The Navy had an estimated 2, 500 personnel whose major naval units consisted of nine patrol / coastal vessels from Spain and France.

The Norte Chico civilization included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru.

Some predominantly coastal areas have become major tourist centres, such as parts of Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, the South Shore of Nova Scotia and the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Bay of Fundy coasts of New Brunswick.

In the coastal town of Paldiski, the removal of waste left by Soviet army nuclear reactors was also a major concern.

Cultivation of crops is limited to the coastal area, where the population is largely concentrated ; rice and manioc are the major crops.

Before the arrival of the Europeans, the African slave trade, centuries old in Africa, was not yet the major feature of the coastal economy of Guinea.

Settlement was concentrated in cities along the coastal plain and along major communication routes ; the central and northern hill country which would later become the biblical kingdom of Israel was only sparsely inhabited although letters from the Egyptian archives indicate that Jerusalem was already a Canaanite city-state recognising Egyptian overlordship.

This is attributed to the fact that Ghana's Hausa population descend from Hausa-Fulani traders settled in the zongo districts of major trade-towns up and down the previous Asante, Gonja and Dagomba kingdoms stretching from the sahel to coastal regions, in particular the cities of Tamale, Salaga, Bawku, Bolgatanga, Achimota, Nima and Kumasi.

However, bulk freight still continues to be transported by coastal shipping and by rail transport, and there are attempts to ( re ) introduce public transport as a major transport mode in the larger population centres.

Several major Māori tracks were known, such as the western coastal track was used along the whole length of the North Island, and the track on the East Coast, which however left the coast near Castlepoint and rejoined it near Napier.

A major migration of Austronesian speaking peoples came to coastal regions roughly 500 BC.

Riverine services operate on almost all major Polish rivers and canals ( such as the Danube – Oder and Elbląg canals ) as well as on domestic coastal routes.

Although China's transport system comprises a vast network of transport nodes across its huge territory, the nodes tend to concentrate in the more economically developed coastal areas and inland cities along major rivers.

In 2003 China's major coastal ports handled 2. 1 billion tons of freight.

* Uncontrolled deforestation in watershed areas ; soil erosion ; air and water pollution in Manila ; increasing pollution of coastal mangrove swamps which are important fish breeding grounds ; severe water pollution that caused the death of one of the country's major rivers, though there are ongoing efforts at resuscitation.

Before its downfall, the Puerto Rico railroad system operated in all major cities, with tracks and stations along most of the coastal towns and direct lines to all major sugar refineries.

The spill had a severe impact on the coastal area surrounding Madinat ' al-Jubayl as Sinaiyah, the major industrial and population center newly planned and built by the Saudi government.

The major lowland regions are the Andalusian Plain in the southwest, the Ebro Basin in the northeast, and the coastal plains.

The region's coastal location has helped promote the Eastern Seaboard industrial development, a major factor in the economy of the region.

The slave trade began in the 16th century, and for the next two hundred years the coastal region was a major trading center for Europeans in search of slaves, earning Togo and the surrounding region the name " The Slave Coast ".

A force of nearly a dozen Fatah fighters landed their boats near a major coastal road connecting the city of Haifa with Tel Aviv-Yafo.

* April 15 – 1979 Montenegro Earthquake: A major earthquake ( 7. 0 on the Richter scale ) strikes Montenegro ( then part of Yugoslavia ) and parts of Albania, causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives ; the old town of Budva is devastated.

At first, the trade included gold, ivory, and pepper, but the establishment of American colonies in the sixteenth century spurred a demand for slaves, who soon became the major export from the West African coastal regions ( see African slave trade ).

The great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, also known as the great white, white pointer, white shark, or white death, is a species of large lamniform shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans.

The area around these features is the hydrographic nexus of South Asia since it holds the sources of the Indus and its major tributary the Sutlej, the Karnali -- a Ganges tributary -- and the Yarlung Tsangpo / Brahmaputra.

