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| 1 | Death Valley National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : -83 Lat/Lng : 36.2419 / -116.8258 | Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California—Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and its diverse environment of (...) | |
| 2 | Big Sur ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 36.1075 / -121.6258 | Big Sur is a rugged and mountainous section of the Central Coast of the U.S. state of California between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. It is frequently praised for its dramatic scenery (...) | |
| 3 | Kiritimati ![]() FeatureType : isle Lat/Lng : 1.8833 / -157.4 | Kiritimati,Kiritimati is the rendition of Christmas in Taetae ni Kiribati, the local Kiribati language, and it is pronounced very closely to "Christmas," with the same meaning. or Christmas Island, is a Pacific Ocean raised coral atoll in the northern Line Islands (...) | |
| 4 | Antarctica ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -69.3578 / -2.2472 | Antarctica (or) is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At , it is the fifth-largest continent (...) | |
| 5 | Hong Kong International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 22.3089 / 113.9144 | Hong Kong International Airport is the commercial airport serving Hong Kong, built on reclaimed land on the island of Chek Lap Kok. The airport is also colloquially known as Chek Lap Kok Airport . The airport has been in commercial operation since 1998, replacing Kai Tak Airport (...) | |
| 6 | 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 (...) | |
| 7 | Easter Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : -27.1194 / -109.3547 | Easter Island is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. Easter Island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people (...) | |
| 8 | National Security Agency ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 39.0983 / -76.766 | The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign (...) | |
| 9 | Area 51 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1363 Lat/Lng : 37.2388 / -115.8105 | The United States Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51 is a highly classified remote detachment of Edwards Air Force Base, within the Nevada Test and Training Range. According to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the correct names for the facility are Homey Airport and Groom Lake, (...) | |
| 10 | Dartmoor ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 394 Lat/Lng : 50.5719 / -3.9207 | Dartmoor is a moor in southern Devon, England. Protected by National Park status as Dartmoor National Park, it covers . The granite which forms the uplands dates from the Carboniferous Period of geological history (...) | |
| 11 | Clipperton Island ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 10.3039 / -109.2177 | Clipperton Island (or ;) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America. It is 10,677 kilometres away from Paris, France, 5,400 km from Papeete, Tahiti, and 1,081 km from Mexico (...) | |
| 12 | Darwin, Northern Territory ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : -12.4362 / 130.8412 | Darwin Macquarie Dictionary, Fourth Edition (2005). Melbourne, The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, with a population of 145,916 (...) | |
| 13 | Maldives ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 4.1743 / 73.51 | The Maldives (; Dhivehi Raa'jey), officially the Republic of Maldives, is a South Asian country, located in the Indian Ocean, situated in the Arabian Sea. It lies southwest of Sri Lanka and India. The chain of 26 atolls stretches from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll in the north to the Addu City in the south (...) | |
| 14 | Colombia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 1215 Lat/Lng : 3.8167 / -73.9167 | Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia (Es-republica_de_colombia.ogg), is a country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with (...) | |
| 15 | Asheville, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 633 Lat/Lng : 35.58 / -82.5558 | Asheville is a city and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 12th-most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city's population was 89,121 according to 2016 estimates.https://www.census (...) | |
| 16 | Shenyang ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 41.7956 / 123.4481 | Shenyang , formerly known by its Manchu name Mukden or Fengtian , is the provincial capital and the largest city of Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China, as well as the largest city in Northeast China by urban population.2010 census According to the 2010 census, the city's urban area has 6 (...) | |
| 17 | Myanmar ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 19.75 / 96.1 | Myanmar , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast (...) | |
| 18 | Bolivia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 208 Lat/Lng : -16.712 / -64.666 | Bolivia , officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz (...) | |
| 19 | Ukraine ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 156 Lat/Lng : 50.4506 / 30.5236 | Ukraine , sometimes called the Ukraine, is a country in Eastern Europe. Excluding Crimea, Ukraine has a population of about 42.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world. Its capital and largest city is Kiev. Ukrainian is the official language and its alphabet is Cyrillic (...) | |
| 20 | Attu Island ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 431 Lat/Lng : 52.9025 / 172.9094 | Attu is the westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, and the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska, the United States, and America. The island became uninhabited in 2010 (...) | |
