It is usually helpful to make a sketch map in the field, showing the size and location of the features of interest and to take photographs at the site.

Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.

Due to the strategic location of the site it was fortified from very early. In the 8th and 7th century BC the site of Amphipolis was ruled by Illyrian tribes.

Armageddon ( from Harmagedōn, Late Latin: ) is, according to the Bible, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or symbolic location.

* Ben Franklin Birthplace A historic site, link provides location and map.

The 6, 700m² site on which the building is constructed was formerly the location of Murray House.

The Trustees rejected Buckingham House, on the site now occupied by Buckingham Palace, on the grounds of cost and the unsuitability of its location.

: Strategic location 500 km from west coast of Africa near major north-south sea routes ; important communications station ; important sea and air refueling site.

For all its fame, the site of the battle is uncertain and several sites have been advanced, with Bromborough on the Wirral the most favoured location.

Although the identification of the Aedicule as the site of Jesus ' tomb is not a tenet of faith for any major Christian denomination, many Catholic and Orthodox Christians hold fast to this traditional location.

Although the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has its tomb just a few yards away from its Golgotha, there is no particular reason to regard this close juxtaposition as a necessity ; however, Gordon followed this principle, concluding that his site for Golgotha must also be the approximate location for Jesus ' burial, identifying a nearby tomb, now called the Garden Tomb, as the location for the event.

In 1893 archaeologists from the École française d ' Athènes finally located the actual site of ancient Delphi and the village was moved to a new location, west of the site of the temples.

In 1964 Kourou was chosen to be launch site for rockets, largely due to its favourable location near the equator.

Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles farther down the river would make a good location for the fort.

These coordinates, along with other details of the location, are posted on a listing site ( see list of some sites below ).

* 1942-U. S. Army Air Forces selects Iqaluit ’ s current location as the site of a major air base

A sign erected by the Israeli ministry of religions says that this is Jonah's burial site, but according to Jewish traditions this is the location of the burial of the prophets Nathan and Gad Hahozeh.

In the 17th and 18th century, the islands were used as a hideout for pirates, were the site of Alexander Selkirk's four-year marooning, and provided a location for a penal colony.

Though the approximate site is known, it is not easy to reconcile literary indications to determine the gardens ' exact location, whether or not they lay on both sides of the Servian ager and both north and south of the porta Esquilina.

Modern archaeologists have found no evidence of mass burial at the location and only some thirty skeletons have been recovered on the site.

Other buildings that have been destroyed include the house of Khadijah, the wife of Muhammad, demolished to make way for public lavatories ; the house of Abu Bakr, Muhammad's companion, now the site of the local Hilton hotel ; the house of Ali-Oraid, the grandson of Muhammad, and the Mosque of abu-Qubais, now the location of the King's palace in Mecca ; Muhammad's birthplace, demolished to make way for a library ; and the Abraj Al Bait Towers, built after demolishing the Ottoman-era Ajyad Fortress.

They launched it on 15 November 1999 from offices in Portsmouth Road, Guildford, a location still commemorated on the site.

During the last week of march 1961, Columbus, Ohio was the site of the Fourth Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement And Control In Science And Industry.

A major consideration in the choice of the Warwick site, four miles from Cranston, was the fact that it permits retention of our present trained and highly skilled work force.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.

The site of the oblong piazza is Domitian's ancient stadium, which was probably used for horse and chariot races.

On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".

The Aegean was the site of the original democracies, and its seaways were the means of contact among several diverse civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean.

For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.

At the cemetery in what is now the district of Pullach stood a memorial stone which was mentioned as recently as 1967, but which is no longer at the site.

The live music from Gambler was only distributed at the performance site in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

The park was originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site, the idea of Count Eusebi Güell, whom the park was named after.

The site was a rocky hill with little vegetation and few trees, called Muntanya Pelada ( Bare Mountain ).

The intention was to exploit the fresh air ( well away from smoky factories ) and beautiful views from the site, with sixty triangular lots being provided for luxury houses.

Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia (), was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.

A site was chosen in Houston, Texas on land donated by Rice University, and Administrator Webb announced the conversion on September 19, 1961.

A quarry on the Lousberg, which was first used in Neolithic times, attests to the long occupation of the site of Aachen.

Aachen was chosen as the site of several important congresses and peace treaties: the first congress of Aachen ( often referred to as Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in English ) in 1668, leading to the First Treaty of Aachen in the same year which ended the War of Devolution.

In another study, ancient DNA recovered from 16 Jomon skeletons excavated from Funadomari site, Hokkaido, Japan was analyzed to elucidate the genealogy of the early settlers of the Japanese archipelago.