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Hiratsuka

(Encyclopedia)Hiratsuka hēräˈtso͞okä [key], city, Kanagawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Sagami Bay and ...

Handa

(Encyclopedia)Handa hänˈdä [key], city, Aichi prefecture, S central Honshu, Japan, on the Chita Peninsul...

Hekinan

(Encyclopedia)Hekinan hākēˈnän [key], city, Aichi prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, near Chita Bay. Tr...

Gironde, department, France

(Encyclopedia)Gironde zhērôNdˈ [key], department, SW France, on the Bay of Biscay. Bordeaux is the capital. ...

Gisborne

(Encyclopedia)Gisborne gĭzˈbôrn [key], city, East Coast North Island, New Zealand, on Poverty Bay. It is a ...

Croagh Patrick

(Encyclopedia)Croagh Patrick krōˈäpătˈrĭk, krōˈäkh– [key], mountain, 2,510 ft (765 m) high, Co. Mayo, W Republic of Ireland, near Westport Bay. Legend connects it with St. Patrick, and its summit has lon...

Davis Strait

(Encyclopedia)Davis Strait, c.400 mi (640 km) long and c.180 mi (290 km) wide at the narrowest point, between Greenland and Baffin Island, NE Canada, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Baffin Bay. Large amounts of i...

Sausalito

(Encyclopedia)Sausalito sôˌsəlēˈtō [key], residential city (1990 pop. 7,152), Marin co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1893. It is the northern terminus of the Golden Gate Bridge. The artists' colony t...

Severodvinsk

(Encyclopedia)Severodvinsk syĕˈvĕrŏdvinsk [key], city (1989 pop. 249,000), NW European Russia, on the Dvina Bay of the White Sea. The main industries are shipbuilding, lumbering, and transshipment. It is a base...

Port Washington

(Encyclopedia)Port Washington, uninc. town (1990 pop. 15,387), Nassau co., SE N.Y., a suburb of New York City, on the north shore of Long Island and Manhasset Bay. There is extensive manufacturing, much of it refle...