, is extinct and largely eroded ; Kartala in the south, rising to a height of 2, 361 meters, last erupted in 1977.

Gallurese is spoken in the extreme north of Sardinia, including the region of Gallura and the archipelago of La Maddalena.

In 1715 the French established their first permanent settlements in Dominica following a revolt of " poor white " smallholders in the north of Martinique, known as La Gaoulé, which caused an exodus of them to southern Dominica.

On Columbus second voyage in 1493 the colony of " La Española " was founded and administered from the new settlement of La Isabela which was established on the north coast.

The settlements of La Yaguana, and Bayaja, on the west and north coasts respectively of modern day Haiti were burned, as were the settlements of Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata on the north coast and San Juan de la Maguana in the south western area of the modern day Dominican Republic.

The figurine of the Bahia Culture ( 300 BC-500 AD ) La Chimba is the site of the earliest ceramic northern Andes, north of Quito, and is representative of the Formative Period in its final stage.

The government is also developing ports and infrastructure in La Union in the east of the country, in order to use the area as a " dry canal " for transporting goods from Gulf of Fonseca in the Pacific Ocean to Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean in the north.

During his arrival, he founded the settlement of La Navidad on the north coast of present-day Haiti.

The most characteristic differences, for instance, between Roman Italian and Milanese Italian are the gemination of initial consonants and the pronunciation of stressed " e ", and of " s " in some cases: e. g. va bene " all right ": is pronounced by a Roman ( and by any standard-speaker ), by a Milanese ( and by any speaker whose native dialect lies to the north of La Spezia-Rimini Line ); a casa " at home " is for Roman and standard, for Milanese and generally northern.

Strangely enough, it also gets warmer if you go north of Lima into La Libertad or Ancash or south of Lima ( Pisco, Chincha ), at least during the day.

Pacific Beach is a neighborhood of San Diego, bounded by La Jolla to the north, Mission Beach and Mission Bay to the south, Interstate 5 to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

The longest distance yet claimed to be achieved for quantum teleportation is in May 2012 between the two Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife off the Atlantic coast of north Africa.

* The King Shaka International Airport at La Mercy, 35 km north of the Durban city centre was opened on 1 May 2010 in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup after a protracted debate over the name lasting over two years.

In July 1994, an earthquake rated at 8. 2 struck just 200 miles north of La Paz, the largest earthquake since the Sumbawa earthquake of 1977.

Looking north at the Trillizos bridges of La Paz, and a peak of its skyline

In modern-day Spain, it is usually considered to comprise a part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in the north-west, and Castile – La Mancha and Madrid in the center and the central-south-west of the country, sometimes including Cantabria and La Rioja in the north as well, for historical reasons.

Navarre, a historical kingdom in its own right, has a culture that is mainly Basque in the north and closer to that of Old Castile in the south, especially in La Rioja and Aragon, in the south.

The northern end of Lake George is visible at the bottom of the map, with the short La Chute River going north and east to join with a narrow section of Lake Champlain.

A trail is marked from the northern end of Lake George to the area near Fort Ticonderoga, which is located to the north of the mouth of the La Chute.

In antiquity, a Celtic oppidum stood on the “ Engehalbinsel ” north of Bern, fortified since the 2nd century BC ( late La Tène period ), thought to be one of the twelve oppida of the Helvetii mentioned by Caesar.

Carlos S. Menem was born in 1930 in Anillaco, a small town in the mountainous north of La Rioja Province, Argentina.

He went north of the Pyrenees in October 1130 to protect the Val d ' Aran.

Côte d ' Ivoire's terrain can generally be described as a large plateau rising gradually from sea level in the south to almost 500 m elevation in the north.

The climate of Côte d ' Ivoire is generally warm and humid, ranging from equatorial in the southern coasts to tropical in the middle and semiarid in the far north.

This is a list of the extreme points of Cote d ' Ivoire, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

From 2002 until 2011 Cote d ' Ivoire was split by the rebellion between the existing government in the south and the Forces Nouvelles in the north.

Native speakers of Hausa, the Hausa people are mostly to be found in Niger and in the north of Nigeria, but the language is used as a trade language across a much larger swathe of West Africa ( Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Côte d ' Ivoire etc.

Éisleker Ham or Jambon d ' Oesling is a speciality from the Oesling region in the north of Luxembourg.

Nonetheless, the Krahn tribe of president Doe attacked tribes in Nimba County in the north ; some northerners fled to bordering Côte d ’ Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ).

The total length of Liberia's land borders is: with Sierra Leone on the northwest, with Guinea to the north, and with Côte d ' Ivoire.

Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and Côte d ' Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west.

Paul wrote at the request of Angilram, bishop of Metz ( d. 791 ), a history of the bishops of Metz to 766, the first work of its kind north of the Alps.

# Hydrocarbon generation and migration with the presence of: a ) numerous DHIs on seismic, including gas chimneys, flat spots, bright spots, phase changes and chemosynthetic reefs ; b ) gas sniffer anomalies, involving ethane / iso-butane in the southeast and propane / normal butane / total hydrocarbon in the north and northeast ; c ) UV fluorescence anomalies, especially over the wells and in the southeast ; and d ) 4 types of beach-stranded tar that correlate to the local source rock stratigraphy.

The assault culminated in 119 BCE at the Battle of Mobei, where the Han commanders Huo Qubing ( d. 117 BCE ) and Wei Qing ( d. 106 BCE ) forced the Xiongnu court to flee north of the Gobi Desert.

Other islands include Île d ' Orléans near Quebec City, and Anticosti Island north of the Gaspé.

The coastal region extends roughly from north of Baie d ' Antongil, the most prominent feature on the east coast of the island formed by the Masoala Peninsula, to the far north of the island.

Further north is the Montagne d ' Ambre ( Ambohitra ), which is of volcanic origin.

Overall, surface water is most abundant along the east coast and in the far north ( with the exception of the area around Cap d ' Ambre, which has relatively little surface water ).

Twenty-four years later, the river hosted the rowing events again at Bassin d ' Argenteuil, along the Seine north of Paris.

Mali shares a total of 7, 243 kilometers of land boundaries with seven bordering states: Algeria ( 1, 376 kilometers ) to the north and northeast, Niger ( 821 kilometers ) to the east, Burkina Faso ( 1, 000 kilometers ) to the southeast, Côte d ’ Ivoire ( 532 kilometers ) to the south, Guinea ( 858 kilometers ) to the southwest, and Senegal ( 419 kilometers ) and Mauritania ( 2, 237 kilometers ) to the west.

To the north, the courtyard ( cour d ' honneur ) is extended by a wide public esplanade ( Esplanade des Invalides ) where the embassies of Austria and Finland are neighbours of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all forming one of the grand open spaces in the heart of Paris.

In the 1647 campaign, Thomas Francis is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.

In the 1647 campaign, Thomas is mentioned as commanding alongside the French general in the forces sent across north Italy to work with the Duke of Modena Francesco I d ' Este who had just allied with France and opened up a ' second front ' against the Spaniards in Milan, though Mazarin confessed that he had appointed Thomas only because he feared that, if left behind in Piedmont, the Prince's restless spirit would make more trouble.

The railway station — Gare de Marseille Saint-Charles — is north of the Centre Bourse in the 1st arrondissement ; it is linked by the Boulevard d ' Athènes to the Canebière.