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| 1 | Newfoundland (island) ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 256 Lat/Lng : 48.5663 / -55.7773 | Newfoundland Both names can be found in ."Ikkarumikluak" means "place of many shoals" while "Kallunasillik" means "place of many white people". It is thought the "Ikkarumiklua" was used before the colonization of Newfoundland and was later replaced by "Kallunasillik" (...) | |
| 2 | Baffin Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 69.0 / -72.0 | Baffin Island , in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is and its population is about 11,000 (2007 estimate). It is located 65.4215 N and 70.9654 W (...) | |
| 3 | Island of Montreal ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 45.5003 / -73.6464 | The Island of Montreal , in southwestern Quebec, Canada, is at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa rivers. It is separated from Île Jésus (Laval) by the Rivière des Prairies. (...) | |
| 4 | Newfoundland and Labrador ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 47.6011 / -52.6976 | Newfoundland and Labrador (; ; Newfoundland Irish:) is the most easterly province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it comprises the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador to the northwest, with a combined area of (...) | |
| 5 | Ojibwe ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 46.6875 / -92.1892 | The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabeg group of Indigenous Peoples in North America, which is referred to by many of its Indigenous peoples as Turtle Island. They live in Canada and the United States and are one of the largest Indigenous ethnic groups north of the Rio Grande (...) | |
| 6 | Great Lakes ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 175 Lat/Lng : 45.8106 / -84.6825 | The Great Lakes , also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint (...) | |
| 7 | North Uist ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 204 Lat/Lng : 57.6058 / -7.3414 | North Uist is an island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. (...) | |
| 8 | Times Square ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 40.7589 / -73.9851 | Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.Rybczynski, Witold (...) | |
| 9 | Lake Erie ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 42.2 / -81.2 | Lake ErieUnited States Geological Survey Hydrological Unit Code: 04-12-02-00 is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area (...) | |
| 10 | Saba ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 536 Lat/Lng : 17.6297 / -63.2356 | Saba Mangold, Max. Duden – Das Aussprachewörterbuch. In: Der Duden in zwölf Bänden, Band 6. 7. Auflage. Berlin: Dudenverlag; Mannheim : Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2015, Seite 747. is a Caribbean island which is the smallest special municipality (officially “public body”) of the Netherlands (...) | |
| 11 | Easter Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : -27.1194 / -109.3547 | Easter Island is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. Easter Island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people (...) | |
| 12 | Vermont ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 542 Lat/Lng : 44.0833 / -72.6167 | Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the U.S. states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north (...) | |
| 13 | Thousand Islands ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 44.3339 / -75.9948 | The Thousand Islands constitute an archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada–US border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for about downstream from Kingston, Ontario (...) | |
| 14 | Charleston, South Carolina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 32.7761 / -79.9325 | Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.As defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, for use by the U.S (...) | |
| 15 | Belfast International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 54.658 / -6.2159 | Belfast International Airport is an airport northwest of Belfast in Northern Ireland. Formerly known as Aldergrove Airport, after the nearby village of Aldergrove, Belfast International is Northern Ireland's busiest airport and the second busiest airport on the island of Ireland after Dublin Airport (...) | |
| 16 | Grand Manan ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 44.6979 / -66.8223 | Grand Manan Island (also simply Grand Manan) is a Canadian island, and the largest of the Fundy Islands in the Bay of Fundy. It is the primary island in the Grand Manan Archipelago, sitting at the boundary between the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine on the Atlantic coast (...) | |
| 17 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 46.9985 / -85.1102 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there (...) | |
| 18 | Channel-Port aux Basques ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 47.5691 / -59.1394 | Channel-Port aux Basques is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of Newfoundland fronting on the western end of the Cabot Strait. A Marine Atlantic ferry terminal is located in the town which is the primary entry point onto the island of Newfoundland and the western terminus of the Trans-Canada (...) | |
| 19 | Hans Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 80.8264 / -66.4535 | Hans Island (Greenlandic: Tartupaluk; Inuktitut: ᑕᕐᑐᐸᓗᒃ; ;) is a small, uninhabited measuring , long and wide, located in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of Nares Strait—the strait that separates Ellesmere Island from northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with the Lincoln Sea (...) | |
| 20 | One Canada Square ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 51.505 / -0.0196 | One Canada Square is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London. It is the second tallest building in the United Kingdom at above ground levelAviation charts issued by the Civil Aviation Authority containing 50 stories (...) | |
