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| 1 | Socotra ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 740 Lat/Lng : 12.51 / 53.92 | Socotra , also called Soqotra, located between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea, is the largest of four islands of the Socotra archipelago. The territory is located near major shipping routes and is officially part of Yemen, and had long been a subdivision of the Aden Governorate (...) | |
| 2 | Mecca ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 299 Lat/Lng : 21.4225 / 39.8262 | Mecca is a city in the Hejazi region of the Arabian Peninsula, and the plain of Tihamah in Saudi Arabia, and is also the capital and administrative headquarters of the Makkah Region. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level, and south of Medina (...) | |
| 3 | St Kilda, Scotland ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 267 Lat/Lng : 57.8178 / -8.5811 | St Kilda is an isolated archipelago situated west-northwest of North Uist, in the North Atlantic Ocean. It contains the westernmost islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The largest island is Hirta, whose sea cliffs are the highest in the United Kingdom (...) | |
| 4 | Richmond, Virginia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 37.5489 / -77.4474 | Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Greater Richmond Region. Richmond was incorporated in 1742 and has been an independent city since 1871 (...) | |
| 5 | Newport, Wales ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 51.5877 / -2.9983 | Newport is a cathedral and university city and unitary authority area in south east Wales. It is located on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, approximately northeast of Cardiff. At the 2011 census it was the third largest city in Wales, with a city population of 145,700 (...) | |
| 6 | Tibet Autonomous Region ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 4566 Lat/Lng : 31.7056 / 86.9403 | The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short , is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, officially part of the region of southwest China (...) | |
| 7 | Chaco War ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 124 Lat/Lng : -21.3272 / -59.7367 | The Chaco War (1932–1935; , . Secretaría Nacional de Cultura de Paraguay) was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region (known in Spanish as Chaco Boreal) of South America, which was thought to be rich in oil (...) | |
| 8 | Andalusia ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 37.3833 / -5.9833 | Andalusia is an autonomous community in southern Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in the country. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". Estatuto de Autonomía de Andalucía (...) | |
| 9 | Göbekli Tepe ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 779 Lat/Lng : 37.223 / 38.9224 | Göbekli Tepe , Turkish for "Potbelly Hill", is an archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, approximately northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa. The tell has a height of and is about in diameter (...) | |
| 10 | Union of South American Nations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2461 Lat/Lng : -0.0044 / -78.4539 | The Union of South American Nations (USAN; , UNASUR; , UNASUL; , UZAN; and sometimes referred to as the South American Union) is an intergovernmental regional organization comprising twelve South American countries (...) | |
| 11 | Spain ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 594 Lat/Lng : 40.4637 / -3.7492 | Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea (...) | |
| 12 | Penarth ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 51.4386 / -3.1734 | Penarth is a town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan , Wales, approximately southwest of Cardiff city centre on the north shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay. Penarth is the wealthiest seaside resort in the Cardiff Urban Area, and the second largest town in the Vale of (...) | |
| 13 | Antarctic minke whale ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 78.0333 / 11.7167 | The Antarctic minke whale or southern minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales. It is the second smallest rorqual after the common minke whale and the third smallest baleen whale (...) | |
| 14 | Pampa de Achala ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2078 Lat/Lng : -31.6826 / -64.8372 | Pampa de Achala is the name given to a vast region that lies at the heart of the Sierras de Córdoba located within Sierras Pampeanas, and located in central-northwest of Argentina. It is a rugged area with little vegetation, which is over 1,500 m having distinctive species, ecology, relief and (...) | |
| 15 | Bayt Jibrin ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 276 Lat/Lng : 31.6053 / 34.8983 | Bayt Jibrin (also transliterated Beit Jibrin;), was a Palestinian Arab village located northwest of the city of Hebron. The village had a total land area of 56,185 dunams or , of which were built-up while the rest remained farmland.Village Statistics, Government of Palestine. 1945 (...) | |
| 16 | Italian invasion of Egypt ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 495 Lat/Lng : 26.0 / 30.0 | The Italian invasion of Egypt was an offensive in the Second World War, against British, Commonwealth and Free French forces. The Italian invasion ended border skirmishing and began the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) proper (...) | |
