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Ascension Island 
 The Galician explorer João da Nova, working for Portugal, saw the Ascension island in the South Atlantic in 1501, when he was going to India; named it ilha da Conceição (Conception Island).
Ascension Island 
 En 1503 when the Portuguese navigator Afonso de Albuquerque saw the island on Ascension Day, in the church calendar, he named it after the feast day.
Ascension Island 
 Organised settlement of Ascension Island began in 1815, when the British sent soldiers to the island as a precaution after imprisoning Napoleon I on Saint Helena to the southeast.
Ascension Island 
 In 1836, Charles Darwin visited the Saint Helena and Ascension islands during his voyage in the Beagle.
Ascension Island 
 Sparse vegetation inland supported "about six hundred sheep, many goats, a few cows & horses", and large numbers of guineafowl imported from the Cape Verde islands, as well as rats, mice and land crabs.
Ascension Island 
 Four years later, Hooker advised the Royal Navy that with the help of Kew Gardens, they should develop a long-term plan of shipping trees to Ascension.
Ascension Island 
 So, from 1850 and continuing year on year, ships came each with different plants from botanical gardens in Argentina, Europe and South Africa.
Ascension Island 
 By the late 1870s Norfolk pines, eucalyptus, bamboo, and banana trees grew at the highest point of the island, Green Mountain, creating a tropical forest covered with clouds.
Ascension Island 
 In 1899, the Eastern Telegraph Company (now part of Vodafone) installed the first underwater cable from the island, connecting the UK with its colonies in South Africa.
Ascension Island 
 The island was managed by the head of the Eastern Telegraph Company on the island until 1964 when the British Government appointed an Administrator to represent the Governor of Saint Helena on Ascension.
Ascension Island 
 In 1981, the British government changed the status of Saint Helena and the other Crown colonies to "British Dependent Territories".
Ascension Island 
 In 2009, Saint Helena and its two territories received equal status under a new constitution, and the British Overseas Territory was renamed Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
Ascension Island 
 While the west and north-west coasts have sandy beaches, the south and southeast coasts form steep cliffs.
Ascension Island 
 Other high mountains are Weather Post (680 m - 1,995 ft), White Hill (525 m - 1,722 ft) and Sisters Peak (445 m - 1,460 ft).
Ascension Island 
 There are several small islands (islets) and rocks surrounding the Ascension Island; the largest is Boatswainbird Island,  north of the eastern part of the island.
Ascension Island 
 Ascension island has a tropical but oceanic climate, with little changes from one season to another.
Ascension Island 
 The island is in the path of the South-East Trade Winds, and southeast and easterly winds blow for more than half of every month.
Ascension Island 
 At 660 m on Green Mountain maximum temperatures are typically about 13 °C lower and minimum temperatures about 7 °C lower than
Ascension Island 
 Two Boats School is the only school on the island and provides education to all resident children 3½–16 years old.
Ashmore and Cartier Islands 
 The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands () is the collective name for two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands.
Ashmore and Cartier Islands 
 The islands are in the Indian Ocean north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Roti.
Ashmore and Cartier Islands 
 The Australian mainland is about  to the southwest, the island of Timor (and Roti next to it) is about  to the north.
Ashmore and Cartier Islands 
 The territory includes Ashmore Reef (West, Middle, and East Islets) and Cartier Island  east with, a total area of  within the reefs and including the lagoons, and  of dry land.
Ashmore and Cartier Islands 
 Nearby Hibernia Reef,  northeast of Ashmore Reef, is not part of the territory, because it has no permanently dry land area, although large parts of the reef become exposed during low tide.
Ashmore and Cartier Islands 
 The territory is administered from Canberra by the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage.
Australian Antarctic Territory 
 The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) is the part of Antarctica claimed by Australia and is the largest part of Antarctica claimed by any nation.
Australian Antarctic Territory 
 Victoria Land was first claimed for Britain on 9 January 1841 and Britain claimed Enderby Land in 1930.
Australian Antarctic Territory 
 In 1933, a British imperial order transferred territory south of 60° S and between meridians 160 E and 45 E to Australia.