| 21 | Richmond Hill, Ontario ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 234 Lat/Lng : 43.8849 / -79.4304 | Richmond Hill (2016 population 195,022) is a town in south-central York Region, Ontario, Canada. Part of the Greater Toronto Area, it is the York Region's third most populous municipality and the 28th most populous municipality in Canada. It is also Canada's most populous town (...) | |
| 22 | Channel Islands ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 49.2167 / -2.1325 | The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes or Îles de la Manche) are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two Crown dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of (...) | |
| 23 | Battle of Dunkirk ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 51.0343 / 2.3768 | The Battle of Dunkirk was a military operation that took place in Dunkirk (Dunkerque), France, during the Second World War. The battle was fought between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As part of the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defence and evacuation to Britain (...) | |
| 24 | Portland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : -38.3462 / 141.6026 | Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeastern United States * Isle of Portland, England, a (...) | |
| 25 | Tram ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 530 Lat/Lng : 48.1484 / 11.4616 | A tram (in North America streetcar or trolley) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets; some include segments of segregated right-of-way. The lines or networks operated by tramcars are called tramways (...) | |
| 26 | Leeds Bradford Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 203 Lat/Lng : 53.8659 / -1.6606 | Leeds Bradford Airport is located at Yeadon, in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, northwest of Leeds city centre itself, and from Bradford city centre. It was opened in October 1931 as Yeadon Aerodrome, and is still often referred to as Yeadon Airport by locals (...) | |
| 27 | BMW ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 513 Lat/Lng : 48.1771 / 11.5593 | BMW AG (; originally an initialism for Bayerische Motoren Werke in German, or Bavarian Motor Works in English) is a German multinational company which currently produces luxury automobiles and motorcycles, and also produced aircraft engines until 1945 (...) | |
| 28 | Gatwick Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 51.1482 / -0.1903 | Gatwick Airport , (retrieved 5 September 2012) also known as London Gatwick is a major international airport near Crawley in West Sussex, southeast England, south of Central London. It is the second-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom, after London Heathrow (...) | |
| 29 | Commonwealth of Nations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 51.505 / -0.1358 | The Commonwealth of Nations, normally known as the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the Commonwealth Secretariat, which focuses on intergovernmental aspects, (...) | |
| 30 | John Taylor (Mormon) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1451 Lat/Lng : 40.7772 / -111.858 | John Taylor (November 1, 1808 – July 25, 1887) was an English religious leader who served as the third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1880 to 1887. He is the only president of the LDS Church to have been born outside the United States. (...) | |
| 31 | Tristan da Cunha ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 1659 Lat/Lng : -37.1167 / -12.2833 | Tristan da Cunha , colloquially Tristan, is both a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world which lies proximately off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa, from Saint Helena and off the (...) | |
| 32 | Twitter ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 37.7768 / -122.4166 | Twitter, Inc. is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (...) | |
| 33 | Amelia Earhart ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 0.8067 / -176.6164 | Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment (...) | |
| 34 | Tonawanda (city), New York ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 178 Lat/Lng : 43.0111 / -78.8775 | Tonawanda (formally City of Tonawanda, from Tahnawá•teh meaning "confluent stream"http://www.snowwowl.com/namemeaning.html in TuscaroraRudes, B. Tuscarora English Dictionary Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999) is a city in Erie County, New York, United States (...) | |
| 35 | Grosse Isle, Quebec ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 47.0333 / -70.6667 | Grosse Isle ("big island"), is located in Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec, Canada. It is one of the islands of the 21-island Isle-aux-Grues archipelago. It is part of the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, located in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of the province (...) | |
| 36 | Canso, Nova Scotia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 45.3368 / -60.9988 | For the headland, see Cape Canso. Canso is a community in Guysborough County, on the north-eastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia, Canada, next to Chedabucto Bay. In January 2012, it ceased to be a separate town and as of July 2012 was amalgamated into the Municipality of the District of Guysborough (...) | |
| 37 | Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 51.5004 / -0.1281 | The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal for certain British territories and Commonwealth countries. Established on 13 August 1833 to hear appeals formerly heard by the King-in-Council, the Privy Council formerly acted as the court of last resort for the (...) | |
| 38 | Billy Butlin ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 107 Lat/Lng : 49.2461 / -2.1435 | Sir William Heygate Edmund Colborne "Billy" Butlin (29 September 1899 – 12 June 1980) was a South African-born British entrepreneur whose name is synonymous with the British holiday camp.American Heritage Dictionary 2004, p. 135.Scott 2001, p. 5 (...) | |
