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    The Maloja Wind (German: Malojawind) is a Foehn-type mountain wind that occurs in the upper Engadin, an alpine valley located in Switzerland. The wind blows...
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    Maloja Pass (Italian: Passo del Maloja, German: Malojapass) (1815m a.s.l.) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden, linking...
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    Silvaplana (Romansh: Silvaplauna) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the name of a lake in the municipality....
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    situation similar to that of the Maloja Pass in Engadin. Below the high-lying hollows of Hinterzarten, the federal highway B 31 winds downhill, partly in spectacular...
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  • Wrecked on Fraser Island, Queensland, July 7, 1935. RMS Maloja 1923 Scrapped in 1954 SS Maloja 1911 Struck a mine and sank off Dover, February 1916 SS Marama...
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    August 21, 2023. "USS LST-348". uboat.net. Retrieved September 10, 2022. "SS Maloja [+1943]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved August 21, 2023. Helgason, Guðmundur....
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    coal-fired steam engines which could be used in the absence of suitable winds. The ship was used on the route from Liverpool to Australia, mainly as a...
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    1st Regiment Mountain Artillery. 156+ Military 1916  United Kingdom SS Maloja – the P&O passenger liner sank after striking a mine in the English Channel...
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    the Seven Witches. Episode 8. 2018. Event occurs at Closing credits. "The Wind Tribe". Yona of the Dawn. Episode 4. 2015. Event occurs at Closing credits...
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    free-floating islands of zacate grass which move around on the surface with the wind. Scrapings from the rock walls beneath the surface yielded at least three...
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    51°04′N 1°15′E / 51.067°N 1.250°E / 51.067; 1.250 (SS Leicester (1891)) Maloja  United Kingdom 27 February 1916 A passenger ship that was sunk by a mine...
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    region with Switzerland are the Splügen Pass (2,118 m (6,949 ft)), the Maloja Pass (1,815 m (5,955 ft)) and the Bernina Pass (2,323 m (7,621 ft)), with...
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    way that the starboard side of Andrea Doria was somewhat sheltered from wind and waves. He ordered all exterior lights of Île de France to be turned on...
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    rotating bow catapult to allow the ship to launch aircraft regardless of wind direction, and the ship was laid down that month to the revised design. Progress...
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    September 1941, sponsored by Margaret Mitchell (author of Gone with the Wind), and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 24 December 1941, Captain...
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    Klausen Pass Krumbach Saddle Loibl Pass (Ljubelj Pass) – Austria/Slovenia Maloja Pass Nufenen Pass Oberalp Pass Petit Col Ferret – Italy/Switzerland Plöcken...
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    of their hiding place. The prevailing winds at the time were blowing away from the buildings; however, the wind changed direction which brought the flames...
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    place off the 300-foot (91.5-meter) sheer outer wall. In the morning, when winds are calmer, smaller tour boats also bring guests to snorkel off the outer...
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  • 1936. But light winds, wet weather conditions and two quick-acting fire lookouts kept the fires under control. In fact, had the winds been sufficiently...
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    wandering tattler. Unlike the situation on smaller and more isolated Clarión, wind-blown or vagrant birds seem to constitute the bulk of the recorded species...
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    archipelago and the Indian Ocean to the south-west - involving the trade winds and associated oceanic currents, and their opposite directions between northern...
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    to distances of 80 km away from the point of origin due to the actions of wind and currents. Furthermore, dredge spoil can literally smother reef or sea...
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    high here. The trade winds from the north begin to blow in late October and during November and December until mid-January, the wind usually blows from...
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    minutes. Initial reports claimed the ship had drifted off course in the high winds. This was supported by the ship's second officer, Khalid Mamdouh Ahmed,...
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    safety, the second half of the hurricane came around from the south. The winds shifted to the opposite direction and Rhone was thrown directly into Black...
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    brightly lit Lady Elgin was steaming through Lake Michigan against gale force winds when she was rammed by the schooner Augusta of Oswego. Augusta was sailing...
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    organisms. Furthermore, the tires were now easily subject to the tropical winds and storms that frequent the east coast of Florida, and continue to collide...
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    False Bay (section Winds)
    south easterly winds, followed by a coastal low with north-westerly wind before the next cold front, bringing cool, wet westerly wind which passes around...
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    of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during a violent storm on Lake Michigan, with winds reaching 70 miles per hour (110 km/h). The ship was witnessed foundering...
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    destruction when it hit the island in October. A category 5 hurricane with winds over 150 miles per hour, Wilma's eye passed directly over Cozumel. The storm...
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