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Chukotsk

(Encyclopedia)Chukotsk and Chukotka Autonomous Area: see Chukchi Peninsula, Russia. ...

Dead Sea

(Encyclopedia)Dead Sea, salt lake, c.390 sq mi (1,010 sq km), extending c.45 mi (70 km) in the Jordan trough of the Great Rift Valley between the Ghor on the north and Wadi Arabah on the south, on the border betwee...

Norfolk, cities, United States

(Encyclopedia)Norfolk [1,] [2] nôrˈfək; [2] nôrˈfôkˌ [key]. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,476), Madison co., NE Nebr., on the Elkhorn River; inc. 1881. A trade and railroad center in a fertile farming region, it has ...

Tula , ancient city, Mexico

(Encyclopedia)Tula to͞oˈlä [key], ancient city in the present state of Hidalgo, central Mexico. It was one of the chief urban centers of the Toltec. The city is believed to be Tollán, the legendary Toltec capit...

camel

(Encyclopedia)camel, ruminant mammal of the family Camelidae. The family consists of three genera, the true camels of Asia (genus Camelus); the wild guanaco and the domesticated alpaca and llama, all of South Ameri...

Taberah

(Encyclopedia)Taberah tăbˈērə [key], in the Bible, camp in the wanderings, in the SE Sinai peninsula. ...

Tophel

(Encyclopedia)Tophel tōˈfəl [key], in the Bible, place in Sinai peninsula, near where the Israelites halted. ...

Prince of Wales, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Prince of Wales, Cape, at the tip of the Seward Peninsula, NW Alaska, on the Bering Strait; westernmost point of North America. Cape Dezhnev, Siberia, is only 55 mi (89 km) to the west. ...

Chidley, Cape

(Encyclopedia)Chidley, Cape, headland on Killiniq Island, off NE Labrador-Ungava Peninsula, Canada, on the Newfoundland and Labrador–Nunavut border. Located at the entrance to Hudson Strait, it was named by the e...

Hoylake

(Encyclopedia)Hoylake, town, Wirral metropolitan district, NW England, on the Wirral peninsula at the mouth of the Dee River. Located in the Greater Liverpool metropo...