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2 unusual facts about uplands


Baltic Uplands

To the west the Uplands are bordered by the North German Plain and in the northwest the terrain drops away westwards from the Schleswig-Holstein Uplands into the North Sea.

Uplands, Greater Victoria

Uplands, Victoria (known locally as "the Uplands") is an upper-class neighbourhood located in the north east part of the Municipality of Oak Bay, an adjacent suburb of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and situated between the neighbourhoods of Cadboro Bay and North Oak Bay.


Ági Szalóki

:The CD largely consists of folk songs from Transylvania and the Uplands arranged by the band, together with poems by Ágnes Nagy Nemes and Sándor Weöres set to music.

Aschentalshalbe

Whilst the Tiefenbeek that rises north of the mountain flows northwest into the Sieber, the Grade Lutter that rises on its southern uplands is the right headstream of the Lutter that flows southwards into the Oder.

Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area

The Basha Kill Wildlife Management Area consists of over 3,000 acres (12 km²) of wetlands and uplands in Orange County and Sullivan County in New York State, U.S.

Bukkapatnam

This river enters the district near Kodikonda and flows north over the rocky and hilly uplands of Gorantla, Puttaparthi, Bukkapatnam, Kothacheruvu, C.K.Palli, Dharmavaram, Bathalapalli, Tadimarri and Yellanur Mandals and falls into the Pennar River at Gandikota in the Cuddapah District.

Charles Wellington Furse

Such are the Diana of the Uplands, the Lord Roberts and The Return from the Ride at the Tate Gallery; the four children in the Cubbing with the York and Ainsty, The Lilac Gown, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Fishing and the portraits of Lord Charles Beresford and William Johnson Cory.

Fortis Green

In 1835 the architect Anthony Salvin purchased a field and built two Italianate villas, Springcroft and Colethall (later Uplands) to the east of Summerlee.

Gabela, Angola

The Gabela Akalat (Sheppardia gabela), a species of bird, was first recorded here by scientists and subsequently named after the town, as were the Gabela Helmet-shrike (Prionops gabela) and Gabela Bush-shrike (Laniarius amboimensis); these endangered species are only found in the uplands near Gabela.

Gerontius Glacier

It was so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977, association with the nearby uplands, from The Dream of Gerontius, an oratorio by Edward Elgar.

Goodale Sisters

Later she was a teacher and director of the Uplands Sanatorium in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee.

Later in life Dora worked as a teacher and director of Uplands Sanatorium in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee.

Gradisil

With the advent of more efficient propulsion technology, space travel reaches a new level of attainability, the Uplands phenomenon being a product of direct access, for those wealthy enough, to the lower orbits.

Heliamphora ciliata

It is restricted to a small number of swampy meadows in the uplands of Gran Sabana.

Mauritiella

M. aculeata grows on the banks of the Orinoco and its tributaries in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil, M. marcolada inhabits the western slopes of the Andes in Colombia and Ecuador to an elevation of 900 m, with M. armata (locally known as aguajillo) being the most widespread, found throughout Amazonia and adjacent uplands, alongside streams and rivers.

Mid-Continental Canadian forests

This ecoregion extends from south of the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories through most of northeastern Alberta, central Saskatchewan and parts of west-central Manitoba and consists of three main areas: the Slave River basin in northeastern Alberta, the lowlands of the northern Manitoba plain, and the uplands south of the Canadian Shield from north-central Alberta to southwestern Manitoba.

Schnee

Schnee Eifel is a heavily wooded landscape in Germany's Central Uplands

Tuolumne Meadows

Thread-leaved sedge, pussy-toes, Sierra lodgepole pine, and Ross sedge are found in drier uplands within or on the edge of the meadow.

Uplands College

Uplands College is an Anglican co-educational Independent high school located on a picturesque, 110 ha estate near White River in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Vance T. Holliday

:In Sonora, field work in collaboration with M.G.Sanchez (INAH) focused on a series of Clovis sites, most prominently an in-situ Clovis/Gomphothere kill site and an extensive camping area on the adjacent uplands.

Víkar

The tale then tells of Víkar's successful battle at Lake Vænir (Lake Vänern) against King Sísar (Sísarr) of Kiev, of Víkar's defeat of Herthjóf's brother King Geirthjóf (Geirþjófr) of the Uplands in a war in which Geirthjóf fell in the First battel of Telemark, and how Víkar then took over not only the Uplands but also Telemark which belonged to Geirthjóf's brother Fridthjóf who was not there at the time.


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