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Minusinsk

(Encyclopedia)Minusinsk mēno͞osēnskˈ [key], city (1989 pop. 73,000), S central Siberian Russia, in Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the Minusinsk basin and on the Yenisei River. Founded in 1822, it is a river port and...

Loyalty Islands

(Encyclopedia)Loyalty Islands, coral group (1989 pop. 17,900), S Pacific, a part of the French overseas territory of New Caledonia. The group comprises three islands (Lifou, Maré, and Ouvéa) and many islets and h...

Primorsky Kray

(Encyclopedia)Primorsky Kray: see Maritime Territory, Russia. ...

North Australia

(Encyclopedia)North Australia: see Northern Territory, Australia. ...

Yass-Canberra

(Encyclopedia)Yass-Canberra: see Australian Capital Territory. ...

Central Australia

(Encyclopedia)Central Australia: see Northern Territory, Australia. ...

Issachar

(Encyclopedia)Issachar ĭsˈəkər [key], in the patriarchal narratives of the Bible, son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of one of the 12 tribes. The territory allotted to the tribe of Issachar at the time of t...

Alice Springs

(Encyclopedia)Alice Springs, town, Northern Territory, Australia. It lies in a pastoral area surrounded by desert near the center of the continent and is a stop on the Adelaide Darwin Railway. The town ...

Southampton Island

(Encyclopedia)Southampton Island, c.15,700 sq mi (40,700 sq km), Nunavut Territory, Canada, at the entrance to Hudson Bay. It is separated from the mainland by Ross Welcome Sound and Frozen Strait. With lowlands in...

Chagos Archipelago

(Encyclopedia)Chagos Archipelago: see British Indian Ocean Territory. ...
 

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