| 100 records found in wikipedia | |||
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| Singapore  FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 1.35 / 103.85 | Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore (Malay: ; Chinese: ; Tamil:), is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to (...) |
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| Baguio FeatureType : null Elevation : 1449 Lat/Lng : 16.4151 / 120.5954 | , officially the (Ibaloi: Ciudad ne Bag-iw; ;) and popularly referred to as Baguio City, is a mountain resort city located in Northern Luzon, Philippines. It is known as the Summer Capital of the Philippines, owing to its cool climate since the city is located approximately 4810 feet above mean sea (...) |
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| English Channel FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 50.1836 / -0.5311 | The English Channel ("The Sleeve"; , "Sleeve Channel"; , "Sea of Brittany"; , "British Sea"; , "The Channel"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean (...) |
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| United Kingdom FeatureType : country Elevation : 131 Lat/Lng : 53.55 / -2.4333 | The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed. Some organisations, including the and , prefer to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country lying off the north-western coast of the European (...) |
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| Malta FeatureType : country Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 35.9167 / 14.4333 | Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. Malta is one of the world's smallest and most densely populated countries, at over with a (...) |
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| SS America (1939) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 28.3461 / -14.1804 | SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines and was designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs. She carried many names in the 54 years between her construction and her 1994 wrecking, as she served as the SS America (carrying this name three (...) |
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| HMS Belfast (C35) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 51.5067 / -0.0812 | HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London and is operated by the Imperial War Museum. Construction of Belfast, the first ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the capital city of (...) |
| 8 | Sembawang FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 1.4491 / 103.8185 | Sembawang is a planning area and residential town located the North Region of Singapore. Sembawang planning area is bordered by Simpang to the east, Mandai to the south, Yishun to the southeast, Woodlands to the west and the Straits of Johor to the north (...) | |
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| USS America (CV-66) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 33.1525 / -71.6519 | USS America (CVA/CV-66) was one of three supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1960s. Commissioned in 1965, she spent most of her career in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, but did make three Pacific deployments serving in the Vietnam War (...) |
| 10 | Singapore national cricket team FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 1.3172 / 103.8665 | The Singapore national cricket team is the team that represents the Republic of Singapore in international cricket. Singapore has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1974, and was a founding member of the Asian Cricket Council formed in 1983 (...) | |
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| USS New Jersey (BB-62) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 39.9392 / -75.1328 | USS New Jersey (BB-62) ("Big J" or "Black Dragon") is an , and was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of New Jersey. New Jersey earned more battle stars for combat actions than the other three completed Iowa-class battleships, and was the only US battleship (...) |
| 12 | Singapore Premier League FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 1.462 / 103.8981 | The Singapore Premier League (SPL) is the Singaporean professional league for men's association football clubs. It was previously known as the S.League. At the highest level of domestic football competition in Singapore, it is the country's primary football competition (...) | |
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| USS Independence (CV-62) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 47.552 / -122.657 | The fifth USS Independence (CV/CVA-62) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was the fourth and final member of the of conventionally powered supercarriers. She entered service in 1959, with much of her early years spent in the Mediterranean Fleet (...) |
| 14 | SS Empire Darwin FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 43.05 / -16.1 | Empire Darwin was a British CAM ship built in 1941 by William Gray & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). Her Hawker Sea Hurricane was involved in the last action by an aircraft flown off a CAM ship, shooting down a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor on 28 July (...) | |
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| USS Barry (DD-933) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 38.871 / -76.996 | USS Barry (DD-933) was one of eighteen Forrest Sherman–class destroyers of the United States Navy, and was the third US destroyer to be named for Commodore John Barry. Commissioned in 1954, she spent most of her career in the Caribbean, Atlantic, and Mediterranean, but also served in the Vietnam (...) |
