• Mechanics Bay is a bay, 1 nautical mile (2 km) wide, lying immediately east of Saddle Point on the north coast of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean...
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  • Saddle Point (category Headlands of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    73.483) is a rocky point separating Corinthian Bay and Mechanics Bay on the north coast of Heard Island in the Antarctic. The terminus of Challenger Glacier...
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    Challenger Glacier (category Glaciers of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    Challenger Glacier is a tidewater glacier on the north side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Located 1 nautical mile (2 km) east of Baudissin...
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    Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States. Late on the night of June 11 or early...
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  • Cape Bidlingmaier (category Headlands of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    is a rocky cape at the east side of the entrance to Mechanics Bay, on the north side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. The feature appears to...
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    with the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (volcanic eruption), the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami (a landslide which caused an initial wave of 524 metres (1,719 ft))...
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    Ireland (redirect from Island of Ireland)
    IRE-lənd; Irish: Éire [ˈeːɾʲə] ; Ulster-Scots: Airlann [ˈɑːrlən]) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from...
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    Downes Glacier (category Glaciers of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    north side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. It flows north on both sides of Cape Bidlingmaier to the north coast of Heard Island. To the east...
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    Ealey Glacier (category Glaciers of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    at Mechanics Bay, between Saddle Point and Cape Bidlingmaier. Ealey Glacier is named after E. H. M. "Tim" Ealey, biologist on the 1949 ANARE Heard Island...
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    Tidal bore (category Wave mechanics)
    waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay's current. It is a strong tide that pushes up the river...
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  • Junior Murvin (category Island Records artists)
    performing in public after his family moved to Montego Bay. He studied mechanics at the Montego Bay Technical High School, and then moved to Trenchtown in...
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    the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people and wounding at...
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  • Carnate Island, off the coast of Maryland, an earthquake hits the island, resulting in the prison being attacked by supernatural threats from the island's past...
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    neighbouring Māori tribes. In the preceding decades the Ngā Puhi from the Bay of Islands had obtained muskets and made devastating attacks on their southern...
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  • accessed 6 August 2020 "Ship Destroyed by Dynamite Explosion". Popular Mechanics: 656. May 1913. Retrieved 2 September 2020. "Gedenkstätten in Quickborn"...
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    identify. He also saw a number of mechanics in blue overalls which also did not fit with RAF operations at the time as mechanics wore tan overalls. In the following...
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    California Historical Society, the San Francisco Public Library, the Mechanics' Institute and the Society of California Pioneers. There are often-repeated...
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    the Balearic Islands, where they are common enough to have a local name, rissaga. In Sicily they are called marubbio and in Nagasaki Bay, they are called...
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  • 2016. During this initial release the game featured no hunger or thirst mechanics. After receiving criticism, specifically from one player whose critique...
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    city made Pittsburgh Point an island. As a result, the bridge now traverses a navigable shortcut between the Thompson Bay in Lake Havasu, south of Pittsburgh...
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    Connecticut–Rhode Island Border) or Narragansett Bay (much farther east, near the modern-day Rhode Island–Massachusetts border). In 1663, Rhode Island obtained...
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  • Trumbull airmailed research-based concept sketches and notes covering the mechanics and physics of space travel, and created storyboards for the space flight...
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    China Clipper base on Treasure Island, San Francisco "China Clipper is Giant of Pacific Air Fleet" Popular Mechanics, January 1936 Final accident report...
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    Eastchester Bay. The Bronx also includes several small islands in the East River and Long Island Sound, such as City Island and Hart Island. Rikers Island in the...
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  • Arrow Development (category Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area)
    services for several small companies in the Bay Area, including Duro-Bond Bearing, which is where he likely heard of Arrow. Schulze left Arrow after its sale...
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    Massachusetts (redirect from The Bay State)
    "State of Massachusetts Bay" appeared in the first draft, which was ultimately rejected. It was also chosen to include the "Cape Islands" in reference to Martha's...
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    1885, based on the Switchback Railway which opened a year earlier at Coney Island. Tracks are typically built and designed as a complete circuit in which...
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    Edward VII Land and East Base near Charcot Island. They were also tasked with mapping the features of Heard Island as well as the James W. Ellsworth and Marie...
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    over the San Francisco Bay. Major harbors were crucial for the increasingly valuable trade with China and the Sandwich Islands trans-shipment point. Polk...
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  • at the same spot on the beach. Meanwhile, Frank-n-Slides set up at a mechanics' shop, but sales are slow. The Babes and Frank's use their respective...
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