NOAA hydrographic surveys are conducted by the National Ocean Service, a uniformed corps within NOAA and a fleet of survey vessels based at two major centers.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts hydrographic surveys supporting its responsibility for the major waterway projects that include navigation and flood control.

In the development of hydrographic services, shipping organizations played a part, but the major players were the naval powers.

Central cities reveal two adverse features for the major denominations: ( 1 ) central cities tend to be areas of residence for lower social classes ; ;

It has two main features on which its distinction as a major contribution to Avicennan studies may be said to rest: the first is its clarity and readability ; the second is the comparative approach adopted by the author [...].

The D major trio features themes found in the second movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 2.

Deane and J. R. Thomson write this valid conclusion, “ The Book of Obadiah is occupied with one subject – the punishment of Edom for its cruel and unbrotherly love conduct towards Judah ...” One can link this idea of punishment to one of the major prophets “ Ezekiel ” who “... interprets the exile to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem as deserved punishments for the sins of those who themselves committed them .” Verses 3-7 in Obadiah explain to the reader the reason for the punishment theme, “ Confidence in one ’ s power, intelligence, allies, or the topographical features of one ’ s territory is often mentioned as an attribute of those who foolishly confront the Lord and are consequently punished .” Although destruction is vital to understanding Obadiah, it is of note to understand the destruction being a consequence of action.

Each major release cycle has introduced a single new major feature generally layering on top of the earlier features to add functionality to the product.

The 541-kilometer border with Laos and the 1, 228-kilometer border with Vietnam result largely from French administrative decisions and do not follow major natural features.

A good example from the late 1980s was the Ordnance Survey's first digital maps, where the absolute positions of major roads were sometimes a scale distance of hundreds of metres away from ground truth, when shown on digital maps at scales of 1: 250, 000 and 1: 625, 000, because of the overriding need to annotate the features.

Even though Doonesbury frequently features major real-life U. S. politicians, they are rarely depicted with their real faces.

One major difference between the Ramsay's family coat of arms and the university seal, is that while the Ramsay seal features a griffin and greyhound, the Dalhousie seal instead has two dragons supporting the eagle-adorned shield.

In 1926, Hollywood studio Warner Bros. introduced the " Vitaphone " system, producing short films of live entertainment acts and public figures and adding recorded sound effects and orchestral scores to some of its major features.

Most of the film noirs of the classic period were similarly low-and modestly budgeted features without major stars — B movies either literally or in spirit.

He made twenty-one features in the next twenty-one years, working in a variety of genres at every major studio in Hollywood, occasionally producing his films as an independent.

Its major interests include 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, and more than 300 magazines around the world, including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle and O, The Oprah Magazine ; 29 television stations through Hearst Television Inc. which reach a combined 18 % of U. S. viewers ; ownership in leading cable networks, including A + E Networks, and ESPN Inc .; as well as business publishing, Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

A study of victims of father – daughter incest in the 1970s showed that there were " common features " within families before the occurrence of incest: estrangement between the mother and the daughter, extreme paternal dominance, and reassignment of some of the mother's traditional major family responsibility to the daughter.

Each of the major features of a display has both a resolution and a range that are tied to each other but very different.

The western coast features many protected harbors, but silting is a major problem caused by sediment from the high levels of inland erosion carried by rivers crossing the broad western plains.

Modern shōjo manga romance features love as a major theme set into emotionally intense narratives of self-realization.

In contrast to the 1990s, fewer major animated features of the 2000s included musical numbers, as the success of Pixar and DreamWorks computer animated films ( which were not musicals ) upset Disney's dominance.

The major features of Mandriva Linux are:

* Poltergeist III features mirrors as a major theme

This was an entirely new product, not a port of the existing OS / 2, that borrowed certain sections of code from both the existing OS / 2 and AIX products while using an entirely new microkernel code base and adding major features including a system registry and a new driver model.

When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.

Python 2. 0 was released on 16 October 2000, with many major new features including a full garbage collector and support for Unicode.