| 62 records found in wikipedia | |||
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| Solomon Islands  FeatureType : country Elevation : 553 Lat/Lng : -9.6667 / 160.2 | Solomon Islands is a country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of . The country's capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal (...) |
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| Apollo 11 FeatureType : null Elevation : 511 Lat/Lng : 0.6741 / 23.473 | Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours after landing on (...) |
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| Lombok FeatureType : isle Elevation : 497 Lat/Lng : -8.565 / 116.351 | Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east (...) |
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| Jodhpur FeatureType : null Elevation : 243 Lat/Lng : 26.28 / 73.02 | Jodhpur (; Listen) is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and officially the second metropolitan city of the state. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name. The capital of the kingdom was known as Marwar (...) |
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| Malibu, California FeatureType : null Elevation : 94 Lat/Lng : 34.0306 / -118.7786 | Malibu (Spanish: Malibú) is a beach city in western Los Angeles County, California, situated about west of Downtown Los Angeles. Known for its Mediterranean climate, a strip of the Malibu coast incorporated in 1991 into the City of Malibu (...) |
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| Azores FeatureType : isle Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 37.7411 / -25.6756 | The Azores (or ;), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores , is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira). It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean about west of continental Portugal, about west of (...) |
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| Brazil FeatureType : country Elevation : 237 Lat/Lng : -14.16 / -51.9 | Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (listen), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers (3.2 million square miles) and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the fifth most (...) |
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| Prambanan FeatureType : null Elevation : 153 Lat/Lng : -7.752 / 110.4914 | Prambanan or Rara Jonggrang is a 9th-century Hindu temple compound in Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimūrti, the expression of God as the Creator (Brahma), the Preserver (Vishnu) and the Transformer (Shiva) (...) |
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| Adam Air Flight 574 FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : -3.6789 / 118.1511 | Adam Air Flight 574 (KI574 or DHI574) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Adam Air between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya and Manado that broke up in mid-air and crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali in Sulawesi on 1 January 2007 (...) |
| 10 | São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 745 Lat/Lng : -23.4319 / -46.4694 | São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governador André Franco Montoro International Airport , often referred to as GRU Airport, or simply GRU, is the primary international airport serving São Paulo. It is popularly known locally as either Cumbica Airport, after the district where it is located and the Brazilian Air (...) | |
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| German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 55.2833 / 18.4259 | The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers of the same name ordered by the Kriegsmarine. She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany and represented part of the Kriegsmarines attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of (...) |
| 12 | Sumbawa FeatureType : isle Elevation : 515 Lat/Lng : -8.7833 / 118.0833 | Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast. It is part of the province of West Nusa Tenggara, but there are presently steps being taken by the Indonesian government to turn (...) | |
| 13 | Estado Novo (Portugal) FeatureType : country Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 38.7 / -9.1833 | The Estado Novo ("New State"), or the Second Republic, was the corporatist authoritarian regime installed in Portugal in 1933, which was considered fascist.Jorge Pais de Sousa, O Fascismo Catedrático de Salazar, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2012 It evolved from the Ditadura Nacional (...) | |
| 14 | Aljezur FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 37.3167 / -8.8 | Aljezur is a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,884, in an area of 323.50 km². The municipality comprises 4 parishes, and is located within the district of Faro. The word is derived from the Arabic word "Aljuzur" , the plural of island. (...) | |
| 15 | Packard FeatureType : null Elevation : 196 Lat/Lng : 42.3796 / -83.0289 | Packard was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last Detroit-built Packard in 1956, when they built the Packard Predictor, their last concept car (...) | |
