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Moose Factory
(Encyclopedia) Moose Factory, trading post, NE Ont., Canada, near the mouth of the Moose River on James Bay. A fort was built there by Charles Bayly, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, in the…Marajó
(Encyclopedia) MarajóMarajómərəzhôˈ [key], island, c.150 mi (240 km) long and c.100 mi (160 km) wide, N Brazil, at the mouth of the Amazon River. It divides the river into the Amazon proper and the…Ngami, Lake
(Encyclopedia) Ngami, LakeNgami, Lakeəng-gäˈmē, ng– [key], reedy marsh, c.40 mi (64 km) long and from 4 to 8 mi (6.4–12.9 km) wide, NW Botswana. During the Pleistocene epoch, the lake covered an…Hengyang
(Encyclopedia) HengyangHengyanghŭng-yäng [key], city (1994 est. pop. 543,100), central Hunan prov., China, on the Xiang River, at the mouth of the Lei River. It is the leading transportation center…Lech
(Encyclopedia) LechLechlĕkh [key], river, c.175 mi (280 km) long, rising in Vorarlberg, W Austria, and flowing NE into S Germany past Augsburg to the Danube River. The Wertach River is its chief…kratom
(Encyclopedia) kratom, drug obtained from the leaves of the tropical evergreen tree Mitragyna speciosa, also called kratom, a relative of the coffee tree found in Southeast Asia. The leaves are…Kemi
(Encyclopedia) KemiKemikĕˈmē [key], city (1996 pop. 24,633), Lapland prov., W central Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia at the mouth of the Kemijoki River. An old trading post, it was chartered in 1869…Arecibo
(Encyclopedia) Arecibo Arecibo ärəsēˈbō [key], city, N Puerto Rico, a port on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Rio Grande de Arecibo. It has rum distilleries and is…Lymington and Pennington
(Encyclopedia) Lymington and PenningtonLymington and Penningtonlĭmˈĭngtən [key], town (1991 pop. 11,614), Hampshire, S England, on the Solent channel at the mouth of the Lymington River. It is a…Disappointment, Cape
(Encyclopedia) Disappointment, Cape, projecting into the Pacific Ocean, SW Wash., on the northern side of the mouth of the Columbia River. It was named in 1788 by English Capt. John Meares, who…Trending
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