| 16 | Gibraltar national cricket team FeatureType : null Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 36.1107 / -5.3468 | The Gibraltar national cricket team is the team that represents the British overseas territory of Gibraltar in international cricket. They have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1969 (...) | |
| 17 | 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, (...) | |
| 18 | Marcello-class submarine FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 24.8833 / -57.5 | The Marcello class was a class of nine submarines built in 1937 and 1938 by CRDA in Trieste for the Royal Italian Navy . Two similar submarines built in 1939 at La Spezia by Oto Melara are sometimes considered part of the class (...) | |
| 19 | USS Constitution FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 42.3721 / -71.0556 | USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy named by President George Washington after the United States Constitution. She is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat (...) | |
| 20 | University of Birmingham FeatureType : null Elevation : 143 Lat/Lng : 52.4506 / -1.9306 | The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery) and (...) | |
| 21 | Manchester United F.C. FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 53.4631 / -2.2914 | Manchester United Football Club, commonly known as Man United,, Reuters, 2 November 2018, Irish Independent, 6 November 2018 or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football (...) | |
| 22 | Antipodes FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -21.4167 / -140.1833 | In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it; the antipodes of a region similarly represent the area opposite it. A pair of points antipodal to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through (...) | |
| 23 | George Orwell FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 56.1108 / -5.6917 | Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism (...) | |
| 24 | Japanese cruiser Ashigara FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -1.9833 / 104.9333 | was the final vessel of the four-member of heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which were active in World War II. page 81 The other ships of the class were , , and .Nishida, Ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy Ashigara was named after Mount Ashigara on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka (...) | |
| 25 | HMS Hydra (A144) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -35.0 / -35.0 | HMS Hydra (Pennant Number A144) was a Royal Navy deep ocean hydrographic survey vessel, the third of the original three of the Hecla class. The ship was laid down as yard number 2258 on 14 May 1964 at Yarrow Shipbuilders, at Scotstoun on the River Clyde and launched on 14 July 1965 by Mary Lythall, (...) | |
| 26 | HMS Prince of Wales (53) FeatureType : waterbody Lat/Lng : 3.56 / 104.4783 | HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England. She was involved in several key actions of the Second World War, including the May 1941 Battle of the Denmark Strait against the German battleship Bismarck, (...) | |
| 27 | Left- and right-hand traffic FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 22.1401 / 113.5466 | Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practice, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side or to the right side of the road, respectively. A fundamental element to traffic flow, it is sometimes referred to as the rule of the road (...) | |
| 28 | HMS Express (H61) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 49.654 / -124.9483 | HMS Express was an E-class minelaying destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935–36 during the Abyssinia Crisis (...) | |
| 29 | Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 30.4225 / 114.2621 | Liaoning (16;), also known as Type 001 aircraft carrier. The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force, classified as a training ship, intended to allow the Navy and Chinese shipbuilders to experiment, train and gain familiarity with aircraft carrier (...) | |
| 30 | 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 (...) | |
| 31 | Military hospital FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 69.0628 / 33.4106 | A military hospital is a hospital that is owned and operated by the armed forces. They are often reserved for the use of military personnel and their dependents, but in some countries are made available to civilians as well. They may or may not be located on a military base; many are not (...) | |
| 32 | HMS Kenya (14) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 43.4333 / -24.5 | HMS Kenya was a cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ship was named after Kenya, a British possession at the time of the ship's construction. (...) | |
| 33 | HMS Eagle (1918) FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 38.05 / 3.02 | HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Cochrane, she was laid down before World War I. In early 1918 she was purchased by Britain for conversion to an aircraft carrier; this work was finished in 1924 (...) | |
| 34 | Battle of Taranto FeatureType : event Lat/Lng : 40.4511 / 17.2075 | The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under Admiral Andrew Cunningham, and Italian naval forces, under Admiral Inigo Campioni (...) | |
| 35 | USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 47.982 / -122.2278 | USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is the fifth in the United States Navy. She is the second Navy ship to have been named after late President Abraham Lincoln. Her home port is Norfolk, Virginia, and she is a member of the United States Atlantic Fleet (...) | |
