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unusual facts about Murray Hill, Christmas Island



A Question of Lust

The B-side is an instrumental called "Christmas Island", named after the island of the same name.

Air Charter Limited

In September 1956, an Air Charter Supertrader performed the airline's first round-the-world flight via Christmas Island.

Bellmac 32

The teams that developed the Bellmac 32 were in three different locations: AT&T Bell Labs in Indian Hill (Naperville, Illinois), AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey and AT&T Bell Labs Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Broom filefish

It is also called brush-sided leatherjacket (Australia) or broom leatherjacket (Christmas Island).

Carley float

Though its occupant did not survive, a shrapnel-ridden Carley float carried the body of an unknown man to land on Christmas Island in February 1942.

Charles H. Henry

Henry's entire professional career was spent in the research area of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Charles Meik

The Meiks' expertise saw port and railway designs developed in many parts of the British Empire, including Christmas Island, India, Burma and Mozambique.

Christmas Island shrew

The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), also known as Christmas Island musk-shrew is an extremely rare or possibly extinct shrew from Christmas Island.

Chu Ching-wu

After two years of performing industrial research with Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey, Chu was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at Cleveland State University in 1970.

Colin Webb

After working in laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Webb returned to Oxford as a research fellow in physics at the Clarendon Laboratory in 1968, and was appointed to a university lectureship in 1971, becoming Reader in 1990 and Professor in 1992.

Collectors Club of New York

The club is located in a five-story brownstone at 22 East 35th Street between Madison and Park Avenues in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

Douglas Osheroff

He then worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey for 15 years, continuing to research low-temperature phenomena in 3He.

Drosophila endobranchia

While the Christmas Island fly Lissocephala powelli lives on both true crabs and Anomura (for example Birgus latro, the robber crab), D. endobranchia and the closely related D. carcinophila live on gecarcinid crabs such as the black Gecarcinus ruricola and the red G. lateralis.

Duncan Curry

. . . On this afternoon I have already mentioned, Cartwright came to the field – the march of improvement had driven us further north and we located on a piece of property on the slope of Murray Hill, between the railroad cut and Third avenue – with his plans drawn up on paper.

Endotricha puncticostalis

It was described by Walker in 1866, and is known from Australia, the Selayar Islands, Christmas Island, the Philippines, Sumba, Java, and Sulawesi.

Gary S. May

May was a National Science Foundation and an AT&T Bell Laboratories graduate fellow, and has worked as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

Gilbert and Ellice Islands

In the same year, Fanning Island and Washington Island were included in it together with the islands of the Tokelau or Union Islands; Christmas Island was included in 1919 but was contested by the US.

Jacob Ziv

Since 1987 Ziv has spent three sabbatical leaves at the Information Research Department of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA.

Largemouth triplefin

The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tonga, east to American Samoa and Rapa, at depths of between 2 and 41 m.

Lepidodactylus listeri

Lepidodactylus listeri, commonly known as Lister's Gecko or the Christmas Island Gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to Christmas Island.

Light gap

On the other hand, creation of light gaps by introduced yellow crazy ants has been a major factor in the degradation of the environment of Christmas Island.

Lyncina ventriculus

This species is distributed in the eastern Indian Ocean (Malaysia, Estern Indonesia, Cocos Islands and Christmas Island), in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean (South China Sea, Taiwan, Philippines, Samar Island, Guam, Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, New Caledonia, eastern Polynesia, Tahiti and Hawaii).

Murray Hill

Murray Hill, Manhattan, a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City

Murray Hill, Christmas Island

Vertebrates include geckos such as Cyrtodactylus and Lepidodactylus listeri, and skinks, specifically the Cryptoblepharus egeriae (Blue-tailed Skink), and Emoia nativitatus (Forest Skink); major invertebrates are also present, such as the robber crab, and the little nipper Geograpsus grayi.

This was an effort by a small group of people from HMS Egeria.

Murray Hill, New Jersey

Murray Hill was named and founded by Carl H. Schultz, founder of a mineral water business once located at First Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets in the Murray Hill district of Manhattan.

New South Wales 79 class locomotive

In October 1974 the two NSWGR units were sold to the British Phosphate Commission for use on Christmas Island.

New York Burlesque Festival

Featured performers have included Dirty Martini, Murray Hill, Julie Atlas Muz and more names in burlesque and boylesque—as well as live music, comedy and variety.

Oriental Bird Club

The OBC's geographical area of interest ranges from the Indus River, Pakistan, in the west, through India and south-east Asia to Wallace's line, eastern Indonesia, in the east, and from Mongolia, north-east Russia (east of 90°E), and Japan in the north, to the Lesser Sundas and Christmas Island in the south.

Our Airline

Air Nauru once had a remarkably comprehensive network in the Asia-Pacific, with service to Hong Kong, Kagoshima, Taipei, Okinawa, Singapore, Guam, Saipan, Koror, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, Majuro, Tarawa, Honolulu, Honiara, Port Vila, Noumea, Apia, Pago Pago, Nadi, Tonga, Kanton Island, Niue, Raratonga, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Christmas Island.

Patrick Meik

The Meiks' expertise saw port and railway designs developed in many parts of the British Empire, including Christmas Island, India, Burma (the Rangoon River training works – where Patrick worked with Sir George Buchanan) and Mozambique.

Paul Kadak

During the Tampa affair in 2001, Kadak was one of several journalists on the ground in Christmas Island, and his report included pictures of Australian troops boarding the ship.

Ramphotyphlops exocoeti

Ramphotyphlops exocoeti (also known as Christmas Island blind snake) is a blind snake species endemic to Christmas Island.

Ronald J. Brachman

Before that, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey) as the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department (2004) and Director of the Software and Systems Research Laboratory.

Spotband butterflyfish

It is found in the Indo- West Pacific region from Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean to the Line Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the Rowley Shoals and the northern Great Barrier Reef, and throughout Micronesia.

Stead Air Force Base

From February through July 1962, eleven pilots and six H-21B helicopters where airlifted by C-124 Globemaster aircraft to Christmas Island in the South Pacific in support of the Operation Dominic atomic tests.

Straits Settlements

The Straits Settlements consisted of the four individual settlements of Malacca, Dinding, Penang (also known as Prince of Wales Island), Singapore (with Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands).

Trevor Hastie

He returned to United States in 1986 and joined the AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey and remained there for nine years.

William R. Bennett, Jr.

He was co-inventor of the first gas laser (the helium-neon laser) at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, discovered the argon ion laser, was first to observe spectral hole burning effects in gas lasers, and created a theory of hole burning effects on laser oscillation.

Women in Christmas Island

Not to be confused with women living in Christmas Island, Nova Scotia, Christmas Island (Tasmania), Kiritimati of Kiribati (Pacific Ocean) which is also called "Christmas Island", and Little Christmas Island (Schouten Island Group).


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