Maskeliya is a town in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It is the site of the 1974 crash of Martinair Flight 138, the worst air disaster in Sri Lanka...
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The Maskeliya Dam (also known as the Maussakelle Dam) is a large gravity dam at Maskeliya, in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. Along with the Castlereigh...
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Onomastus maskeliya, is a species of spider of the genus Onomastus. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Onomastus maskeliya inhabits high altitude cloud forests...
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the world. It is situated in Maskeliya area in Nuwara Eliya District, about 16 km (9.9 mi) from Maskeliya town on Maskeliya-Norton Bridge road, in a village...
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Maskeliya electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between August 1947 and July 1977. The district was named after the town of Maskeliya...
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The Nuwara Eliya Maskeliya Polling Division is a Polling Division in the Nuwara Eliya Electoral District, in the Central Province, Sri Lanka. The winner...
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The Maskeliya Oya (translated into Maskeliya River from Sinhala) is a major upstream tributary of the Kelani River. This 40 km (25 mi) long tributary originates...
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is the central point for most upcountry tea growing regions, such as Maskeliya, Talawakelle, Bogawantalawa and Dickoya. Hatton is located approximately...
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Nuwara Eliya-Maskeliya electoral district was an electoral district of Sri Lanka between July 1977 and February 1989. The district was named after the...
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The Laxapana Dam is a gravity dam built across the Maskeliya Oya, 2.8 km (1.7 mi) downstream of the Laxapana Falls, in the Central Province of Sri Lanka...
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Castlereigh Reservoir on Kehelgamu Oya, a tributary of Kelani River. Maskeliya Oya, a tributary of Kelani River. Deduru Oya, Chilaw. Walawe River, Udawalawe...
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(also known as Upper Laxapana Mountain Range) is a mountain range in Maskeliya, Sri Lanka. In Tamil it is known as Anjimalai (Tamil: அஞ்சிமலை) (Meaning...
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the fifth mountain of Saptha Kanya mountain range at Therberton estate, Maskeliya, Sri Lanka. It crashed at around 40 nautical miles from Bandaranaike International...
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182 0 † COM Martinair Holland Flight 138 Douglas DC-8-55CF srmasnear Maskeliya, Sri Lanka ENR 1974-12-04 189 8 181 0 † COM Lion Air Flight 610 Boeing...
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Hatton-Dikoya UC Kotagala Kotmale Labukele Laxapana Lindula-Talawakele UC Maskeliya Nildandahinna Nuwara Eliya Nanu Oya Norton Bridge Padiyapelella Ramboda...
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subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893 from the Maskeliya area in Sri Lanka. Its wingspan is about 20 mm. In the male, the head...
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The Dickoya Maskeliya Cricket Club (also known as DMCC) is a sporting club formed by British tea planters and founded in 1868. The club house and grounds...
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Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation. On March 22, a Harbin Y-12 flew over the Maskeliya Reservoir at 8000 feet, dispersing cloud seeding chemicals. Rain arrived...
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Youth Services Council. He contested the 1977 general election from the Maskeliya multi-seat constituency from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. Though the Sri...
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his seat in parliament in 1972. He comfortably secured his Nuwaraeliya-Maskeliya multielectorate seat in the 1977 general elections and was appointed as...
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majority responded with a mob riot, which engulfed Nawalapitiya, Passara, Maskeliya, and even in Tamil Jaffna.: 148 Early Western scholars like Otto Franke...
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Coleophora crossophanes is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in Maskeliya, Sri Lanka. Research has concluded that Coleophora crossophanes does not...
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Adam's Peak from Maskeliya, in March 2018....
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plantation industry with ownership of major plantation companies including Maskeliya Plantations PLC, Namunukula Plantations PLC and Kegalle Plantations PLC...
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live with her on a tea plantation named Ladbroke Estate in the town of Maskeliya, where he could learn the tea trade. In 1901 Gardner and the Elkingtons...
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Martinair Flight 138 crashes into the Saptha Kanya mountain range in Maskeliya, Sri Lanka, killing 191. 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central...
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Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is known from Maskeliya, Sri Lanka. Generic Revision of the Opostegidae, with a Synoptic Catalog...
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and Southwest India, it is named after Maskeliya, a town in Sri Lanka. "Bulbophyllum maskeliyense - Maskeliya Bulb-Leaf Orchid". www.flowersofindia.net...
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touring Australians in 1896. Pillans died from peritonitis in Ceylon at Maskeliya in November 1901. "A-Z (P3)". www.hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com...
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