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unusual facts about Coromandel


Coromandel, Minas Gerais

The origin of the name Coromandel isn't a consensus among its population, but ancient people figure out the name is connected to the Coromandel Coast, in India, from where ships loaded with slaves would have departed.


Caroline Lucas

However, she is not the first Green Candidate to be elected under a first-past-the-post electoral system, as this was Jeanette Fitzsimons of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the Coromandel Electorate in 1999.

Colville, New Zealand

Just beyond the town is the beginning of the Te Moehau Range, which forms the bulk of the northern end of the Coromandel Peninsula, and contains valuable ecological areas, including a population of the threatened North Island Brown Kiwi.

Coromandel Coast

Chinese lacquer goods, including boxes, screens, and chests, became known as "Coromandel" goods in the eighteenth century, because many Chinese exports were consolidated at the Coromandel ports.

Manaia

Manaia River, a river of the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand

Manaia, Waikato, a town on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand

New Zealand reggae

The most important are the Soundsplash Eco Reggae Festival in Raglan, the Kaikoura Roots Festivaland and Coromandel Gold, a New Years event featuring New Zealand reggae and dub bands in the Coromandel Peninsula, and local reggae artists are an integral part of the live music scene.

Tércio Nunes Machado

Tércio Nunes Machado (born 9 January 1978 in Coromandel, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a Brazilian football (soccer) player who is currently playing for Kanbawza FC.

Whitianga

The sighting of the Transit of Mercury is commemorated at Cooks Beach by a cairn of Coromandel granite which tells the story ; "In this bay was anchored 5 Nov 1769, HMS Endeavour, Lieutenant James Cook RN, Commander. He observed the transit of Mercury and named this bay."


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