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To the north the long low line of the Mourne Mountains, 100 kilometres ( 60 mi ) and more away, are clearly visible when recent rains have left the washed air clear, while the islands of Lambay and Ireland's Eye give an added beauty to the sea-scape which lies beyond the wind-blown causeway which leads on and up to the rhododendron covered slopes above the ancient castle of Howth.
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between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.
The navigation of the Tallapoosa River –- which has its source in Paulding County, Georgia, and is about long -– is prevented by shoals and a fall at Tallassee, a few miles north of its junction with the Coosa.
Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.
The second, named Fatih Sultan Mehmet ( Bosphorus II ) Bridge, is long, and was completed in 1988 about north of the first bridge.
A bend in front of Grace Church allegedly avoids an earlier tavern ; from 10th Street it begins its long diagonal course across Manhattan, headed almost due north.
Costa Rica shares a border with Nicaragua to the north ( 309 km long border ) and with Panama to the south ( 330 km long border ).
Further east, the military history of China, specifically northern China, held a long tradition of intense military exchange between Han Chinese infantry forces of the settled dynastic empires and the mounted nomads or " barbarians " of the north.
More exactly, they are long thin streamers that project outward from the Sun's north and south poles.
The continuous portion of the atoll rim stretches from one end to the other, enclosing a lagoon long and up to wide, with a pass opening at the north.
This small difference in the Sun's position against the stars causes any particular spot on the Earth's surface to catch up with ( and stand directly north or south of ) the Sun about 4 minutes later each day than it would if the Earth did not orbit ; our day is 24 hours long rather than the approximately 23 hour 56 minute sidereal day.
His long march to Jerusalem and back north debilitated his army, but her imprisonment disheartened her knights, and the divided Crusade armies could not overcome the Muslim forces.
A long dirt path extended west from the riverbank ( a short distance north of the eta districts ), leading along the northern edge of the city to the Yoshiwara pleasure districts.
The long winter causes about half of the annual of precipitation in the north to fall as snow.
Sites of interest include Corralejo and El Jable to the north which are made up of fine sand dunes whilst the south is filled with long beaches and remote bays.
El Cotillo is a small fishing village in the north-west of the Island famous for a very long beach to the south of the village and few very calm beaches to the north.
Examples include staged multi-caches ; underwater caches, caches located 50 feet ( 15 m ) up a tree, caches found only after long offroad drives, caches on high mountain peaks, caches located in challenging environments ( such as Antarctica or north of the Arctic Circle ), and magnetic caches attached to metal structures and / or objects.
In the first years of the 1st century, Roman legions conducted a long campaign in Germania, the area north of the Upper Danube and east of the Rhine, in an attempt to expand the Empire's frontiers and shorten its frontier line.
Meanwhile the Christian kingdoms in the north began the long and slow recovery of the peninsula, a process called the Reconquista, which was concluded in 1492 with the fall of Granada.
Humans have lived in the glaciation disrupted environment of north Central Europe for a long time.
Looking at its north to south orientation, it is shaped like an inverted T, about long and 6. 5 kilometres wide.
Hasdrubal pursued a policy of consolidation of Carthage's Iberian interests, even signing a treaty with Rome whereby Carthage would not expand north of the Ebro River, so long as Rome did not expand south of it.
In August 1859, a long cable was commissioned from Glass, Elliot and Company of Greenwich and laid from Cranstal ( north of Ramsey ) to St Bees in Cumbria using the chartered cable ship Resolute.
Pei's design placed the rigid shoebox at an angle to the surrounding street grid, connected at the north end to a long rectangular office building, and cut through the middle with an assortment of circles and cones.
These eastern mountains are formed by a central ridge of metamorphic rock running northwest to southeast from which many long spurs jut to the north and south.
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Maximum salinity values occur at about 25 ° north and south, in subtropical regions with low rainfall and high evaporation.
The canton of Aargau is one of the least mountainous Swiss cantons, forming part of a great table-land, to the north of the Alps and the east of the Jura, above which rise low hills.
The Berlin – Warsaw Urstromtal ( ice age glacial valley ), between the low Barnim Plateau to the north and the Teltow Plateau to the south, was formed by meltwater flowing from ice sheets at the end of the last Weichselian glaciation.
In Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, her keen is experienced as a " low, pleasant singing "; in Tyrone in the north, as " the sound of two boards being struck together "; and on Rathlin Island as " a thin, screeching sound somewhere between the wail of a woman and the moan of an owl ".
From its low point in the Djourab, the basin then rises to the plateaus and peaks of the Tibesti Mountains in the north.
In fact, in tropical regions both Crux ( low in the south ) and Ursa Major ( low in the north ) can be seen in the sky from April to June.
Rather than flowing directly from areas of high pressure to low pressure, as they would on a non-rotating planet, winds and currents tend to flow to the right of this direction north of the equator, and to the left of this direction south of it.
It is bordered by a low mountain range to the south and surrounded by flat farmland to the north and west.
For example, westerly flows between MJO-induced areas of low pressure may cause cyclonic circulations north and south of the equator.
The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.
" Studying his surroundings, Audubon quickly learned the ornithologist's rule, which he wrote, " The nature of the place — whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs — generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.
The Diwata Mountains, north of these low points, are considerably higher and more rugged, reaching an elevation of 2, 012 meters in Mount Hilonghilong, along the eastern portion of Cabadbaran City.
In the north, temperatures can reach highs of, and lows can reach into the low negatives.
Svalbard is the meeting place for cold polar air from the north and mild, wet sea air from the south, creating low pressure and changing weather and fast winds, particularly in winter ; in January, a strong breeze is registered 17 % of the time at Isfjord Radio, but only 1 % of the time in July.
At these low elevations are numerous valleys, many of them deep, and covered with larch forest, except in the extreme north, where the tundra dominates.
The remaining two-quarters of the country is a rolling plateau marked by ranges of low hills that become more prominent in the north as they merge into the highlands of southern Brazil.
The men on the floor of the valley then picked up and began to patrol north again moving another 50 or so meters when an RPG was fired off a low foothill to the east.
There is a low ridge from Messines Ridge 80m ( 264 feet ) at its highest point, running north-east past " Clapham Junction " at the west end of Gheluvelt plateau ( 2 1 / 2 miles from Ypres at and Gheluvelt ( above ) to Passchendaele, ( 5 1 / 2 miles from Ypres at ) declining from there to a plain further north.
The county is the most mountainous in Ulster consisting chiefly of two ranges of low mountains ; the Derryveagh Mountains in the north and the Bluestack Mountains in the south, with Mount Errigal at the highest peak.
In the winter, however, the vast Siberian High causes very cold, north to northwesterly winds that bring temperatures as low as − 5 ° C ( 23 ° F ) in the extreme south and − 30 ° C (− 22 ° F ) in the north, where the zone of discontinuous permafrost reaches northern Heilongjiang.
At low elevation, it occurs near streams in moist, shaded canyons and draws where aspects are mostly north and east.
The average salinity is relatively low, at 30 parts per thousand (‰) in the north to 33 – 34 ‰ in the south, dropping to 26 ‰ or lower near the river deltas.
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