This data contains all New Zealand Lakes, it's a subset of the NZ Place Name data base sourced from www.linz.govt.nz. Given the fairly low accuracy of their lat/long positions it may not be totally accurate.
New Zealand Places
This data is sourced from the NZ Geographic Place Names Database (http://www.linz.govt.nz/rcs/linz/pub/web/root/core/Placenames/SearchPlaceN...
This data contains all New Zealand Islands, it's a subset of the NZ Place Name data base sourced from www.linz.govt.nz. Given the fairly low accuracy of their lat/long positions it may not be totally accurate.
New Zealand Places
This data is sourced from the NZ Geographic Place Names Database (http://www.linz.govt.nz/rcs/linz/pub/web/root/core/Placenames/SearchPlac...
This data contains all New Zealand Ski Fields, it's a subset of the NZ Place Name data base sourced from www.linz.govt.nz. Given the fairly low accuracy of their lat/long positions it may not be totally accurate.
New Zealand Places
This data is sourced from the NZ Geographic Place Names Database (http://www.linz.govt.nz/rcs/linz/pub/web/root/core/Placenames/SearchP...
Both sides suffered very heavy casualties during the ten months of the Battle of Verdun. Sources do not agree on the number of casualties suffered during the battle. In some, French loses were 61,000 dead, 101,000 missing and 216,000 wounded, a total of 378,000 while German loses were 142,000 killed or missing and 187,000 wounded, for a total of 329,000. Other sources give higher figures – Fren...
The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe a region of south-eastern Europe.
The region has a combined area of 728,000 km² and a population of around 53 million. The region takes its name from the Balkan mountains which run through the centre of Bulgaria.
On 19.09.1944 at 15:03 119 B17 of 447th Bomb Group (mission: #146) dropped 244,3 tons of bombs on the marschalling yard Koblenz-Mosel and the Rhine bridges. A railroad AA-gun was also destroyed. The air raid caused 144 deads and 133 injured people.
About 40 years later a plaque was installed in the city to commemorate the victims of the bomb war.
A few years ago, in June 2002 issue of National geographic Magazine, we made a map of the DDAY invasion, with most of the allied troups shipwreck in Seine Bay
Copyright National Geographic Magazine
Shipwrecks by Bertrand SCIBOZ
and Marc VIOLET, CERES,
European Underwater Research Center - www.ceresm.com
Land relief by Scott Gowan - Worldsat Internatio...