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Septentrional, meaning "of the north", is a Latinate adjective sometimes used in English. It is a form of the Latin noun septentriones, which refers to the seven stars of the Plough (Big Dipper), occasionally called the Septentrion. In the 18th century, septentrional languages was a recognised term for the Germanic languages. [1]
Septentrional, a Latinate word once used in English and French to refer to northern regions; Septentrionalist, referring to the Viking revival of the 18th and 19th centuries; Operation Septentrion, a 2009 ISAF military operation in Afghanistan; Septentrional-Oriente fault zone, a geological fault in the Caribbean
The Gonâve microplate, showing location of the main fault zones. The Septentrional–Orient fault zone (SOFZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike slip faults that runs along the northern side of the island of Hispaniola where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located and continues along the south of Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough.
Territory of Northern America declared independent. (Northern border from later Adams–Onís Treaty.). The Solemn Act of Northern America's Declaration of Independence (Spanish: Acta Solemne de la Declaración de Independencia de la América Septentrional) is the first Mexican legal historical document which established the separation of Mexico from Spanish rule.
Animal Place Latitude/longitude Fresh water fish: arctic char: Arctic Ocean [28]: Approx. 82°N Coral reef: Off the north coast of Norway [29: Amphibian: Siberian wood frog: Northern Siberia [30]
The Gonâve microplate, showing the fault zones that bound it. The Gonâve microplate forms part of the boundary between the North American plate and the Caribbean plate.It is bounded to the west by the Mid-Cayman Rise spreading center, to the north by the Septentrional-Oriente fault zone and to the south by the Walton fault zone and the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone.
The Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (PWNHC) (Centre du patrimoine septentrional Prince-de-Galles in French) is the Government of the Northwest Territories' museum and archives.
Some researchers believe that the EPGFZ and the Septentrional-Orient fault zone bound a microplate, dubbed the Gonâve microplate, a 190,000 km 2 (73,000 sq mi) area of the northern Caribbean plate that is in the process of shearing off the Caribbean plate and accreting to the North America plate. [3]