| 21 | Bethany Beach, Delaware ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 38.5394 / -75.0553 | Bethany Beach is an incorporated town in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 Census Bureau figures, the population of the town is 1,060; however, during the summer months some 15,000 more populate the town as vacationers., Graeme Browning, Washington Post, July 22, 1989 (...) | |
| 22 | Mount Jefferson (Oregon) ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 3077 Lat/Lng : 44.6743 / -121.7996 | Mount Jefferson is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, part of the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. The second highest mountain in Oregon, it is situated within Linn County, Jefferson County, and Marion County and forms part of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness (...) | |
| 23 | Mount Diablo ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1146 Lat/Lng : 37.8817 / -121.9142 | Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. It is south of Clayton and northeast of Danville. It is an isolated upthrust peak of , visible from most of the San Francisco Bay Area (...) | |
| 24 | Tower of Babel ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 32.5363 / 44.4208 | The Tower of Babel (Migdal Bavel) as told in Genesis 11:1-9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. According to the story, a united humanity in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the (...) | |
| 25 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 46.9985 / -85.1102 | SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there (...) | |
| 26 | Independence Pass (Colorado) ![]() FeatureType : pass Elevation : 3691 Lat/Lng : 39.1086 / -106.564 | Independence Pass, originally known as Hunter Pass, is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. It is at elevation on the Continental Divide in the Sawatch Range. The pass is midway between Aspen and Twin Lakes, on the border between Pitkin and Lake (...) | |
| 27 | Laysan ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 25.7706 / -171.7344 | Laysan (; Hawaiian: Kauō), located northwest of Honolulu at N25° 42' 14" W171° 44' 04", is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It comprises one land mass of , about in size. It is an atoll of sorts, although the land completely surrounds a shallow central lake some above sea level that has a (...) | |
| 28 | Shoshone National Forest ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1809 Lat/Lng : 44.4644 / -109.6136 | Shoshone National Forest is the first federally protected National Forest in the United States and covers nearly in the state of Wyoming. Originally a part of the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve, the forest is managed by the United States Forest Service and was created by an act of Congress and (...) | |
| 29 | Nuclear weapons testing ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1224 Lat/Lng : 37.0114 / -116.0598 | Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons. Throughout the twentieth century, most nations that developed nuclear weapons tested them (...) | |
| 30 | Operation Crossroads ![]() FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 11.6 / 165.5 | Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity in July 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (...) | |
| 31 | Ludwig Wittgenstein ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 52.2176 / 0.1001 | Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (;. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language (...) | |
| 32 | David Livingstone ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 51.4994 / -0.1275 | David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era (...) | |
| 33 | Wrangell, Alaska ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 56.4694 / -132.3814 | The City and Borough of Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw) is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,369, up from 2,308 in 2000. Incorporated as a Unified Home Rule Borough on May 30, 2008, Wrangell was previously a city in the Wrangell-Petersburg Census (...) | |
| 34 | Klondike Gold Rush ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 64.0569 / -139.4361 | The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896, and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it (...) | |
| 35 | Kim Il-sung ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 910 Lat/Lng : 39.9721 / 126.3214 | Kim Il-sung (officially transcribed Kim Il Sung; ; ; ; born Kim Sŏng-ju ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the first Supreme Leader of North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Premier from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to 1994 (...) | |
| 36 | Glacier National Park (U.S.) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2033 Lat/Lng : 48.6953 / -113.718 | Glacier National Park is an American national park located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, adjacent to the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. The park encompasses over and includes parts of two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), over (...) | |
| 37 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 34.3948 / 132.4548 | During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement (...) | |
