The neoclassical architect, Sir Robert Smirke, was asked to draw up plans for an eastern extension to the Museum "... for the reception of the Royal Library, and a Picture Gallery over it ..." and put forward plans for today's quadrangular building, much of which can be seen today.

The older hypothesis is that it lies in a true rift zone, an extension of the Red Sea Rift, or even of the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa.

The period saw the start of direct recruitment from the Caribbean and the repair and replacement of stock and stations damaged during the war as well as completion of delayed projects such as the Central Line eastern extension.

** Namsang – Moe-Ne 44 · 3 First isolated section of eastern extension of Thazi-Shwenyaung line

The eastern hills and mountains, an extension of a plateau in southern Brazil, dominate the region, whose highest point is about above sea level.

The Sistema Penibético extends northeast from the southern tip of Spain, running parallel to the coast until it merges with the southern extension of the Sistema Ibérico near the Rio Júcar and with the eastern extension of the Sierra Morena.

Silesia has undergone a similar notional extension at its eastern extreme.

In 2011, Turkmenistan agreed to build a 150-km extension to a railway line which will connect the eastern part of Turkmenistan to Andkhoi border town in Faryab province of Afghanistan.

The north-south extension of Veneto is from the Austrian border to the mouth of the Po and its east-west extension is from the eastern shore of Lake Garda on the west to the mouth of the river Tagliamento on the east.

At the end of the 19th century, the western European market — and by extension their overseas empires — was dominated by French and Spanish brandies, and eastern Europe was dominated by brandies from the Black Sea region, including Bulgaria, the Crimea, and Georgia.

The Dorsal, the eastern extension of the Atlas Mountains, runs across Tunisia in a northeasterly direction from the Algerian border in the west to the Cape Bon peninsula in the east.

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.

The mountain range is called Patkai Bum and is the eastern extension of the Himalayas.

The two descent craft landed about apart, just east of the eastern extension of an elevated region known as Phoebe Region.

The Bear River Mountains, the northernmost extension of the Wasatch Range, which reach as high as 10, 000 feet ( 3048 m ), cover the eastern half of the county.

In 1180-4, in place of the old, square-ended, eastern chapel, the present Trinity chapel was constructed, a broad extension with an ambulatory designed to house the shrine of St Thomas Becket.

This ocean is generally regarded as an eastern extension of the Tethys Ocean.

Irkutsk Oblast consists mostly of the hills and broad valleys of the Central Siberian Plateau and of its eastern extension, the Patom Plateau.

The western half of the county is an extension of the Western Plains and is considered to be within the eastern fringes of Texas Hill Country and has an average elevation of.

The eastern part of the county contains the Osage Hills, an extension of the Flint Hills in Kansas.

Available funds were directed towards completing the eastern extension of the Central line instead, and the Northern Heights plan was dropped on 9 February 1954.

For decades, Chile claimed ownership of land on the eastern side of the Andes.

Stilicho also claimed to be the guardian of Arcadius, causing much rivalry between the western and eastern courts.

Once there, Gallus claimed that it was Constantina who was to blame for all the trouble that had been caused while he was in charge of the eastern provinces.

In 1985, it was briefly claimed that an early Syriac copy of this gospel had been found near Hakkâri in eastern Turkey.

The eastern boundary below the 31st parallel was unclear ; the U. S. claimed the land as far as the Perdido River, and Spain claimed the border of its Florida Colony remained the Mississippi river.

For decades after those wars, the land around eastern Lake Erie was claimed and utilized by the Iroquois as a hunting ground.

From the summer of 1780 until May 1784, Point du Sable managed the Pinery, a tract of woodlands claimed by British Lt. Patrick Sinclair on the St. Clair River in eastern Michigan.

He died in 210 BC, while on a trip to the far eastern reaches of his empire in an attempt to procure an elixir of immortality from Taoist magicians, who claimed the elixir was stuck on an island guarded by a sea monster.

The rest of Burma was to be under Japanese control, On 10 May 1942, the Thai Phayap Army entered Burma's eastern Shan State, which had been claimed by Siamese kingdoms.

Norway which had become independent of Sweden in 1905 eventually protested and claimed Eric the Red's Land in eastern Greenland in 1931.

Ito and Mutsu claimed that yielding the full sovereignty of Taiwan was an absolute condition and requested Li to hand over full sovereignty of Penghu Islands and the eastern portion of the bay of Liaodong Peninsula.

Both states claimed the land, the Toledo Strip, which was named for the port city of Toledo at its eastern end.

Some have claimed that there is also a definite eastern element within Heidegger's philosophy.

The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, attempted to unite all the people they claimed were " Germans " ( Volksdeutsche ) into one realm, including ethnic Germans in eastern Europe, many of whom had emigrated more than one hundred fifty years before and developed separate cultures in their new lands.

It may have had limited or entirely notional influence over some of the tributary states in included Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, Kalimantan and eastern Indonesia over which of authority was claimed in the Nagarakertagama.

China claims an EEZ extending to the eastern end of the Chinese continental shelf ( based on UNCLOS III ) which goes deep into the Japanese's claimed EEZ.

In an essay published in 1862, Treitschke praised the " pitiless racial struggle " of Germans against Lithuanians, Poles and Old Prussians, he claimed that " magic " emaneted from " eastern German soil " which had been " fertilised " by " noble German blood ".

That same year the American sealing captain Benjamin Morrell claimed to have seen land some 10 – 12 ° east of the sea's actual eastern boundary.

Critics of Martin's cuts claimed that he was in a distinct conflict of interest as his family through Canada Steamship Lines and various subsidiary and affiliated companies had once had a significant investment in the Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines, an intercity bus line in Quebec and eastern Ontario that is a key competitor of Via Rail.

Argentina had previously claimed all of the strait, or at least the eastern third of it.

Though it is often claimed to be the third largest island on the eastern seaboard of the United States, it is actually second behind Long Island ( and ahead of Martha's Vineyard ).

In 1770 Cook claimed the whole of eastern Australia for the British Crown, and sailed through the strait after proceeding up the eastern coast of the continent.