Australian Antarctic Territory 
 Australia's claim to sovereignty over the Australian Antarctic Territory is recognised by the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France and Norway  .
Australian Antarctic Territory 
 As Australia is part of the Antarctic Treaty System, which accommodates differences of opinions over the status of Antarctic territorial claims which pre-dated the 1959 Antarctic Treaty - effectively placing claims in abeyance - Australia only exercises its sovereignty in ways that in its view are consistent with good relations under the Antarctic Treaty.
Australian Antarctic Territory 
 The first issues came in 1957, and sporadically thereafter, settling into a pattern of an annual issue by the 1990s.
Australian Antarctic Territory 
 All have been Antarctic-themed, and all are valid for postage in Australia, so in practice they are just Australian stamps with a different inscription.
Australian Antarctic Territory 
 Assigned the country calling code +672, four Antarctic bases operated by Australia can be reached by direct calling from anywhere in the world.
Australian Antarctic Territory 
 The area codes are 10-6 for Davis, 11-7 for Mawson, 12-8 for Casey and 13-9 for Macquarie Island, in each case followed by three additional digits.
British Antarctic Territory 
 The British Antarctic Territory is a sector of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom and is a British overseas territory.
British Antarctic Territory 
 It is a triangle in Antarctica from the South Pole to 60° S latitude between longitudes 20° W and 80° W. The Territory was formed on March 3, 1962, although the UK first claimed this part of the Antarctic in 1908.
British Antarctic Territory 
 Before 1962, the area now covered by the Territory comprised three separate dependencies of the Falkland Islands;
British Antarctic Territory 
 The Territory is inhabited largely by the staff of research and support stations operated and maintained by the British Antarctic Survey and other organisations.
British Antarctic Territory 
 The United Kingdom has had a presence in the South Atlantic since 1833 when it occupied the Falkland Islands.
British Antarctic Territory 
 In 1908 the UK claimed the territory that is British Antarctic Territory today, as well as South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
British Antarctic Territory 
 The territory was governed as three separate dependencies; Graham Land, the South Orkneys, and the South Shetlands, administered from Falkland Islands by the Governor.
British Antarctic Territory 
 In addition to continental Antarctica, within which the BAT claim includes the Palmer Land peninsula, and the Ronne Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea, the territory also includes the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands.
British Antarctic Territory 
 Given the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty System, the Territory does not enforce its laws on foreign nations who maintain scientific bases within the Territory.
British Indian Ocean Territory 
 The territory is the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islandsmany very small.
British Indian Ocean Territory 
 Both India and Mauritius claim the territories, and do not recognise the United Kingdom's authority over the Chagos Archipelago.
British Indian Ocean Territory 
 India does not recognise Anglo sovereignty over these "Cultural Indo-Indian/Indies islands" and has disputed their status since 1947.
British Indian Ocean Territory 
 In 2000, the High Court of the UK first ruled that the natives had the right to return home, but the government have been fighting hard against this court decision, and many of the natives are still said to be trying to move back to the islands.
Christmas Island 
 It is in the Indian Ocean, 2600 kms northwest of Perth in Western Australia and 500 km south of Jakarta, Indonesia.
Christmas Island 
 About 1,600 people live on Christmas Island, mostly in a number of "settlement areas" on the north of the island:
Christmas Island 
 Captain William Mynors of the British East India Company ship, the Royal Mary, gave the island its name because they arrived on Christmas Day, 25 December 1643.
Christmas Island 
 There were several visits and explorations of the island, but it was only when valuable phosphate of lime was discovered that the island was annexed to (claimed by) the British Crown on 6 June 1888.
Christmas Island 
 Soon afterwards, a small settlement was started in Flying Fish Cove by G. Clunies Ross, the owner of the Keeling Islands (some 900 kilometres to the south west) to collect timber and supplies for the growing industry on Cocos.
Christmas Island 
 The island was ruled jointly by the British Phosphate Commissioners and District Officers from the United Kingdom Colonial Office through the Straits Settlements, and later the Crown Colony of Singapore.
