The Thousand Islands constitute an archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada-U.S. border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for about 50 miles (80 km) downstream from Kingston, Ontario. The Canadian islands are in the province of Ontario, the U.S. islands in the state of New York.
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
Melbourne Victoria Australia
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. The metropolis is located on Port Phillip, a large natural bay, with the city centre positioned on the estuary of the Yarra River at the northernmost point of the bay.
The metropolitan area then extends south from the City Centre, along
the eastern and western shorelines of Port Phillip, and expands into the
hinterland.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Negril Jamaica
Negril is a small (pop. 3,000) but widely dispersed beach resort town located across parts of two Jamaican parishes, Westmoreland and Hanover. Negril is just about one hour and fifteen minutes drive from Sir Donald Sangster International Airport, in Montego Bay. Westmoreland is the westernmost parish in Jamaica, located on the south side of the island.
Downtown Negril, the West End cliff resorts to the south of downtown,
and the southern portion of the so-called "seven mile (11 km) beach" are
in Westmoreland. The northernmost resorts on the beach are in Hanover
Parish. The nearest large town is Savanna-la-Mar, the capital of Westmoreland Parish.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Great Zimbabwe National Monument
Great Zimbabwe National Monument is approximately 30 km from Masvingo
and located in the lowveld at an altitude of some 1100 m in a sparsely
populated region of the Bantu/Shona people. The property, built between
1100 and 1450 AD, extends over almost 800 ha and is divided into three
groups: the Hill Ruins, the Great Enclosure and the Valley Ruins.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Snake River .. USA.
The Snake is a major river of the greater Pacific Northwest in the United States. At 1,078 miles (1,735 km) long, it is the largest tributary of the Columbia River, the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean. Rising in western Wyoming, the river flows through the Snake River Plain then rugged Hells Canyon and the rolling Palouse Hills to reach its mouth at the Tri-Cities of the state of Washington. Its drainage basin encompasses parts of six U.S. states, and its average discharge is over 54,000 cubic feet per second (1,500 m3/s).
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Vietnam
Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 87.8 million inhabitants as of 2011, it is the world's 13th-most-populous country, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. The name Vietnam translates as "South Viet", and was officially adopted in 1945. The country is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Lightning
Lightning is a massive electrostatic discharge caused by unbalanced electric charge in the atmosphere.
Lightning can be either inside clouds (IC), cloud to cloud (CC) or
cloud to ground (CG) and is accompanied by the loud sound of thunder. Because the speed of sound in air (~340 m/s) is so much slower than the speed of light
(300,000,000 m/s) from the lightning flash the distance to a lightning
strike can be closely approximated by dividing the flash-thunder
interval, T (sec) by 3--T(sec)/3 = km distance or T(sec)/5 = mile
distance. Thunder often lasts several seconds because the sounds from
different parts of the lightning strike arrive at different times.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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