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unusual facts about kilometre



All-dielectric self-supporting cable

ADSS cables made by BICC with 24 or 48 fibers in the above designs range from 220 to 284 kg/kilometre in weight and are between 13 and 16 mm outside jacket diameter.

Almelo–Salzbergen railway

The Almelo–Salzbergen railway is an important Dutch and German 54 kilometre long railway line, that connects Almelo with Salzbergen, offering a rail link between the Netherlands and Germany.

Almendra Dam

The dam is more than half a kilometre wide and, at a height of 202 metres, one of Spain's tallest structures.

Araripe Manakin

It is only fifty kilometres long and one kilometre wide and the typical habitat apparently is a consequence of the soils formed from the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation limestone.

Arlberg Railway Tunnel

It starts kilometre 99.5 in the station of St. Anton am Arlberg and ends in Langen am Arlberg.

August von Gödrich

He placed second in the 87 kilometre race from Athens to Marathon and back, finishing in 3:42:18 behind Aristidis Konstantinidis of Greece.

B. elegans

Banksia elegans, a shrub or small tree species found only over a 65 square kilometre area north and west of Eneabba, Western Australia

Bonner, Australian Capital Territory

'Horse Park' homestead which has been nominated for the ACT Heritage Register is situated a kilometre west in the suburb of Jacka.

Briedern

The municipality lies on the river Moselle upstream from the weir at Bruttig-Fankel between Cochem and Zell in the middle of the Cochemer Krampen, a 24-kilometre-long stretch of the Moselle made up of many winding bows.

Cologne-Minden Railway Company

The Cologne-Minden Railway Company built the 183 kilometre long railway between 1859 and 1862 from Deutz via Betzdorf, Dillenburg and Wetzlar to Gießen, with a branch to the mines in Siegen.

Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's track time trial

The men's 1 kilometre time trial in Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the thirty-two cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for four laps (1 kilometre) of the track.

Darebin Creek Trail

After approximately one kilometre, and just past Ivanhoe Grammar School, turn right down the steep access road to Wilson's Reserve.

Donald Swain Lewis

This was probably not an Ordnance Survey style grid based on a system of mile or kilometre squaring, but a system based on squares identified by letters and numbers.

Estonia–Russia border

A border oddity is the road from Värska to Ulitina in Estonia, traditionally the only road to the Ulitina area, which goes through Russian territory for one kilometre of its length, an area called Saatse Boot.

Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya

Faculty of Science is situated about half a kilometre from the Galaha Junction, Peradeniya.

Fanny Heldy

She retired in 1939, residing at Château de Mivoisin, a 36 square kilometre property located 1½ hours south of Paris in Dammarie-sur-Loing, Loiret.

Figueira Seco

The village is around 20 km east of the island capital of Vila do Maio, only less than a kilometre east of the neighboring Figueira da Horta and nearly 3 km northwest of Ribeira Dom João.

Frankfurt Stadion station

Stadion station was given the name because the S-Bahn station is about a kilometre on foot from the Frankfurt stadium, the Commerzbank-Arena.

Grand Ridge Rail Trail

The Grand Ridge Rail Trail or Mirboo North to Boolarra Rail Trail is a 13 kilometre rail trail in the Strzelecki Ranges of west central Gippsland, connecting the towns of Mirboo North and Boolarra.

Groß Karben station

It is located approximately one kilometre from Groß Karben, now a district of Karben, and is located on the outskirts of the Karben district of Kloppenheim.

Henry Plumer McIlhenny

He bought the 170 square kilometre estate in 1938, having rented it for summer use since 1933, and used it regularly as a part-time residence until 1982, having made a gift of Glenveagh Castle and gardens to the Irish State in 1979, while retaining the right to live there for his lifetime.

Jalan Tampoi

The Kilometre Zero of the Federal Route 3374 starts at Tampoi town interchange.

Karoli, India

It is on the 1.5-kilometre approach road boarded to Bahu-Jholri on the KosliKanina road and is 12 kilometres from Kosli and 7 kilometres from Kanina.

Laja Yang

Laja Yang is a village about 20 kilometre from Laiza on the way from Myitkyina to Bhamo in Kachin State, Myanmar.

Los Algodones

From the US side, Los Algodones is most easily reached via Interstate 8 and south a short distance (3.33 Km / 2.07 mi) along State Route 186/Andrade Road to the international border at Andrade, California.