| 16 | Dallas Love Field FeatureType : airport Elevation : 149 Lat/Lng : 32.8472 / -96.8517 | Dallas Love Field is a city-owned public airport 6 miles (10 km) northwest of downtown Dallas, Texas., effective April 10, 2008 It was Dallas' main airport until 1974 when Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) opened (...) | |
| 17 | Idukki district FeatureType : adm3rd Elevation : 843 Lat/Lng : 9.85 / 76.94 | Idukki is one of the 14 districts of Kerala state, India,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency created on 26January 1972. At that tie, the district headquarters was at Kottayam. In June 1976 it was moved to Painavu. Idukki which lies in the Western Ghats of Kerala (...) | |
| 18 | Vinhais FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 669 Lat/Lng : 41.8326 / -7.0081 | Vinhais is a municipality in the district of Bragança, northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,066, in an area of 694.76 km². The present mayor is Américo Afonso Pereira, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is May 20. (...) | |
| 19 | Korea under Japanese rule FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 37.5833 / 127.0 | Korea under Japanese rule began with the end of the short-lived Korean Empire in 1910 and ended at the conclusion of World War II in 1945. Japanese rule over Korea was the outcome of a process that began with the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876, whereby a complex coalition of the Meiji government, (...) | |
| 20 | Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -8.1122 / 156.9056 | PT-109 was a PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant, junior grade John F. Kennedy (future U.S. President), in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kennedy's actions to save his surviving crew after the sinking of PT-109 made him a war hero (...) | |
| 21 | Erg (landform) FeatureType : null Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : -19.7 / 122.62 | An erg (also sand sea or dune sea, or sand sheet if it lacks dunes) is a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative cover. The term takes its name from the Arabic word ʿarq , meaning "dune field" (...) | |
| 22 | Gold Rush (TV series) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 172 Lat/Lng : 59.4186 / -136.23 | Gold Rush (titled Gold Rush: Alaska for the first season) is a reality television series that airs on Discovery and its affiliates worldwide. The series follows the placer gold mining efforts of various family-run mining companies mostly in the Klondike region of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada, although (...) | |
| 23 | Chapman University FeatureType : edu Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 33.7928 / -117.8514 | Chapman University is a private university in Orange, California, the largest in the county. Chapman University offers 110 areas of study (49 majors and 61 minors), and encompasses ten schools and colleges: Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, (...) | |
| 24 | Central Lombok Regency FeatureType : null Elevation : 145 Lat/Lng : -8.7 / 116.3 | Central Lombok Regency is a regency of the Indonesian Province of West Nusa Tenggara. It is located on the island of Lombok and the capital is Praya. It covers an area of 1,208.39 km2, and had a population of 859,309 at the 2010 Census;Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011 (...) | |
| 25 | Recherche Archipelago FeatureType : null Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : -34.0994 / 123.1897 | The Archipelago of the Recherche, known locally as the Bay of Isles, is a group of 105 islands, and over 1200 "obstacles to shipping", off the south coast of Western Australia. The islands stretch from east to west and to off-shore encompassing an area of approximately (...) | |
| 26 | Douglas DC-3 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -74.0822 / 10.9078 | The Douglas DC-3 is a fixed-wing propeller-driven airliner that revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s. Its lasting effect on the airline industry and World War II makes it one of the most significant transport aircraft ever produced (...) | |
| 27 | Grasberg mine FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3810 Lat/Lng : -4.0528 / 137.1158 | The Grasberg mine is the largest gold mine and the second largest copper mine in the world. It is located in the province of Papua in Indonesia near Puncak Jaya, the highest mountain in Papua. It has 19,500 employees. It is mostly owned by Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), which owns 90 (...) | |
| 28 | Marvão FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 825 Lat/Lng : 39.3942 / -7.3767 | Marvão is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,512, in an area of 154.90 km². The present Mayor is Luís Vitorino, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is September 8 (...) | |
| 29 | Royal Malaysia Police FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 3.1421 / 101.7071 | The Royal Malaysia Police (often abbreviated RMP) , is a (primarily) uniformed federal police force in Malaysia. The force is a centralised organisation. Its headquarters are located at Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur (...) | |
| 30 | 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 (...) | |
