One of the few Inca sites the Spanish never found in their conquest was Machu Picchu, which lay hidden on a peak on the eastern edge of the Andes where they descend to the Amazon.

The Baltic Sea might be considered to be bordered on its northern edge by the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, and on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga.

The eastern border lies along the edge of the Nile river watershed.

Over the years, the Nile gradually shifted westward, providing the site between the eastern edge of the river and the Mokattam highlands on which the city now stands.

Cadillac sits on the eastern edge of the Manistee National Forest and the surrounding area is heavily wooded with mixed hardwood and conifer forests.

The commercial center of the city is located on the eastern edge of Lake Cadillac.

The majority of the population of the town lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada.

* National Road No. 2, Kisangani-Bukavu – Goma, connecting the principal waterway systems of the country, namely Kinshasa-Kisangani on the Congo River and the Lake Kivu and Lake Tanganyika systems on the eastern edge of the country.

This is located on the eastern edge of the bomber ramp on Diego Garcia.

There are also large pockets of Barringtonia asiatica on the eastern edge of the lagoon.

The Sumida River ( then called the Great River, 大川 ), ran along the eastern edge of the city.

tropical ; heavy year-round rainfall, especially in the eastern islands ; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasionally severe damage

These are the Jakobshavn Isbræ at Ilulissat on the western edge of Greenland, and the Kangerdlugssuaq and Helheim glaciers on the eastern edge of Greenland.

The closest foreign nations to Westeros are the Free Cities, a collection of independent city-states along the western edge of this eastern continent.

Birds include the Chestnut-breasted Whiteface ( Aphelocephala pectoralis ) found on the eastern edge of the desert and the malleefowl of Mamungari Conservation Park.

In terms of the local climate, Hastings is on the eastern edge of what is, on average, the sunniest part of the UK, the stretch of coast from the Isle of Wight to the Hastings area.

The growth of Baghdad, for example, was restricted by dikes on its eastern edge.

The western edge of this plateau country forms an escarpment along the eastern side of the Jordan River-Dead Sea depression and its continuation south of the Dead Sea.

* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.

It is anchored by Frandor Shopping Center on the very eastern edge of the eastside.

About 25, 000 BP, displacement occurred along the Cadell fault, raising the eastern edge of the fault ( which runs north-south ) 8 – 12 metres above the floodplain.

Masada ( Hebrew מצדה, pronounced, from מצודה, metzuda, " fortress ") is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the Southern District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau, or horst, on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea.

* Buffalo National Park, former national park in eastern Alberta, Canada

The eastern Somali region ( Ogaden ) hosts a large nomadic Somali population and is a conflict area where Ethiopian regular forces are fighting against Ogaden National Liberation Front ( ONLF ).

Its eastern terminus is in Fremont, near Newark in the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, and its western terminus is in Menlo Park.

On both sides of the eastern terminus of the bridge are large salt ponds and levee trails belonging to the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

Moncton grew rapidly during the early 20th century, particularly after provincial lobbying helped the city become the eastern terminus of the massive National Transcontinental Railway project in 1912.

The Great Falls ( Passaic River ) | Great Falls of the Passaic River in Paterson, New Jersey | Paterson, dedicated as a U. S. National Park in November 2011, incorporates one of the largest waterfall s in the eastern United States.

The Nationals hold a larger membership base than either the Liberal or Labor Parties, although in the larger eastern states its vote is in decline and its traditional supporters are turning instead to prominent independents such as Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Peter Andren in Federal Parliament and similar independents in the Parliaments of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, many of whom are former members of the National Party.

One photograph taken at 02: 33 am shows an okapi feeding in the Watalinga forest in the north of the Virunga National Park in eastern DRC, thus providing evidence that they do not only feed during the daytime.

Beginning in 1991, red wolves were also released into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in eastern Tennessee.

After that, a larger project was executed in 1987 to reintroduce a permanent population of red wolves back to the wild in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge ( ARNWR ) on the eastern coast of North Carolina.

Taroko National Park, located on the mountainous eastern side of the island, has good examples of mountainous terrain, gorges and erosion caused by a swiftly flowing river.

Taroko National Park, located on the mountainous eastern side of the island, has good examples of mountainous terrain, gorges and erosion caused by a swiftly flowing river.

The Ridgeway meets the more recent ( 1997 ) Thames Path National Trail at the Goring Gap, where both trails use opposite banks of the River Thames between Goring-on-Thames and Mongewell ; the Thames Path following the western bank and the Ridgeway the eastern.

Located in Washington, D. C., it sits atop Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall.

Trace deposits have been found as far northeast as Banff National Park in Alberta, and as far southeast as eastern Oregon.

The Rio Grande rises in the eastern part of the Rio Grande National Forest in the U. S. state of Colorado.

When the Lumumbists formed the Conseil National de Libération, he was sent to eastern Congo to help organize a revolution, in particular in the Kivu and North Katanga provinces.

* Giant Sequoia National Monument, in eastern central California

Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located in northeastern Mariposa County, California, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley — possibly Yosemite's most familiar rock formation.

Beaulieu is a small village located on the south eastern edge of the New Forest national park in Hampshire, England and home to both Palace House and the British National Motor Museum.

Beyond the National Road's eastern terminus at Cumberland and toward the Atlantic coast, a series of private turnpikes were completed in 1824, connecting the National Road ( Pike ) with Baltimore, Maryland and its port on Chesapeake Bay ; these feeder routes formed what is referred to as an eastern extension of the National Road.