Some documents suggest that Beaghmore translates into English as ' the moor of the birches ' but this is plainly wrong, as there is no Irish word for moor that sounds like the English word moor ( the usual word is caorán )-Mackay's Dictionary of Ulster Place-names says that it is from an Bheitheach Mhór, meaning " big place of birch trees "; a name that reflects the fact that the area was a woodland before being cleared by Neolithic farmers.

Most of these have not been positively identified, but the name Aramis / Aranus / Armis was suggested to be the River Erme by Rivet and Smith in The Place-names of Roman Britain ( 1979 ).

Since Nansen Island has now become established for the larger feature, the new name Enterprise Island has been given to the smaller island by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee ( UK-APC ), commemorating the enterprise of the whalers who made the anchorage at the south side of the island at Foyn Harbor, a major center of summer industry during the period 1916-1930.

According to Esther Munroe Swift's book " Vermont Place-names: Footprints of History " the town of Johnson is named for the American jurist, statesman and educator William Samuel Johnson.

He is best known for his The Celtic Place-names of Scotland ( 1926 ), based on 30 years of work.

This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in which the name " Antarctic Peninsula " was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names Graham Land and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively.

“ A Key to English Place-names ” has an entry for Shifnal that reads '* Scuffa's nook of land '.

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee after David Brunt, British meteorologist, Physical Secretary of the Royal Society, 1948 – 57, who was responsible for the initiation of the Royal Society Expedition to this ice shelf in 1955.

A similar system ( differing from the former in the treatment of letters ъ, у, and digraphs ай, ей, ой and уй ), called the " Streamlined System " by Ivanov ( 2003 ) and Gaidarska ( 1998 ), was adopted in 1995 for use in Bulgarian-related place names in Antarctica by the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria.

Danco Island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from the Norsel in 1955, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee for Emile Danco ( 1869 – 1898 ), a Belgian geophysicist and member of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, who died on board the Belgica in the Antarctic.

Norsel Point was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee ( UK-APC ) for the Norwegian sealing vessel Norsel, which was chartered by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ) for the 1954-1955 summer season to establish the station at Arthur Harbor.

Latady Island was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee ( UK-APC ) for William R. Latady, aerial photographer and navigator on the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition ( RARE ) flight.

It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee ( UK-APC ) for Douglas B. Litchfield of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ), general assistant and mountaineer at the Arthur Harbor station in 1955 who helped with the local survey and made numerous soundings through the sea ice in the vicinity of the island.

Place-names derived from fearsad include Fersit, and Belfast.

According to Adrian Room ’ s book Place-names of the World, the name Etna is said to have originated from a Phoenician word meaning " furnace.

Ivanov et al., Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands ( from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution ), 1: 100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005.

So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee ( UK-APC ) in 1958 because a member of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ) at the Arthur Harbor station spent some time on this island alone in January 1957, making survey observations.

The Place-names of Roman Britain.

Place-names often allow us to deduce the existence of historic Pictish settlements in Scotland.

* Nicolaisen, W. H. F., Scottish Place-names.

* Ross, David, Scottish Place-names.

Place-names in classical mythology: Greece ABC-CLIO, 1989. pg.

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* Place-names, Diarmuid O Murchadha and Kevin Murray, in The Heritage of Ireland, ed.

( 2004 ) The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland.

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* Robert E. Bell ( 1989 ) Place-names in classical mythology: Greece, ABC-CLIO, 350 pages ISBN 0-87436-507-4

* Watson, William J., The Celtic Place-names of Scotland.

( 2004 ) The History of the Celtic Place-names of Scotland.

Place-names such as Fermanagh are thought to reflect their presence in north-western Ireland.

William J. Watson's The Celtic Place-names of Scotland gives the origin as Dúnrath, and suggests that it may be a reference to a broch.

In The Place-names of Lancashire, Ekwall supports an early 10th century coinage citing Ahemundesnes and the late 11th century Agmundrenesse.

Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

The fact that Jess's horse had not been returned to its stall could indicate that Diane's information had been wrong, but Curt didn't interpret it this way.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

Also, we should not even to-day discount the fact that a region such as the coastal lowlands centering on Charleston had closer ties with England and the West Indies than with the North even after independence.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

Even earlier than that he had resented the fact that I had been chosen to edit the club's Reporter.

A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

In fact, he had raised quetzal birds in his camp in the forest of Ecuador.