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2 unusual facts about North Coast


Great Eastland Television

The system combined three pairs of television stations in the Darling and Southern Downs regions of Queensland and the New England, Manning River and North Coast regions of northern New South Wales.

Haisla people

The Haisla (also Xa’islak’ala, X̄a’islakʼala, X̌àʼislakʼala, X̣aʼislak’ala, Xai:sla) are an indigenous people living at Kitamaat in the North Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.


Grafton Express

With the National Party having lost a number of North Coast seats in the 1990 Federal election in a policy reversal it was announced that Xplorer railcars would be purchased to extend the Northern Tablelands Express with an XPT to be released to operate a daily service to Grafton.

Heart Peaks

Tectonic activity along the North Coast of British Columbia and Southeast Alaska is characterized by transform movements of the Queen Charlotte Fault, a plate boundary where the Pacific Plate skids by the North American Plate.

History of rail transport in Spain

Apart from the widespread broad-gauge lines, a large system of narrow gauge railways was built in the more mountainous parts of Spain, especially in the north coast of the country, where narrow gauge was the most adequate option.

Thunee

Ramsamy Naidoo, the sardar at the sugar cane estate of De Charmoy and Angel at La Mercy on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, and his friends are credited with inventing the exciting six-card game during 1872.


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1907 Kingston earthquake

After the earthquake tsunami were observed along much of the north coast of Jamaica at Hope Bay, Port Antonio, Orange Bay, Sheerness Bay, Saint Ann's Bay, Buff Bay, Port Maria and Annotto Bay; there were also some reports of waves along the south coast.

2-6-2

In 1901 the Zululand Railway Company, contracted for the construction of the Natal North Coast line from Verulam to the Tugela River, acquired one 2-6-2 side-tank locomotive as construction engine from Baldwin Locomotive Works.

Abrahamsen

Point Abrahamsen, point on the north coast of South Georgia island

Alvania beanii

This species is distributed in European waters, from the North Coast of Norway and the North East Atlantic Ocean down to the Canary Islands.

Årø

Årø, Norway, a neighborhood of Molde, on the north coast of Norway

Asmat people

Asmat was the launching point for an arduous joint French-Dutch expedition from the south to north coast of New Guinea in 1958 to 1959, which was documented by the team and resulted in a book and documentary film, The Sky Above, The Mud Below, which won an Academy Award in 1961.

Baffin coastal tundra

The Baffin coastal tundra is a small ecoregion of the far north of North America, on the central north coast of Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

Barbados Light and Power Company

BL&P is also engaged in a long term study of the feasibility of creating a wind farm off the North coast of Saint Lucy.

Cambrian Way

It traverses Wales from the north coast to its south coast and is purposely routed over the highest upland and mountainous terrain including Cadair Idris, Snowdon, the Cambrian Mountains and the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park.

Casa de los Dragones

Casa de los Dragones or House of the Dragons is an important landmark in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Africa, and an extraordinary example of eclectic architecture.

Coronet Bay, Victoria

A small military settlement called Fort Dumaresq was established near the present-day site of Rhyll on the north coast of Phillip Island.

Digital Command Control

Several major manufacturers (including Roco and Hornby and Bachmann), have entered the DCC market alongside makers which specialize in it (including Lenz, Digitrax, ESU, ZIMO, Kühn, Tams, North Coast Engineering (NCE), and CVP Products' EasyDCC, Sound Traxx, Lok Sound, and Train Control Systems).

Ezekiel Blomfield

Rev. Dr. Alexander and Selina MacDonald arrived in Rarotonga in May 1836, then Samoa in April 1837 and settled at Safune on the central north coast of Savai'i island in Samoa in August 1837.

Flores

These are from west to east: Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio and Palu'e, which is spoken on the island with the same name of the north coast of Flores.

Grant Land

Situated on the north coast, Cape Columbia, is the northernmost point of Canada, only 770 km from the North Pole, and was used as the final point on land for Peary's North Pole expedition in 1909.

Green Grotto Caves

The Green Grotto Caves are show caves and a prominent tourist attraction in Discovery Bay, St Ann on the north coast of Jamaica.

Hannibal Gamon

Gamon was instituted to the rectory of Mawgan-in-Pyder, on the north coast of Cornwall, on 11 February 1619, on presentation of Elizabeth Peter, the patroness for that turn, on the assignment of Sir John Arundell, knight, the owner of the advowson.

Hansa Bay

Hansa Bay is a bay located on the north coast of Papua New Guinea, in Madang Province, between Madang and Wewak, north east of Bogia.

