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| 1 | Shackleton Fracture Zone  FeatureType : Lat/Lng : -60.0 / -60.0 | Shackleton Fracture Zone is an undersea fracture zone name found on the Pacific-Antarctic sheet of the Circum-Pacific Project charts. Name approved 6/87 (ACUF (...) | |
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| Cerro Negro FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 12.506 / -86.702 | Cerro Negro is a volcano in the Cordillera de los Maribios mountain range in Nicaragua, about 10km from the village of Malpaisillo. It is a very new volcano, the youngest in Central America, having first appeared in April 1850. It consists of a gravelly cinder cone, which contrasts greatly with the surrounding verdant hillsides, and gives rise to its name, which means Black Hill (...) |
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| Makushin Volcano FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 53.8864 / -155.9308 | Makushin Volcano (also known as Mount Makushin) is a stratovolcano on the Alaska Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. Makushin is a Russian name, probably derived from the Russian ''makushka'', meaning "the crown (of the head)" or "top," and applied to this feature because it is the highest point on Unalaska Island (...) |
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| Neanderthal FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 51.2272 / 6.9444 | The Neanderthal (, also with , and ), or Neandertal, was a species of the ''Homo'' genus (''Homo neanderthalensis'' or ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis'') Available [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/96/13/7117 on-line] that inhabited Europe and parts of western and central Asia. The first proto-Neanderthal traits appeared in Europe as early as 350,000 years ago (...) |
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| Band-e Amir FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 34.8397 / 67.2308 | Afghanistan is the most visited place in Afghanistan, after the Buddhas of Bamyan. of Central Afghanistan near the famous Buddhas of Bamyan. They were created by the carbon dioxide rich water oozing out of the faults and fractures to deposit calcium carbonate precipitate in the form of travertine walls that today store the water of these lakes (...) |
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| Long Range Mountains FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 50.4167 / -57.1667 | The Long Range Mountains are a series of mountains along the west coast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland. They also form the northernmost section of the Appalachian chain on the eastern seaboard of North America. In 2003 it was announced that the International Appalachian Trail would be extended through the Long Range Mountains (...) |
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| Moeraki Boulders FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -45.3453 / 170.8261 | Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden, which located at . They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve (...) |
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| Sidoarjo mud flow FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -7.5208 / 112.7053 | term of mud), is an ongoing eruption of gas and mud from the earth in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia (20 kilometers south of Surabaya). It is considered to be a mud volcano. It appears that the flow will continue for an undetermined amount of time. So far, all efforts to stop the flow have failed. (...) |
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| Goblin Valley State Park FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 38.5423 / -110.7212 | Goblin Valley ''Location'' Utah USA ''Nearest City'' Green River, Utah ''Coordinates'' ''Area'' over 3,000 acres (12 km²) ''Date of Establishment'' August 24, 1964 ''Governing Body'' Utah State Parks in central Utah, in the western United States. Its eminent feature is its thousands of hoodoos and hoodoo rocks, which are formations of mushroom-shaped rock pinnacles, some as high (...) |
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| Geography of the Faroe Islands FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 62.0 / -7.0 | are an island group off the coast of Northern Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the north Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Iceland to Norway. Its coordinates are . It is 1,399 square kilometres in area, and includes no major lakes or rivers. There are 1,117 kilometres of coastline, and no land boundaries with any other country (...) |
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| Mount Mazama FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 42.9164 / -122.0844 | Mount Mazama is a destroyed stratovolcano in the Oregon part of the Cascade Volcanic Belt and the Cascade Range. The volcano's collapsed caldera holds Crater Lake, and the entire mountain is located in Crater Lake National Park. Mazama is most famous for a catastrophic volcanic eruption that occurred around 5,677 (± 150) BC (...) |
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| Xining FeatureType : city Population : 750,000 Lat/Lng : 36.6306 / 101.7731 | : 西宁, Traditional Chinese : 西寧, Tibetan : ཟི་ནིང་; Pinyin : Xīníng, Wylie: Zi-ning) is the capital of Qinghai Province, People's Republic of China. (...) |
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| Lake Toba FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 2.6167 / 98.8167 | Lake Toba (Indonesian: ''Danau Toba'') is a lake, 100 km long and 30 km wide, and 505 m. (1,666 ft.) at its deepest point, in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a surface elevation of about 900 m (3,000 feet), stretching from to . It is the largest volcanic lake in the world. (...) |
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| Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 73.7217 / 13.2817 | ''K-278 Komsomolets'' was the only Project 685 ''Плавник'' (''Plavnik'', meaning "fin", also known by its NATO reporting name of "Mike"-class) nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy. Project 685 was tasked with developing an advanced submarine that could carry a mix of torpedoes and cruise missiles with conventional or nuclear warheads (...) |
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| Alabama FeatureType : state Lat/Lng : 32.7917 / -86.8308 | The State of Alabama , is located in the southern region of the United States of America. 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. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland waterways. The state ranks 23rd in population with almost 4 (...) |
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| Arkaroola, South Australia FeatureType : Lat/Lng : -30.3 / 139.3333 | Arkaroola Village is the settlement and resort at the hub of a wilderness sanctuary in the Northern Flinders Ranges in South Australia, adjacent to Gammon Ranges National Park and the Mawson Plateau. The Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary is located 700 km north of Adelaide in South Australia (...) |
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| Hot Springs National Park FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 34.5142 / -93.0522 | Established from Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs National Park is a United States National Park in central Arkansas adjacent to the city of Hot Springs. Hot Springs Reservation was initially created by an act of the United States Congress on April 20, 1832, and the area was made a national park on March 4, 1921 (...) |
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| Abu Musab al-Zarqawi FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 33.8008 / 44.5135 | Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (, ', ''Abu Musab from Zarqa)'') (October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh (, ') was a Jordanian militant Islamist who ran a militant training camp in Afghanistan. He became known after being blamed by United States and Jordanian officials for a series of bombings and attacks (...) |
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| Stawamus Chief FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 49.6867 / -123.135 | The Stawamus Chief (often referred to as simply The Chief, or more rarely the Squamish Chief) is a granite dome located adjacent to the town of Squamish, British Columbia. It towers over 700 metres above the waters of nearby Howe Sound. It is often claimed to be the "second largest granite monolith in the world" [http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/stawamus (...) |
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| Tay Rail Bridge FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 56.4383 / -2.9889 | The Tay Bridge (sometimes unofficially the Tay Rail Bridge) is a railway bridge approximately two and a quarter miles (three and a half kilometres) longincluding a brick viaduct. that spans the Firth of Tay in Scotland, between the city of Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife (...) |
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| Lake Trasimeno FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 43.1394 / 12.1075 | Lake Trasimeno or Trasimene (in Italian: Lago Trasimeno), is the largest lake in the Italian peninsula with a surface area of 128 km², slightly less than Lake Como. The Tiber River flows some thirty kilometers to the east of the lake, but the lake and the river are separated by hills: no major river flows directly into nor out of Lake Trasimeno, and the water level fluctuates (...) |
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| Geography of Jordan FeatureType : country Lat/Lng : 31.0 / 36.0 | Jordan is situated in Southwest Asia, northwest of Saudi Arabia. The territory of Jordan covers about 91,880 square kilometers. Until 1988, when King Hussein relinquished Jordan's claim to the West Bank, that area was considered part of Jordan, although officially recognized as such by only the United Kingdom and Pakistan (...) |
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| TWA Flight 800 FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 40.65 / -72.6331 | Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 was a scheduled international passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York, New York, to Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG), Paris, France; the Boeing 747-131 used for the route, N93119, exploded in mid-air and crashed on July 17, 1996, about 20:31 EDT (00:31, July 18 UTC), in the Atlantic Ocean near East (...) |
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| Stone Mountain FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 513 Lat/Lng : 33.8057 / -84.1453 | :''This article is about Stone Mountain in Georgia, USA. For other uses, see Stone Mountain (disambiguation).'' Stone Mountain is a granite dome monadnock located in Stone Mountain, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. At its summit, the elevation is 1,683 feet (513 m) amsl and 825 feet (251.5 m) above the surrounding plateau (...) |
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| Peñalara Nature Reserve FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2430 Lat/Lng : 40.8475 / -3.9533 | The Peñalara's Summit, Cirques and Lakes Nature Reserve (in Spanish: ''Parque Natural de la Cumbre, Circo y Lagunas de Peñalara'') is a protected area of 7.68 km² in the central zone of the Sierra de Guadarrama (part of the mountainous axis called the Central System) in Spain. It is located to the south-east of Peñalara Peak in Rascafría district and northwest of the Community of Madrid (...) |
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| Wetumpka, Alabama FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 32.5408 / -86.2078 | Wetumpka is a city in Elmore County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 5,726. The city is the county seat of Elmore County, the third fastest growing county in the state. Together with Montgomery, Prattville, Millbrook, and Tallassee the city is considered part of the Montgomery Metropolitain Area, or River Region, with a population of 346,578 (...) |
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| Lake Tahoe FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 39.0 / -120.0 | Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States. It is located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City, Nevada. The lake is known for the clarity of its water and the panorama of surrounding mountains on all sides. The area surrounding the lake is also referred to as Lake Tahoe, or simply Tahoe (...) |
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| University of Pennsylvania FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 39.9536 / -75.1928 | The University of Pennsylvania (also known as PennIn addition to ''Penn,'' ''U of P'' and ''Pennsylvania,'' ''UPenn'' has come into fairly common usage due to university officials establishing the domain name of the university as "upenn.edu." ''Penn'' has been used by sportswriters for at least a century, e.g. [http://books.google (...) |
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| Moorbad Gmös FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 47.9712 / 13.8564 | The Mud Spa Gmös (''Moorbad Gmös'') in the vicinity of the town of Laakirchen (situated on the edge of the Salzkammergut) is one of the few moor land areas in the Alpine foothills of Upper Austria. The moor dates back to the Mindel glaciation and was created by a "dead ice-hole". In 1987 the local authorities of Upper Austria declared the Area of 3 (...) |
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| Oklahoma City bombing FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 35.4731 / -97.5169 | The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19 1995 aimed at the U.S. government in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was bombed in an office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The attack claimed 168 lives and left over 800 injured. Until the September 11, 2001 attacks, it was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil (...) |
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| Joint Security Area FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 37.956 / 126.6768 | The Joint Security Area (JSA) or Panmunjeom, often called the "Truce Village" in both the media[http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Korea_Truce_Village_At_Peace_999.html Korea Truce Village At Peace][http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15563058/ Despite tensions, tourists flock to Korean DMZ] and various military accounts[http://maic.jmu.edu/JOURNAL/5.1/Profiles/NKorea/nkorea (...) |
| 32 | Pasvalys FeatureType : city Population : 8,500 Lat/Lng : 56.0594 / 24.4036 | Pasvalys is a city in Panevėžys County, Lithuania located near the bank of the Svalia (...) | |
| 33 | Gardnos crater FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 60.65 / 9.0 | impact crater in the area known as Nesbyen in Hallingdal, Norway. It is 5 km in diameter, and was created when a meteorite with an estimated diameter of 200-300 m struck 650 million years ago. At first this site was believed to be a volcanic crater, but in 1990 two scientists discovered that it was in fact formed by meteorite impact (...) | |
| 34 | Yde FeatureType : city Population : 658 Lat/Lng : 53.1167 / 6.6 | Yde is a town in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Tynaarlo, and lies about 11 km south of Groningen. In 2001, the town of Yde had 658 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.24 km², and contained 258 residences.Statistics Netherlands (CBS), [http://www.cbs (...) | |
| 35 | Olympus Mons FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 18.0 / -133.0 | Olympus Mons (Latin, "Mount Olympus") is the tallest known volcano and mountain in our solar system. It is located on the planet Mars at approximately . Before space probes confirmed its identity as a mountain, Olympus Mons was known to astronomers as the albedo feature, Nix Olympica ("Snows of Olympus"); since the late 19th century, however, it had been suspected that it was (...) | |
| 36 | Mount Elden FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 35.2411 / -111.5967 | Mount Elden, or Elden (Eldon) Mountain, is located in central Coconino County northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. It takes its name from one of the region's earliest Anglo settlers, John Elden, who, along with his family, established a homestead on the mountain’s lower slopes and grazed sheep on the open grasslands below during the late 1800s (...) | |
| 37 | Cough FeatureType : adm3rd Lat/Lng : 43.69 / -1.3319 | A cough, also known as tussis is a sudden, often repetitive, spasmodic contraction of the thoracic cavity, resulting in violent release of air from the lungs, and usually accompanied by a distinctive sound. Coughing is an action the body takes to get rid of substances that are irritating the air passages. A cough is usually initiated to clear a buildup of phlegm in the trachea (...) | |
| 38 | Denny Island FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 51.5253 / -2.7826 | Denny Island is a small rocky island of , with scrub vegetation, in the mouth of the River Severn. It is situated approximately three miles north of Portishead. Its rocky southern foreshore marks the boundary between England and Wales, but the island itself is reckoned administratively to Monmouthshire, Wales (...) | |
| 39 | Zajacite-(Ce) FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 56.3333 / -64.1667 | Zajacite or Zajacite-(Ce) is a rare radioactive fluoride mineral with formula: Na(REExCa1-x)(REEyCa1-y)F6. REE means rare earth elements mostly those belonging to the lanthanide series. It crystallizes in the trigonal - rhombohedral system It has a white vitreous appearance with a conchoidal fracture. It has a Mohs hardness of 3.5 and a specific gravity of 4.44 to 4.55 (...) | |
| 40 | Liberty ship FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 57.7867 / -152.405 | The Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. They were British in conception but adapted by the USA, cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. Based on vessels ordered by Britain to replace ships torpedoed by German U-boats, they were purchased for the U.S. fleet and for lend-lease provision to Britain (...) | |
| 41 | Evin Prison FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 35.796 / 51.3837 | Evin Prison (زندان اوین) is a prison in Iran, located in the north of Tehran http://www.prisons.ir/en/?PHPSESSID=bc64352d477d010260bdcb67db150bd7 . It is notorious for its political prisoners' wing, from before the 1979 Iranian Revolution and since. It was founded by SAVAK during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, on what was previously the house of Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee (...) | |
| 42 | Copperbelt Province FeatureType : adm1st Lat/Lng : -13.0 / 28.0 | covers the mineral-rich Copperbelt, and farming and bush areas to the south. It was the backbone of the Northern Rhodesian economy during British colonial rule and fuelled the hopes of the immediate post-independence period, but its economic importance was severely damaged by a crash in global copper prices in 1973 and the nationalization of the copper mines by the government of Kenneth Kaunda (...) | |
| 43 | Dom João de Castro Bank FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 38.14 / -26.38 | Dom João de Castro Bank (also known as Don João de Castro Bank) is a large submarine volcano in the Azores in the central Atlantic Ocean. The volcano lies midway between the islands of Terceira and São Miguel and rises to within of the sea surface. The volcano has a large fumarole field and remains seismically active (...) | |
| 44 | Grace Kelly FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 43.7264 / 7.4027 | Grace, Princess of Monaco ''née'' Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12 1929 – September 14 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress who, upon marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco (...) | |
| 45 | Cumbre Vieja FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1949 Lat/Lng : 28.5667 / -17.8333 | Cumbre Vieja (Spanish: "Old Summit") is a volcanic ridge on the island of La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands. This ridge extends roughly in a north-south direction and covers the southern third of the island. It is lined by several volcanic craters. Location: . (...) | |
| 46 | Renewable energy FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 38.0308 / -7.6228 | , wind, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, and hydroelectricity to biomass and biofuels for transportation. About 13 percent of primary energy comes from renewables, with most of this coming from traditional biomass like wood-burning (...) | |
| 47 | Zamzam Well FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 21.4225 / 39.8264 | The Well of Zamzam (or the Zamzam Well, or just Zamzam; Arabic: زمزم) is a well located within the Masjid al Haram in Mecca, 20 meters east of the Kaaba, the holiest place in Islam. (...) | |
| 48 | Amery Ice Shelf FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -69.5 / 73.5 | The Amery Ice Shelf is a broad ice shelf at the head of Prydz Bay between the Lars Christensen Coast and Ingrid Christensen Coast. It is part of Mac Robertson Land. The name "Cape Amery" was applied to a coastal angle mapped on February 11, 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Douglas Mawson. He named it for William B (...) | |
| 49 | Witches' Cave FeatureType : Lat/Lng : -35.1833 / -69.25 | , a nature reserve and a national natural monument in Argentina. It is located in the Moncol Hill, at 1,830 m above mean sea level, within the Malargüe Department, in the south of Mendoza Province (Cuyo region), about 65 km southwest from Malargüe City. The cave covers an area of 4.5 km² and was declared a provincial reserve (''Reserva Provincial Caverna de las Brujas'') in 1990 (...) | |
| 50 | Axial Seamount FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 45.55 / -130.0 | Axial Seamount is a submarine volcano in the Juan de Fuca Ridge, located at 45.55°N, 130.00°W—roughly 480 km (298 mi) west of Cannon Beach, Oregon. It rises 700 meters above the mean level of the central Juan de Fuca Ridge and is the most magmatically robust and seismically active site on the Juan de Fuca Ridge between the Blanco Fracture Zone and the Cobb offset (...) | |
| 51 | Yamit FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 31.0833 / 34.1333 | Yamit was an Israeli settlement of 600 homes and approximately 2,500 inhabitants in the northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula that was established during Israel's occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six-Day War, until that part of the Sinai was handed over to Egypt in 1982 as part of the terms of the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty (...) | |
| 52 | Torcal de Antequera FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 36.9636 / -4.5456 | , in the province of Málaga off the A45 road in Andalusia, Spain. It is known for its unusual landforms, and is one of the most impressive karst landscapes in Europe. The area was designated a Natural Site of National Interest in July 1929, and a Natural Park Reserve of about 17 square kilometres was created in October 1978. (...) | |
| 53 | Stillwater Bridge FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 45.0569 / -92.8017 | The Stillwater Bridge (alternatively known as the Stillwater Lift Bridge, St. Croix River Bridge at Stillwater, Mn/DOT Bridge #4654, and Wis/DOT Bridge #M-61) is a vertical lift bridge crossing the St. Croix River between Stillwater, Minnesota, and Houlton, Wisconsin (...) | |
| 54 | San Andreas Fault FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 35.2711 / -119.8272 | , 35°07'N, 119°39'W The San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) through western and southern California in the United States. The fault, a right-lateral strike-slip fault, marks a transform (or sliding) boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate (...) | |
| 55 | Third Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis) FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 44.9833 / -93.2589 | The Third Avenue Bridge is a landmark structure of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, originally known as the St. Anthony Falls Bridge. It carries road traffic across the Mississippi River and right over the upper fringes of Saint Anthony Falls. The multi-arched bridge meets with Third Avenue in downtown Minneapolis at its south end, but curves as it crosses the river, and (...) | |
| 56 | Lasteika FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 37.7 / 21.4167 | Lasteika (Greek: Λαστέικα, older form: Λασταίικα), older form: Lastaiika is a village located slightly east of Pyrgos in the central part of the prefecture of Ilia. GR-9/E55 (Patras - Pyrgos) is only less than 1 km E of the traffic lights installed in the 2000s and lamp posts installed in the mid-1990s. The northern part were installed in the early-2000s up to near Chanakia (...) | |
| 57 | Mount Chambers Gorge FeatureType : city Population : 20 Lat/Lng : -30.959 / 139.2288 | Mount Chambers and the beautiful Mount Chambers Gorge ( to ) are about 60 km north-east of Blinman in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. Although on private land, they are a tourist attraction near to the road between Blinman and Balcanoona, Gammon Ranges National Park. They are part of the Wearing Hills (...) | |
| 58 | Puttur, Andhra Pradesh FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 13.45 / 79.55 | Puttur is a census town and mandal headquarters in Chittoor district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. (...) | |
| 59 | Lauren Elder FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 36.7233 / -118.3383 | Lauren Elder is known for being the sole survivor in the crash of a light airplane in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the 1970s. Lauren decided to take up an offer to be the third passenger in a Cessna 182 on a trip from Oakland airport in the San Francisco Bay area to Furnace Creek in Death Valley. The pilot was confident and competent but had only some 300 flight hours (...) | |
| 60 | Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 34.6237 / 138.1426 | The is a nuclear power plant located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan managed by the Chubu Electric Power Company. There are five units contained at a single site with a net area of 1.6 square kilometers (395 acres, about a fourth of fifth of a typical US plant). The area is in a possible epicenter of future earthquakes according to predictions (...) | |
| 61 | El Al Flight 1862 FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 52.3189 / 4.975 | On October 4, 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo plane of the Israeli airline El Al, crashed into the Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer (colloquially "Bijlmer") neighbourhood (part of ''Amsterdam Zuidoost'') of Amsterdam, Netherlands. A total of 47 people were killed, consisting of the plane's crew of three and a non-revenue passenger in a jumpseat, plus (...) | |
| 62 | Farmington, New Mexico FeatureType : city Population : 41,000 Lat/Lng : 36.7514 / -108.1894 | Farmington (Navajo: Tótah) is a city in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 37,844. The Census Bureau's 2006 population estimate for the city is (...) | |
| 63 | Pinnacles National Monument FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 36.4787 / -121.1861 | Pinnacles National Monument is protected mountainous area located east of central California's Salinas Valley. The Monument's namesake are the eroded leftovers of half of an ancient extinct volcano. The Monument is divided into East and West Divisions by the rock formations and are only connected by trails, but not by roads. The east side has shade and water, the west has high walls (...) | |
| 64 | Newberry Volcano FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 43.6892 / -121.2549 | Newberry Volcano 7,985 ft (2,434 m) high is a large shield volcano located 40 miles (60 km) east of the Cascade Volcanic Belt, the Cascade Range and about 20 miles (30 km) southeast of Bend, Oregon. It is not a typical shield volcano in that, in addition to erupting basaltic lavas, it also has erupted andesitic and even rhyolitic lava (...) | |
| 65 | Wakota Bridge FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 44.8831 / -93.015 | The Wakota Bridge is being re-built to carry Interstate 494 between South St. Paul and Newport, Minnesota across the Mississippi River, replacing a four-lane span built in 1959. The name was given to the previous span in the early 1960s, and is derived from the two counties it connects, Washington and Dakota (...) | |
| 66 | Ilgachuz Range FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 52.08 / -125.03 | The Ilgachuz Range is a name given to an extinct shield volcano in British Columbia, Canada. It is not a mountain range in the normal sense, because it was formed as a single volcano that has been eroded for the past 5 million years. It lies on the Chilcotin Plateau, located some north-northwest of Vancouver and 30 km north of Anahim Lake. The highest peak of the range is Far Mountain (...) | |
| 67 | Battle of Khe Sanh FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 16.6554 / 106.7286 | The Battle of Khe Sanh was conducted in northwestern Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), between 21 January and 8 April 1968 during the Vietnam War. The combatants were elements of the United States (U.S.) III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) and two to three division-size elements of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) (...) | |
| 68 | Jug Rock FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 38.6833 / -86.8 | , in the valley of the East Fork of the White River. It is composed of sandstone, and is the largest free-standing table rock formation (also called a "tea table") in the United States east of the Mississippi River. It is part of the Mansfield formation, laid down in the Pennsylvanian geological epoch, roughly 325 to 286 million years ago (...) | |
| 69 | Saarijärvi crater FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 65.2833 / 28.3833 | Saarijärvi is an impact structure mostly covered by a small lake by the same name. It is located about 40 km south from the town of Taivalkoski, Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. The impact origin of the structure was confirmed in 1997 when poorly developed planar deformation features (PDFs) in quartz grains were found in drill-core samples obtained from the bottom of the structure by a (...) | |
| 70 | List of volcanoes in Iceland FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 65.03 / -16.75 | This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Iceland. (...) | |
| 71 | Yucca Mountain FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 36.8528 / -116.4267 | line in Nye County, in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Nevada. It is composed of volcanic material (mostly tuff) ejected from a now-extinct caldera-forming supervolcano. Yucca Mountain is most notable as the site of the proposed Yucca Mountain Repository, a U.S. Department of Energy terminal storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and other radioactive waste (...) | |
| 72 | Silver Bridge FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 38.8346 / -82.1479 | chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and was named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis,Ohio over the Ohio River. On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed while it was choked with rush hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people (...) | |
