The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3, 098 m, and others above 3, 000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, finishing near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.

Near the confluence of the Illinois with the La Moine River, it turns south, flowing roughly parallel to the Mississippi across southwestern Illinois.

Near Malta, it turns north, then southeast, flowing past Glasgow and joining the Missouri in Valley County, Montana, downstream from Fort Peck Dam.

Near the eastern end of Townsend, SR73 turns southeast from US-321 and heads straight into the national park.

Near Fremont the Platte turns sharply and flows south-southeast about to about Waterloo, Nebraska -- located about west of Omaha.

Near Waterloo the Platte turns even more and heads almost due south for about.

Near Wolcott, it turns west, flowing past Eagle and Gypsum, and joins the Colorado at Dotsero, in western Eagle County.

Near Mogadishu, it turns sharply southwest, where it follows the coast.

Near Glen, Montana it turns northeast and joins the Beaverhead River near Twin Bridges to form the Jefferson.

Near the state line with Montana, it turns abruptly southeast and flows in western South Dakota, past Belle Fourche and around the north side of the Black Hills.

Near Chatham it turns north, forming the boundary between Morris and Essex counties.

Near White Haven and Middleburg it turns south, following a zigzag whitewater course through Lehigh Gorge State Park to Jim Thorpe, then southeast, past Lehighton.

Near Shoppingtown Mall, NY 5 turns east onto Genesee Street to begin an overlap with NY 92.

Near Wren, it turns north, crosses under Route 20 again, turns east, receives Gellatly Creek and La Bare Creek, both from the left, and passes under Oregon Route 223 at about from the mouth.

Near Ottoville in western Putnam County it turns north-northwest for its lower and joins the Auglaize from the south near Melrose in eastern Paulding County.

Near the end of the game, his Whip of Alchemy turns into the more destructive Vampire Killer.

Near Mount Jefferson it turns sharply west, descending through a canyon past Idanha and Detroit to Niagara County Park where the valley begins to widen and some agriculture use begins.

Near a junction with Vicksburg Road in Vicksburg, the railroad turns away from SR 72 as the roadway heads southeast.

Near Rainbow Campground the river turns north and is paralleled by U. S. Route 101.

Near Bonanza, the river turns west and passes through Olene Gap, about east of Klamath Falls.

Near its confluence with the South Fork it then turns west and rushes through a gorge in which it drops over the North Fork Falls, a powerful plunge at least high.

Near White River, the highway enters Algoma District and turns southward.

Near the Woodside Avenue exit, SR 67 turns to the northeast, paralleling the San Diego River and entering the unincorporated area of Eucalyptus Hills.

The Chicago River is the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )

The city, along with the rest of southern Mesopotamia and much of the Near East, Asia Minor, North Africa and southern Caucasus, fell to the north Mesopotamian Assyrian Empire from the 10th to late 7th centuries BC.

Near the end of its mission, the Phoenix Lander detected more thin clouds close to the north pole of Mars.

The main hypotheses are that they are indigenous, probably stemming from the Villanovan culture, or that they are the result of invasion from the north or the Near East.

Among the offering recovered from the cave, the most spectacular are decorated bronze shields with patterns that draw upon north Syrian originals and a bronze gong on which a god and his attendants are shown in a distinctly Near Eastern style.

Near the north end of Loch Lomond, which can be reached by boat from the Clyde, lies Clach nam Breatann, the Rock of the Britains, which is thought to have gained its name as a marker at the northern limit of Alt Clut.

Sippar ( Sumerian: Zimbir ) was an ancient Near Eastern city on the east bank of the Euphrates river, located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah in Iraq's Babil Governorate, some 60 km north of Babylon and 30 km southeast of Baghdad.

Terrell Hills is bordered on west by Alamo Heights, on the east by Fort Sam Houston, on the north by Uptown San Antonio, and on the south by San Antonio's Near East Side.

Near the Cowie Bridge, at the north of Stonehaven, was a prior historic fishing village known as Cowie, which area has now been subsumed into Stonehaven.

Near its perimeter the park terrain is about in the north and in the south and climbs to at the summit of the Brocken.

* Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides, first described by Temminck in 1829, is found in the Canary Islands through north Africa and the Near East to Mesopotamia.

Near the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu became a great power under King Helu of Wu, and was able to defeat in 484 BC the state of Qi, a major power in the north in modern-day Shandong province, and contest for the position of overlord over all states of China.

Near the tracks, a large market ( Central Market ) and a railroad station rose on the north side of the Mall.

Near the village of Taginae ( traditionally located somewhere to the north of modern Gualdo Tadino ), Narses encountered the Ostrogothic army commanded by King Totila, who had been advancing to intercept him.

Near the end of the 20th century the advent of satellite-based Global Positioning Systems ( GPS ) provided yet another means for any individual to determine true north accurately.

Near the town centre is Maumbury Rings, an ancient British henge earthwork converted by the Romans for use as an amphitheatre, and to the north west is Poundbury Hill, another pre-Roman fortification.

They inhabit the dry hot regions of north Africa, Ethiopia, Near East and western to central Asia.

Both cemeteries such as the Kerameikos in Athens or Lefkandi and sanctuaries such as Olympia, recently-founded Delphi or the Heraion of Samos, first of the colossal free-standing temples, are richly provided with offerings including items from the Near East, from Egypt and from Italy made of exotic materials such as amber or ivory, while exports of Greek pottery demonstrate contact with the Levant coast at such sites as Al Mina and with the region of the Villanovan culture to the north of Rome.

However, in 1941 British forces successfully fought Vichy forces for control of Syria and Lebanon, thus removing the threat of invasion from the north, at least as long as German armies in Eastern Europe could be held back by the Red Army and thus unable to easily advance towards the Near East from the north.

Near Garner, US 69 briefly heads west concurrent with US 18, but soons splits off from it and heads north.

Near the rim of the canyon, the highway curves north out of the Brea Canyon, and descends slightly to a junction with the Pomona Freeway ( SR 60 ) in Diamond Bar, right on the edge of the San Gabriel Valley.

2009 view from Lake Shore Drive of Chicago River, the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( with: en: Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )