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Near the coast there are areas where the dunes are vegetated with hammocks.
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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 center of the coast lies Little Harbor, a large inlet divided from the ocean by Beach Island.
Near Esbjerg on the west coast stands Svend Wiig Hansen's enormous sculpture of four chalky white figures gazing out at the sea.
Near the fourteenth century AD, Māori arrived in Heretaunga or Hawke's Bay, settling in the river valleys and along the coast where food was plentiful.
Near the coast, the cold ocean water is rich in fishery resources and supports populations of brown fur seals and shorebirds, which serve as prey for the Skeleton Coast's lions.
Near the 1995 new year, Misawa experienced two earthquakes — 7. 5 and 7. 9 on the Richter scale at the epicenter off the coast of Hachinohe.
She established a coast patrol on Cythera and Antikythera to protect her trade route to Constantinople ; Cythera was one of the islands Venice continued to hold destpire the Greek reconquest of Constantinople and the Turkish presence all over the Near East.
Although there was a lively trade between the Near East and India via Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf, the most direct route to India in the 1st century was via Alexandria and the Red Sea, taking advantage of the Monsoon winds, which could carry ships directly to and from the Malabar coast.
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.
Near the coast of Natal in South Africa, the team spent two seasons attempting to film the annual sardine run, a huge congregation of predators such as sharks and dolphins that assembles to feast on the migrating fish by corralling them into ' bait balls '.
Near the coast of the Bentiaba desert have been found Late Cretaceous fossils of sharks, turtles, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and sauropods.
Near the mouth of the river, the only dinosaur fragments ever discovered in Oregon were found in the Otter Point Formation, along the coast of Curry County.
Near the coast, the depths are shallower than but they rapidly increase northwards up to a few kilometers, transforming into a massive platform which is geologically similar to that of the oceans.
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Hill Top, Near Sawrey – Potter's former home, now owned by the National Trust and preserved as it was when she lived and wrote her stories there.
Ethnographical fieldwork was carried out in places as diverse as New Guinea, Madagascar, Romania, Guatemala and Indonesia and there were excavations in the Near East, Egypt, Sudan and the UK.
However, the collapse of the Near Eastern trading system pointed to a flaw: in an era where there was no place that was safe to store value, the value of a circulating medium could only be as sound as the forces that defended that store.
Near the Senegal border there have been historic sightings of the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus, but that endangered canid may now be extirpated in that locale.
Near Port Stanley, there is an Indian village dating from the 16th century known as the Southwold Earthworks where as many as 800 Neutral Indians once lived ; the archaeological remains include double earth walls winding around the grass – covered perimeter.
Near the south-east shore of Lake Malawi there is a high range ( with an abrupt descent to the lake-some in.
Near Torzhok there was a similar situation, as increased air traffic was created by a rescue effort for an air crash that had happened the previous day.
Near the end of her time as governor general, Adrienne Clarkson stated: " My constitutional role has lain in what are called ' reserve powers ': making sure that there is a prime minister and a government in place, and exercising the right ' to encourage, to advise, and to warn '[...] Without really revealing any secrets, I can tell you that I have done all three.
Although there are depictions of sieges from the ancient Near East in historical sources and in art, there are very few examples of siege systems that have been found archaeologically.
Nevertheless, there is some consensus that iron technology originated in the Near East, perhaps in Eastern Anatolia.
* Near to Hawarden in the town of Mancot, there is a small hospital named after Catherine Gladstone.
This period followed the Bronze Age collapse in the Near East, and the century saw the Early Iron Age take hold there.
Near the end of the short election campaign, there appeared in the press the text of a letter purporting to have originated from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Executive Committee of the Communist International ( Comintern ) and Arthur MacManus, the British representative to ECCI, and addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Near the center of the caldera there is a mound called the " resurgent dome " that was formed by magmatic uplift.
Near Barrage Cavagnac, there is a hydroelectric dam that has created the artificial lake Lalla Takerkoust.
Near Regensburg there are two very imposing Classical buildings, erected by Ludwig I of Bavaria as national monuments to German patriotism and greatness.
Near Glacier Point there is 2, 000 feet ( 600 m ) of mostly glacial sediment with at least six separate sequences of Lake Yosemite sediments.
Near the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was an effort to extend the province system of China proper to the rest of the empire.
In the Ancient Near East along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers there were many shrines and temples or " houses of heaven " dedicated to various deities documented by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus in The Histories where sacred prostitution was a common practice.
There were many stretches of sun-scorched desert in Near Harad, but there was supposedly a jungle beyond it which few had ever ventured to, from which the great Oliphaunts were found.
Near the site there is now a museum, and monuments of remembrance of those transported and killed during World War II.
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