| 73 | ORP Wicher FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 54.6 / 18.7667 | ::''For the other warship of the Polish Navy named ORP Wicher see: ORP Wicher (Smielyi class)'' ORP Wicher, the lead ship of her class, was a destroyer in the Polish Navy. It took part in the Polish Defensive War and was sunk by German bombers on September 3, 1939. The ship was built at Chantiers Naval Francais and construction took 4 years, almost two more than initially planned (...) | |
| 74 | China Airlines Flight 611 FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 23.9897 / 119.6792 | China Airlines Flight 611 Callsign: Dynasty 611 (CAL611, CI611) was a regularly scheduled flight from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport (now, Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport) in Taoyuan to Chek Lap Kok International Airport in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The flight crashed, killing all aboard on May 25 2002 (...) | |
| 75 | American Airlines Flight 191 FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 42.0097 / -87.93 | American Airlines Flight 191 was a flight to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. On May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 aircraft on the route crashed at around 15:04 CDT after taking off from O'Hare with 271 passengers and crew onboard, all of whom were killed, along with two people on the ground (...) | |
| 76 | St. Cloud Hospital FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 45.5753 / -94.1692 | St. Cloud Hospital is a hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. It is a Catholic-affiliated, not-for-profit institution and part of the CentraCare Health System. The hospital has over 3,850 employees, 375 physicians and 865 volunteers. It serves 617,000 people in a 12-county area. (...) | |
| 77 | Memorial Gymnasium (Vanderbilt University) FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 36.1446 / -86.8074 | Memorial Gymnasium is a multi-purpose facility located in Nashville, Tennessee. Usually called Memorial Gym or simply Memorial, the building is located on the western end of the Vanderbilt University campus. It was built in 1952 and currently has a seating capacity of 14,168. It serves as home court for the school's men's and women's basketball programs. (...) | |
| 78 | Rockaway Beach, California FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 37.6086 / -122.4953 | in the southern portion of Pacifica, California approximately seven miles south of the city of San Francisco. The beach is noted for its scenic vista, easy access to Highway 1, and restaurant and shopping venues. Rockaway beach is located within a gently curving embayment with direct access via Rockaway Beach Avenue. (...) | |
| 79 | Big Spring, Texas FeatureType : city Population : 25,200 Lat/Lng : 32.2492 / -101.4667 | Big Spring is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 87 and Interstate 20; its population of 25,233 (2000 census) makes it the largest city between Midland to the west, Abilene to the east, Lubbock to the north, and San Angelo to the south. Big Spring was established as the county seat of Howard County in 1882 and is also the largest city in that county (...) | |
| 80 | Long Valley Caldera FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 2796 Lat/Lng : 37.7 / -118.8667 | ''For the town in New Jersey, see Long Valley, New Jersey'' : that is adjacent to Mammoth Mountain. The valley is one of the largest calderas on earth, measuring about 32 kilometres long (east-west) and 17 kilometres wide (north-south). The elevation of the floor of the caldera is 6,500 feet (2,000 m) in the east and 8,500 feet (2,600 m) in the west (...) | |
| 81 | Comair Flight 5191 FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 38.0379 / -84.6154 | Comair Flight 5191 was a scheduled U.S. domestic passenger flight from Lexington, Kentucky, to Atlanta, Georgia, operated on behalf of Delta Connection by Comair. On the morning of August 27, 2006, the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet that was being used for the flight crashed while attempting to take off from Blue Grass Airport in Fayette County, Kentucky, four miles (6 km) west of the (...) | |
| 82 | Kegworth air disaster FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 52.8319 / -1.2993 | The Kegworth Air Disaster occurred on January 8, 1989, when British Midland Flight 092, a Boeing 737-400, crashed onto the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth, Leicestershire, UK. The aircraft was attempting to conduct an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport. 47 people were killed and 74 were seriously injured, including seven members of the flight crew. (...) | |
| 83 | Surinam Airways Flight 764 FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 5.4533 / -55.2297 | Surinam Airways Flight PY764 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname on a Surinam Airways DC-8. On June 7, 1989, the flight crashed during approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij, killing 176 of the 187 on-board, making it the worst ever aviation disaster in Suriname's history (...) | |
| 84 | 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 46.2003 / -122.1867 | The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was a major volcanic eruption. The eruption was the most significant to occur in the contiguous 48 U.S. states in recorded history (VEI = 5, 0.3 cu mi, 1.2 km3 of material erupted), exceeding the destructive power and volume of material released by the 1915 eruption of California's Lassen Peak (...) | |
