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From the Norwegian point of view, which also does not recognize Lazarev Sea, King Haakon VII Sea is situated along the entire coast of Queen Maud Land between 20°W and 45°E and stretches for about 10,090 km (6,270 mi) from the Stancomb-Wills Glacier at 19°W on Princess Martha Coast in the west to Shinnan Glacier at 44°38′E on the eastern ...
Proposals for the creation of a marine protected area (MPA) in India to combat this trend have existed as early as 2003. [3] Proposals for the Aggatti Conservation Reserve were first moved in 2008, and in 2020, three MPAs were created in Lakshadweep: the Dr. K.K. Mohammed Koya Sea Cucumber Conservation Reserve, the Attakoya Thangal Marine Reserve 344 km 2 (133 sq mi), and the PM Sayeed Marine ...
Egypt, Red Sea El Ikhwa Islands ( Arabic : جزر الإخوة lit. islands of brotherhood ), commonly known as Brothers Islands , are two small Red Sea islands in the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt .
The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide. Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The land is the subject of James Gillray's satirical hand-coloured etching and aquatint print, titled The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide.
The fruit is composed of three carpels which are the largest of any flowering plant (although the carpels of Entada spp. are longer). These fruit are the slowest to mature, requiring 8 to 10 years. [19] [20] The mature seeds weighing up to 17.6 kg (29 lbs) are the world's heaviest [21] [7] [22]
King George Island (Argentinian Spanish: Isla 25 de Mayo, Chilean Spanish: Isla Rey Jorge, Russian: Ватерло́о Vaterloo) is the largest of the South Shetland Islands, lying 120 km (75 miles) off the coast of Antarctica in the Southern Ocean.
6 August 1914 saw the start of the German U-boat Campaign – two days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats left their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea. The first sea battle, the Battle of Heligoland Bight took place on 28 August 1914 and ended ...
This was pointed out as early as the 11th century by Rashi, [1] who nonetheless identified the yam suph mentioned in the locust plague as the saltwater inlet located between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula—known in English as the Red Sea. [2] The term was rendered as 'Red Sea' in the King James Version, the most widely utilized English ...