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Kept in the Topkapı Palace Museum, [24] the map is the remaining western third of a world map drawn on gazelle-skin parchment approximately 87 cm × 63 cm. [e] The surviving portion shows the Atlantic Ocean with the coasts of Europe, Africa, and South America. [25] The map is a portolan chart with compass roses from which lines of bearing ...
Map of earthquakes in Turkey 1900–2023. The geology of Turkey is the product of a wide variety of tectonic processes that have shaped Anatolia over millions of years, a process which continues today as evidenced by frequent earthquakes and occasional volcanic eruptions. Topographic map of Turkey
The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, native to North America. There are two extant turkey species: the wild turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey ( Meleagris ocellata ) of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
A turkey dinner is a Thanksgiving staple alongside mashed potatoes and corn. Turkey conservationists are now looking to preserve wild turkey numbers. A history of turkey and the populations of ...
Wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) were first domesticated by the Mayan peoples of what is now Mexico around 800 B.C. and is one of only two birds native to North America that has been regularly ...
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
The border between North America and South America is at some point on the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [116] [117]
Animated map of seismicity near Turkey quakes starting ~3am local time plotting Feb 6 M7.8 mainshock (pink), early aftershocks (orange), M7.5 aftershock to the north (tan), and subsequent ...