| 38 | Beaconsfield Mine collapse ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : -41.2016 / 146.8157 | The Beaconsfield gold mine collapsed on 25 April 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. Of the seventeen people who were in the mine at the time, fourteen escaped immediately following the collapse, one was killed and the remaining two were found alive using a remote-controlled device (...) | |
| 39 | Dibrugarh ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 27.4706 / 94.9123 | Dibrugarh (pron: ˌdɪbru:ˈgɑ:) is a city and is the headquarters of the Dibrugarh district in the state of Assam in India. Well known as the Tea City of India,http://www.business-standard.com/article/elections-2014/take-initiative-to-make-dibrugarh-world-s-tea-city-rahul-to-cm-114032700976_1 (...) | |
| 40 | Battle of Culloden ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 57.4912 / -4.1322 | The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart were decisively defeated by Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands (...) | |
| 41 | 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 (...) | |
| 42 | Ocean City, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 39.2636 / -74.6046 | Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 11,701, reflecting a decline of 3,677 (-23.9%) from the 15,378 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 134 (-0 (...) | |
| 43 | 2008 Mumbai attacks ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 18.9221 / 72.8326 | --> The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11) were a group of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four (...) | |
| 44 | Cisco Systems ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 37.4084 / -121.9541 | Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products (...) | |
| 45 | Intel ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.3879 / -121.9635 | Intel Corporation (commonly known as Intel and stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip maker based on revenue (...) | |
| 46 | Pan Am Flight 103 ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 74 Lat/Lng : 55.1156 / -3.3585 | Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York. On 21 December 1988, N739PA, the aircraft operating the transatlantic leg of the route, was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew – a disaster known as the (...) | |
| 47 | Siege of Sevastopol (1941–42) ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 44.6047 / 33.5411 | The Siege of Sevastopol also known as the Defence of Sevastopol (transliteration: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle of Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol) was a military battle that took place on the Eastern Front of the Second World War (...) | |
| 48 | Srebrenica massacre ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 373 Lat/Lng : 44.103 / 19.298 | The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide * * * * * , was the July 1995 massacre * * * of more than 8,000Potocari Memorial Center Preliminary List of Missing Persons from Srebrenica '95 * * , p. 81. * , p. 25 (...) | |
| 49 | California ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 37.0 / -120.0 | California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.5 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and (...) | |
| 50 | Wenzhou ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 27.993 / 120.699 | Wenzhou (pronounced ; Wenzhounese:) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China. Wenzhou is located at the extreme south east of Zhejiang Province with its borders connecting to Lishui on the west, Taizhou on the north, and Fujian to the south (...) | |
| 51 | National Weather Service ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 114 Lat/Lng : 38.9917 / -77.03 | The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information (...) | |
| 52 | Le Corbusier ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8519 / 2.2654 | Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930 (...) | |
| 53 | El Kab ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 25.1197 / 32.7982 | El Kab (or better Elkab) is an Upper Egyptian site on the east bank of the Nile at the mouth of the Wadi Hillal about south of Luxor (ancient Thebes). El Kab was called Nekheb in the Egyptian language, a name that refers to Nekhbet, the goddess depicted as a white vulture.Limme, Luc (...) | |
| 54 | Twitter ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 37.7768 / -122.4166 | Twitter, Inc. is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (...) | |
| 55 | Eleventh Air Force ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 51.8778 / -176.6425 | The Eleventh Air Force (11 AF) is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force Pacific Air Forces (PACAF). It is headquartered at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, Alaska.This unit is not related to the Eleventh Air Force headquartered in Pennsylvania described below (...) | |
| 56 | 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 (...) | |
| 57 | Central Intelligence Agency ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 38.9521 / -77.1452 | The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the Federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) (...) | |
| 58 | Provence ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 315 Lat/Lng : 43.5 / 5.5 | Provence (; ; Prouvènço) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south (...) | |
| 59 | Nattai National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 346 Lat/Lng : -34.2894 / 150.3603 | The Nattai National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Macarthur and Southern Highlands regions of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. It is situated approximately southwest of the Sydney central business district and primarily encompasses the valley of the Nattai River, (...) | |
