Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.

A precision transit is set up so that it is aligned with respect to true north.

Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.

However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

More than 10 companies maintain facilities in Dallas and one large manufacturer is located to the north at Sherman.

Ontario's foliage is most vivid from about Sept. 23 to Oct. 10, with both Muskoka ( 100 miles north of Toronto ) and Haliburton ( 125 miles northwest of Toronto ) holding color cavalcades starting Sept. 23.

It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

In 2012, it is the parallel of latitude that runs north of the Equator.

The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.

In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus.

The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.

The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.

He stated, " he Act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning in the territory of the United States north of the line therein is not warranted by the Constitution and is therefore void.

The site is characterised by swampy areas such as the Leipzig Riverside Forest, though there are also some limestone areas to the north of the city.

Boyle's theopolitical philosophy has been described as ' providentialist ' when contrasted with its counterpart which prevailed to the north in Ulster at the time, which, is more typically characterised as Presbyterian.

The faubourg was characterised by its built-up, densely populated areas, particularly in the north, and its numerous workshops producing soft furnishings.

The Great Park enclosed stretching to the north of the castle, and was characterised by possessing bank-and-ditch boundaries, common elsewhere in England but very unusual in Suffolk.

In the north of Europe, the near-continuous conflict between England and France was characterised by a number of raids on coastal towns and ports along each other coastlines and the securing of sea lanes to protect transports carrying troops from England to France.

The eastern side of the ridge is characterised by steep drops and crags including Craig Berwyn north of the summit and Craig y Llyn to the south.

Mestizo culture in north and west Belize, and also Guatemala, is characterised by marimba, a xylophone-like instrument descended from an African instrument.

View north over Lammack and Pleckgate from one of the highest points in Blackburn at the site of the old water tank at Revidge. Located in the midst of the East Lancashire Hills, some areas of the town are characterised by steep slopes.

Northumbrian music is characterised by considerable influence from other regions, particularly southern Scotland, other parts of the north of England and Ireland.

The north is primarily Kalahari Desert, characterised by parallel red sand dunes and acacia tree dry savanna.

Although positioned only twenty minutes from the CBD and ten minutes from Melbourne Airport, Greenvale has been up until recently known as a semi rural area, characterised by larger farm holdings to the north of the town centre ( past Somerton Road ).

The period AD 800-1200 can be characterised by the presence of a motte and medieval earthworks north of Loudoun Kirk, the remnants of a medieval castle and lime-kilns to the west of Woodhead Farm and a profusion of forts across Loudoun Parish.

As the centre of the industrial revolution, northern England has long been characterised by its industrial centres, from the mill towns of Lancashire, textile centres of Yorkshire, shipyards of the north-east to the mining towns found throughout the north and the fishing ports along both east and west coasts.

Northumbrian music is characterised by considerable influence from other regions, particularly southern Scotland and other parts of the north of England.

Unlike many of his Victorian predecessors, Hermann was no fan of horned helmets and the Boy's Own view of the heroic north: his translations are characterised by common sense and accessibility – in the jargon of modern translation studies, he was a domesticator rather than a foreigniser.

The eastern side of the ridge is characterised by steep drops and crags including Craig Berwyn north of the summit and Craig y Llyn to the south.

The area to the north of Wellington is very mixed, and can be characterised as being in transition.

The Nantlle Valley () is an area in Gwynedd, north Wales, characterised by its large number of small settlements.

Geologically, the area to the north of the top is characterised by an intrusion of microgranite, while various members of the Borrowdale Volcanic series occur to the south.

The name Seskinore is derived from the Irish Seisceann Odhar, which means " brownish marsh / bog ", and the area to the north on the way to Omagh is characterised by lowland raised bog.

The cliff slopes and tops are characterised by maritime grassland, heath and scrub communities with frequent species rich flushes, particularly on the north coast.

The suburb is generally characterised by the sometimes steep southern slopes of Wingala Hill and Dee Why Head to the north, which flatten out into the former floodplain of the lagoon towards the south.