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unusual facts about Southern Cross-Island Highway


Southern Cross-Island Highway

The section from Meishan to Yakou Tunnel lies within Yushan National Park.


Central Cross-Island Highway

On September 21, 1999 the Jiji earthquake caused massive damage to the highway and cut the highway in multiple places between Dongshih and Lishan.

Dajia River

Taiwan's Central Cross-Island Highway runs along the Tachia River from Heping to Dongshih.

Flag of Tasmania

The flag had a white cross on a blue field, in the canton was the Union Flag, and in the fly was five five-pointed stars of the Southern Cross.

Frederick Bailey Deeming

By means of forged testimonials Deeming had obtained a position at a mine at Southern Cross.

Hehuanshan

The Central Cross-Island Highway, which originally crossed the mountains north of Hehuanshan, was damaged during the September 21, 1999 Earthquake and had been under repair for five years afterwards.

Island Highway

The Island Highway is actually a series of highways that follows much of the eastern coastline of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Keith Virtue

They were in Avro 618 Tens, the City of Sydney and City of Brisbane, with Charles Kingsford Smith in the Southern Cross.

Southern Cross, Western Australia

The town of Southern Cross is one of the many towns which run along the Mundaring to Kalgoorlie Goldfields Water Supply Scheme engineered by C. Y. O'Connor.

SS Viking

Viking was a wooden-hulled whaling ship built by Nylands at Christiania, Norway in 1881, the same location where another famous Newfoundland vessel, Southern Cross, was constructed.

Toowoomba Airport

In August 1932 Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, a pioneer Australian aviator, landed at Toowoomba in his Fokker Trimotor named the 'Southern Cross'.

Working Narrow Boat Hadar

It is in the southern hemisphere and part of the Centaurus constellation and one of the two stars that point to the Southern Cross.


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