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    inhabitants per square kilometre (3,700/sq mi). View of Andenes Andenes Lighthouse Andenes harbour Andenes was already an important fishing village during the...
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    The best known andenes are in Peru, especially in the Sacred Valley near the Inca capital of Cuzco and in the Colca Canyon. Many andenes have survived...
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  • andenes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Andenes is a village in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Andenes may also refer to: Andenes...
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    Andøy Municipality. The administrative centre was the village of Andenes where the Andenes Church is located. Prior to its dissolution in 1964, the 71-square-kilometre...
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  • Andenes–Gryllefjord Ferry is an automobile ferry service connecting the islands of Andøya (in Nordland county) and Senja (in Troms county) in Norway....
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  • route from Andenes to Bodø and Tromsø. However, they decided to terminate their operations with the Fokker 50, and thus also serving Andenes, to concentrate...
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    Andenes Church (Norwegian: Andenes kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in...
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    Andenes Lighthouse (Norwegian: Andenes fyr) is a coastal lighthouse in Andøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Andenes...
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    from 1937 to 1954, including distinguished World War II service. NoCGV Andenes patrolled the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War in 1991 as part of the Coalition...
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  • Andenes Knoll (72°26′S 22°50′W / 72.433°S 22.833°W / -72.433; -22.833) is the southeasternmost knoll in a group of three knolls in the Weddell Sea...
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    Airport at Andenes is served by Widerøe airlines. During the summer, Andenes is connected to Gryllefjord on the island of Senja by the Andenes–Gryllefjord...
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    Inca state constructed agricultural terraces (andenes) to increase the amount of arable land. Andenes also reduced the threat of freezes, increased exposure...
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    Much of the farming done at Machu Picchu was done on its hundreds of andenes (man-made terraces). These terraces were a work of considerable engineering...
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    kilometre (0.62 mi) wide on average. Side valleys and agricultural terraces (andenes) expand the cultivatable area. The valley was formed by the Urubamba river...
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    economy with agrarian technology based on ancestral knowledge such as the andenes (terraces), wachaque (sunken fields), waru waru (raised fields), cochas...
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  • northeastern part of the island of Andøya, along the Andfjorden. The village of Andenes lies about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the north, and the village of Fiskenes...
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    distance by road from Bindal Municipality in the far south of the county to Andenes on the northern tip of Andøy Municipality in the northern edge of Nordland...
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    of agricultural terraces or andenes which start at the bottom of the valleys and climb up the surrounding hills. The andenes permitted farming on otherwise...
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    in Nordland county, Norway. The station is located near the village of Andenes at the northern end of the island of Andøya in the Vesterålen archipelago...
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    traditions and continue to cultivate the pre-Inca stepped terraces, called andenes. It is Peru's third most-visited tourist destination with about 120,000...
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    the Norwegian armed forces in exile and became the Norwegian ship HNoMS Andenes. "HMS Acanthus (K 01) of the Royal Navy - British Corvette of the Flower...
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    article about Moskstraumen. Den Norske Los, Bind 5: Rørvik-Lødingen og Andenes – Norwegian pilot guide with information about Mokstraumen (pages 234-236)...
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    Tourist Route, and the section through Andenes is part of Andenes National Tourist Route. During summer, the Andenes–Gryllefjord Ferry connects to County...
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    Destinations with daily services are Oslo, Trondheim, Bodø, Tromsø and Andenes. Evenes is the only primary airport in Central Hålogaland and its catchment...
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    Norway. The main population centres on the island include the villages of Andenes, Bleik, and Risøyhamn. The island has an area of 489 square kilometres...
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    2017-02-22. Pinedo, Javier Blossiers. "AGRICULTURA DE LADERAS A TRAVÉS DE ANDENES, PERÚ" (PDF). Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. Retrieved...
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    Nordkapp-class offshore patrol vessels, Nordkapp (W320), Senja (W321) and Andenes (W322). They were predominantly used in the Barents Sea. They have a displacement...
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    HNoMS Svenner S-class destroyer HNoMS Glaisdale Hunt-class destroyer HNoMS Andenes Flower-class corvette HNoMS Eglantine Flower-class corvette HNoMS Rose...
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    needed] In the South American Andes, farmers have used terraces, known as andenes, for over a thousand years to farm potatoes, maize, and other native crops...
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    has a summer-only ferry connection to the nearby island of Andøya: the Andenes–Gryllefjord Ferry. The island sits northeast of the Vesterålen archipelago...
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