Hawaii Department of Health

The Hawaii Department of Health administers Kalawao County, the state's smallest county, which consists of the three villages Kalaupapa, Kalawao, and Waikolu, located on the Kalaupapa Peninsula on the north coast of Moloka'i.

History of West Papua

While in 1828 the Dutch claimed the south coast west of the 141st meridian and the north coast west of Humboldt Bay in 1848, they did not try to develop the region again until 1896; they established settlements in Manokwari and Fak-Fak in response to perceived Australian ownership claims from the eastern half of New Guinea.

HMAS Patricia Cam

On 22 January 1943, while near the Wessel Islands off the north coast of the Northern Territory, Patricia Cam was attacked and sunk by a Japanese floatplane.

Hunter Island Penguin

The Hunter Island Penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is an extinct penguin, subfossil remains of which were found in a Holocene Aboriginal midden at Stockyard Site on Hunter Island, in Bass Strait 5 km off the western end of the north coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Huon Peninsula

The nearest large town is the Morobe provincial capital Lae to the south, while settlements on the north coast include the former German town of Finschhafen, the district capital of Wasu, Malalamai and Saidor with its World War II era Saidor Airport.

Hurricane Hortense

A tropical storm warning and hurricane watch was issued for the north coast of Haiti to St. Nicolas.

Iluka

Iluka, New South Wales - a town on the north coast of New South Wales in Australia

Íþróttafélagið Völsungur

Íþróttafélagið Völsungur is an Icelandic football club from the town of Húsavík located on the north coast of Iceland on the shores of Skjálfandi bay.

Jarrod McCracken

McCracken was playing his football in Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast when he was spotted by Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Chief Executive Peter Moore who persuaded the young Centre to join The Bulldogs in 1991 and stayed with the club until 1995, although he also spent the 1992/93 English season with St. Helens.

Michael McKimm

McKimm was born in Belfast but lived from the age of seven on the north coast of County Antrim, near the Giant's Causeway and the town of Bushmills.

Monty Webber

He lives at Angourie Point, on the New South Wales north coast, where he surfs, writes and makes films that stretch the medium to the point that they are recognised internationally as art.

New South Wales Shadow Cabinet

Walt Secord MLC: Shadow Minister for Roads, Shadow Minister for the North Coast

NGR Class I 2-6-0

In December 1895 an agreement was reached with the Natal sugar magnate Liege Hulett, representing the Zululand Railway Company, for the construction of the North Coast line from Verulam to the Tugela River.

North Coast Australian Football League

The League Best & Fairest is given for the best and fairest player in the AFL North Coast during the home and away season, similar to the AFL's Brownlow Medal.

North Coast Mail

The North Coast Mail was an Australian passenger train that ran from Sydney via the North Coast line to Grafton until October 1985.

Overy

Burnham Overy, a civil parish on the north coast of Norfolk, England

Plantago leiopetala

It inhabits cliffs and rocky slopes on the north coast of Madeira from São Jorge west to Porto do Moniz and on higher peaks and rocky areas of Porto Santo.

Probolinggo

Probolinggo is a city on the north coast of East Java, Indonesia in Probolinggo Regency.

RAAF Base Nabiac

The Central North Coast Sporting Car Club, Taree now utilise the site and they hold regular motor sport events on the gravel runways.

Rø is a small community on the Danish island of Bornholm, 2 km from the north coast and 7 km west of Gudhjem.

Sept Îles

Sept Îles, also known as Jentilez, a small French archipelago off the north coast of Brittany and an important birds reserve

Sfakera

Sfakera, is a village, on the north coast of the island of Corfu, Greece.

Shiel Bridge

The A87 road passes through the village, continuing on along the north coast of Loch Duich, passing Dornie, Nostie and Kirkton on to Kyle of Lochalsh.

Southeast Asian ovalocytosis

Because of this, the 35% incidence rate of SAO along the north coast of Madang Province in Papua New Guinea, where malaria in endemic, is a good example of natural selection.

Virú culture

This North Coast culture was based in the Virú Valley and extended into the Moche and Santa Valleys as well.

Wardell, New South Wales

Wardell was the birthplace of architect Alexander Stewart Jolly (1887-1957), who designed a number of buildings in the north coast area.

Warwerort

Warwerort is located along the north coast of the Meldorf Bight east of Büsum and Büsumer Deichhausen.

WREO-FM

Once boasted as the "Powerhouse of the North Coast", the station's 50,000-watt signal allows listeners to enjoy WREO (Mix 97.1) from London, Ontario; west to Cleveland, Ohio; all of Erie, Pennsylvania; east to Ripley, New York, south to Meadville, Pennsylvania, and all point in between.