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unusual facts about Nipper's Harbour


Nipper's Harbour

Nipper's Harbour, a community of 190 people, is located on the east coast of the Baie Verte Peninsula in the Province of Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.


A Date with The Smithereens

As another reference to older albums, the cover includes the RCA Victor logo with Nipper the dog on it and it also included a logo saying "Living Stereo."

Blair's Harbour

Alexander Dalrymple of the Hydrography Department of the British Admiralty published a plan of this location on 9 February 1793.

Castle Harbour, Bermuda

In the west, The Causeway crosses from the main island to St. David's Island, and beyond this a stretch of water known as Ferry Reach connects the harbour with St. George's Harbour to the north, where Bermuda's first permanent settlement, St. George's Town, was founded in 1612.

Clark's Harbour

The community is the southernmost town in the province of Nova Scotia, and thus one of the southernmost towns in Canada, being located roughly on a parallel with Zaragoza, Spain and just north of Rome.

Crewe Works Railway

The cutting up of "Nipper", "Topsy", "Midge", and "Dicky" (sic) was authorised by Captain H. P. M. Beames on 21 September 1929.

Eleuthera

Airports with regularly scheduled flights are available at North Eleuthera, Governor's Harbour and Rock Sound.

James Lucas Yeo

The commander of these forces, Sir George Prevost, failed to follow up key advances made by Sir James at Sackett's Harbour and elsewhere that might have resulted in major British victories.

John Le Couteur

Le Couteur later took part in the Siege of Fort Erie, the battles of Sackett's Harbour and Lundy's Lane and thirty-three skirmishes.

Little Nipper

The Disney Studio released several short albums derived from their hit films, both musical and dramatic, on the "Little Nipper" series.

Martha's Harbour

The song is also well-known for an incident on the popular BBC UK music show Top of the Pops, when the group, ready to do a mimed (as was BBC policy at the time) performance of their hit, were not played the backing track through their monitors, and so sat motionless while the television and studio audience could hear the song.

The song has also been covered other by artists including Victoria Newton, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, and Celtic Spirit.

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.

Nipper

In 1898, three years after Nipper's death, Francis Barraud, his last owner and brother of his first owner, painted a picture of Nipper listening intently to a wind-up Edison-Bell cylinder phonograph.

Somers Isles Company

A ninth subdivision, now the eastern-most parish, was Saint George's, comprising Saint George's Island, Saint David's Island, part of the Main Island, and various smaller islands and islets around Castle Harbour (then known as Southampton Harbour) and Saint George's Harbour.

St. George's Harbour, Bermuda

When the first intentional settlers arrived from England in 1609, they settled very briefly on St. David's Island, before moving across the Harbour to create St. George's, the oldest continuously-inhabited English settlement in the New World.

The Mighty McGurk

The fiftieth man has a young English boy in tow, Nipper (Dean Stockwell), an orphan who has been sent to America to live with his uncle Milbane (Aubrey Mather).

The Nipper

The Nipper (1930) is a British musical film directed by Louis Mercanton and starring Betty Balfour, John Stuart, and Anne Grey.

Tipsy Nipper

In June 1966 the license was sold to Nipper Aircraft Ltd at Castle Donington and new Mk.III aircraft were built for them by Slingsby Sailplanes at Kirkbymoorside.

Volunteer Point

Volunteer Point is a headland on the east coast of East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, to the north north east (as the crow flies) of Stanley, and east of Johnson's Harbour and Berkeley Sound.

William's Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador

In a March 28, 2013 interview on CBC Radio's As It Happens programme, area administrator George Russell stated that the 17 remaining residents of William's Harbour are willing to accept a new re-settlement offer of $275,000.00 per household from the government of Newfoundland and Labrador to residents of struggling outport communities.

Zack Nipper

In January 2011, it was announced that Nipper's work on the The People's Key had won the Best Art Vinyl award.


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