| 36 | Jacques Cousteau FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 37.7014 / 24.2839 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water (...) | |
| 37 | Durham Light Infantry FeatureType : null Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 54.7844 / -1.5811 | The Durham Light Infantry (DLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1968. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) and the 106th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Light Infantry) along (...) | |
| 38 | HMAS Sydney (D48) FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -26.2419 / 111.2133 | HMAS Sydney, named after the Australian city of Sydney, was one of three modified Leander-class light cruisers operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Ordered for the Royal Navy as HMS Phaeton, the cruiser was purchased by the Australian government and renamed prior to her 1934 launch (...) | |
| 39 | RAF Lyneham FeatureType : airport Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 51.5053 / -1.9933 | Royal Air Force Lyneham otherwise known as RAF Lyneham was a Royal Air Force station located northeast of Chippenham, Wiltshire and southwest of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The station was the home of all the Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF) before they were (...) | |
| 40 | Blair Atholl FeatureType : null Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 56.77 / -3.84 | Blair Atholl (from the Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Athall, originally Blàr Ath Fhodla) is a village in Perthshire, Scotland, built about the confluence of the Rivers Tilt and Garry in one of the few areas of flat land in the midst of the Grampian Mountains (...) | |
| 41 | Joshua Slocum FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 33.0633 / -79.3453 | Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first man to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer (...) | |
| 42 | HNLMS Java (1921) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -6.0003 / 112.0833 | HNLMS Java was a of the Royal Netherlands Navy. She was sunk during the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942. (...) | |
| 43 | HMS Durban (D99) FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 49.3456 / -0.2689 | HMS Durban was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was launched from the yards of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on 29 May 1919 and commissioned on 1 November 1921. (...) | |
| 44 | Götheborg (ship) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 57.775 / 11.7583 | Götheborg is a sailing replica of the Swedish East Indiaman Götheborg I, launched in 1738 (not to be confused with the larger Götheborg II built some decades later). All sailors survived when the original ship sank off Gothenburg, Sweden, on 12September 1745, while approaching the harbour on her (...) | |
| 45 | August 1965 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 15.1667 / 117.6667 | The following events occurred in August 1965: (...) | |
| 46 | Chinese cruiser Jiyuan FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 38.85 / 121.0833 | Jiyuan , was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Chinese Navy, assigned to the Beiyang Fleet. She was constructed in Germany as China lacked the industrial facilities needed to build them at the time. Jiyuan was originally intended to be the third ironclad battleship of the , but was reduced in size (...) | |
| 47 | MoD Lyneham FeatureType : airport Elevation : 146 Lat/Lng : 51.5053 / -1.9933 | Ministry of Defence Lyneham otherwise known as MOD Lyneham is a Ministry of Defence site located northeast of Chippenham, Wiltshire and southwest of Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The site houses the Defence School of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering (...) | |
| 48 | HMS Electra (H27) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -5.0 / 111.0 | HMS Electra was a one of nine E-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea, Electra was a witness to many naval battles, including the Battle of the Denmark Strait and the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse (...) | |
| 49 | 1967 FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.6523 / -0.082 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is inaugurated the (...) | |
| 50 | Japanese cruiser Takasago FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 38.1667 / 121.25 | was a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, designed and built by the Armstrong Whitworth shipyards in Elswick, in the United Kingdom. The name Takasago derives from a location in Hyōgo Prefecture, near Kobe. (...) | |
| 51 | J. Safra Sarasin FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 283 Lat/Lng : 47.55 / 7.5898 | The Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd (previously named "Bank Sarasin & Co. Ltd", until 2013) is a Swiss private bank, founded in 1841 and headquartered in Basel. It is currently owned by the Brazilian Safra Group, and was formed in its present state in 2013, when Safra Group acquired Bank Sarasin & Co (...) | |
| 52 | King George V-class battleship (1939) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 3.56 / 104.4783 | The King George V-class battleships were the most modern British battleships in commission during World War II. Five ships of this class were built: HMS King George V (1940), HMS Prince of Wales (1941), HMS Duke of York (1941), HMS Howe (1942) and HMS Anson (1942) (...) | |
