The nearest permanently inhabited settlement is 366. 8 km, or 198. 1 nmi, west of the headland of Aird an Runair, near the crofting township of Hogha Gearraidh on the island of North Uist at.

After mocking his costume and survivor's guilt, Moonstone drugs Penance and proclaims that, in her capacity as a psychiatrist, she is going to have Penance permanently committed to the nearest corrupt maximum security hospital she could find.

The nearest inhabited area lies 303. 2 km, or 163. 7 nmi, east at Hirta, the largest island in the St. Kilda group, which is populated intermittently at a single military base.

It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying from the nearest land, South Africa, and from South America.

Its nearest inhabited neighbor is Anacreon, 8 parsecs ( 26 light years ) away, and it lies approximately 10, 000 parsecs from the capital of the First Galactic Empire, Trantor, near the galactic center.

It is the nearest inhabited locality to Cape Sorell and is literally the ' gateway ' to the south-west wilderness-as boats, planes and helicopters utilise Strahan as their base when travelling into the region.

However, Giraut is forced to grow up much more quickly than most of his friends, because one day his friend Aimeric, who was, before coming to Wilson and becoming a jovent, an economist in the Caledon culture of the nearest inhabited planet, Nansen ( orbiting Mufrid ), is called upon by the government to return to his home planet on a mission to regulate the effects of the springer on Caledonian economy.

A tributary of the river Teesta flows past the valley and the town of Lachung, the nearest inhabited centre.

The nearest inhabited islands are Skiathos to the west and Alonissos to the east.

It is located north of Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islands, South-southeast of Bokak, and north of Utirik, the nearest inhabited atoll.

As of 2010 the airport is within walking distance of the nearest continuously inhabited area, its runway approximately from the University of Greenland campus.

Kitadaitō is 400 km from the nearest major inhabited land mass.

This shepherds bothy, two miles from the nearest road, is only inhabited occasionally.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Many of Niven's stories take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several habitable solar systems nearest to the Sun with over a dozen alien species, including the aggressive feline Kzinti and the very intelligent but cowardly Pierson's Puppeteers, which are frequently central characters.

The celebration of New Year itself may have taken place during the ' three nights of Samonios ( Gaulish trinux samo ), the beginning of the lunar cycle which fell nearest to the midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.

It takes place on the Saturday nearest to Remembrance Day, though in Cape Town a Remembrance Service is still held on 11 November each year.

The stick was swung down to ground level when a first down was being set, and a marker that slid along the shaft was fixed in place to line up with the nearest gridiron line ( the major yard lines spaced every five yards ).

It is a square, crenulated stone tower and bears the inscription: " This tower was raised by the people of Orkney in memory of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum on that corner of his country which he had served so faithfully nearest to the place where he died on duty.

However, they buckled under the strain of some of the longest road trips in the league — their nearest division rival, the Blues, were over 1, 000 miles away — and finished in last place.

When Murray County was platted in 1872, the nearest place to mill wheat into flour and buy supplies was New Ulm.

Even with the canals and the bridge bringing easier access to larger markets Cohoes was a sleepy place to be in prior to 1831, the nearest post office was at Waterford and fresh meat and groceries were a luxury hard to come by in Cohoes.

The data on which they are based is noisy ; the analysis can be confounded by horizontal gene transfer, hybridisation between species that were not nearest neighbors on the tree before hybridisation takes place, convergent evolution, and conserved sequences.

A second celebration, of perhaps greater antiquity, is St Ives Feast, a celebration of the founding of St Ives by St Ia, which takes place on the Sunday and Monday nearest to 3 February each year.

The earliest Christian source, and the nearest source in time to the events, says that it took place near the unidentified " Transductine promontories " ( Transductinis promonturiis ).

If they could not they were removed to the parish that was nearest to their place of birth, or where they might prove some connection ; some paupers were moved hundreds of miles.

The common lawyers migrated to the hamlet of Holborn, the nearest place to the law courts at Westminster Hall that was outside the City.

The common lawyers migrated to the hamlet of Holborn, the nearest place to the law courts at Westminster Hall that was outside the City.

Shufflepuck Café is the nearest place for miles, so he goes in to use their telephone.

The nearest place with comparable values is the island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean.

Well the nearest village to the scene of the mine was a place called al-Bassa and our Company C were ordered to take part in punitive measures.

This last explanation is the nearest to the truth: a Parisian law had been in place since 1783, restricting the heights of buildings to 20 meters ( 65 feet ).

The nearest place where he lived for any length of time was Berkhamsted Castle, where he stayed after his marriage to Joan Countess of Kent from November 1361 to January 1362 and occasionally at other times.

On the nearest Sunday to 19 September the ceremony known as " clipping the church " takes place.

Greenland Dock Pier is the nearest place for boarding London River Services, operated by Thames Clippers.

When threatened, ronquils will choose to retreat into the nearest hiding place, such as a hole or crevice.

The place outside the Warsaw Pact nearest the bay was the Danish island of Bornholm, more than 100 km away.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

Information beyond nearest neighbor is carried second-, third-, and fourth-hand as a distortable rumor.

`` Be sure the man nearest you is awake.

To state fully what the Bible means as my daily spiritual food is as intimate and difficult as to formulate the reasons for loving my nearest and dearest relatives and friends.

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

At present the nearest airport is the Jaipur International Airport, about 132 km away, with daily flights to the major cities in India.

Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north.

After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.

It is isolated from the nearest Dravidian-speaking neighbour population by a distance of more than.

The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.

The chessboard is placed with a light square at the right-hand end of the rank nearest to each player, and the pieces are set out as shown in the diagram, with each queen on its own color.

Tau Ceti is noted for being the nearest Sun-like star at a distance of 11. 9 light-years.

Alpha Centauri is a triple star system that contains Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun.

The Putney End is the southernmost stand in the ground, nearest to Putney and Bishops Park.

The family enclosure is located in the corner nearest to the Hammersmith end.

* Chamber: The cylindrical, conical, or spherical recess at the nearest end of the bottom of the bore into which the gunpowder is packed.

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field ( DOF ) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

The nearest Met Office weather station is Slapton, about 5 miles South south west of Dartmouth and a similar distance from the coast.

The nearest bridge across the Dart is in Totnes, some away by road.

The distance from the front edge of the circle to where the discus has landed is measured, and distances are rounded down to the nearest centimetre.