In the United States, it was a controversial battle because of the island's questionable strategic value and the high casualty rate, which was the highest for U. S. military personnel of any battle in the Pacific War.

Some of the island's mountainous terrain as viewed from Snaefell, the island's highest peak.

Madagascar's highest peaks rise from three prominent highland massifs: Maromokotro on the Tsaratanana Massif is the island's highest point, followed by Boby Peak on the Andringitra Massif and Tsiafajavona on the Ankaratra Massif.

A July 2012 assessment found that exploitation of natural resources since the 2009 coup have had dire consequences for the island's wildlife: 90 percent of lemur species were found to be threatened with extinction, the highest proportion of any mammalian group.

The island's as well as the country's highest peak is the volcanic Soufrière at 1234 m. There are several tiny islets offshore of Saint Vincent including Young Island and the Cow And Calves Islands.

The Western Sakhalin Mountains peak in Mount Ichara,, while the Eastern Sakhalin Mountains's highest peak, Mount Lopatin, is also the island's highest mountain.

The so called Uwe-Düne ( Uwe Dune ) is the island's highest elevation with 52. 5 m above sea level.

OS Triangulation Pillar at the island's highest point The island is long by wide, rising to a height of above sea level at " The Glaidstone "-a large, naturally occurring rock perched on the highest summit on the island.

These occurs perhaps most notably in the area surrounding Bell Bay-where the island's highest waterfall, Horse Falls, plunges over the old sea cliffs.

Among her TV jobs as a show host, Malaret worked on the Noche de Gala, ( Gala Night Ball ) show with Eddie Miró, one of the island's highest rated TV shows during the 1970s, and 1980s, broadcasted by Telemundo.

Mount Maria is the island's highest peak at 711 metres and is approximately a six-hour return walk.

The island's highest point reaches or ( the unclimbed Brown Peak ).

The island is of volcanic origin and roughly circular ; it is about in diameter and rises to 1487 m ( nearly 5000 feet ) at the island's highest peak, Garajonay.

* Fortress of Monte Cristo on the island's highest peak ( 645 m )

The island's highest point, at the highest point on the eastern seaboard of the United States, bears the name Cadillac Mountain, and is notable for the fact that its summit is among the first points in the United States touched by the rays of the rising sun.

The highest points are Flaughton Hill at the island's centre, Fersness Hill at West Side, Vinquoy Hill to the north and Ward Hill to the south, which reaches.

At the northern tip of the island lies North Hill, the island's highest point and an RSPB nature reserve.

With a height of 756 m, Mount Strzelecki in the south west is the island's highest peak.

Mouth of Idian Cave, CreteCrete's Mount Ida is the island's highest summit, sacred to the Goddess Rhea, and wherein lies the legendary cave in which baby Zeus was concealed from his father Cronus.

In 2002, Vick set many records and supplied the media with numerous highlights for the season, including rushing for 173 yards in an overtime win at Minnesota, the highest single-game rushing total for an NFL quarterback ever ( Vick's footwear from this game are currently enshrined in the NFL Hall of Fame ).

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

Unlike many power hitters, Ruth also hit for a high batting average: his. 342 lifetime average is the tenth highest in baseball history, and in one season ( 1923 ) he batted. 393, a Yankee record.

The highest elevations of Mount Kinabalu are home to the Kinabalu mountain alpine meadow, an alpine shrubland notable for its numerous endemic species, including many orchids.

The collection of drawings covers the period from the 14th century to the present, and includes many works of the highest quality by the leading artists of the European schools.

Since it was regarded as the highest blessing to have many children, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands to atone, at least in part, if they were barren, as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar, Rachel and Bilhah.

Coins made for paying bills and general monetized use are usually used for lower-valued units, and banknotes for the higher values ; also, in many money systems, the highest value coin made for circulation is worth less than the lowest-value note.

In many navies, the rank of commodore was merely viewed as a senior captain position, whereas other naval services bestowed upon the rank of commodore the prestige of flag officer status ; commodore is the highest rank in the Irish Naval Service, for example, and is held by only one person.

The Dominican Republic is a country with many mountains, and the highest peaks of the West Indies are found here.

Today, there are many private and public, non-profit and for-profit institutions worldwide offering distance education courses from the most basic instruction through to the highest levels of degree and doctoral programs.

Since the cultivation of coffee required the highest lands in the country, many of these lands were expropriated from indigenous reserves and given or sold cheaply to those that could cultivate coffee.

It has one of the highest levels of per capita car ownership in the world, with as many motor vehicles as people.

Gothenburg University has the highest number of applicants per study place in many of its subjects and courses, and is therefore one of the most popular universities in Sweden.

This portraiture of gladiators has been the highest interest in art for many centuries now, but it was Gaius Terentius who began the practice of having pictures made of gladiatorial shows and exhibited in public ; in honour of his grandfather who had adopted him he provided thirty pairs of Gladiators in the Forum for three consecutive days, and exhibited a picture of the matches in the Grove of Diana.

At present, the highest known number of genes is around 60, 000, for the protozoan causing trichomoniasis ( see List of sequenced eukaryotic genomes ), almost three times as many as in the human genome.

The GDP growth rate has since been one of the highest of OECD countries and Finland has topped many indicators of national performance.

During this time there were many racial tensions, and Jamaica had one of the highest instances of slave uprisings of any Caribbean island.

Among the many singularities related of Radcliffe, it has been noticed that, when he was in a convivial party, he was unwilling to leave it, even though sent for by persons of the highest distinction.

When drafting the resolution, the Utah Legislature gave many reasons to recognize Jell-O, including that Utah had been the highest per capita consumer of Jell-O for many years, and how citizens of Utah had rallied to " Take Back the Title " after Des Moines, Iowa exceeded Utah in Jell-O consumption in 1999.

In 1949, the former lawyer of many Supreme Court cases, St-Laurent ended the practice of appealing Canadian legal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain, making the Supreme Court of Canada the highest avenue of legal appeal available to Canadians.

Although attendances were not recorded for many of the earliest matches at North Road, the highest documented attendance was approximately 15, 000 for a First Division match against Sunderland on 4 March 1893.

The stability of a nucleus is highest when it falls into a certain range or balance of composition of neutrons and protons ; too few or too many neutrons may cause it to decay.