| 60 | Northeastern University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 42.3389 / -71.0903 | Northeastern University (NU, formerly NEU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1898. It is categorized as an R1 institution (Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (...) | |
| 61 | Huntington, West Virginia ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 173 Lat/Lng : 38.413 / -82.4336 | Huntington is a city in Cabell County and Wayne County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County, and largest city in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, sometimes referred to as the Tri-State Area (...) | |
| 62 | Moray ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 489 Lat/Lng : 57.4167 / -3.25 | Moray (; or '; ;) is one of the 32 Local Government council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland (...) | |
| 63 | Bluefield, West Virginia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 799 Lat/Lng : 37.2622 / -81.2186 | Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 10,447 at the 2010 census. It is the core city of the Bluefield WV-VA micropolitan area, which has a population of 107,342. (...) | |
| 64 | Los Angeles Public Library ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 34.0501 / -118.2558 | The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) serves the residents of the City of Los Angeles. The system holds more than six million volumes, and with over 18 million residents in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, it serves the largest population of any publicly funded library system in the United (...) | |
| 65 | Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 38.8997 / -77.0578 | The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is located in the District of Columbia and the states of Maryland and West Virginia. The park was established in 1961 as a National Monument by President Dwight D (...) | |
| 66 | Philmont Scout Ranch ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 2043 Lat/Lng : 36.4542 / -104.9558 | Philmont Scout Ranch is a ranch located near the town of Cimarron, New Mexico; it covers 140,177 acres (219 sq mi; 567 km²) of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Rocky Mountains. Donated by oil baron Waite Phillips, the ranch is owned and operated by the Boy Scouts of America (...) | |
| 67 | Rakkestad ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 59.4286 / 11.3436 | Rakkestad is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Rakkestad. It is divided into the parishes of Rakkestad, Degernes, and Os. The municipality is the county's second largest by area and one of Norway's largest agricultural areas (...) | |
| 68 | Lakhimpur Kheri district ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 147 Lat/Lng : 27.9484 / 80.7767 | Lakhimpur Kheri district is the largest district in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the border with Nepal. Its administrative capital is the city of Lakhimpur. Lakhimpur Kheri district is a part of Lucknow division, with a total area of (...) | |
| 69 | Wardenclyffe Tower ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 40.9476 / -72.8982 | Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York in 1901–1902. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to (...) | |
| 70 | Isan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 206 Lat/Lng : 16.0 / 103.0 | Isan (Isan/, ; also written as Isaan, Isarn, Issarn, Issan, Esan, or Esarn; from Pali īsāna or Sanskrit ईशान īśāna "northeast") consists of 20 provinces in the northeastern region of Thailand. Isan is Thailand's largest region, located on the Khorat Plateau, bordered by the Mekong River (along the (...) | |
| 71 | Southern Ontario ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 305 Lat/Lng : 44.0 / -80.0 | Southern Ontario is a primary region of the province of Ontario, Canada, the other primary region being Northern Ontario. It is the most densely populated and southernmost region in Canada. The exact northern boundary of Southern Ontario is disputed, however the core region is situated south of (...) | |
| 72 | Trinity River (California) ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 41.1847 / -123.7086 | The Trinity River (originally called the Hoopa or Hupa by the Yurok, and hun' by the Natinixwe/Hupa people) is a major river in northwestern California in the United States, and is the principal tributary of the Klamath River (...) | |
| 73 | 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 (...) | |
| 74 | Spanish missions in California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 93 Lat/Lng : 33.4282 / -117.6097 | The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in today's U.S. State of California. Founded by Catholic priests of the Franciscan order to evangelize the Native Americans, the missions led to the creation of the New Spain (...) | |
| 75 | Skerryvore ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 56.323 / -7.1144 | Skerryvore (from the Gaelic An Sgeir Mhòr meaning "The Great Skerry") is a remote reef that lies off the west coast of Scotland, 12 miles (19 kilometres) south-west of the island of Tiree. Skerryvore is best known as the name given to the lighthouse on the skerry, built with some difficulty between (...) | |
| 76 | Phaistos Disc ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 35.0517 / 24.8149 | The Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (second millennium B.C.). The disk is about 15 cm (5 (...) | |