| 53 | Marina Bay FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 37.9077 / -121.6052 | Marina Bay may refer to the following places: *Marina Bay, Singapore *Marina Bay MRT Station, Singapore *Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore *Marina Bay, Richmond, California, United States *Marina Bay (Quincy, Massachusetts), United States *Marina Bay, Gibraltar (...) | |
| 54 | Renown-class battlecruiser FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 3.75 / 104.4 | The Renown class comprised a pair of battlecruisers built during the First World War for the Royal Navy. They were originally laid down as improved versions of the s. Their construction was suspended on the outbreak of war on the grounds they would not be ready in a timely manner (...) | |
| 55 | MV Christiaan Huygens FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 51.6167 / 3.2833 | Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch ocean liner that was built in 1927 by the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij for the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland. She was employed on the Amsterdam – Batavia route until the outbreak of the Second World War (...) | |
| 56 | HMS Wild Swan (D62) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 49.8667 / -10.7333 | HMS Wild Swan was an Admiralty modified W class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers ordered in 1918 from Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne under the 14th Order for Destroyers of the Emergency War Program of 1917-18 (...) | |
| 57 | HMS Walker (D27) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 53.5333 / -3.4167 | HMS Walker (D27) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I, in the Russian Civil War and in World War II. (...) | |
| 58 | HMS Cleopatra (33) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.1 / 16.0667 | HMS Cleopatra was a Dido-class cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited (Hebburn-on-Tyne, UK), with the keel being laid down on 5 January 1939. She was launched on 27 March 1940, and commissioned on 5 December 1941. (...) | |
| 59 | HMS Pelorus (1808) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 8.1417 / 115.5 | HMS Pelorus was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the British Royal Navy. She was built in Itchenor, England and launched on 25June 1808. She saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and in the War of 1812. On anti-slavery patrol off West Africa, she captured four slavers and freed some 1350 slaves (...) | |
| 60 | Victoria Institution FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 3.1387 / 101.7021 | Victoria Institution , formerly known as SMK Victoria is a secondary school for boys (and girls for Form 6) and one of the oldest schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The school is widely known as the V.I. and a student of the Victoria Institution is known as a Victorian (...) | |
| 61 | 1996 S.League FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 1.3304 / 103.8529 | The 1996 S.League was the 1st season of the S.League, the top professional football league in Singapore. The S.League came into existence as a result of a fragmenting of relations between Singapore and Malaysian football associations (...) | |
| 62 | TSMS Lakonia FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 35.25 / -15.25 | The TSMS Lakonia was a Greek-owned cruise ship which caught fire and sank north of Madeira on 22 December 1963, with the loss of 128 lives. The vessel was built in the Netherlands as the MS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and sailed regularly between Amsterdam and the East Indies (...) | |
| 63 | Victoria Drummond FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : 56.4075 / -3.2301 | Victoria Alexandrina Drummond MBE (1894–1978), was the first woman marine engineer in Britain and first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. In World War II she served at sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and received awards for bravery under enemy fire. (...) | |
| 64 | HMS Terror (I03) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 32.9833 / 22.5333 | HMS Terror was an Erebus-class monitor built for the Royal Navy in 1915-1916 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She served in the Dover Patrol during the First World War and operated mainly off the coast of Belgium (...) | |
| 65 | Indian Army FeatureType : null Elevation : 114 Lat/Lng : 26.5333 / 94.2167 | The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and it is commanded by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four-star general (...) | |
| 66 | SS Clan Matheson (1919) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 56.3 / -12.0 | Clan Matheson was a cargo ship that William Hamilton & Co Ltd of Port Glasgow built in 1919 as Clan Morgan for Clan Line Steamers Ltd. She was sold in 1948 and renamed Harmodius. In 1951 she was sold again and renamed Claire T (...) | |
| 67 | Labrador Nature Reserve FeatureType : null Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 1.2672 / 103.8017 | Labrador Nature Reserve (Chinese: 拉柏多自然保护区, Malay: Kawasan Simpanan Alam Semulajadi Labrador), also known locally as Labrador Park (拉柏多公园, Taman Labrador), is located in the southern part of mainland Singapore. It is home to the only rocky sea-cliff on the mainland that is accessible to the public (...) | |
| 68 | Lower Peirce Reservoir FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 1.3694 / 103.8233 | The Lower Peirce Reservoir (Chinese: 贝雅士蓄水池下段 Malay: Takungan Air Lower Peirce) is one of the oldest reservoirs in Singapore. It is located near MacRitchie Reservoir and Upper Peirce Reservoir. Previously known as Kallang River Reservoir or Peirce Reservoir, it was renamed Lower Peirce Reservoir (...) | |
