549 résultats pour "geography"

• Inland Seas - geography.

• Great Lakes - geography.

• Urban Barrens - geography.

• Equatorial Africa - geography.

• Ellis Island - geography.

• Buying Power - geography.

• Washington Monument - geography.

• Great Rivers - geography.

• Indian Ocean - geography.

• Lincoln Memorial - geography.

• Continental Margins - geography.

• Mediterranean Sea - geography.

• Polar Climates - geography.

• Mount McKinley - geography.

• Line Islands - geography.

• Appalachian Mountains - geography.

• Persian Gulf - geography.

• Anchorage (Alaska) - geography.

• Dead Sea - geography.

• Namib Desert - geography.

• Missouri (river) - geography.

• Oklahoma City - geography.

• Caspian Sea - geography.

• Ural Mountains - geography.

• Lagos (Nigeria) - geography.

• Sonoran Desert - geography.

• Machu Picchu - geography.

• Dawson (Canada) - Geography.

• Fuji (mountain) - geography.

• Kalahari Desert - geography.

• Wake Island - geography.

• Midway Islands - geography.

• Grand Canyon - geography.

• The Alamo - geography.

• Cape Town - geography.

• Mount Vesuvius - geography.

• Windsor (Ontario) - geography.

  IV ECONOMY Casino WindsorCasino Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, opened in 1998. The hotel and casino provide an important boost to the economy of the city bycreating many new jobs and by attracting tourist traffic to the region.Richard Sheinwald/AP/Wide World Photos Windsor has been a base of American automobile companies from the beginning of the 20th century and it remains a major center of auto industry employment andmanufacturing. The Ford Motor Company built an auto manufacturing plant in Wi...

• Chatham (Ontario) - Geography.

• Arctic Ocean - geography.

  VII SOVEREIGNTY ISSUES Five nations—Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the United States—claim seabed rights in the Arctic Ocean. The claims include rights to exploit subsurface minerals,oil and gas deposits, and potentially useful bacteria. All five nations are signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The treaty gives each nationrights to exploit all natural resources within an area 370 km (200 nautical mi) off their coastline. In addition the treaty allows each na...

• Cascade Range - geography.

• Hamilton (Ontario) - Geography.

• Venice (Italy) - geography.

  Italian states, its power faded, and the discovery of a sea route to the Indies around the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama in 1497-1498accelerated the decline. In 1508 the Holy Roman Empire, the pope, France, and Spain combined against Venice in the League of Cambrai and divided the Venetianpossessions among themselves, and although Venice reacquired its Italian dominions through astute diplomacy in 1516, it never regained its political power. In 1797 the Venetian Rep...

• Sierra Nevada - geography.

• Taj Mahal - geography.

• Mississauga (Ontario) - Geography.

• Washington Monument - geography.

• Indian Ocean - Geography.

• Mediterranean Sea - Geography.

• Appalachian Mountains - geography.

• Mount Everest - geography.

  over the steep rock underneath. The movement breaks the ice into sérac (large, pointed masses of ice) cliffs and columns separated by huge crevasses, and causes repeated icefalls across the route between Base Camp and Camp I. Many people have died in this area. Exposed crevasses may be easy to avoid, but those buried undersnow can form treacherous snow bridges through which unwary climbers can fall. The standard climb of Mount Everest from the south side ascends the Khumbu glacier to Base Camp...