Louis Didier Jousselin

He built a three-kilometre-long bridge in less than three months during the Siege of Hamburg in 1813.

Mackenröder Spitze

The heavily forested hill is located on the eastern escarpment of the Göttingen Forest, a southern part of the Leine Uplands, about 8 km east of the Göttingen town centre and just under 1 kilometre northwest of Mackenrode, a village in the southwest of the municipality of Landolfshausen.

Mahanayak Uttam Kumar metro station

The Tollygunge Golf Club is on the west side of the station, the Royal Calcutta Golf Club lies less than a kilometre to the east and ITC Sangeet Research Academy is a short distance south along Deshapran Sashmal Road at Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Road.

Malaysia Federal Route 122

The Kilometre Zero of the Federal Route 122 starts at Paka.

Malcolm Elliott

Elliott's breakthrough came at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane where he first took gold in the team time trial and then again in the 184 kilometre road race by outsprinting Steve Bauer, Roger Sumich, Steve Lawrence and Russell Harrington.

Mester utca

Mester utca is a 2-kilometre main street in the district of Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary.

Mirpur Mathelo

The ten kilometre area between this city and Daharki has many major Pakistani industries in it i.e Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited, Mari Gas Company, Liberty Power Plant and Engro Fertilizer Plant of Engro Corporation.

Mount Gibson

Mount Gibson Sanctuary, a 1,305-square-kilometre (504 sq mi) nature reserve on the northern edge of the Wheatbelt in Western Australia

Narcisse Pelletier

The ship struck a reef off Rossel Island and all aboard landed on a tiny waterless island now known as Heron Island or Wolo, about a kilometre from the much larger Rossel Island.

Old Beechy Rail Trail

The Old Beechy Rail Trail is a 45–kilometre rail trail running from Colac to Beech Forest along to the route of the disused Crowes railway line.

Padre Manyanet School, Alcobendas, Madrid

The school is located in the outskirts of Alcobendas, in the countryside, at the 3rd kilometre on the M-616 road.

Passport system in the Soviet Union

The document declared that all citizens at least sixteen years old residing in cites, towns, and urban workers' settlements, as well as residing within one hundred kilometres of Moscow and Leningrad, within fifty kilometres of Kharkov, Kiev, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don and Vladivostok and within the hundred-kilometre zone along the Western border of the USSR were required to have a passport with propiska.

Satzung

About 1 kilometre north of the village centre lies the 890-metre-high Hirtstein, some 4 kilometres south-southwest, on Czech territory, lies the 993-metre-high Jelení hora (Haßberg).

Silverton Rail 48s class locomotive

All were delivered for use on Silverton Tramway's 56 kilometre narrow gauge line from Broken Hill to Cockburn.

Sour Howes

Sour Howes, which reaches a height of 483 m (1,585 ft) is mostly grassy although heather grows on the eastern slopes, a high dry stone wall crosses the top and links with the neighbouring fell of Sallows, which lies just over a kilometre to the north east, and with Sour Howe’s subsidiary top of Capple Howe (445 m, 1,460 ft) which is located 600 metres to the south east.

St. Mary's Church, Noida

The church is situated less than 1 kilometre from Noida City Centre metro station

Velim railway test circuit

In addition 1.5-kilometre length can be equipped for third rail supply for metro operators.

W. N. Hodgson

Having returned to England after the Battle of Loos, he was positioned with his Battalion in the front line trenches at Fricourt in February 1916, before moving a kilometre or so to the trenches opposite the town of Mametz in April.

Walhalla Goldfields Rail Trail

The Walhalla Goldfields Rail Trail is a 7 kilometre rail trail which follows the former route of the narrow gauge Walhalla railway line between Erica and Thomson station, near Walhalla in Victoria's east.

Woodmead

This is a 94.7 kilometre cycle race that is held every year and is sponsored by 94.7 Highveld Stereo, a popular regional radio station.

Württemberg Ts 4

The DRG Class 99.17, formerly the Württemberg Ts 4 of the Royal Württemberg State Railways were German narrow gauge steam locomotives bought for working the 15.11 kilometre long route between the towns of Altensteig and Nagold.

Würzburg Hauptbahnhof

First, in 1861 construction started on a nearly 90 kilometre-long link between Würzburg and Ansbach station, where it connected with a line that had been built in 1859 by the town of Ansbach to connect with the Ludwig South-North Railway in Gunzenhausen.


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