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1 | ![]() | Lake Winnipeg ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 215 Lat/Lng : 52.1319 / -97.2611 | Lake Winnipeg is a very large, but relatively shallow lake in North America, in the province of Manitoba, Canada. Its southern end is about north of the city of Winnipeg. It is the largest lake within southern Canada's borders, and is part of the most undeveloped large watershed of southern Canada (...) |
2 | ![]() | Wake Island ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 19.29 / 166.601 | Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll) is a coral atoll in the western Pacific Ocean in the northeastern area of the Micronesia subregion, east of Guam, west of Honolulu and southeast of Tokyo. The island is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States that is also claimed by the (...) |
3 | ![]() | Corsica ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1717 Lat/Lng : 42.15 / 9.0833 | Corsica (; ; Corsica in Corsican and Italian, pronounced and respectively) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is located southeast of the French mainland and west of the Italian Peninsula, with the nearest land mass being the Italian island of Sardinia to (...) |
4 | ![]() | Okinawa Prefecture ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Lat/Lng : 26.1831 / 127.5497 | is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Okinawa-shi" in It encompasses two thirds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over long. The Ryukyu Islands extend southwest from Kyushu (the southwesternmost of Japan's four main islands) to Taiwan (Yilan County) (...) |
5 | ![]() | Antarctic Peninsula ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.5 / -65.0 | The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica, located at the base of the Southern Hemisphere. At the surface, it is the biggest, most prominent peninsula in Antarctica as it extends from a line between Cape Adams (Weddell Sea) and a point on the mainland south of (...) |
6 | ![]() | Purdue University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 40.4239 / -86.9289 | Purdue University is a public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture in (...) |
7 | ![]() | Bulgaria ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 414 Lat/Lng : 42.65 / 25.4 | Bulgaria (; , tr. '), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (tr. '), is a country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east (...) |
8 | ![]() | Brindisi ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.6333 / 17.9333 | Brindisi (; Brindisino: ; ; ;) is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Historically, the city has played an important role in trade and culture, due to its strategic position on the Italian Peninsula and its (...) |
9 | ![]() | Tijuana ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 32.5282 / -117.0208 | Tijuana is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and on the Baja California Peninsula. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana international transborder agglomeration. As one of the largest and fastest growing cities of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on local economics, (...) |
10 | ![]() | Carnegie Mellon University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 292 Lat/Lng : 40.4433 / -79.9436 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private nonprofit research university based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, the university became the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912 and began granting four-year degrees (...) |
11 | ![]() | Belize ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 17.25 / -88.75 | Belize , is a country located on the eastern coast of Central America. Belize is bordered on the northwest by Mexico, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by Guatemala. It has an area of and a population of 387,879 (2017). Its mainland is about long and wide (...) |
12 | ![]() | Dubai ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 25.205 / 55.2698 | Dubai is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa. D Long, B Reich. p (...) |
13 | ![]() | Mono Lake ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 1948 Lat/Lng : 38.0166 / -119.0093 | Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake. These salts also make the lake water alkaline (...) |
14 | ![]() | Australia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 607 Lat/Lng : -35.3081 / 149.1244 | Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area (...) |
15 | ![]() | South Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 766 Lat/Lng : -43.9825 / 170.4489 | The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area; the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean (...) |
16 | ![]() | Atlanta ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 335 Lat/Lng : 33.755 / -84.39 | Atlanta is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2017 population of 486,290, it is also the 39th most-populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5 (...) |
17 | ![]() | Somalia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 273 Lat/Lng : 6.1833 / 47.0 | Somalia , officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe Federal Republic of Somalia is the country's name per Article 1 of the . , is a sovereign state with its territory located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, (...) |
18 | ![]() | São Paulo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 765 Lat/Lng : -23.5477 / -46.6364 | São Paulo is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and the most populous city in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world (...) |
19 | ![]() | Russia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 157 Lat/Lng : 55.75 / 37.6167 | Russia , officially the Russian Federation"The names Russian Federation and Russia shall be equal". , is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144 (...) |
20 | ![]() | Weddell Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : -51.8786 / -61.0067 | Weddell Island Falkland Islands. GeoNames Geographical Database is one of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, lying off the southwest extremity of West Falkland. It is situated west-northwest of South Georgia Island, north of Livingston Island, northeast of Cape Horn, northeast of Isla de (...) |
