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Sossusvlei (sometimes written Sossus Vlei) is a salt and clay pan [1] surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia. The name "Sossusvlei" is often used in an extended meaning to refer to the surrounding area (including other neighbouring vlei s such as Deadvlei ...
Major Swedish islands: Gotland; Öland; Värmdö; Major Finnish islands: Åland; Hailuoto; Major German islands: Fehmarn; Rügen; Usedom/Uznam (Germany and Poland) Major Polish islands: Aestian Island (artificial island in the Vistula Lagoon) Usedom/Uznam (Germany and Poland) Wolin; Major Russian islands: Beryozovye Islands
Name list Subdivision Place Pronunciation Notes Respelling IPA; England: Acomb, North Yorkshire: YAK-əm / ˈ j æ k ə m / [1] Historic; now regular England: Acomb, Northumberland
Eylenda [ˈeiːˌlɛnta], fem. – island, that is to say Iceland [citation needed] Stephan G. Stephansson Fjarst í eilífðar útsæ vakir eylendan þín. Far in the eternal yonder sea your island wakes. [citation needed] Fjalladrottning [ˈfjatlaˌtrɔhtniŋk], fem. – queen of the mountain or Iceland [citation needed]
True-colour satellite image of Ireland, known in Irish as Éire.. Éire (Irish: [ˈeːɾʲə] ⓘ) is the Irish Gaelic name for "Ireland". Like its English counterpart, the term Éire is used for both the island of Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the sovereign state that governs 85% of the island's landmass.
Most of the world’s top corporations have simple names. Steve Jobs named Apple while on a fruitarian diet, and found the name "fun, spirited and not intimidating." Plus, it came before Atari in ...
For instance, some speakers from the Northeast pronounce Florida, orange, and horrible with [-ɑr-] but foreign and origin with [-ɔr-]. The list of words affected differs from dialect to dialect and occasionally from speaker to speaker, which is an example of sound change by lexical diffusion .
Boats in Chausey Sound. The two-master on the right is a traditional type known as a Bisquine. Map of Chausey islands. Grande-Île, the main island, is 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) long and 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) wide at its widest (approximately 45 hectares (110 acres)), though this is just the tip of a substantial and complex archipelago which is exposed at low tide.