Christmas Island 
 Japan invaded and occupied the island in 1942, as the Indian garrison mutinied, and they interned the residents (made them stay where they were) until the end of World War II in 1945.
Christmas Island 
 Australia asked the United Kingdom to allow them to rule the island; in 1957, the Australian government paid the government of Singapore £2.9 million in compensation.
Christmas Island 
 This amount of money was decided by guessing how much the phosphate given up by Singapore was worth.
Christmas Island 
 The first Australian Official Representative arrived in 1958 and was replaced by an Administrator in 1968 .
Christmas Island 
 Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands together are called the Australian Indian Ocean Territories and since 1997 share one Administrator who lives on Christmas Island.
Christmas Island 
 During 2001, Christmas Island received a large number of asylum seekers travelling by boat, most of them from the Middle East and intending to apply for asylum in Australia.
Christmas Island 
 It was said that many of the adult asylum seekers threw their children into the water in protest at being turned away.
Christmas Island 
 The Australian Parliament later passed a law to ban people who  arrive on Christmas Island from being able automatically to claim refugee status.
Christmas Island 
 This allows the Australian navy to move them to other countries (Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, and Nauru).
Christmas Island 
 In 2005, the Department of Immigration began to build an "Immigration Reception and Processing Centre", completed in 2007 at the cost of $210 million.
Christmas Island 
 Federal government services are provided through the Department of Transport and Regional Services and the Christmas Island Administration.
Christmas Island 
 The Western Australian Government and other contractors provide state government services, but  because Christmas Island is a territory the Commonwealth (federal) Australian Government pay the costs.
Christmas Island 
 Christmas Island residents who are Australian citizens also vote in Commonwealth elections for the Northern Territory's Lingiari constituency of the House of Representatives.
Christmas Island 
 In early 1986 the Christmas Island Assembly held a design competition for an island flag; the winning design was adopted as the informal flag of the territory for more than ten years, and in 2002 it was made the official flag of Christmas Island.
Christmas Island 
 The annual red crab mass migration (around 100 million animals) to the sea to spawn has been called one of the wonders of the natural world and takes place each year around November; after the start of the wet season and in synchronisation with the cycle of the moon.
Christmas Island 
 In 2008 there were only about 20 bats left and scientists thought that they could become extinct during 2009.
Christmas Island 
 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, 10 (10), 613-624 (1888).
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 Captain William Keeling was the first European to see the islands, in 1609, but they remained uninhabited until the nineteenth century, when they became a possession of the Clunies-Ross Family.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 Slaves were brought to work the coconut plantation from Indonesia, the Cape of Good Hope and East Asia by Alexander Hare who had taken part in Stamford Raffles' takeover of Java in 1811.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 A Scottish merchant seaman called Captain John Clunies-Ross, who had also served under Raffles in the takeover, set up a compound and Hare's severely mistreated slaves soon escaped to work under better conditions for Clunies-Ross.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 On November 23 1955, the islands were transferred to Australian control under the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 In the 1970s, Australian government dissatisfaction with the Clunies-Ross feudal style of rule of the island increased.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 In 1978, Australia forced the family to sell the islands for the sum of AU$6,250,000, using the threat of compulsory purchase.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 However, in 1983 the Australian government moved to dishonour this agreement, and told the former last ruler, John Clunies-Ross, that he should leave the Cocos.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 The following year the High Court of Australia ruled that the government could not buy Oceania House.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 Instead the Australian government ordered that no government business was to be given to his shipping company, an action which contributed to his bankruptcy.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 A Cocos dialect of Malay and English are the main languages spoken and 80% of Cocos Islanders are Sunni Muslim.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 India does not recognise Anglo annexation of these Cultural Indo-Indian/Indies islands as part of Australia and disputes it's status to counterbalance regional hegemonic sea power.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
 The capital of the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands is West Island while the largest settlement is the village of Bantam (Home Island).
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 
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Heard Island and McDonald Islands 
 The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (abbreviated as HIMI ) is a territory of Australia.