| 17 | Battle of Raqqa (2017) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 255 Lat/Lng : 35.9494 / 39.0203 | The 2017 Battle of Raqqa was the fifth and final phase of the Raqqa campaign (2016–2017) launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against the Islamic State (ISIL) with an aim to seize the city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIL since 2014 (...) | |
| 18 | Chicago Police Department ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 185 Lat/Lng : 41.8684 / -87.71 | The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is the law enforcement agency of the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois, under the jurisdiction of the City Council. It is the second largest municipal police department in the United States, behind only the New York City Police Department and larger than the Los (...) | |
| 19 | Gaza flotilla raid ![]() FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 32.6411 / 33.5673 | The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six civilian ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine activists were killed on one ship during the raid and ten Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously (...) | |
| 20 | British Transport Police ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 51.5408 / -0.1398 | The British Transport Police (BTP) is a national special police force that polices railways and light-rail systems in England, Scotland and Wales, for which it has entered into an agreement to provide such services (...) | |
| 21 | La Trochita ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 594 Lat/Lng : -42.9042 / -71.3186 | La Trochita (official name: Viejo Expreso Patagónico), in English known as the Old Patagonian Express, is a narrow gauge railway in Patagonia, Argentina using steam locomotives. The nickname La Trochita means literally "little gauge" though it is sometimes translated as "The Little Narrow Gauge" in (...) | |
| 22 | Yogo sapphire ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1545 Lat/Lng : 46.8458 / -110.3106 | Yogo sapphires are a variety of corundum found only in Yogo Gulch, part of the Little Belt Mountains in Judith Basin County, Montana, United States, on land once inhabited by the Piegan Blackfeet people. Yogos are typically cornflower blue, a result of trace amounts of iron and titanium (...) | |
| 23 | Penrith Museum of Fire ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : -33.7477 / 150.6936 | The Penrith Museum of Fire is a firefighting museum that contains heritage-listed former operating and now stored for preservation fire service vehicles located at Museum Drive in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith in the City of Penrith local government area of New South Wales, Australia (...) | |
| 24 | Florida Street ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 49 Lat/Lng : -34.6077 / -58.375 | Florida Street is a popular shopping street in Downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. A pedestrian street since 1971, some stretches have been pedestrianized since 1913. Calle Florida History: The pedestrian section as such starts at the intersection of Perú Street and Avenida de Mayo, a block north of (...) | |
| 25 | St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 52.409 / -4.061 | Saint Padarn's Church is a parish church of the Church in Wales, and the largest mediaeval church in mid-Wales. Founded in the early sixth century, St Padarn's Church has gone through many changes, from a Welsh monastic centre (a clas), a Benedictine priory, a clas again, a royal rectory, a church (...) | |
| 26 | Battle of Remagen ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 54 Lat/Lng : 50.5792 / 7.2442 | The Battle of Remagen during the Allied invasion of Germany resulted in the unexpected capture of the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine and shortened World War II in Europe. After capturing the Siegfried Line, the 9th Armored Division of the U.S (...) | |
| 27 | Bundy standoff ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 433 Lat/Lng : 36.7166 / -114.2385 | The 2014 Bundy standoff was an armed confrontation between supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and law enforcement following a 21-year legal dispute in which the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) obtained court orders directing Bundy to pay over $1 million in withheld grazing fees (...) | |
| 28 | La Cumbrecita ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1354 Lat/Lng : -31.8988 / -64.7733 | La Cumbrecita is a small picturesque, secluded alpine-like hamlet, located amongst spruce and pine, at above sea level, where it is not unusual to see a blanket of snow in winter time. It is situated in the Calamuchita Valley in the Grand Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina (...) | |
| 29 | Majdal Shams ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1156 Lat/Lng : 33.2692 / 35.7706 | Majdal Shams is a Druze town in the southern foothills of Mt. Hermon, north of the Golan Heights (also known as the capital of Golan Heights). The majority of residents are of Syrian-Druze origin. Since the June 1967 Six-Day War, the village has been controlled by Israel, first under martial law, (...) | |
| 30 | Assault on Mount Kent, Falkland Islands ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 439 Lat/Lng : -51.673 / -58.113 | The Assault on Mount Kent was an engagement during the Falklands War between British and Argentine forces. (...) | |