| 77 | Carrizo Plain ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 586 Lat/Lng : 35.1914 / -119.7929 | The Carrizo Plain (Obispeño: tšɨłkukunɨtš, "Place of the rabbits") is a large enclosed grassland plain, approximately long and up to across, in southeastern San Luis Obispo County, California, about northwest of Los Angeles."Carrizo Plain National Monument" Bureau of Land Management. 27 Feb. 2008. U (...) | |
| 78 | Binghamton University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 292 Lat/Lng : 42.0893 / -75.9699 | The State University of New York at Binghamton, commonly referred to as Binghamton University and SUNY Binghamton, is a public research university with campuses in Binghamton, Vestal, and Johnson City, New York, United States (...) | |
| 79 | 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 (...) | |
| 80 | 2015 San Bernardino attack ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 309 Lat/Lng : 34.0761 / -117.2777 | On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured in a terrorist attack consisting of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California (...) | |
| 81 | Dasmariñas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : 14.3264 / 120.9361 | , officially the , , or simply known as City, is a settlement_text of the Philippines in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. Nicknamed Dasma, it has a land area of and is located south of Manila (...) | |
| 82 | St Buryan ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 121 Lat/Lng : 50.0755 / -5.6161 | St Buryan is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village of St Buryan is situated approximately five miles (8 km) west of Penzance along the B3283 towards Land's End. Three further minor roads also meet at St Buryan, two link the village with the B3315 towards (...) | |
| 83 | International Cospas-Sarsat Programme ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 41.1344 / 16.8344 | The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme is a satellite-aided search and rescue initiative. It is organized as a treaty-based, nonprofit, intergovernmental, humanitarian cooperative of 44 nations and agencies (see infobox) (...) | |
| 84 | Mid-Canada Line ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 55.4645 / -60.2328 | The Mid-Canada Line (MCL), also known as the McGill Fence, was a line of radar stations running east-west across the middle of Canada, used to provide early warning of a Soviet bomber attack on North America. It was built to supplement the less-advanced Pinetree Line, which was located further south (...) | |
| 85 | 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 (...) | |
| 86 | Overhead power line ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 221 Lat/Lng : 50.7747 / 25.3852 | An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances. It consists of one or more conductors (commonly multiples of three) suspended by towers or poles (...) | |
| 87 | Chester Zoo ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 53.2267 / -2.8842 | Chester Zoo is a zoo at Upton by Chester, in Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family. It is one of the UK's largest zoos at . The zoo has a total land holding of approximately (...) | |
| 88 | Masrur Temples ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 750 Lat/Lng : 32.0726 / 76.1371 | The Masrur Temples, also referred to as Masroor Temples or Rock-cut Temples at Masrur, is an early 8th-century complex of rock-cut Hindu temples in the Kangra Valley of Beas River in Himachal Pradesh, India. The temples face northeast, towards the Dhauladhar range of the Himalayas (...) | |
| 89 | Wreck of the RMS Titanic ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 41.732 / -49.946 | The wreck of the RMS Titanic lies at a depth of about , about south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland. It lies in two main pieces about a third of a mile (600 m) apart. The bow is still recognizable with many preserved interiors, despite deterioration and damage sustained hitting the sea floor (...) | |
| 90 | 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 (...) | |
| 91 | Joseph's Tomb ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 506 Lat/Lng : 32.2132 / 35.2851 | Joseph's Tomb (Qever Yosef, , Qabr Yūsuf) is a funerary monument located at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim and Ebal, 300 metres northwest of Jacob's Well, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus, near Tell Balata, the site of Shakmu in the Late Bronze Age (...) | |
| 92 | Private Eye ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 51.5147 / -0.1336 | Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent criticism and lampooning of public figures (...) | |
| 93 | Death of Osama bin Laden ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1195 Lat/Lng : 34.17 / 73.23 | Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 shortly after 1:00 am PKT (20:00 UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six) (...) | |
| 94 | Cuban intervention in Angola ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1221 Lat/Lng : -15.15 / 19.1667 | In November 1975, on the eve of Angola's independence, Cuba launched a large-scale military intervention in support of the leftist People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) against United States-backed interventions by South Africa and Zaire in support of two right-wing independence (...) | |
| 95 | Snezhnoye, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 65.4492 / 172.9794 | Snezhnoye (lit. snowy; Chukchi: , lit. snowfieldV.V. Leontev and K.A. Novikova, Топонимический словарь северо-востока СССР (Toponymic Dictionary of the Northeastern USSR) (1989) Magadan. p.329) is a rural locality (a selo) in Anadyrsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia,Directive #617-rp (...) | |