| 31 | Battle of Khe Sanh FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 493 Lat/Lng : 16.6554 / 106.7286 | The Battle of Khe Sanh (21 January – 9 July 1968) was conducted in the Khe Sanh area of northwestern Quảng Trị Province, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), during the Vietnam War. The main US forces defending Khe Sanh Combat Base (KSCB) were two regiments of US Marines supported by elements from (...) | |
| 32 | 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 (...) | |
| 33 | Pico Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 38.5543 / -28.4413 | Pico Airport is an airport located from Madalena on the Portuguese island of Pico in the archipelago of the Azores. (...) | |
| 34 | Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh FeatureType : city Elevation : 151 Lat/Lng : 27.9491 / 80.7791 | Lakhimpur is a city and a municipal board in Lakhimpur Kheri district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. (...) | |
| 35 | Almancil FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 66 Lat/Lng : 37.0891 / -8.0311 | Almancil is a town and civil parish in the municipality of Loulé, in the Portuguese Algarve. In 2011, there was a population of 10,677 inhabitants, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of approximately . (...) | |
| 36 | São João de Areias FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 223 Lat/Lng : 40.388 / -8.069 | São João de Areias is a Portuguese civil parish in the municipality (concelho) of Santa Comba Dão, in the former-district of Viseu. The population in 2011 was 1,939,, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 21.51 km². (...) | |
| 37 | National Institute of Aeronautics and Space FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -7.6466 / 107.689 | National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (/LAPAN) is the Indonesian government space agency. It was established on November 27, 1963, by former Indonesian president Sukarno after one year's existence of an informal space agency organization (...) | |
| 38 | 1968 in aviation FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 32.9667 / 32.8 | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968: (...) | |
| 39 | Mann Gulch fire FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1094 Lat/Lng : 46.8783 / -111.9133 | The Mann Gulch fire was a wildfire reported on August 5, 1949 in a gulch located along the upper Missouri River in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness (then known as the Gates of the Mountains Wild Area), Helena National Forest, in the state of Montana in the United States (...) | |
| 40 | São Martinho do Porto FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 39.513 / -9.134 | São Martinho do Porto is a freguesia (civil parish) in Alcobaça Municipality, in Oeste Subregion of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 2,868, in an area of 14.64 km². It was a town and county seat until 1855. (...) | |
| 41 | Skellingthorpe FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 53.2353 / -0.619 | Skellingthorpe is a village and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 3,465. It is situated west from Lincoln city centre, and just outside the A46 Lincoln ring road (...) | |
| 42 | KXTV FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 38.24 / -121.5019 | KXTV, virtual and VHF digital channel 10, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Sacramento, California, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc. KXTV's studios are located on Broadway, just south of Business Loop 80 at the south edge of downtown Sacramento, and its (...) | |
| 43 | Algar do Carvão FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 497 Lat/Lng : 38.7289 / -27.1853 | The Algar do Carvão (Cavern of Coal) is an ancient lava tube or volcanic vent located in the central part of the island of Terceira in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It lies within the civil parish of Porto Judeu in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo. (...) | |
| 44 | 24th Fighter Squadron FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 9.0831 / -79.3167 | The 24th Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 6th Fighter Wing, based at France Field, Canal Zone. It was inactivated on 15 October 1946. (...) | |
| 45 | Alcains FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 361 Lat/Lng : 39.916 / -7.456 | Alcains is a Portuguese civil parish in the municipality of Castelo Branco. The population in 2011 was 5,022, in an area of 36.94 km². (...) | |
| 46 | Chapelcross nuclear power station FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 55.0157 / -3.226 | Chapelcross was a Magnox nuclear power plant located near Annan in Dumfries and Galloway in south west Scotland. It was the sister plant to the Calder Hall plant in Cumbria, England - both were commissioned and originally operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (...) | |
| 47 | 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony FeatureType : event Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 51.5386 / -0.0167 | The closing ceremony of the London 2012 Summer Olympics, also known as A Symphony of British Music, was held on 12 August 2012 in the Olympic Stadium, London. The closing ceremony was created by Kim Gavin, Es Devlin, Stephen Daldry, David Arnold and Mark Fisher (...) | |
