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U Thant Island (officially Belmont Island) is a small artificial island or islet in New York City's East River, within the borough of Manhattan.The 100-by-200-foot (30 by 60 m) island, created during the construction of the Steinway Tunnel directly underneath, is the smallest island in Manhattan.
Feral cats were present on the island until they were completely eradicated in the 1980s, [12] and may have fed on vulnerable juvenile D. heteracantha. [10] Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans), or kiore in the Māori language, are one of the top predators of D. heteracantha, preying mostly on juvenile wētās which they kill during the night. An ...
The island's biggest area, which points towards the west Philippine Sea, rises prominently to a large flat area that is called "Topside".Beneath this was the fortified communications center of the island, as well as the location for the Army headquarters, barracks for enlisted men, a branch of the Philippine Trust Co. bank, the Cine Corregidor movie theater, officers' quarters, underground ...
In 1962, the presumably extinct Mahoenui giant wētā species were found in a small population in the central North Island of New Zealand. [8] The population was found thriving in a patch of gorse (Ulex europaeus), an introduced plant species widely recognised as an invasive weed. However, due to its spiny nature, predators of the Mahoenui ...
In general outline it is a long and narrow island; it is about 180 km (110 mi) long, and varies in breadth from 50 km (31 mi) to 6 km (3.7 mi). Its geographic orientation is from northwest to southeast, and it is traversed throughout its length by a mountain range, which forms part of the chain that bounds Thessaly on the east, and is continued ...
The island is 6 km (4 mi) long and between 4 km (2 mi) and 500 m (1,640 ft) across. It has a 180 m (591 ft) cave. Parts of the island undergoing pumice strip mining are barren of vegetation. The 2001 census reported a resident population of 10 people. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Nisyros.
In 2011, a raft may have been recovered near Alcatraz on Angel Island the day after the breakout, and a car was stolen the night of the jailbreak, according to Mike Dyke of the U.S. Marshals Service.
According to reports of Northern Paiute oral history, the Si-Te-Cah, Saiduka or Sai'i [1] (sometimes erroneously referred to as Say-do-carah or Saiekare [2] after a term said to be used by the Si-Te-Cah to refer to another group) were a legendary tribe who the Northern Paiutes fought a war with and eventually wiped out or drove away from the area, with the final battle having taken place at ...