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- List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
1: ...n also browse countries [[List of countries|alphabetically]], [[List of national capitals|by capital c...
3: ...n state]] for some explanation of the difference between these.
27: *[[Ethiopia]] (Itiopia) - [[Addis Ababa]]
54: *[[Sierra Leone]] - [[Freetown]]
123: * [[Vietnam]] - [[Hanoi]] - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...d. Time zones partially rectified the problem by setting the clocks of a region to the same mean solar...
6: ...s atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as formerly ca...
8: ...ncidentally, local time at Greenwich itself only between 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday in October and 0...
31: ... Mean Time]] (GMT) being hand carried on [[chronometer]]s. About [[August 23]], [[1852]], time signals...
35: ... mean time]], and Eastern Standard Time until it settled on EST by ordinance May [[1915]], ratified by... - Henry Hudson (4760 bytes)
3: ...decided to return to England on the 31st. On the return voyage Hudson discovered what is now known as ...
7: ...s name. The Dutch would later claim the area and set up a colony as [[New Amsterdam]].
9: ...lag. This was part of the [[Navigation Acts]], a set of [[Mercantilism|mercantilist]] laws England had...
11: In [[1610]] Hudson managed to get backing for yet another voyage under the English flag; this time ...
15: ...to a head and in the crew mutinied in July 1611, setting Hudson, his son, and several other crew adrif... - Arctic fox (3697 bytes)
20: Arctic foxes tend to be 50 to 60 [[centimeter|cm]] long, not including a 30-cm tail. They are...
22: ...e to the thick hair on the pads of the animal's feet. The hair helps reduce heat loss into snow and ic...
25: Arctic foxes eat a wide variety of things, including [[lemming]]s, [[arctic hare...
30: ...ia]], [[Canada]], [[Alaska]], [[Greenland]] and [[Svalbard]], as well as in sub-Arctic areas, such as [[Icel...
32: ...been eradicated from many areas where humans are settled. - Reindeer (6508 bytes)
22: ...[grass]]es. They can also eat [[vole]]s (lat. ''clethrionomys glareolus''), [[lemming]]s (lat. ''lemmu...
24: ...velvet. This reindeer is currently losing the velvet layer on one of its antlers.]]
26: ...al feature of the reindeer is that it has front teeth only on its bottom jaw; there are [[molar (tooth...
29: In the wild, caribou migrate in large herds between their birthing habitat and their winter habit...
36: ...[[wolverine]]s, [[lynx (cat)|lynx]]es, [[bear]]s, etc. In [[mesolithic]] and [[neolithic]] periods, Eu... - Bowhead Whales (5651 bytes)
8: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Cetacea]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_subordo_entry | taxon = [[Mysticeti]]}}
12: {{Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = '''''B. mysticetus'''''}}
14: ...al | color = pink | binomial_name = Balaena mysticetus | author = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linneus]] | date ...
15: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:cetacea_range_map_Bowhead_Whale.PNG|250px|Bowhead Wha... - Narwhals (5962 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Cetacea]]}}
13: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:cetacea_range_map_Narwhal.PNG|250px|Narwhal range]] |...
15: ...nodon monoceros'') is an [[Arctic]] species of [[cetacean]] with a body similar to that of a [[dolphin...
31: ...de under ice-enclosed seas. In some areas their diet however seems to have adapted to feed on squid.
33: .... Sometimes several of these groups might come together, particularly in summer when they congregate o... - White-Beaked Dolphins (2967 bytes)
9: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Cetacea]]}}
10: {{Taxobox_subordo_entry | taxon = [[Odontoceti]]}}
16: {{Taxobox_image | image = [[Image:cetacea_range_map_White-beaked_Dolphin.PNG|250px|Whit...
18: ... across in the west from northern [[France]] to [[Svalbard]]. The White-beaked Dolphin is not as well adapte...
24: *''National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World'', Reeves, ... - List of countries (20527 bytes)
7: ... a country in everyday speech. Ireland is also sometimes called a country, even though it consists of ...
15: This is an alphabetical '''list of countries''' of the world, includi...
37: ...] (''overseas country in the [[#N|Kingdom of the Netherlands]]'')
105: ...'[[Ethiopia]]''' - Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
119: ...''' (''see also [[#A|Abkhazia]] and [[#S|South Ossetia]]'') - List of countries by highest point (12398 bytes)
68: |33||[[Ethiopia]]||[[Ras Dejen]]||4,620m
116: |57||[[Sudan]]||[[Kinyeti]]||3,187m
120: |59||[[Vietnam]]||[[Fan Si Pan]]||3,144m
270: |134||[[Svalbard]]||[[Newtontoppen]]||1,717m
336: |167||[[Mauritania]]||[[Kediet Ijill]]||915m - Arctic Ocean (7316 bytes)
9: ...n]], or [[Nansen Basin|Nansen]], Basin, which is between 4,000 and 4,500 m (13,000 and 15,000 ft) deep...
12: ...tic Ocean is important as the shortest air route between the Pacific coast of North America and Europe...
14: ...snow cover in March or April about 20 to 50 centimeters over the frozen ocean; snow cover lasts about ...
26: ...an Islands]] ([[Russia]]) to [[Denmark Strait]] (between [[Greenland]] and [[Iceland]]); the icepack i...
33: Oil and gas fields, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, sand and gravel aggregates, [[fish]... - North Pole (13759 bytes)
3: ...lanet]]. There are various ways of defining a planet's North Pole. [[Earth]]'s Pole, however it is def...
6: ...tion period may be negative ([[retrograde motion|retrograde]] rotation); when using the second definit...
8: ...e north pole, we call this the planet's north magnetic pole.
10: ...ravity|gravitational]] influences from nearby planets and moons.
12: The projection of a planet's north geographic pole onto the [[celestial sphe... - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
11: ...it]]. In [[Jordan]] and [[Morocco]], the monarch retains considerable power. There are also recent ([...
14: ...awn. Modern versions tend to survive only in societies with sufficient technology to allow the concen...
25: ...of a certain faith (in the UK under the [[Act of Settlement 1701]]). This has been challenged as viola...
32: ...timate heir to a deposed monarchy is called a [[pretender]].
37: Sometimes, component members of federal states are mona...
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