21 | Metacomet Ridge ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 170 Lat/Lng : 41.4156 / -72.9381 | The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range of southern New England is a narrow and steep fault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas, microclimate ecosystems, and rare or endangered plants (...) | |
22 | Apple Inc. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 37.3318 / -122.0312 | Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. The company's hardware products include the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, the Mac personal (...) | |
23 | Tesla, Inc. ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 37.3947 / -122.1503 | Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing (...) | |
24 | Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 37.4214 / 141.0325 | The was an energy accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. Immediately after the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their sustained fission reactions (...) | |
25 | Simi Valley, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 282 Lat/Lng : 34.2711 / -118.7394 | The city of Simi Valley (from the Chumash word, '), in the eponymous valley, is in the southeast corner of Ventura County, California, United States, from downtown Los Angeles, making it part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city sits next to Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, and Los Angeles (...) | |
26 | Nelson Mandela ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 834 Lat/Lng : -31.8061 / 28.6146 | Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully (...) | |
27 | Cardamom Mountains ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 340 Lat/Lng : 12.3086 / 102.9896 | The Krâvanh Mountains, literally the "Cardamom Mountains" (Chuor Phnom Krâvanh; , Thio Khao Banthat), is a mountain range in the south west of Cambodia and Eastern Thailand. The silhouette of the Cardamom Mountains appears in the provincial seal of Trat Province in Thailand. (...) | |
28 | University of Arizona ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 751 Lat/Lng : 32.2317 / -110.9519 | The University of Arizona (also referred to as Arizona, U of A, or UA) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885, the UA was the first university in the Arizona Territory. , the university enrolls 44,831 students in 19 separate colleges/schools, including the University of (...) | |
29 | University of Central Florida ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 28.6016 / -81.2005 | The University of Central Florida, or UCF, is an American public state university in Orlando, Florida. It is the largest college by enrollment in Florida, and is the largest overall among U.S. colleges and universities (...) | |
30 | Iowa State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 287 Lat/Lng : 42.0239 / -93.6476 | Iowa State University of Science and Technology, generally referred to as Iowa State, is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States. It is the largest university in the state of Iowa and the third largest university in the Big 12 athletic conference (...) | |
31 | North East England ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 55.0 / -1.8667 | North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It covers Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, and the former county of Cleveland now in North Yorkshire (...) | |
32 | SES S.A. ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 277 Lat/Lng : 49.6942 / 6.33 | SES S.A. is a communications satellite owner and operator providing video and data connectivity worldwide to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, governments and institutions, with a mission to “connect, enable, and enrich”. SES Company Brochure (...) | |
33 | Jersey Shore (TV series) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 39.9455 / -74.0701 | Jersey Shore is an American reality television series that ran on MTV from December 3, 2009 to December 20, 2012 in the United States. The series follows the lives of eight housemates who spend their summer together at a vacation home: in Seaside Heights, New Jersey in seasons one, three, five and (...) | |
34 | Photovoltaics ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1292 Lat/Lng : 37.55 / 105.0539 | Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. A photovoltaic system employs solar panels, each comprising a number of solar cells, which (...) | |
35 | Amchitka ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 151 Lat/Lng : 51.5422 / 178.9833 | Amchitka is a volcanic, tectonically unstable island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. It is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The island is about long, and from wide. The area has a maritime climate, with many storms, and mostly overcast skies (...) | |
36 | Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 533 Lat/Lng : 48.0 / -91.0 | The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or BWCA), is a wilderness area within the Superior National Forest in northeastern part of the US state of Minnesota (United States) under the administration of the U.S. Forest Service (...) | |
37 | Sony Mobile ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 526 Lat/Lng : 48.1368 / 11.6881 | Sony Mobile Communications Inc. is a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1, 2001 as a joint venture between Sony and Ericsson, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and wholly owned by Sony. It was originally incorporated as Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, and headquartered in (...) | |
38 | South Dakota State University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 505 Lat/Lng : 44.3167 / -96.7858 | South Dakota State University is a public research university located in Brookings, South Dakota. The state's largest university, founded in 1881, is the oldest continually-operating university in the South Dakota (...) | |
39 | Renewable energy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 37.3131 / 126.6128 | Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water (...) | |
40 | Huawei ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 75 Lat/Lng : 22.6533 / 114.0546 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is a Chinese telecommunications-equipment and consumer-electronics company based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, South China. Huawei has deployed its products and services in more than 170 countries, and it served 45 of the 50 largest telecoms operators (...) | |
