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Yard of the Swan with Two Necks, Lad Lane, London, 1831 Spent coach-horses Place de Passy, Paris. A stage station or relay station, also known as a staging post, a posting station, or a stage stop, is a facility along a main road or trade route where a traveller can rest and/or replace exhausted working animals (mostly riding horses) for fresh ones, since long journeys are much faster with ...
Allowing goods to reach distant markets, a single trade route contains long-distance arteries, which may further be connected to smaller networks of commercial and noncommercial transportation routes. Among notable trade routes was the Amber Road, which served as a dependable network for long-distance trade. [1]
The ground-based long-distance observations cover the Earth's landscape and natural surface features (e.g. mountains, depressions, rock formations, vegetation), as well as manmade structures firmly associated with the Earth's surface (e.g. buildings, bridges, roads) that are located farther than the usual naked-eye distance from an observer.
Murúa confirms that "When the Inga wanted to eat fresh fish from the sea, since it was seventy or eighty leagues [350 to 400 kilometres (220 to 250 mi)] (from the coast) to Cuzco, where he lived, they would bring it to him alive, which indeed seems an incredible thing over such a long stretch and distance, and on such roads, rough and intricate"
There is no formal definition of a long-distance path, though the British Long Distance Walkers Association defines one as a route "20 miles [32 km] or more in length and mainly off-road." [1] They usually follow existing rights of way, often over private land, linked and sometimes waymarked to make a named route. [3]
Outwork: a minor defence, built or established outside the principal fortification limits, detached or semidetached. Parapet: a wall at the edge of the rampart to protect the defenders. Pillbox: a small concrete guard post. Polygonal fort: a later type of fort without bastions. Rampart: The main defensive wall of a fortification.
Hodder-Shipp says it’s crucial to remember that long-distance relationships experience the same struggles as same-city relationships, which is why it’s vital to “get creative with ways to ...
Geographical distance or geodetic distance is the distance measured along the surface of the Earth, or the shortest arch length. The formulae in this article calculate distances between points which are defined by geographical coordinates in terms of latitude and longitude. This distance is an element in solving the second (inverse) geodetic ...