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unusual facts about Remoteness


Remoteness

Remoteness (legal), the legal concept of how remotely possible a consequence is (or should have been foreseen to be)


Botany Bay, London

Its remoteness from other settlements probably explains its name, as a facetious reference to Botany Bay in Australia.

Devils Thumb

Fred Beckey, along with Clifford Schmidtke, and Bob Craig, climbed the East Ridge, a route that combined technical difficulty equal to anything ever climbed on the continent to that time with great remoteness and terrible weather conditions.

Fred C. Hamilton

Following the general election of 1927 (which was won by Premier John Bracken's Progressives), Hamilton campaigned for the Liberals in the northern riding of Rupertsland -- which, due to its remoteness, voted after the rest of the province.

Jean Ersfeld

Ersfeld, like most of the party's candidates, is from the Oesling region of Luxembourg, a sparsely-populated area which is characterized by its relative remoteness from the south of Luxembourg.

Loch Goil

The landscape at Loch Goil shows its remoteness and Highland grandeur with the Arrochar Alps surrounding with conifers in the Highlands of Scotland.

Lordship of Champlain

On the territory of the future lordship de Champlain, the first attempt of colonization on land granted by August 16, 1643 at Champlain to Jacques Aubuchon of Trois-Rivières has not resulted mainly because of the remoteness and the Iroquois threat.

Mato Grosso

The historic remoteness of this area led it to be the subject of exploration, most notably by Captain Percy Fawcett, in the quest for lost cities.

Mount Woodroffe

It lost out due to its remoteness compared to Siding Spring in New South Wales, where the AAT sits today amongst other astronomical observatories.

Perentie

Found west of the Great Dividing Range in the arid areas of Australia, they are not a common sight because of their shyness and the remoteness of much of their range from human habitation.

The Forgotten Children of Congo

From the remoteness of the Congo Basin, to the capital Kinshasa and the volatile Ituri Province in the East, this documentary focuses on the plight of the country's street children.


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