| 85 | Stony Brook University FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 40.9139 / -73.1253 | The State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB), also known as Stony Brook University (SBU) is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York, United States (on the north side of Long Island, about east of Manhattan, New York). Stony Brook is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system, and has an enrollment (...) | |
| 86 | United Airlines Flight 232 FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 42.4081 / -96.3839 | United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight operated by United Airlines between Denver and Philadelphia via Chicago. On July 19, 1989, the Douglas DC-10 (Registration ) suffered an uncontained failure of its number 2 engine (mounted in the tail), which destroyed all three of the aircraft's hydraulic systems (...) | |
| 87 | Haytor Granite Tramway FeatureType : city Lat/Lng : 50.5801 / -3.7551 | The Haytor Granite Tramway was a unique granite-railed tramway running down from Haytor Down, Dartmoor, Devon. The tramway was built to carry Haytor granite, which was of fine grain and high quality, down from the heights of Dartmoor for the construction of houses, bridges and other structures (...) | |
| 88 | Loma Prieta earthquake FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 37.0667 / -122.4667 | The Loma Prieta earthquake was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989 at 5:07 p.m. The earthquake lasted approximately 15 seconds and measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale (surface-wave magnitude 7.1). The quake killed 63 people throughout northern California, injured 3,757 people and left more than 12,000 people homeless (...) | |
| 89 | SS Marine Sulphur Queen FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 25.75 / -86.0 | SS ''Marine Sulphur Queen'', T2 tanker ship converted to carrying molten sulphur, noted for its disappearance in 1963 near the southern coast of Florida, taking the lives of 39 crewmen. The loss of the ship was the subject of lengthy litigation between the owner and families of the missing men. (...) | |
| 90 | Mount Edziza FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 57.7156 / -130.6344 | Mount Edziza is a potentally active volcanic complex in Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, British Columbia, Canada. The volcano and the surrounding area are protected within Mount Edziza Provincial Park. It has an area of 1,000 km2 and consists of a complex of multiple peaks and ridges, with numerous large glaciers flowing in all directions (...) | |
| 91 | Chat Moss FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 53.4628 / -2.4317 | Chat Moss is a large area of peat bog that makes up 30% of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England. It is north of the River Irwell, to the west of Manchester, and occupies an area of about . The depth of peat varies between and . Chat Moss, as it might be recognised today, is thought to be about 7,000 years old, but peat development seems to have begun there with the (...) | |
| 92 | Abraham Lincoln assassination FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 38.8966 / -77.0255 | , Clara Harris, Mary Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, and John Wilkes Booth. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, one of the last major events in the American Civil War, took place on Friday, April 14, 1865, at approximately 10:00 P.M. President Abraham Lincoln was shot while attending a performance of ''Our American Cousin'' at Ford's Theatre with his wife and two guests (...) | |
| 93 | Mount Meager FeatureType : mountain Lat/Lng : 50.6317 / -123.5044 | Mount Meager (sometimes mistakenly spelled Meagre or Meagher) is a potentially active volcanic complex in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, above the west flank of the Lillooet River and just south of the Lillooet Icecap. It is the most unstable volcanic massive in Canada, located 150 kilometres (95 mi) north of the city of Vancouver (...) | |
| 94 | Panther Mountain (New York) FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 42.0564 / -74.395 | :''There is also a Panther Mountain in Franklin County, New York near the southern end of Lower Saranac Lake. Panther Mountain is one of the Catskill High Peaks, located in the Town of Shandaken in Ulster County, New York. At approximately 3,720 feet (1,135 m) in elevation, it is the 18th highest in the range (...) | |
| 95 | Action Park FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 41.1906 / -74.5075 | /motor themed park open from 1978 to 1996 in Vernon Township, New Jersey, on the property of the former Vernon Valley / Great Gorge ski area, today Mountain Creek. It featured three separate attraction areas — an alpine slide; Motoworld, where patrons could operate motorized vehicles on land and water and Waterworld, with many water-based attractions such as waterslides (...) | |
| 96 | Pomona College FeatureType : Lat/Lng : 34.098 / -117.714 | Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located 33 miles (53 km) east of downtown Los Angeles in Claremont, California. The College was founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists and moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a donated hotel; its name remained the same. The school enrolls 1,548 students (...) | |