| 48 | Vilarinho da Furna FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 554 Lat/Lng : 41.7803 / -8.1969 | Vilarinho da Furna (alternately called Vilarinho das Furnas) was a former-village, located in the civil parish of Campo de Gerês, in the municipality of Terras de Bouro, in the northern Portuguese district of Braga (...) | |
| 49 | Wardon Abbey FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 52.0814 / -0.3633 | Wardon or Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire, was one of the senior Cistercian houses of England, founded about 1135 from Rievaulx Abbey.http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/OldWarden/WardenAbbey.aspxhttp://www.thesmith.org.uk/places/holy/warden/index (...) | |
| 50 | Backbone Trail FeatureType : null Elevation : 851 Lat/Lng : 34.1194 / -118.9375 | The Backbone Trail is a long distance trail extending 67.79 miles (109.10 km) across the length of the Santa Monica Mountains in the U.S. state of California. Its western terminus is Point Mugu State Park and its eastern terminus is Will Rogers State Historic Park in Pacific Palisades (...) | |
| 51 | Roman villa of Ammaia FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 531 Lat/Lng : 39.3693 / -7.3864 | The Roman ruins of Ammaia are located within the Nature Park of the Serra de São Mamede, a mountainous expanse of forest in the civil parish of São Salvador da Aramenha, municipality of Marvão, along the border with Spain. (...) | |
| 52 | South African Border War FeatureType : null Elevation : 1305 Lat/Lng : -15.1167 / 16.0833 | The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990 (...) | |
| 53 | TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 FeatureType : event Elevation : 795 Lat/Lng : -23.6463 / -46.6477 | TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 was a scheduled domestic flight from Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil to Recife International Airport in Recife via Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro (...) | |
| 54 | Church of São Martinho de Cedofeita FeatureType : null Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 41.1558 / -8.6217 | The Church of Cedofeita is a medieval church in the civil parish of Cedofeita, municipality of Porto, in the northern Grande Porto Subregion of Portugal. The Church is a rare architectural example of a single-nave vaulted-ceiling temple, and the unique one in the traditional Entre-Douro-e-Minho (...) | |
| 55 | Buckingham Army Airfield FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 26.6433 / -81.7103 | Buckingham Army Airfield is an inactive United States Army Air Forces base, approximately 10 miles east of Fort Myers, Florida. It was active during World War II as an Army Air Forces Training Command airfield. It was closed on 30 September 1945, prior to the establishment of the United States Air (...) | |
| 56 | Indonesian Navy FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 4.0 / 118.15 | The Indonesian Navy ((TNI-AL), literally "Indonesian National Military-Naval Service") was founded on 10 September 1945. Its role is to patrol Indonesia's lengthy coastline, to enforce and patrol the territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Indonesia, to protect Indonesia's maritime (...) | |
| 57 | Gora Padao FeatureType : null Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 29.13 / 79.31 | Gora Padao is an Indian village 5 km south of Haldwani is named after a British camp/post at that location in the mid-19th century. In 1856, Henry Ramsay took over as the Commissioner of Kumaon. The village population is about 5,000 (...) | |
| 58 | Hawthorne Army Depot FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1294 Lat/Lng : 38.5513 / -118.594 | Hawthorne Army Depot (HWAD) is a U.S. Army ammunition storage depot located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States. It is directly south of Walker Lake. The depot covers or 226 sq. mi. and has storage space in 2,427 bunkers (...) | |
| 59 | Bangladesh Military Academy FeatureType : edu Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 22.4233 / 91.7528 | Bangladesh Military Academy (BMA) is the training institute for the officer cadets of Bangladesh Army. It is located in Bhatiary, near Chittagong Hill Tracts, in the Chittagong District of south-east Bangladesh, about 13 kilometres north of Chittagong (...) | |
| 60 | Meo (telecommunication service) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 82 Lat/Lng : 38.7448 / -9.1507 | Meo is a mobile and fixed telecommunications service and brand from Altice Portugal, managed by Meo - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia. The service was piloted in Lisbon in 2006 and was later extended to Porto and Castelo Branco. (...) | |
| 61 | Glencastle FeatureType : city Elevation : 32 Lat/Lng : 54.1833 / -9.8833 | Glencastle is a village of about 30 people in the northwest of County Mayo, Ireland. The townland incorporates an area of . (...) | |
| 62 | North Carolina Aviation Museum FeatureType : null Elevation : 199 Lat/Lng : 35.6509 / -79.8941 | The North Carolina Aviation Museum and North Carolina Aviation Hall of Fame displays a collection across two hangars of static aircraft, uniforms and memorabilia, and an extensive collection of aircraft models. Nearly all aircraft on display are privately owned and on loan (...) | |
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