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Duck Lake

(Encyclopedia)Duck Lake, small lake, central Sask., Canada, SW of Prince Albert. It was the scene of the first encounter in Riel's Rebellion (see under Riel, Louis) in 1885. A large group of Métis (persons of mixe...

Chusovaya

(Encyclopedia)Chusovaya cho͞osəvīˈə [key], river, c.460 mi (740 km) long, E European Russia. It rises in the central Urals and flows northwest through a major industrial region to join the Kama Reservoir near ...

Izumo

(Encyclopedia)Izumo ēzo͞oˈmō [key], city, Shimane prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, on the Hii River. It is ...

Miseno, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Miseno, Cape mēzĕˈnō [key], S Italy, at the northwest end of the Bay of Naples. Augustus founded (1st cent. b.c.) a naval station (Misenum) there, which was destroyed by the Arabs (9th cent. a.d.)...

McClure Strait

(Encyclopedia)McClure Strait, arm of the Beaufort Sea, c.170 mi (270 km) long and 60 mi (100 km) wide, Northwest Territories, Canada. It extends W from Viscount Melville Sound, between Melville and Eglinton islands...

Kuskokwim

(Encyclopedia)Kuskokwim kŭsˈkōkwĭm [key], river, c.650 mi (1,046 km) long, rising on the northwest slopes of the Alaska Range, central Alaska, and flowing SW to the Bering Sea. The shores of the river are mostl...

São João de Meriti

(Encyclopedia)São João de Meriti souN zhwouN ᵺĭ mərēˈtĭ, də mĭrētēˈ [key], city (1990 est. pop. 508,200), Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil, a residential suburb northwest of the city of Rio de Janeiro....

Battleford

(Encyclopedia)Battleford bătˈəlfərd, –fôrdˌ [key], town, N central Sask., Canada, at the co...

Delhi

(Encyclopedia)Delhi dĕlˈē [key], union territory and city, N central India. The union territory, officia...

Papua, province, Indonesia

(Encyclopedia)Papua ĭrˈēän jīˈyə [key], province (2014 est pop. 3,486,000), 123,180 sq mi (319,036 sq km), Indonesia. Comprising most of the western half of New Guinea and a number of offshore islands, it is...