| 96 | Willow Run ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 231 Lat/Lng : 42.241 / -83.551 | Willow Run, also known as Air Force Plant 31, was a manufacturing complex in Michigan, located between Ypsilanti Township and Belleville, constructed by the Ford Motor Company for the mass production of aircraft, especially the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber (...) | |
| 97 | Alaskan Air Command ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 61.2514 / -149.8064 | Alaskan Air Command (AAC) is an inactive United States Air Force Major Command originally established in 1942 under the United States Army Air Forces. Its mission was to organize and administer the air defense system of Alaska, exercise direct control of all active measures, and coordinate all (...) | |
| 98 | Kuvempu University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 253 Lat/Lng : 28.5843 / 77.163 | Kuvempu University is a public state university in Shimoga, Karnataka, India. It was established in 1987 by the act of the Karnataka state legislature through amendment No. 28/1976 dated 29 January 1989 under the Karnataka State University Act 1976 (...) | |
| 99 | Cliefden Caves ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 462 Lat/Lng : -33.5834 / 148.8954 | The Cliefden Caves Geoheritage Site comprises Ordovician fossil localities, limestone caves, a spring and tufa dams, and a site where limestone was first discovered in inland Australia. It has been ranked among the 70 most significant fossil sites in Australia by the Australian Heritage Council (...) | |
| 100 | Batopilas, Chihuahua ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 602 Lat/Lng : 27.0285 / -107.7412 | Batopilas (Spanish) is a small town, and seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, located along the Río Batopilas at the bottom of the Batopilas canyon, part of the Copper Canyon. As of 2010, the town of Batopilas had a population of 1,220 (...) | |
| 101 | Mexico–United States border ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 25.8838 / -97.4762 | The Mexico–United States border is an international border, nearly 3,100 kilometers long (2,000 miles) separating Mexico and the United States, extending from the Pacific Ocean to the west and Gulf of Mexico to the east (...) | |
| 102 | Solovki prison camp ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 65.0244 / 35.7106 | The Solovki special camp (later the Solovki special prison), was set up in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea as a remote and inaccessible place of detention, primarily intended for socialist opponents of Soviet Russia's new Bolshevik regime (...) | |
| 103 | Yeavering ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 55.568 / -2.105 | Yeavering /ˈjɛvəriŋ/ is a very small hamlet in the north-east corner of the civil parish of Kirknewton in the English county of Northumberland. It is located on the River Glen at the northern edge of the Cheviot Hills (...) | |
| 104 | Lacandon Jungle ![]() FeatureType : forest Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 16.35 / -91.02 | The Lacandon Jungle (Spanish: Selva Lacandona) is an area of rainforest which stretches from Chiapas, Mexico, into Guatemala and into the southern part of the Yucatán Peninsula. The heart of this rainforest is located in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas near the border with Guatemala (...) | |
| 105 | Budapest University of Technology and Economics ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 47.4816 / 19.056 | The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (or in short), official abbreviation BME, is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary and is considered the world's oldest Institute of Technology which has university rank and structure (...) | |
| 106 | 2008 Chatsworth train collision ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 314 Lat/Lng : 34.2719 / -118.6014 | The Chatsworth train collision occurred at 4:22 p.m. PDT (23:22 UTC) on Friday, September 12, 2008, when a Union Pacific freight train and a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on in the Chatsworth district of Los Angeles, California (...) | |
| 107 | Copenhagen Suborbitals ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 55.6914 / 12.617 | Copenhagen Suborbitals is the world's only manned, amateur, crowd funded space programme. Since its beginning in 2008, Copenhagen Suborbitals has flown five home built rockets and two mock-up space capsules. Their stated goal is to have one of the members fly into space (above 100 km), on a (...) | |
| 108 | Azusa Street Revival ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 34.0484 / -118.2411 | The Azusa Street Revival was a historic revival meeting that took place in Los Angeles, California. It was led by William J. Seymour, an African American preacher. It began with a meeting on April 9, 1906, and continued until roughly 1915 (...) | |
| 109 | West Kimberley ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 466 Lat/Lng : -16.1707 / 125.725 | West Kimberley is part of the Kimberley region within Western Australia, a significant portion of which is heritage-listed for its cultural landscape. It is an area with a wide array of fauna and flora. It connects to a long history of Indigenous Australian culture, language and knowledge (...) | |
| 110 | Redstone Inn ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2209 Lat/Lng : 39.18 / -107.2394 | The Redstone Inn is located on Redstone Boulevard in Redstone, Colorado, United States. It is a structure in the Tudor Revival architectural styles built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1980 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (...) | |
