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The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.
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It was a home of the Royal Navy from the reign of Edward III and was twice surprised and sacked during the Hundred Years ' War, after which the mouth of the estuary was closed every night with a great chain.
By the time Lewis and Clark arrived at the mouth of the Columbia, at least 14 maritime fur traders had already visited the river's mouth and estuary.
In the coastal rainforest belt there were Bulom speakers between the Sherbro and Freetown estuaries, Loko north of the Freetown estuary to the Little Scarcies, Temne at the mouth of the Scarcies and also inland, and Limba farther up the Scarcies.
According to Smithsonian magazine, the first Fresnel lens was used in 1823 in the Cordouan lighthouse at the mouth of the Gironde estuary ; its light could be seen from more than out.
At its mouth is a large estuary on which the port city of Lisbon is situated.
After forming the border it enters Portugal, passing Vila Velha de Ródão, Abrantes, Constância, Entroncamento, Santarém and Vila Franca de Xira at the head of the long narrow estuary, which has Lisbon at its mouth.
genowe ), meaning " mouth ", i. e., estuary.
Because its demarcation line was midway between Cape Saint Roque ( northeast cape of South America ) and the mouth of the Amazon River ( its estuary is marked Todo este mar he de agua doçe ( All of this sea is fresh water ) and its river is marked Rio grande ( great river )), Harrisse concluded that the line was at 42 ° 30 ' W on our sphere.
Image: Ltspkr. pngWalcheren is a former island in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands at the mouth of the Scheldt estuary.
Strategically placed at the mouth of the River Scheldt, Walcheren was the key that allowed use of the deep-water port of Antwerp, located further upstream on the right bank of the southern estuary of the river.
The shallowest area of the estuary occurs at the mouth, where terminal glacial deposits or rock bars form sills that restrict water flow.
There is extreme spatial variability in salinity, with a range of near zero at the tidal limit of the tributary river ( s ) to 3. 4 % at the estuary mouth.
For example, New York City is located at the mouth of the Hudson River estuary.
Goat Rock Beach as viewed from the Jenner Cliffs looking south, showing the estuary | mouth of the Russian River ( California ) | Russian River at the Pacific Ocean.
Before Sandwich became a Cinque Port, the ancient Saxon town of Stonar, located on the bank of the Wantsum estuary, but on the opposite side of the mouth of the River Stour, was already well established.
** Eden Mouth ( estuary, near St Andrews ); Findhorn Bay, Montrose Basin ( estuary / lagoon with narrow entrance ); Tweed mouth ( estuary, very near Scottish border )
Spurn Point ( or Spurn Head as it is also known ) is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary.
Material is washed down the coast by longshore drift and accumulates to form the long, narrow embankment in the sheltered waters inside the mouth of the Humber estuary.
Warrenton is located 8 miles west of Astoria across the Young's Bay bridge spanning over 4200 feet of the Young's Bay estuary at the mouth of the Columbia River.
In the west there is the mouth of the river Ems and the Krummhörn peninsula protruding into the estuary.
The Ouse valley was a wide tidal estuary with its mouth nearly closed by a shingle bar, but the tidal mudflats and salt marshes have been " inned " ( protected from the tidal river by dykes ) to form grassy freshwater marshes ( grazing marsh ).
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* 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
The main Bantu tribe living in the region were the Kongo, also known as Bakongo, who established mostly weak and unstable kingdoms along the mouth, north and south of the Congo River.
In 1482 – 1483, Captain Diogo Cão, sailing southwards on uncharted Congo River, discovered the mouth of the river, and became the first European to encounter the Kingdom of Kongo.
This resulted in a diminished role for Portugal in African affairs, including the area around the mouth of the Congo River.
Resulting in the division of the mouth of the Congo River between Portugal, who obtained Cabinda, an enclave north of the Congo River situated on the Atlantic Coast, the French who seized the large area north of the River, and king Leopold II gaining only a small foothold at the mouth of the Congo River but obtaining the huge hinterland, the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo ( formerly Zaire ).
* July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
The Congo gets its name from the ancient Kingdom of Kongo which inhabited the lands at the mouth of the river.
After 999 days, on 9 August 1877, Stanley reached a Portuguese outpost at the mouth of the Congo River.
Their expedition started from Banana at the mouth of the Congo River on 19 March and ended in Bagamoyo, Tanzania on 5 December 1889.
Matadi is situated on the left bank of the Congo River from the mouth and below the last navigable point before rapids make the river impassable for a long stretch upriver.
The mouth of the Congo forms one of Africa's largest harbours.
In the 19th century, before the creation of the Congo Free State, the Bangala, or ' river people ', were a group of similar Bantu peoples living and trading along the bend of the Congo River that reached from Irebu at the mouth of the Ubangi River to the Mongala River.
* Portugal had a much older claim, dating back to Diogo Cão's discovery of the mouth of the Congo River in 1482 and, having ignored it for centuries, was stimulated into remembering it.
Roger Casement, then the British Consul at Boma ( at the mouth of the Congo River ), delivered a long, detailed eyewitness report which was published in 1904.
The plan of the expedition was to go to Cairo, then to Zanzibar to hire porters, then south of Africa, around the Cape, to the mouth of the Congo, up the Congo by Leopold's steamers, branching off at the Aruwimi River.
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His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.
clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.
Her mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.
His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.
The mouth was thin-lipped and wide, the long cleft in the upper lip like a slide.
She was so beautiful with her rosy mouth and haughty air that she had to be wicked.
He was seeing, somehow, the face of a young boy, the boy Simms Purdew must once have been, a boy with sorrel hair, and blue eyes dancing with gaiety, and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles.
But there was a look about her mouth as though she were tasting lemons.
Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.
He was tasting his mouth.
Big Hans began pouring whisky in the kid's mouth but his mouth filled without any getting down his throat and in a second it was dripping from his chin.
As Letch's antisocial conduct increased, our invitations decreased and my heart was in my mouth whenever I played hostess at a fashionable `` screenland '' gathering.
She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.
There were bilateral pterygia and arcus senilis, and the mouth was edentulous.
Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.
When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.
In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.
Saliva gathered in the mouth after a night's sleep was considered poisonous ; ;
She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??
On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.
It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.
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