Ross Dependency 
 The Ross Dependency is an area of Antarctica (and other land masses in the Southern Ocean) claimed by New Zealand.
Ross Dependency 
 Ross Island, Balleny Islands and the small Scott Island also form part of the Dependency, as does the ice-covered Roosevelt Island.
Ross Dependency 
 The scientific bases of Scott Base (New Zealand) and McMurdo Station (USA) are the only permanently occupied human settlements in the area – apart from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station at the very edge of the territory.
Ross Dependency 
 The Dependency has a snow runway at Williams Field, and depending on conditions and time of year, two ice runways.
Ross Dependency 
 The British government took possession of the territory in 1923 and entrusted it to the administration of New Zealand.
Ross Dependency 
 Under the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty System, to which New Zealand is a signatory, no nation may make efforts to enforce sovereignty or territorial claims over the Antarctic continent proper.
Ross Dependency 
 If one accepts the claim, the Ross Dependency comprises the bulk of the territory of New Zealand, far larger than the North Island and the South Island combined.
Ross Dependency 
 However, the actual amount of land mass claimed is not large; most of the area defined as being in the Ross Dependency is either in the Ross Sea or the Antarctic Ocean.
Ross Dependency 
 It is the smallest of the claims which were made prior to the implementation of the Antarctic Treaty System and the suspension of all territorial claims to Antarctica proper.
Ross Dependency 
 In the late 1980s, the British non-governmental exploratory vessel Southern Quest sank in the Ross Sea, United States Coast Guard helicopters rescued the crew, who were taken to McMurdo Station.
Ross Dependency 
 Antarctica New Zealand — Crown entity charged with administering, developing and managing Ross Dependency
Tristan da Cunha 
 Tristan da Cunha is a group of remote volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and also the main island of that group.
Tristan da Cunha 
 Tristan da Cunha is the most remote archipelago (group of islands) and the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world; it is at  from the nearest land, South Africa, and  from South America.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The territory consists of the main island of Tristan da Cunha itself, which measures about  across and has an area of , along with the uninhabited Nightingale Islands and the wildlife reserves of Inaccessible Island and Gough Island.
Tristan da Cunha 
 Tristan da Cunha is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The islands were first seen in 1506 by Portuguese explorer Tristan da Cunha (), but he did not go to land because rough seas.
Tristan da Cunha 
 He gave its name to the principal island of the group () but it was soon changed by to Tristan da Cunha.
Tristan da Cunha 
 In 1656 Jan van Riebeeck, the governor of Cape Town, sent a ship to the archipelago to see if it was possible to establish a military station but the project was abandoned.
Tristan da Cunha 
 Tristan da Cunha also discovered in 1506 the Inaccessible Island; its present name was given by French Capt.
Tristan da Cunha 
 In that same year, the Portuguese Gonçalo Alvarez discovered the Gough Island and named the island after him.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The first permanent settler was Jonathan Lambert, from Salem, Massachusetts, United States, who came to the islands in December 1810.
Tristan da Cunha 
 In 1816 the United Kingdom formally annexed the islands, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
Tristan da Cunha 
 It was a measure to ensure that the French would be unable to use the islands as a base for a rescue operation to free Napoleon Bonaparte from his prison on Saint Helena.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The occupation also prevented the United States from using Tristan da Cunha as a base, as they had during the War of 1812.
Tristan da Cunha 
 Lewis Carroll's youngest brother, the Rev. Edwin H. Dodgson, served as an Anglican missionary and school teacher in Tristan da Cunha in the 1880s.
Tristan da Cunha 
 In 1981, the British government changed the status of Saint Helena and the other Crown colonies to "British Dependent Territories".
Tristan da Cunha 
 The 1961 eruption of Queen Mary's Peak forced the evacuation of the entire population via Cape Town to England.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The following year a Royal Society expedition went to the islands to assess the damage, and reported that the settlement of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas had been only marginally affected.
Tristan da Cunha 
 In 2009, Saint Helena and its two territories received equal status under a new constitution, and the British Overseas Territory was renamed Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.
