Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.

A precision transit is set up so that it is aligned with respect to true north.

Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.

However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

More than 10 companies maintain facilities in Dallas and one large manufacturer is located to the north at Sherman.

Ontario's foliage is most vivid from about Sept. 23 to Oct. 10, with both Muskoka ( 100 miles north of Toronto ) and Haliburton ( 125 miles northwest of Toronto ) holding color cavalcades starting Sept. 23.

It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

In 2012, it is the parallel of latitude that runs north of the Equator.

The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.

The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.

The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.

He stated, " he Act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning in the territory of the United States north of the line therein is not warranted by the Constitution and is therefore void.

The bridge is part of State Route 84, and is directly connected to Interstate 880 by a freeway segment north of the Fremont end.

Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea and connected waterways to the southeast.

The earliest extant samples of connected ( north ) Estonian are the so-called Kullamaa prayers dating from 1524 and 1528.

Afghanistan seems in prehistory, as well as in ancient and modern times, to have been closely connected by culture and trade with the neighbouring regions to the east, west, and north.

Pei's design placed the rigid shoebox at an angle to the surrounding street grid, connected at the north end to a long rectangular office building, and cut through the middle with an assortment of circles and cones.

The new city market will be across the river from where the Accident Fund Insurance Company is renovating the former ( art deco ) Ottawa Street Powerplant into their new headquarters, as well as the addition of modern buildings to the north that will be connected by an atrium.

Lausanne is connected to the A1 motorway on its west side ( Geneva-Zurich axis ) and to the A9 on its north and east side ( for transit with Italy and France ); the interchange between these two motorways is on the north-west side of the city.

The city is connected to Arnhem, to the north, by a " fietssnelweg " ( fast cycle highway ) which crosses the Snelbinder bridge in the city.

The district is connected by Tilburg Reeshof railway station and multiple roads that encircle the district plus the industrial development Vossenberg north of the Wilhelminakanaal.

According to Hill and Worthington, dykes in the far north and south may have different dates, and though they may be connected with Offa's Dyke, there is as yet no compelling evidence behind this.

To defend against barbarian tribes from the north, Qin Shi Huang ordered the old walls of Yan, Zhao, and Qin to be connected.

The U. S. commanders ' initial goal was to pin down German forces in the area to keep them from reinforcing the front lines further north in the Battle of Aachen, where the Allies were fighting a trench war between a network of fortified towns and villages connected with field fortifications, tank traps and minefields.

At the end of the republic, however, or at latest at the beginning of the imperial period, the city of Circei was no longer at the east end of the promontory, but on the east shores of the Lago di Paola ( a lagoon — now a considerable fishery — separated from the sea by a line of sandhills and connected with it by a channel of Roman date: Strabo speaks of it as a small harbor ) north of the west end of the promontory.

Work began in 486 BC, south of Yangzhou to north of Huai ' an in Jiangsu, and within three years the Han Gou had connected the Yangtze River to the Huai River by means of existing waterways, lakes, and marshes.

A very considerable outlyer, whose chief summits are the Schärhorn and the Gross Windgällen, belonging to the canton of Uri, is connected with the Tödi by the range of the Clariden, north to the Hüfi Glacier.

The city is connected to Parakou in the north of the country by the Benin-Niger railway.

The cape is the eastern tip of a high, rocky headland, about from Uelen in the north to Cape Pe ' ek in the south, connected to the mainland by a neck of lower-lying land peppered with swamps and shallow lakes.

On the east it is connected with the Atlantic Ocean by Hudson Strait ; on the north, with the Arctic Ocean by Foxe Basin ( which is not considered part of the bay ), and Fury and Hecla Strait.

Bennelong was a member of the Wangal clan, connected with the south side of Parramatta River, having close ties with the Wallumedegal clan, on the north side of the river, and the Burramattagal clan near today's Parramatta.

It is bounded on three sides by water: to the north by Pont Creek, to the west by the River Fowey and to the south by the English Channel and neighbours village Bodinnick to the north, connected by a 4 mile walk along the hill tops.

The last-named peak is connected with the Selbsanft by a massive wall of precipitous rocks enclosing the glacier on the east side, and forcing it, after descending at first nearly due east, to bend round first to north-east, and then due north.

Close to the refectory, but outside the cloisters, were the domestic offices connected with it: to the north, the kitchen, 47 ft ( 14 m ) square ( 200 m2 ), with a pyramidal roof, and the kitchen court ; to the west, the butteries, pantries, etc.