Fairfax Islands is a pair of small coral cays, both of which have been used as a bombing range. They are located near the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern...
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Bunker number 1 – Fairfax Islands were known as Bunker number 2. Fairfax was more heavily mined before the miners moved onto North West Island. An extract from...
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Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. With a population of 1,150,309 as of the 2020 census, it...
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Fairfax High School (officially Fairfax Senior High School) is a Los Angeles Unified School District high school located in Los Angeles, California, near...
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Bay)) the Fairfax Islands group (23°51′30″S 152°22′25″E / 23.8582°S 152.3735°E / -23.8582; 152.3735 (Fairfax Islands)) the Hoskyn Islands group (23°48′17″S...
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set in the South Pacific in the late 19th century. Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and filmed on location in Fiji and New Zealand, it starred Tommy Lee Jones...
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company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons, who purchased The Sydney Morning Herald in 1841. The Fairfax family retained control of the...
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List of archipelagos (category Lists of islands)
Seahorse Islands Bear Island Canadian Arctic Archipelago Akvitlak Islands Arvalik Islands Astronomical Society Islands Bate Islands Belcher Islands Berens...
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Moresby in Papua New Guinea and Fairfax Harbour on which it stands were named after him, as were the Moresby Islands in British Columbia. In August 1814...
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Fairfax Connector is a public bus service provided by Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, and is managed by the county government. The bus system...
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The Fairfax County Public Schools system (FCPS) is a school division in the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. It is a branch of the Fairfax County government...
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USS Fairfax (DD-93) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred for World War II service first to the...
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Fairfax is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States, with a population of 5,014 at the 2020 census. The New England town of Fairfax is in southern...
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Capricornia Cays National Park (category Islands on the Great Barrier Reef)
(Scientific): One Tree Island Wreck Island Fairfax Islands, (East Fairfax & West Fairfax) Hoskyn Islands (East and West Hoskyn islands) There is no public...
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Fort Belvoir (redirect from Virginia State Route 618 (Fairfax County))
(CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It was developed on the site of the former Belvoir plantation, seat of the prominent Fairfax family for...
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Vienna station (Washington Metro) (redirect from Vienna/Fairfax-GMU)
Line in Fairfax, Virginia. The station is in the median of Interstate 66 at Nutley Street, also known as Virginia State Route 243, in Fairfax. The station...
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Capricorn and Bunker Group (redirect from Capricorn Islands)
coral cays: Lady Musgrave Island Fairfax Islands, (East Fairfax & West Fairfax) Hoskyn Islands (East and West Hoskyn islands) In association with Boult...
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The Lost City (2022 film) (category Films set on fictional islands)
is kidnapped by billionaire Abigail Fairfax. He has discovered a lost city on a remote volcanic Atlantic island and is convinced that the Crown of Fire...
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John Fairfax (21 May 1937 – 8 February 2012) was a British ocean rower and adventurer who, in 1969, rowed across the Atlantic and became the first person...
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Emily Fairfax is an ecohydrologist, beaver researcher, and assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. She is best known for her...
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northernmost of the islands are off the coast by the town of Bowen, while the southernmost islands are off the coast by Proserpine. The island group is centred...
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relocated to the Cayman Islands where it was operating under its new name. U.S. state education agencies report that Fairfax operated in the past from...
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William Fairfax (January 2, 1724 – April 3, 1787) was a planter in colonial Virginia who represented then-vast Frederick County and later Fairfax County...
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Polynesia (redirect from Polynesian islands)
up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called...
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(Keeling) Islands (Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (/ˈkoʊkəs/; Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu...
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island is included in the Lindeman Islands National Park which also protects another 13 islands. There is also a resort and an airport on the island....
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Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park is a West Virginia state park commemorating the Fairfax Stone, a surveyor's marker and boundary stone at the...
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Tuvalu (redirect from Ellice Islands)
Australia. It lies east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of...
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on the island. There are also brown booby breeding colonies at East and West Fairfax and East Hoskyn Islands. Vegetation in the Hoskyn Islands includes...
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Mary Somerville (redirect from Mary Fairfax Somerville)
Mary Somerville (/ˈsʌmərvɪl/ SUM-ər-vil; née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath...
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