* The eastern city of Formosa is the home of Madame Tang and her dragon in the video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow based on the Disney films

Several species of flora and fauna usually found only in more southern climes have their only Canadian presence here including paw-paw, green dragon ( Arisaema dracontium ), tuckahoe ( Peltandra virginica ), American columbo ( Frasera carolinensis ), wall-rue ( Asplenium ruta-muraria ), plus the Louisiana waterthrush, the hooded warbler, the southern flying squirrel and the rare eastern pipistrelle.

Serfs will speak of a dragon in the north, which can be found sleeping in his cave on the eastern edge of the northern mountains.

Baulkham Hills features a number of parks and reserves, such as the Bidjigal Reserve ( previously known as Excelsior Reserve ), with native fauna such as koala, swamp wallaby, echidna, and eastern water dragon.

The eastern bearded dragon ( Pogona barbata ) is an agamid lizard found in wooded parts of Australia.

The eastern bearded dragon resembles its close relative, the smaller central bearded dragon.

Juvenile eastern bearded dragon in the undergrowth of a blackberry bush-the dark spot at the tip of the nose is the shadow of the same bush.

The eastern bearded dragon feeds on a variety of small vertebrates and invertebrates, including crickets, small grasshoppers, worms, beetles, katydids, mice, and reptiles.

There, they are concentrated primarily on the southern and eastern coasts of the island of Hokkaidō.

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

Initially, the new arrivals inhabited the eastern area of Baracoa, before expanding across the island.

The first sighting of a Spanish boat approaching the island was on 28 October 1492, probably at Baracoa on the eastern point of the island.

In 1662, English admiral and pirate Christopher Myngs captured and briefly occupied Santiago de Cuba on the eastern part of the island, in an effort to open up Cuba's protected trade with neighbouring Jamaica.

The island is located east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ; its western coast also forming the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait.

Cape Breton Island is joined to the mainland by the Canso Causeway, which was completed in 1955, enabling direct road and rail traffic to and from the island, but requiring marine traffic to pass through the Canso Canal at the eastern end of the causeway.

Later migrations of Black Loyalists, Italians, and Eastern Europeans mostly settled in the eastern part of the island around the Industrial Cape Breton region.

Crete is the largest island in Greece and the second largest in the eastern Mediterranean Sea ( after Cyprus ).

Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.

The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles.

: Shares island of Hispaniola with Haiti ( eastern two-thirds is the Dominican Republic, western one-third is Haiti )

Helsingør (; often known in English-speaking countries by Shakespeare's spelling Elsinore ) is a city and the municipal seat of Helsingør Municipality on the northeast coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark.

The first element in the name Forsetlund ( Old Norse Forsetalundr ), a farm in the parish of Onsøy (' Odins island '), in eastern Norway, seems to be the genitive case of Forseti, offering evidence he was worshipped there.

In September 2005 Dennis Schmitt discovered an island north of the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland which he named Uunartoq Qeqertoq, Inuit for " warming island ".

The airports were codenamed Bluie West One through to Bluie West Eight on the west of the island and Bluie East One to Bluie East Four on the eastern side.

In 1890, Germany had gained the island of Heligoland in the North Sea from Britain in exchange for the eastern African island of Zanzibar, and proceeded to construct a great naval base there.

For a time, Leclerc met with some success ; he also brought the eastern part of the island of Hispaniola under the direct control of France in accordance with the terms of the 1795 Treaties of Bâle with Spain.

In this period, the eastern part of the island rose against the new powers following general Juan Sánchez Ramírez's claims of independence from France, which broke the Treaties of Bâle attacking Spain and prohibited commerce with Haiti.

In the second 1795 Treaty of Basel ( 22 July ,) Spain ceded the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola.

The Hispaniolan moist forests ecoregion covers approximately 50 % of the island, especially the northern and eastern portions, predominantly in the lowlands but extending up to elevation.

In 1975, the Carnation Revolution in Portugal caused authorities there to announce plans for decolonisation of Portuguese Timor, the eastern half of the island of Timor whose western half was a part of the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

* Ark ( river boat ), a temporary boat used in river transport in eastern North America

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

* or Areian: the designation of an inhabitant of Aria ( a region in the eastern part of the Persian empire ; today's Herat ), used by the ancient and medieval Greeks ( as Ἄρ ( ε ) ιοι / Ar ( e ) ioi ) and Romans ( as Arii ).

The Durrani Empire encompassed present-day Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, eastern Turkmenistan ( around the Panjdeh oasis ), the Kashmir region, the modern state of Pakistan and northwestern India.

Bayer did not always follow this rule ; he sometimes assigned letters to stars according to their location within a constellation ( for example: the northern, southern, eastern, or western part of a constellation ), according to either the order in which they rise in the east, to historical or mythological information on specific stars within a constellation, or to his own random choosing.

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

By the end of his sole rule ( AD 14 ), Augustus had expanded the empire to the line of the Danube river, which was to remain its central / eastern European border for its entire history ( except for the occupation of Dacia 105-275 ).

A bongo drinks from a swamp. Angola, Benin extinct ?, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d ' Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya ( the only place where the eastern bongo are found in the wild ), Liberia, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo extinct?

The IUCN Antelope Specialist Group considers the western or lowland bongo, T. eurycerus, to be Lower Risk ( Near Threatened ), and the eastern or mountain bongo, T. e. isaaci, of Kenya to be Critically Endangered.

Edward Teach ( c. 1680 – 22 November 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

The eastern city limits coincide with the county line ( bordering Contra Costa County ), which generally follows the ridge line of the Berkeley Hills.

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

These later annexed territories include Eastern Poland ( incorporated into two different SSRs ), Latvia ( became Latvia SSR ), Estonia ( became Estonian SSR ), Lithuania ( became Lithuania SSR ), part of eastern Finland ( became part of the Karelo-Finnish SSR ) and northern Romania ( became the Moldavian SSR ).

In 1831, the church moved to Kirtland, Ohio ( the eastern boundary of Zion ), and began establishing an outpost in Jackson County, Missouri ( Zion's " center place "), where he planned to eventually move the church headquarters.

In most major eastern cities in China, there are very limited Islamic / Halal restaurants, which are typically run by migrants from Western China ( e. g., Uyghurs ), they primarily offer inexpensive noodle soups only.

Also, the palm forest of Vai in eastern Crete and the Dionysades ( both in the municipality of Sitia, Lasithi ), have diverse animal and plant life.

* Cape Breton ( Nova Scotia ), a cape located at the eastern tip of Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island