| 111 | Montpelier, Brighton ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 50.8272 / -0.1496 | Montpelier is an inner suburban area of Brighton, part of the English city and seaside resort of Brighton and Hove. Developed together with the adjacent Clifton Hill area in the mid-19th century, it forms a high-class, architecturally cohesive residential district with "an exceptionally complete (...) | |
| 112 | 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, (...) | |
| 113 | Jarlshof ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 59.8693 / -1.2906 | Jarlshof is the best known prehistoric archaeological site in Shetland, Scotland. It lies near the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland and has been described as "one of the most remarkable archaeological sites ever excavated in the British Isles". shetland-heritage.co.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2008 (...) | |
| 114 | The Jersey Devil (The X-Files) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 85 Lat/Lng : 49.2553 / -123.1378 | "The Jersey Devil" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on October 8, 1993. It was written by series creator Chris Carter, directed by Joe Napolitano, and featured guest appearances by Gregory Sierra, (...) | |
| 115 | Tourism in Ecuador ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -0.25 / 78.59 | Ecuador is a country with vast natural and cultural wealth. The diversity of its four regions has resulted in hundreds of thousands of species of flora and fauna. It has about 1640 species of birds. The species of butterflies line the 4,500, the 345 reptiles, 358 amphibians and 258 mammals, among (...) | |
| 116 | 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 (...) | |
| 117 | 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 (...) | |
| 118 | Willow Run Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 210 Lat/Lng : 42.2379 / -83.5304 | Willow Run Airport is an airport in Van Buren Charter Township and Ypsilanti Township,"" . Ypsilanti Township. Retrieved on June 22, 2009."". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on October 28, 2009. near Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, and serves freight, corporate, and general aviation (...) | |
| 119 | Battle of Yongju ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 39.4736 / 125.4828 | The Battle of Yongju, also known as the Battle of the Apple Orchard, took place from 21 to 22 October 1950 as part of the United Nations (UN) offensive towards the Yalu River, against the North Korean forces which had invaded South Korea during the Korean War (...) | |
| 120 | Basilan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 560 Lat/Lng : 6.5806 / 122.0378 | The Province of Basilan (Chavacano: Provincia de Basilan; Tausug: Wilaya' sin Basilan; Yakan: Wilayah Basilanin) is an island province of the Philippines in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Basilan Island is the largest and northernmost of the major islands of the Sulu Archipelago (...) | |
| 121 | Luggie Water ![]() FeatureType : river Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 55.9333 / -4.15 | The Luggie Water is one of two streams which flow out of Cumbernauld. The Scottish New Town’s name derives from the Gaelic for "the meeting of the waters" and it’s possible this refers to the Luggie Water and the Red Burn, both of which run through Cumbernauld but which never meet (...) | |
| 122 | Prehistoric Orkney ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 59.0 / -3.0 | Prehistoric Orkney refers to a period in the human occupation of the Orkney archipelago of Scotland that was the latter part of these islands' prehistory. The period of prehistory prior to occupation by the genus Homo is part of the geology of Scotland (...) | |
| 123 | Fort Banks (Massachusetts) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 42.3842 / -70.9803 | Fort Banks was a U.S. Coast Artillery fort located in Winthrop, Massachusetts. It served to defend Boston Harbor from enemy attack from the sea and was built in the 1890s during what is known as the Endicott period, a time in which the coast defenses of the United States were seriously expanded and (...) | |
| 124 | Crystal Lake Recreation Area ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1756 Lat/Lng : 34.3256 / -117.8381 | The Crystal Lake Recreation Area is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, administered by the Los Angeles Gateway District (formally the San Gabriel River Ranger District) of the United States Forest Service (...) | |
| 125 | Zuytdorp ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -27.1861 / 113.9369 | The VOC Zuytdorp also Zuiddorp (meaning "South Village", after Zuiddorpe, a still existing village in the South of Zeeland, near the Belgian border) was an 18th-century trading ship of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, commonly abbreviated VOC) (...) | |
| 126 | Amtrak's 25 Hz traction power system ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 38.8975 / -76.9593 | Amtrak's 25 Hz traction power system is a traction power grid operated by Amtrak along the southern portion of its Northeast Corridor (NEC): the 225 route miles (362 km) between Washington, D.C. and New York CityThe 25 Hz system continues through New York Penn Station and Sunnyside Yard (...) | |
| 127 | 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 (...) | |
| 128 | 1950 French Annapurna expedition ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 7940 Lat/Lng : 28.5953 / 83.8256 | The 1950 French Annapurna expedition, led by Maurice Herzog, successfully reached the summit of Annapurna I at , the highest peak in the Annapurna Massif. The mountain is located in Nepal and the government had given permission for the expedition, the first time it had permitted mountaineering in (...) | |
