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On the Shore

The cover photographs were taken at The Hill Garden, part of Inverforth House, Hampstead Heath in North West London, designed by landscape architect Thomas Mawson.



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1839 in New Zealand

The Weller brothers whaling settlement at Otakou on the shore of Otago Harbour has the largest population of Europeans in New Zealand outside the Bay of Islands/Hokianga.

Alberta SuperNet

The challenge was that this geographically isolated community is situated on the shore of Lake Athabasca.

Archie Boyd Teater

His first galleries were in the open air on the shore of Jenny Lake at the base of the Tetons.

Archytas

Archytas may have drowned in a shipwreck in the shore of Mattinata, where his body lay unburied on the shore until a sailor humanely cast a handful of sand on it.

Bahía Blanca Partido

The provincial subdivision holds a population of 284,776 inhabitants in an area of 2,300 km² (888 sq mi), and its capital city is Bahía Blanca, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.

Battle of Longwoods

Late in December, 1813, the British established an outpost at Delaware, roughly halfway between these two positions, and another at Port Talbot on the shore of Lake Erie.

Bias Boshell

Bias sang and played bass, guitar and piano on their two CBS albums, The Garden of Jane Delawney (1970) and On the Shore (1971), and wrote much of their material.

Blue Mountain Vineyard

Blue Mountain Vineyard, located on the shore of Vaseux Lake in Okanagan Falls, British Columbia is a Canadian Winery.

Boğaziçi

Boğaziçi, Milas, a fishing village on the shore of Lake Tuzla, and site of the ancient city of Bargylia

Cecilia Milow

On several occasions, Cecilia was invited to 'Stronvar House', the baronial pile of James Carnegie on the shore of Loch Voil in the Braes O’Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland.

Çivril

The ancient and as yet superficially explored city of Eumenia is located on the shore of Lake Işıklı near Çivril and the locality is arranged into a recreational area.

Colonial Brazil

In an attempt to expand the borders of colonial Brazil and profit from the silver mines of Potosí, the Portuguese Overseas Council (the Conselho Ultramarino) ordered colonial governor Manuel Lobo to establish a settlement on the shore of the River Plate, in a region that legally belonged to Spain.

Dead Island: Riptide

The immune regain consciousness on the shore of the island of Palanai and are found by Harlow, a WHO researcher, who tells them the zombie infection has spread there as well.

Dease Lake, British Columbia

In 1837 a Hudson's Bay Company post, known as Lake House, was created by Robert Campbell on the shore of Dease Lake about 50 km North of the Stikine River and 150 km south of where the present day Alaska Highway passes.

Demetrius of Pharos

When the Romans were occupied with their own problems, he had grown stronger as an ally of Macedonia and also by conquering Dimallum of Dalmatia, on the shore facing Issa.

Edmund B. Delabarre

He became famous, particularly in Portugal, because of his interpretation of the inscriptions present on the surface of Dighton Rock, a boulder on the shore of the Taunton River, south-eastern Massachusetts, attributing the carvings to Miguel Corte-Real, a Portuguese navigator who left Lisbon in May 1502 on an exploration trip to the western Atlantic, never to return.

Edward Scholefield

On 16 May 1929 Scholefield was killed when the aircraft crashed and burned at Shepperton on the shore of the River Thames.

Geography of Omaha

Situated in the Midwestern United States on the shore of the Missouri River in eastern Nebraska, the Port of Omaha helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.

Giovio Series

Intended by Giovio as a public archive of famous men, the collection was originally housed in a specially-built museum on the shore of Lake Como.

Grand Marais Light

Grand Marais Light is located on the outer end of a breakwater on the shore of Lake Superior in the city of Grand Marais in Cook County, Minnesota, USA.

Großer Plöner See

Other settlements on the shore of the Großer Plöner See are Bosau, Dersau and Ascheberg.

H. G. Tucker

In November 1936, Tucker's automobile was found near a fishing cottage on the shore of Pewaukee Lake in Waukesha County, Wisconsin which was used by a fishing club to which he belonged.

Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra

During a sea-voyage he is dragged off course by the witchcraft of a troll named Jarnnef (Iron-Nose) and shipwrecked on the shore of Helluland.

Hebard – Ford Summer House

In 1878, lumber baron Charles Hebard founded the logging town of Pequaming nine miles north of L'Anse on the shore of Lake Superior.

