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Fort Venus located on the north coast of Tahiti. On 3 June 1769, navigator Captain James Cook, naturalist Joseph Banks, astronomer Charles Green and naturalist Daniel Solander recorded the transit of Venus from the island of Tahiti during Cook's first voyage around the world. [1]
Point Venus is a peninsula on the north coast of Tahiti, the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia. It is in the commune of Mahina , approximately 8 km east of the capital, Pape'ete .
The station offers the most direct public transit access to the Venus Fort and Palette Town shopping complex in Odaiba; it also is adjacent to an embarkation pier for the Tokyo water bus lines. References
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From 28 April 1798 with the new French law, the territory of Portovenere fell in the seventh canton, as the capital, the Jurisdiction of the Gulf of Venus since 1803 and the main center of the third State of the Gulf of Venus in the jurisdiction of the Gulf of Venus. From 13 June 1805 to 1814 it was included in the Department of the Apennines.
Both the Fort Worth South Hills Scorpions (0-2) and Venus Bulldogs (1-1) came into Thursday’s game looking for their first win of the season. Only one team could secure the victory, and the ...
Venus Hill (also known as Venus Pillar or Mafolie Observatory) is a historic site on Estate Mafolie in Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands, marking the spot where, in 1882, a transit of Venus was observed and recorded. The monument was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Venus is located in northeastern Johnson County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.0 square miles (7.7 km 2), all land. [6]U.S. Route 67 passes through the town north of its center; the highway leads northeast 7.5 miles (12.1 km) to the center of Midlothian and west 7 miles (11 km) to Alvarado.