| 69 | Imperial War Museum Duxford FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 52.0931 / 0.1294 | Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England. Britain's largest aviation museum, Duxford houses the museum's large exhibits, including nearly 200 aircraft, military vehicles, artillery and minor naval vessels in seven main exhibition (...) | |
| 70 | USS Basilone FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 29.8667 / -79.9667 | USS Basilone (DD/DDE-824) was a of the United States Navy, named for Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone (1916–1945), who was awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry in action...." in the defense of Henderson Field during the 1942 Guadalcanal campaign (...) | |
| 71 | University of London (Worldwide) FeatureType : edu Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 51.5211 / -0.1275 | The University of London is a central academic body that manages external study programmes within the University of London collegiate university system. It formerly had the subtitles External Programmes, External System or International Programmes, and the current internal name for the department is (...) | |
| 72 | HMS Encounter (H10) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -5.0 / 111.0 | HMS Encounter was an E-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935–36 during the Abyssinia Crisis (...) | |
| 73 | Jerauld Wright FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -74.0333 / -116.8333 | Admiral Jerauld Wright, USN, (June 4, 1898 – April 27, 1995) served as the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command (CINCLANT) and the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CINCLANTFLT), and became the second Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) for the North Atlantic Treaty (...) | |
| 74 | Geography of Asia FeatureType : null Elevation : 517 Lat/Lng : 46.2833 / 86.6667 | Geography of Asia reviews geographical concepts of classifying Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprising approximately fifty countries. (...) | |
| 75 | Pacific Cable Station FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -27.9836 / 153.4289 | The Pacific Cable Station was built in 1902 in Southport, Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia, continuing to operate for sixty years, finally closing in 1962. It has been listed in the Gold Coast Local Heritage Register. While most of the site has been dismantled, the Southport Cable Hut remains (...) | |
| 76 | Spanish cruiser Rapido FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 20.0333 / 134.0167 | Rapido was an auxiliary cruiser that served in the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War in 1898. Before her Spanish Navy service, she served as the commercial passenger ship SS Columbia for the Hamburg America Line from 1889 to 1898 (...) | |
| 77 | HMS Diamond (H22) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 36.5 / 23.5667 | HMS Diamond was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was briefly assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1939 before she was transferred to West Africa for convoy escort duties (...) | |
| 78 | History of the Port of Southampton FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 50.8965 / -1.3968 | The Port of Southampton is a major passenger and cargo port located in the central part of the south coast of England. It has been an important port since the Roman occupation of Britain nearly two thousand years ago, and has a multifaceted history (...) | |
| 79 | USS The Sullivans (DD-537) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 175 Lat/Lng : 42.8777 / -78.8806 | USS The Sullivans (DD-537) is a . She is a United States Navy ship named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers (George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert) aged 20 to 27 who lost their lives when their ship, , was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November (...) | |
| 80 | HMT Empire Windrush FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.0 / 2.1833 | HMT Empire Windrush, originally MV Monte Rosa, was a passenger liner and cruise ship launched in Germany in 1930. She was operated as a German cruise ship under the name Monte Rosa in the 1930s, and as a German navy troopship during World War II (...) | |
| 81 | Indian Air Force FeatureType : null Elevation : 246 Lat/Lng : 31.4369 / 75.7558 | The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its complement of personnel and aircraft assets ranks fourth amongst the airforces of the world. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during armed conflict (...) | |
| 82 | Saga Ruby FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 12.6317 / 100.9216 | MS Saga Ruby was a cruise ship that was last operated by Saga Cruises. She was built as the combined ocean liner/cruise ship Vistafjord in 1973 by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders in the United Kingdom for the Norwegian America Line (...) | |
| 83 | SS Independence FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 72.191 / 21.2987 | SS Independence was a US built and flagged ocean liner which entered service in February 1951 for American Export Lines. Between 1974 and 1982 the vessel sailed as Oceanic Independence for Atlantic Far East Lines and American Hawaii Cruises, before reverting to the original name (...) | |
| 84 | 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. (...) | |
| 85 | HMS Defender (H07) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 31.75 / 25.5167 | HMS Defender was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935. She was temporarily deployed in the Red Sea during late 1935 during the Abyssinia Crisis, before (...) | |