History of Honduras

The Providence Island Company, which occupied Providence Island not far from the coast, raided it occasionally and probably also had some settlements on the shore, possible around Cape Gracias a Dios.

John Cudahy

Back in the United States, Cudahy headed his family's real estate company, building the Cudahy Tower Apartments on the shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee.

Kalsoy

In old Faroese folklore it was believed that on Twelfth Night the seals came out of the sea, stripped off their seal-skins and became human beings, dancing on the shore.

Lappeenranta University of Technology

The university campus is situated on the shore of lake Saimaa, about 7 kilometres away from the city center.

Lim Ju-hwan

One day, she discovers and saves two castaways on the shore of the sea: William, a young nobleman from England played by Pierre Deporte, and Yan, a Dutch merchant living in Japan from the Dutch East India Company played by Lee Sun-ho.

Luigi Fenaroli

His bequeathed a broad scientific legacy, including a large Herbarium and photographic archive, as well as his family's botanical garden, in the municipality of Tavernola Bergamasca, on the shore of the pre-alpine Lake Iseo, where he grew plants and crops exotic to the Lombardy region.

Margaret Vaughan

Her husband Mitchell Henry built a beautiful memorial church about a mile from Kylemore Castle on the shore of the lake.

Mason, Houghton County, Michigan

Near the Quincy Mill is the ruins of the Quincy Mining Company Dredge Number One which sank in the lake in the mid-1950s and Quincy Dredge Number Two which partially sank on the shore in the 1960s.

Monbetsu

Mount Monbetsu (紋別岳), a mountain on the shore of Lake Shikotsu in Chitose City

Newport, New South Wales

Newport also features many cafes and restaurants, as well as the Newport Arms Hotel on the shore of Pittwater.

Padre Island National Seashore

During periods throughout the summer months there may be a large amount of Sargassum, a brown seaweed, that washes up on the shore which aids in shore development by acting to hold sand in place, which can eventually build up the shoreline.

Pech Maho

The oppidum is actually located on a low altitude (29m) hill on the shore of the small coastal river Berre.

Philostratus of Lemnos

Written in the form of a conversation between a Thracian vine-dresser on the shore of the Hellespont and a Phoenician merchant who derives his knowledge from the hero Protesilaus, Palamedes is exalted at the expense of Odysseus, and Homer's unfairness to him is attacked.

Pierre Robineau de Portneuf

On 15 April 1750 the minister of Marine, Antoine Louis Rouillé, consenting to a request made by Governor Marquis de la Jonquière and Intendant François Bigot, granted permission to build a small fortified post at Toronto on the shore of Lake Ontario.

Revanche

Shortly thereafter, the telepathic X-Man Psylocke was found washed up on the shore of the Hand's island base in the South China Sea after passing through the Siege Perilous.

Rover's Morning Glory

On Saturday, July 16, 2005 Dieter fought professional boxer Eric “Butterbean” Esch in a bout billed as “War on the Shore”.

Rødbyhavn

The original Lalandia holiday resort is located just west of Rødbyhavn on the shore of Fehmarn Belt.

Russell, Australian Capital Territory

To the west lies Kings Park and Grevillea Park, on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin.

Saint-Chamas

Saint-Chamas is situated on the shore of the Étang de Berre, 15 km south of Salon-de-Provence and 50 km north-west of Marseille, in a part of the region that has not been industrialised.

Silicon Taiga

The town is situated partly on the River Ob, and partly on the shore of a Novosibirsk artificial reservoir that was created by a dam on the river.

Stranger on the Shore

One of songwriter and music publisher Robert Mellin's major songwriting success came in 1962, when he wrote lyrics for Acker Bilk's instrumental smash "Stranger on the Shore," allowing it to be covered by vocal acts like Andy Williams and the Drifters.

The Bucktown Five

The band's name is linked with New Orleans, as Bucktown was a Chicago neighborhood, but also the name of the settlement that grew up on the shore of Lake Ponchartrain after the close of Storyville.

Thomas Lake Harris

The community — the Brotherhood of the New Life — decided to settle at the village of Brocton, New York on the shore of Lake Erie.

Voyageurs

The largest rendezvous's occurred at the largest such transfer points on the shore of Lake Superior at Grand Portage or Fort William.

Wollishofen

Zürcher Theater Spektakel, an international theater festival ranking among the most important European festivals for contemporary performing arts, is held annually in August on the shore of Lake Zurich.