| 129 | Dye 3 ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 65.1833 / -43.8167 | Dye 3 is an ice core site and previously part of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, located at (2480 masl) in Greenland. As a DEW line base, it was disbanded in years 1990/1991. An ice core is a core sample from the accumulation of snow and ice that has re-crystallized and trapped air bubbles (...) | |
| 130 | Selwyn College, Cambridge ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 52.2008 / 0.1056 | Selwyn College, Cambridge (formally "The Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The college was founded by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of George Augustus Selwyn (...) | |
| 131 | Chinese Academy of Sciences ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 39.9106 / 116.3353 | The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS;), with historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republic of China era, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Collectively known as the "Two Academies " along with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, (...) | |
| 132 | 1983 Beirut barracks bombings ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 33.8292 / 35.4947 | On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a peacekeeping operation during the Lebanese Civil War. The attack killed 307 people: 241 U.S (...) | |
| 133 | Sea Shepherd Conservation Society operations ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 0.3167 / 5.4167 | The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society engages in various demonstrations, campaigns, and tactical operations at sea and elsewhere, including conventional protests and direct actions to protect marine wildlife. Sea Shepherd operations have included interdiction against commercial fishing, shark (...) | |
| 134 | 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 (...) | |
| 135 | Congo Square ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 29.9612 / -90.0685 | Congo Square is an open space, now within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street north of the French Quarter. The Tremé neighborhood is famous for its history of African American music (...) | |
| 136 | British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 428 Lat/Lng : 54.0037 / -2.5479 | British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941. The British army needed to recover from the defeat of the British Expeditionary Force in (...) | |
| 137 | Nendrum Monastery ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 54.4968 / -5.6405 | Nendrum Monastery was a Christian monastery on Mahee Island in Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland. Medieval records say it was founded in the 5th century, but this is uncertain. The monastery came to an end at some time between 974 and 1178, but its church served a parish until the site (...) | |
| 138 | Utopia, Northern Territory ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 494 Lat/Lng : -22.25 / 134.6667 | Utopia is an Aboriginal homeland formed in November 1978 by the amalgamation of the former Utopia pastoral lease with a tract of unalienated land to its north. It covers an area of 3,500 square kilometres, transected by the Sandover River, and lies on a traditional boundary of the Alyawarra and (...) | |
| 139 | Tiputini Biodiversity Station ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 212 Lat/Lng : -0.6383 / -76.15 | Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) is a scientific field research center in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It was established in 1995 by Universidad San Francisco de Quito in collaboration with Boston University, and is jointly managed by them as a center of education, research and conservation (...) | |
| 140 | General Electric Specialty Control Plant ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 383 Lat/Lng : 38.0922 / -78.8694 | General Electric Specialty Control Plant is a historic factory complex located at Waynesboro, Virginia. The complex includes three contributing buildings, one contributing site (the original formal entry drive), and two contributing structures (...) | |
| 141 | 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 30.329 / 31.1344 | The 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake (also known as Nuweiba earthquake) occurred on November 22 at 06:15 local time (04:15 UTC) and registered 7.3 on the scale. The epicenter was located in the central segment of the Gulf of Aqaba, the narrow body of water that separates Egypt's Sinai Peninsula from (...) | |
| 142 | Hector J. Robinson Observatory ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 42.2458 / -83.1869 | The Hector J. Robinson Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Lincoln Park, Michigan. It houses a Celestron SCT. It went back into operation in September 2009. First light ceremonies happened in early September. (...) | |
| 143 | Rocky Mount Fire of 2016 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 821 Lat/Lng : 38.3314 / -78.6497 | On Friday, April 16, 2016, a forest fire was first reported in Shenandoah National Park in the U.S. state of Virginia. The fire originated in the area around Rocky Mount, a mountain in the south district of the park, in a remote region south of Elkton, Virginia (...) | |
| 144 | Majene ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : -3.5433 / 118.9703 | Majene is the capital city of Majene Regency and it is located in the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi. (...) | |