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The Peel River area in the northeast is in the Taiga Plains Ecozone and the Arctic coast is in the Southern Arctic Ecozone. Fireweed ( Epilobium angustifolium ), Yukon's territorial flower [ 20 ] and white spruce ( Picea glauca ) in southern Yukon near the South Klondike Highway .
The town of Fabriano, located just around 300 m (984 ft) in elevation, can often see 50–60 cm (20–24 in) of fresh snow fall in 24 hours during these episodes. On the coast from Ravenna to Venice and Trieste, snow falls more rarely: during cold spells from the east, the cold wind can be harsh but with bright skies. During the snowfalls that ...
In parts of South America, a vast, fertile, grassy plain; or the temperate lowland region encompassing these plains. pan Any shallow, generally rounded basin or hollow, which may seasonally capture and hold water from rainfall or snowmelt, especially one occurring in an arid or semi-arid region; more specifically, the flat central part of such ...
Iceland is an island country at the confluence of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, east of Greenland and immediately south of the Arctic Circle, atop the constructive boundary of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
More than 80% of all glacial ice in the northern Andes is concentrated on the highest peaks in small plains of approximately 1 km 2 (0.39 sq mi) in size. A 1992 to 1998 observation of the Chacaltaya Glacier in Bolivia and Antizana Glacier in Ecuador indicate that between 0.6 m (2.0 ft) and 1.9 m (6.2 ft) of ice was lost per year on each glacier.
Others, such as Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, Alphabet City and the East Village, have long been associated with the Bohemian subculture. [ 153 ] [ 154 ] [ 155 ] Chelsea is one of several Manhattan neighborhoods with large gay populations and has become a center of both the international art industry and New York's nightlife. [ 156 ]