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  2. Null Island - Wikipedia

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    Null Island is the location at zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude), i.e., where the prime meridian and the equator intersect. Since there is no landmass located at these coordinates, it is not an actual island. The name is often used in mapping software as a placeholder to help find and correct database entries that have ...

  3. Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic

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    The "Null Island" buoy in 2017. The Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic (PIRATA) [note 1] is a system of moored observation buoys in the tropical Atlantic Ocean which collect meteorological and oceanographic data. The data collected by the PIRATA array helps scientists to better understand climatic events in the Tropical ...

  4. Mu (mythical lost continent) - Wikipedia

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    The 64 million inhabitants were separated as ten tribes that followed one government and one religion. Churchward claimed that the landmass of Mu was located in the Pacific Ocean, and stretched east–west from the Marianas to Easter Island, and north–south from Hawaii to Mangaia. According to Churchward the continent was supposedly 5,000 ...

  5. Natural Earth - Wikipedia

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    Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10 million (1 cm = 100 km), 1:50 million, and 1:110 million map scales. [ clarification needed ] Natural Earth's data set contains integrated vector and raster mapping data.

  6. Fermi paradox - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. Problem of the lack of evidence for alien life despite its apparent likelihood This article is about the absence of clear evidence of extraterrestrial life. For a type of estimation problem, see Fermi problem. Enrico Fermi (Los Alamos 1945) The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between ...

  7. The World Bank Group's Uncounted - The Huffington Post

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    The research team’s tests revealed the water discharged from the plant near Tragadi Bandar was higher in oxygen-depleting contaminants and warmer than the Gulf of Kutch’s waters. Its temperature was 32 to 33 degrees Celsius, far higher than the gulf’s average surface temperature of 26.1 degrees.

  8. List of islands by population - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.

  9. How The World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor

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    In 2007, residents of Jale, a tiny Albanian beach hamlet on the Ionian Sea, found themselves in the path of a coastal cleanup effort backed by a $17.5 million loan from the World Bank. More than a dozen poor families lived in Jale, many in homes with add-ons and extra floors they rented to vacationers.