| 39 | Moorestown, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 39.9771 / -74.945 | Moorestown is a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and an eastern suburb of Philadelphia. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 20,726, reflecting an increase of 1,709 (+9 (...) | |
| 40 | Jim Jones ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 838 Lat/Lng : -19.9167 / -43.9333 | James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American religious cult leader who, along with his inner circle, initiated and was responsible for a mass suicide and mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana (...) | |
| 41 | Festival Interceltique de Lorient ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 47.7456 / -3.3613 | __NOTOC__ The (French), Gouelioù Etrekeltiek An Oriant (Breton) or Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient in English, is an annual Celtic festival, located in the city of Lorient, Brittany, France. It was founded in 1971 by (...) | |
| 42 | Lot 62, Prince Edward Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 45 Lat/Lng : 45.9833 / -62.75 | Lot 62 is a township in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, part of St. John's Parish. Lot 62 was awarded to Richard Spry, Esquire in the 1767 Land Lottery, and came to be settled through the efforts of Thomas Douglas, The 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1803 (...) | |
| 43 | Marshalsea ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 51.5018 / -0.0921 | The Marshalsea (1373–1842) was a notorious prison in Southwark (now London), just south of the River Thames. Although it housed a variety of prisoners, including men accused of crimes at sea and political figures charged with sedition, it became known, in particular, for its incarceration of the (...) | |
| 44 | Subaru ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 36.2976 / 139.3681 | (or ;) is the automobile manufacturing division of Japanese transportation conglomerate Subaru Corporation (formerly known as Fuji Heavy Industries), the twenty-second largest automaker by production worldwide in 2012 (...) | |
| 45 | Eglinton Country Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 55.64 / -4.67 | Eglinton Country Park is located in the grounds of the old Eglinton Castle estate, Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland (map reference NS 3227 4220). Eglinton Park is situated in the parish of Kilwinning, part of the former district of Cunninghame, and covers an area of 400 hectares (of which are (...) | |
| 46 | Bestival ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 50.6375 / -2.2106 | Bestival is a four-day music festival held in the south of England. It has been held annually in late summer since 2004 at Robin Hill on the Isle of Wight. In 2017 the festival relocated to the Lulworth Estate in Dorset (...) | |
| 47 | Saint Helen's Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 45.5168 / -73.5345 | Saint Helen's Island is an island in the Saint Lawrence River, in the territory of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is situated immediately southeast of the Island of Montreal, in the extreme southwest of Quebec. It forms part of the Hochelaga Archipelago (...) | |
| 48 | Kuujjuaq Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 58.0923 / -68.4249 | Kuujjuaq Airport, , is located southwest of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Canada. (...) | |
| 49 | Royal Canadian Mint ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 45.4314 / -75.6993 | The Royal Canadian Mint is a Crown corporation, operating under the Royal Canadian Mint Act. The shares of the Mint are held in trust for the Crown in right of Canada. The Mint produces all of Canada's circulation coins, and manufactures circulation coins on behalf of other nations (...) | |
| 50 | Lahaina Banyan Court Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 20.8717 / -156.6775 | Lahaina Banyan Court Park is a public park located at the corner of Front Street and Canal Street in the town of Lahaina, Hawaii, which was the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1820 to 1845. The park, also known as Lahaina Courthouse Square and commonly called Banyan Tree Park, contains (...) | |
| 51 | Saint George (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 32.3817 / -64.6781 | Saint George was a soldier in the Roman army in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, venerated as a Christian martyr. Saint George or Saint George's may also refer to: (...) | |
| 52 | Puckaster ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 50.58 / -1.2842 | Puckaster is a hamlet on the Isle of Wight, England. Puckaster is on the southern coast of the Isle of Wight, south of Niton , between St. Catherine's Point and Binnel. (...) | |
| 53 | 2006 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : -37.82 / 144.9833 | The Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games was held on 15 March 2006 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The ceremony was conceived and produced by Jack Morton Worldwide, which also produced the ceremonies for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. (...) | |
| 54 | Beaumanor Hall ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 70 Lat/Lng : 52.7361 / -1.205 | Beaumanor Hall is a stately home with a park in the small village of Woodhouse on the edge of the Charnwood Forest, near the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England. The present hall was built in 1842–8 by architect William Railton and builder George Bridgart of Derby, for the Herrick (...) | |
| 55 | Saint Michael (disambiguation) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 491 Lat/Lng : 40.337 / -78.7708 | The original Saint Michael, Michael the archangel, appears in the Bible as a heavenly being. Saint Michael or Saint Michaels may also refer to: * saint Michael Maleinos (c. 894–963), Byzantine monk Saints of the Roman Catholic Church: * saint Michael de Sanctis (1591–1625), Spanish Trinitarian * (...) | |