Tristan da Cunha 
 At 200,000 years old, the main island is the youngest of the group, while Nightingale is the oldest: 12 million years.
Tristan da Cunha 
 Tristan da Cunha is the name of the archipelago and of the main island of the group; the archipelago consists of the following islands:
Tristan da Cunha 
 Inaccessible Island and the Nightingale Islands are located  southwest of the main island, while Gough Island is located  south-southeast.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The main island is quite mountainous; the only flat area is the location of the capital, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, on the northwest coast.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The other islands of the group are uninhabited, except for the weather station on Gough Island, which has been operated by South Africa since 1956 (since 1963 at its present location at Transvaal Bay on the southeast coast), with a staff of six.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The climate of the islands is temperate and oceanic, with a mean air temperature at sea level at Tristan of 15 °C (59 °F), with relatively small daily and seasonal variation.
Tristan da Cunha 
 Mean wind speed is about 40 km/h. Wind speed increases strongly with altitude, while temperature decreases.
Tristan da Cunha 
 Thus, while the lowlands experience quite pleasant weather, the uplands may be covered in snow or battered by very strong winds.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The Köppen climate classification subtype for the climate in Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is Cfb (Marine West Coast Climate).
Tristan da Cunha 
 The average temperature for the year in Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, with an elevation of 23 m, is 13.9 °C (57.0 °F).
Tristan da Cunha 
 The only settlement is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (known locally as "The Settlement of Edinburgh" or, more common, just "The Settlement").
Tristan da Cunha 
 The current population is thought to have descended from 15 ancestors, eight males and seven females, who arrived on the island at various times between 1816 and 1908.
Tristan da Cunha 
 The male founders originated from Scotland, England, The Netherlands, the United States and Italy and share just eight surnames: Glass (Scottish), Green (Dutch), Hagan (Irish), Lavarello (Italian, a typical Ligurian surname), Patterson (Scottish), Repetto (Italian, another typical Ligurian surname), Rogers (English) and  Swain (English).
Frozen dinner 
 Frozen dinners are prepared in bulk, cooked until ready to serve, divided into single servings for freezing, to be reheated later.
Frozen dinner 
 An entrée of meat or other protein is included, along with vegetables, a carbohydrate food (such as potatoes or rice), and a sweet dessert.
Frozen dinner 
 Frozen dinners are helpful for people who do not have time to cook, or who lack meal-planning or cooking skills.
Frozen dinner 
 They are also known as "TV dinners", because they were long advertised as suitable to warm up and eat while watching television.
Frozen dinner 
 Both inventions became popular at around the same time (during the 1950s), and each one sold more of the other.
Frozen dinner 
 When microwave ovens became common, frozen dinners could not be cooked in them because the metal tray would damage the oven.
Frozen dinner 
 Early packaged foods for the microwave often could not be cooked in a regular oven, because the heat would make the package catch fire or fall apart.
Frozen dinner 
 New packaging had to be developed, so the same frozen dinner could be heated in both kinds of ovens.
Věž 
 Věž is a village near Humpolec in the Havlíčkův Brod District, Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.
Reinforced concrete 
 Reinforced concrete is stronger, and can be even stronger if the steel is stretched to make prestressed concrete.
State (disambiguation) 
 An oxidation state in chemistry, referring to the number of electrons added or subtracted from an atom
Prosecutor 
 A prosecutor is a lawyer who argues in a court that the defendant should be found guilty of a crime.
Ibiza 
 Ibiza (in Catalan Eivissa) is an island which is part of the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, which all belong to Spain.
Octave Mirbeau 
 His most famous novels are Le Jardin des supplices (in English: The Torture Garden) (1899) and Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (in English: Diary of a Chambermaid) (1900).
Zapotec civilisation 
 It is the predecessor of the writing systems developed by the Maya, Mixtec, and Aztec civilizations.
Zapotec civilisation 
 Currently there is some debate if Olmec symbols, dated to 650 BC, are actually a form of writing which is older than the earliest Zapotec writing dated to about 500 BC.