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2 unusual facts about Mertens' water monitor


Mertens' water monitor

The monitor is found in coastal and inland waters across much of northern Australia, from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, across the Top End of the Northern Territory and the Gulf Country, to the western side of the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland.

Wollogorang Important Bird Area

The rugged sandstone ranges of Wollogorang support the only surviving population of critically endangered Carpentarian rock rats as well as Rock-haunting ringtail possums, Short-eared Rock-wallabies, Sandstone dibblers and Mertens' water monitors.


Christa Beran

Edith Hahn took on the identity of Christa Denner, went to Munich and survived the war in Germany working there as a forced labourer of the Plantage Mertens asparagus farm in Osterburg and the Bestehorn company in Aschersleben until she was able to marry a German and settle in Brandenburg an der Havel.

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens

Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens, formerly known as Eckhard Stratmann, (born April 3, 1948 in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former politician and Green Party member of the German Bundestag.

Stratmann-Mertens and other anti-war activists called at a special Green Party convention in Bielefeld on 13 May 1999 for an immediate halt to the NATO bombing in the Kosovo War, but were unsuccessful getting the party to adopt the position.

Following his terms in the Bundestag, Stratmann-Mertens returned to his teaching position at the Albert-Einstein-Schule, a German-English bilingual gymnasium in Bochum, Germany, where he taught social sciences, history and religion (Protestant).

Gregory Mertens

On 12 February 2011, Gregory Mertens made his senior debut for Cercle as an 89th minute substitute for Hans Cornelis in a confrontation against his former team R.S.C. Anderlecht.

Joseph Mertens

Joseph Mertens (17 January 1921 at Tienen – 1 July 2007 at Wezembeek, Belgium) was an accomplished 20th century Belgian archaeologist, known for his excavations of Alba Fucens and Herdonia.

Mertens' theorem

For Mertens' results on the distribution of prime numbers, see Mertens' theorems.

Michael Mertens

Michael Mertens (born 27 December 1965 in Stelle, Lower Saxony) is a retired German shot putter.

Murderers Among Us

Eventually, Mertens meets his former captain Ferdinand Brückner (Arno Paulsen), who had been responsible for the shooting of a hundred civilians on Christmas Eve of 1942 in a Polish village on the Eastern Front.


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