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The Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District is an 18.31-acre (74,100 m 2) area located near the city of Port Mansfield, Texas, United States, in the waters off Kenedy County and Willacy County, Texas.
Location of the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific The National Register of Historic Places is a United States federal official list of places and sites considered worthy of preservation. In the Marshall Islands , a country in Micronesia, there are currently 4 listed sites located in three of the 24 atolls that make up the archipelago.
Map of the Marshall Islands Aerial view of Majuro, one of the many atolls that make up the Marshall Islands Beach scenery at the islet of Eneko, Majuro View of the coast of Bikini Atoll from above View of Marshall Islands Kwajalein atoll is another important population center for the Marshall islands Closer view of Kwajalein atoll reveals a ...
The Marshall Islands is a dynamic place with a dark past and uncertain future, yet not many people know about it. You probably never heard of this destination: 6 cool facts about The Marshall ...
The British ships Charlotte and Scarborough visited the islands in 1788 under the commands of captains Thomas Gilbert and John Marshall, respectively. [38] The vessels had been part of the First Fleet taking convicts from England to Botany Bay in New South Wales, and were en route to Guangzhou when they passed through the Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands. [39]
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas (1 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Texas" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
The Marshallese recognized four main ocean swells: the rilib, kaelib, bungdockerik and bundockeing. [2] Navigators focused on effects of islands in blocking swells and generating counterswells to some degree, but they mainly concentrated on refraction of swells as they came in contact with undersea slopes of islands and the bending of swells around islands as they interacted with swells coming ...
Marshall Islander fish trap, circa 1940s. The culture of the Marshall Islands forms part of the wider culture of Micronesia. It is marked by pre-Western contact and the impact of that contact on its people afterward. The Marshall Islands were relatively isolated. Inhabitants developed skilled navigators, able to navigate by the currents to ...