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To reach South Coast destinations the ships had a difficult and hazardous passage round Land ’ s End, and there were hopes that the railway could become the core of a transport chain bringing manufactured goods, especially metal goods, from South Wales to the Southern Counties, and taking agricultural produce back to feed the industrial population in South Wales, using shipping across the Bristol Channel.
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A large number of bunyip sightings occurred during the 1840s and 1850s, particularly in the southeastern colonies of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, as European settlers extended their reach.
As a last attempt to reach international success, he released the LP titled Baris Mancho ( 1976 ), a strange transcription of his name, mostly with George Hayes Orchestra under CBS Records label, in Europe and South Africa.
Current League Champions and the first Irish side to reach the group stages of a European competition: 2011 – 12 UEFA Europa League group stage Shamrock Rovers play at Tallaght Stadium in South Dublin, play at Richmond Park, and play their home games at the UCD Bowl in Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, while is based at Tolka Park.
* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
The documentary shows many sides of the mainly Puerto Rican community of the South Bronx, including reformed gang members, current gang members, the police, and the community leaders who try to reach out to them.
South of Namur, further upstream, the river can only carry more modest vessels, although a barge as long as 100 m. can still reach the French border town of Givet.
* 1520 – After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
South of the northern highlands and west of the Indus River plain are the Safed Koh Range along the Afghanistan border and the Sulaiman Range and Kirthar Range, which define the western extent of the province of Sindh and reach almost to the southern coast.
In his expedition prospectus, Scott stated that its main objective was " to reach the South Pole, and to secure for the British Empire the honour of this achievement ".
He led the Antarctic expedition ( 1910-12 ) to discover the South Pole in December 1911 and he was the first expedition leader to ( undisputedly ) reach the North Pole in 1926.
On June 23, 2012 South Korea's population touched 50 million as the 26th country to reach the mark.
South Korea was one of the few developed countries that was able to avoid a recession during the global financial crisis, and its economic growth rate will reach 6. 1 % in 2010, a sharp recovery from economic growth rates of 2. 3 % in 2008 and 0. 2 % in 2009 when the global financial crisis hit.
* January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.
** A United States Navy team becomes the third group to reach the South Pole ( arriving by air ) and commences construction of the first permanent Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station.
* November 28 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ( the strait was later named the Strait of Magellan ).
* Explorers Grand Slam also known as Adventurers Grand Slam, an adventurer's challenge to reach the North Pole, the South Pole and all of the Seven Summits
As tensions escalated, political manoeuvrings and negotiations attempted to reach compromise on the issues of the rights of the uitlanders within the South African Republic, control of the gold mining industry, and the British desire to incorporate the Transvaal and the Orange Free State into a federation under British control.
However, he never achieved his ultimate goal — a monopoly of the city's streetcar lines: the South Side's Chicago Street Railway remained forever out of his reach.
In South Tyrol, in order to reach a fair allocation of jobs in public service, a system called " ethnic proportion " was established in the 1970s.
South of the Middle Atlas and separated by the Moulouya and Oum Er-Rbia rivers, the High Atlas stretches for with a succession of peaks among which ten reach above.
Although the group split up near Bent's Fort on the South Platte and Farnham was deposed as leader, nine of their members eventually did reach Oregon.
The first enslaved Africans to reach what would become the US arrived in January 1526 as part of a Spanish attempt at colonizing South Carolina near Jamestown.
Once the North Pole had been reached in 1909, several expeditions attempted to reach the South Pole.
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* Portuguese sailors reach Mina de Ouro on the Gold Coast ( present-day Ghana ) and explore Cape St. Catherine, two degrees south of the equator.
This emigration is illegal under both Cuban and U. S. law ; any Cuban found at sea, attempting to reach U. S. shores, will be deported by the U. S. Coast Guard or if discovered by Cuban police, ostracized and prohibited from most Cuban institutions.
Douglas-firs are medium-size to extremely large evergreen trees, tall ( although only Coast Douglas-firs reach such great height ).
* The desert is located on the leeward side of the Chilean Coast Range, so little moisture from the Pacific Ocean can reach the desert.
Temperance drama would even reach as far as the West Coast, as David Belasco's adaptation of Émile Zola's novel " Drink " premiered at the Baldwin Theatre in San Francisco in 1879.
Prior to 1860, to reach the available farmland of northwestern Louisiana and southwestern Arkansas, settlers from the Gulf Coast states most often crossed the Mississippi River at Natchez, then came up the Ouachita River.
The first musher to reach this checkpoint each year is awarded the Gold Coast Award, which includes $ 2, 500 in gold nuggets.
U. S. Coast Guard icebreakers break a ship channel through ice-clogged McMurdo Sound in order for supply ships to reach Winter Quarters Bay at McMurdo.
The railroad, formally incorporated April 24, was intended to provide not only an alternative to, but also a faster route for Midwestern goods to reach the East Coast than the seven-year-old, hugely successful, but slow Erie Canal across upstate New York.
The South Coast railway line must go through several tunnels to reach the Sydney metropolitan area.
It started in Ogallala, Nebraska, and gradually grew to reach the West Coast in Oregon.
Since 1995, the US wet feet, dry feet policy has generally allowed Cubans who reach dry land in the U. S. to stay while those intercepted at sea by the U. S. Coast Guard are returned to Cuba.
From Keld the path crosses the route of the Coast to Coast Walk, then ascends a side valley known as Stones Dale to reach Tan Hill and its isolated inn at the northern boundary of the National Park.
The newspaper had long enjoyed a wide reach in Northern California, along the Central Coast, Inland Empire and even distributed papers as far as Honolulu, Hawaii.
It had taken months for word of Tripoli's declaration of war on the United States to reach President Jefferson, but he had already sent naval forces to the Barbary Coast because William Eaton had informed him that the situation in Tripoli was " nearing a breaking point.
European migrants used Costa Rica to get across the isthmus of Central America as well to reach the USA West Coast ( California ) in the late 19th century and until the 1910s ( before the Panama Canal opened ).
Though the Burlington reached as far west as Denver, Colorado, and Billings, Montana, it had failed to reach the Pacific Coast during the cheaper building years of the 1880s and 1890s.
The ICG as of now is headed by a naval officer of the rank of Vice Admiral on deputation to the Coast Guard as a direct entry Coast Guard Officer is yet to reach the age / service to become equivalent to Vice Admiral as it is the Youngest of all the all Armed Forces started in the 70's.
It enables passengers to reach Salerno in 10 – 15 minutes, the overhead position of the railway giving them a panoramic view of Cava's valley and of the first few kilometres of the Amalfi Coast.
In 1881, C & O's new Peninsula Extension was completed from Richmond through the new Church Hill Tunnel and down the Virginia Peninsula through Williamsburg to reach coal piers located on the harbor Hampton Roads, the East Coast of the United States ' largest ice-free port.
Vasco da Gama, the first European to reach India by sea ( in 1498 ), hired an Indian pilot at Malindi ( a coastal settlement in what is now Kenya ) to steer the Portuguese ship across the Indian Ocean to the Malabar Coast in southwestern India.
It allows selected North Jersey Coast Line and Raritan Valley Line trains to reach Hoboken from the Northeast Corridor Line.
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