41 | Automated teller machine ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.6523 / -0.082 | An automated teller machine (ATM) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, transfer funds, or obtaining account information, at any time and without the need for direct (...) | |
42 | Bidar district ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 673 Lat/Lng : 17.9126 / 77.5144 | Bidar district is the northernmost part of the Karnataka state in India. Geographically, it resembles the "Crown of the State", occupying its northeastern end. It is bounded by Kamareddy and Sangareddy districts of Telangana state on the eastern side, Latur and Osmanabad districts of Maharashtra (...) | |
43 | Human rights in North Korea ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 250 Lat/Lng : 39.4462 / 126.1632 | Human rights in North Korea are severely limited. Despite numerous rights being de jure guaranteed by the country's constitution, human rights groups such as Amnesty International and nations such as the United States have asserted that in practice, there is no de facto right to free speech, and the (...) | |
44 | Raidió Teilifís Éireann ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 53.3159 / -6.2258 | Raidió Teilifís ÉireannBroadcasting Act 2009 (Section 113) (; Radio-Television of Ireland; abbreviated as RTÉ) is a semi-state company and the national public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet (...) | |
45 | Argyle International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 13.1564 / -61.1503 | Argyle International Airport (often referred to as Argyle Airport or simply AIA) is a newly constructed international airport in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, about from Kingstown. The airport is one of St Vincent and the Grenadines most important infrastructure assets and the country's first (...) | |
46 | Dell ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 30.4866 / -97.6665 | Dell is an American multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Named after its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations in the (...) | |
47 | Caledonian Forest ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 80 Lat/Lng : 57.12 / -4.71 | The Caledonian Forest is the name given to the former (ancient old-growth) temperate rainforest of Scotland. The name comes to us from Pliny the Elder who reveals that 30 years after the Roman invasion of Britain their knowledge of it did not extend beyond the neighbourhood of silva caledonia (...) | |
48 | Cochin University of Science and Technology ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 10.045 / 76.326 | Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) is a government-owned autonomous science and technology university in Kochi, Kerala, India. Founded in 1971, it has three campuses: two in Kochi and one in Kuttanad, Alappuzha, 66 km inland (...) | |
49 | Ricketts Glen State Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 672 Lat/Lng : 41.3261 / -76.2794 | Ricketts Glen State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on 13,050 acres (5,280 ha) in Columbia, Luzerne, and Sullivan counties in Pennsylvania in the United States. Ricketts Glen is a National Natural Landmark known for its old-growth forest and 24 named waterfalls along Kitchen Creek, which flows (...) | |
50 | Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 976 Lat/Lng : 43.3533 / -102.0892 | The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation , also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation, Pine Ridge was created by the Act of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat. 888 (...) | |
51 | Smoke Hole Canyon ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 528 Lat/Lng : 38.8597 / -79.2845 | Smoke Hole Canyon — traditionally called The Smoke HolesThe 1850 United States Census references residents living in "The Smoke Holes" of Pendleton County, Virginia. and later simply Smoke Hole — is a rugged long gorge carved by the South Branch Potomac River in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern (...) | |
52 | Portuguese Army ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 130 Lat/Lng : 39.4333 / -8.3 | The Portuguese Army is the land component of the Armed Forces of Portugal and is also its largest branch. It is charged with the defence of Portugal, in co-operation with other branches of the Armed Forces. It is one of the oldest armies in the world, with its origins going back to the 12th century (...) | |
53 | Verifone ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 37.3721 / -121.9257 | Verifone is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, that provides technology for electronic payment transactions and value-added services at the point-of-sale. Verifone sells merchant-operated, consumer-facing and self-service payment systems to the financial, (...) | |
54 | Mekong Delta ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 10.009 / 105.824 | The Mekong Delta ("Nine Dragon river delta" or simply , "Mekong river delta"), also known as the Western Region or the South-western region is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of distributaries (...) | |
55 | The King's Academy (West Palm Beach, Florida) ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 26.6941 / -80.1815 | The King's Academy is a National Blue Ribbon, college-preparatory, Christian preschool, elementary, and secondary school located in West Palm Beach, Florida. The school serves families with students from age one to twelfth grade on campuses located in Palm Beach County (...) | |
56 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 135 Lat/Lng : 26.5114 / 80.2349 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (also known as IIT Kanpur or IITK) is a public engineering institution located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. It was declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the Institutes of Technology Act (...) | |
57 | Sustainable energy ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 132 Lat/Lng : 38.0308 / -7.6228 | Sustainable energy is energy that is consumed at insignificant rates compared to its supply and with manageable collateral effects, especially environmental effects. Another common definition of sustainable energy is an energy system that serves the needs of the present without compromising the (...) | |