| 86 | The Dickson Poon School of Law FeatureType : null Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 51.5112 / -0.1166 | The Dickson Poon School of Law is the law school of King's College London, and one of the nine Schools of Study of the College. It is situated on the Strand in the East Wing of Somerset House, in close proximity to the Royal Courts of Justice and the four Inns of Court in the heart of London's legal (...) | |
| 87 | SS Empire Adur FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 17.933 / 113.75 | SS Empire Adur was a 1,479 ton steamship which was built in 1920 as the Griffdu. She was renamed Noyo in 1935 and in 1940 was sold to Thailand, being renamed Nang Suang Nawa, being seized in 1942 and renamed Empire Adur (...) | |
| 88 | Royal Academy of Dance FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 51.4747 / -0.1757 | The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is a UK-based examination board specialising in dance education and training, with an emphasis on classical ballet. The RAD was founded in London, England in 1920 as the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing, and was granted a Royal Charter in 1935 (...) | |
| 89 | HMS Pelorus (J291) FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : -34.22 / 18.47 | HMS Pelorus (pennant number: J291) was an built for the Royal Navy (RN) during World War II. Upon completion, the ship became the flotilla leader of the 7th Minesweeper Flotilla, clearing mines off the east coast of England (...) | |
| 90 | Yasukuni Maru (1930) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 9.25 / 147.2167 | was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). The ship was launched in 1930 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, on the southern island of Kyūshū, Japan, entering service in 1930 (...) | |
| 91 | MV Abosso FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 48.3 / -28.5 | MV Abosso was a passenger, mail, and cargo liner, the flagship of Elder Dempster Lines. In peacetime she ran scheduled services between Liverpool and West Africa. In the Second World War she was a troop ship, running between the United Kingdom, West Africa, and South Africa (...) | |
| 92 | Afilias FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 53.3495 / -6.2503 | Afilias, Inc. is a US Corporation that is the registry operator of the .info, .mobi and .pro top-level domain, service provider for registry operators of .org, .ngo, .lgbt, .asia, .aero, and a provider of domain name registry services for countries around the world, including .MN (Mongolia), (...) | |
| 93 | USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -19 Lat/Lng : 41.7057 / -71.1631 | USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) is a former United States Navy . The ship was named after Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, son of the former Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and older brother of future President John F. Kennedy. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr (...) | |
| 94 | HMS Manxman (M70) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 36.65 / 0.25 | HMS Manxman (N70) was an . The ship is named for an inhabitant of the Isle of Man. (...) | |
| 95 | SS Ferret FeatureType : null Elevation : 25 Lat/Lng : -35.2691 / 136.8458 | SS Ferret was an iron screw steamship of 460 tons built in Glasgow (Scotland) in 1871 by J & G Thomson, Glasgow. The ship was built for G & J Burns of Glasgow for use in the River Clyde ferry service. In 1873, Dingwall & Skye Railway Co Ltd bought it for use in the construction of the Tay Rail (...) | |
| 96 | MV Empire Dawn FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -34.0 / 2.0 | Empire Dawn was a cargo ship that was built in 1940 by William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, Co Durham, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). Entering service in April 1941, she served until 11 September 1942 when she was sunk by the German raider Michel. (...) | |
| 97 | HMS Edgar (1890) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 35.1 / 14.4 | HMS Edgar was a first class cruiser of the Royal Navy, and lead ship of the . She was built at Devonport and launched on 24 November 1890. She served on the China Station, and in the First World War in the Gallipoli Campaign, along with her sisters , and . (...) | |
| 98 | Suwa Maru FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 19.2167 / 166.5667 | was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK). The ship was launched in 1914 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan. The ship was named for the Suwa Jinja, a noted Shinto shrine located in Suwa, Nagano.Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1935). (...) | |
| 99 | USS Knapp (DD-653) FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 46.1899 / -123.8233 | USS Knapp (DD-653), a , was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Harry Shepard Knapp. Her keel was laid down on 8 March 1943 by Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine. She was launched on 10 July 1943, sponsored by Margaret L. and Mary C (...) | |
| 100 | David Clark (1816 ship) FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 19.0 / 117.3333 | David Clark was launched in 1816 and may have been broken up in at Batavia in 1854. In 1839 she carried mainly Scots assisted migrants to Australia, and was the first immigrant ship to sail from the Great Britain directly to Port Phillip. In 1842 she transported more than 300 convicts to Hobart. (...) | |
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