After World War II, the parallel divided Vietnam into Chinese and British controlled zones; this eventually formed the Communist North Vietnam and the anti-communist South Vietnam.
In September 1945, Chinese forces (as agreed to at the Potsdam Conference) occupied Indochina south to the 16th parallel to supervise the surrender and repatriation of the Japanese.
The broadnose catshark, Apristurus investigatoris, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae the holotype and only specimen being found in deepwater in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean between latitudes 16° N and 10° N.
The Indian swellshark, Cephaloscyllium silasi, is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Indian Ocean from Quilon, India and Sauqira Bay, Oman between latitudes 16° N and 10° N, from the surface to 300 m.
North Carolina | North America | North Rhine-Westphalia | North Korea | North Yorkshire | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | North Island | North Sea | North Africa | 16th United States Congress | North Dakota | North | Raleigh, North Carolina | Chapel Hill, North Carolina | University of North Carolina | Scarborough, North Yorkshire | North Pole | North Vietnam | North Shore | London and North Western Railway | North American Soccer League | Asheville, North Carolina | North Carolina State University | Greensboro, North Carolina | North American Free Trade Agreement | Durham, North Carolina | North London | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | North Wales | Wilmington, North Carolina |