58 | John Day Fossil Beds National Monument ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 754 Lat/Lng : 44.5499 / -119.6344 | John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon. Located within the John Day River basin and managed by the National Park Service, the park is known for its well-preserved layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived in the (...) | |
59 | Rheem ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 87 Lat/Lng : 43.2663 / -79.8716 | Rheem Manufacturing Company is an American privately held manufacturer that produces residential and commercial water heaters and boilers, as well as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. The company also produces and sells products under the Ruud brand name (...) | |
60 | North Carolina Zoo ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 228 Lat/Lng : 35.6295 / -79.7645 | The North Carolina Zoological Park is located in Asheboro in Randolph County, North Carolina in the Uwharrie Mountains near the geographic center of the state, approximately west of Raleigh, North Carolina, United States (...) | |
61 | Darla Moore School of Business ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 107 Lat/Lng : 34.0 / -81.0233 | The Darla Moore School of Business is the business school of the University of South Carolina. Founded in 1919, the Moore School is located in Columbia, South Carolina and currently enrolls over 5,500 undergraduate and 800 graduate students in degree-seeking programs, including bachelor's, master's (...) | |
62 | Dipor Bil ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 26.13 / 91.66 | Dipor Bil, also spelt Deepor Beel (Pron: dɪpɔ:(r) bɪl) (bil or Kaushal Tisa means "lake" in the local Assamese language), is located to the south-west of Guwahati city, in Kamrup district of Assam, India It is a permanent freshwater lake, in a former channel of the Brahmaputra River, to the south (...) | |
63 | Afghanistan–India relations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1920 Lat/Lng : 34.32 / 69.1 | Bilateral relations between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of India have traditionally been strong and friendly.The Republic of India was the only South Asian country to recognize the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in the 1980s, its relations were diminished (...) | |
64 | Bura Irrigation and Settlement Project (Kenya) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : -1.1157 / 39.8357 | In 1977 the Board of Governors of the World Bank approved Bura Irrigation and Settlement Project (BISP) in Kenya. The project area is situated just South of the Equator in the Lower Tana Basin. It lies on the west bank of the Tana River and falls within the administrative area of Tana River County (...) | |
65 | Chagos Marine Protected Area ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : -6.1667 / 72.0 | The Chagos Marine Protected Area, located in the central Indian Ocean in the British Indian Ocean Territory of the United Kingdom, is one of the world's largest marine protected areas, and one of the largest protected areas of any type (land or sea) on Earth (...) | |
66 | Jackson School of Geosciences ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 30.2858 / -97.7357 | The Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin unites the Department of Geological Sciences with two research units, the Institute for Geophysics and the Bureau of Economic Geology. The Jackson School is both old and new (...) | |
67 | Sodexo ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 48.8217 / 2.2512 | Sodexo (formerly Sodexho Alliance) is a French food services and facilities management company headquartered in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux." ." Sodexo. Retrieved 1 June 2010. Sodexo is one of the world's largest multinational corporations, with 420,000 employees that represent 130 (...) | |
68 | Iraq–Turkey relations ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1005 Lat/Lng : 39.8959 / 32.865 | Iraqi–Turkish relations are foreign relations between Iraq and Turkey. From late 2011 relations between the two countries have undergone strained turbulence. The two countries share a close historical and cultural heritage (...) | |
69 | UNAVCO ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1586 Lat/Lng : 40.0611 / -105.2059 | UNAVCO is a non-profit university-governed consortium that facilitates geoscience research and education using Geodesy. The UNAVCO academic and research community seeks to broaden human understanding of the changing Earth by integrating technologies, open geodetic observations, and research (...) | |
70 | Wasque ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -4 Lat/Lng : 41.3707 / -70.4509 | Wasque ("way-squee") or Wasque Beach (Air date: Thursday, July 21, 2005) is a nature reserve on Chappaquiddick Island, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The site was established as a reservation for the public in 1967 and is one of five conservation areas on "the Vineyard", October 17, 2004 managed (...) | |
71 | Grundfos ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 56.3811 / 9.6702 | Grundfos is a pump manufacturer, based in Denmark, with more than 19,000 employees globally. The annual production of more than 16 million pump units, circulator pumps (UP), submersible pumps (SP), and centrifugal pumps (CR) (...) | |
72 | Institute of Geomatics ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 41.2748 / 1.9867 | The Institute of Geomatics (IG) was a public consortium made up of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia (Ministry of Territory and Sustainability, and the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, created by Decree Law 256/1997 of the Autonomous Government of (...) | |
73 | Central Asia Institute ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1472 Lat/Lng : 45.6773 / -111.0706 | Central Asia Institute (CAI) is an international non-profit organization, co-founded by Greg Mortenson and Jean Hoerni in 1996. The organization is based in Bozeman, Montana and works to promote and support community-based education throughout Central Asia, primarily in Pakistan and Afghanistan, by (...) | |
74 | Pacific Disaster Center ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 20.7506 / -156.438 | Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) is an applied science, information and technology center, working to reduce disaster risks and impacts on life, property, and the economies worldwide. PDC's products and services are used to support sound decision making in disaster response and civil-military (...) | |