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  2. Chudleigh, Tasmania - Wikipedia

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    Lobster Rivulet, a tributary of the Mersey River, flows through the locality from west to east, where it forms part of the north-eastern boundary. [4]Chudleigh lies 64 kilometres (40 mi) west of Launceston [5] and 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) east of Mole Creek in northern Tasmania, Australia. [6]

  3. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    Most American geography and social studies classrooms have adopted the five themes in teaching practices, [3] as they provide "an alternative to the detrimental, but unfortunately persistent, habit of teaching geography through rote memorization". [1] They are pedagogical themes that guide how geographic content should be taught in schools. [4]

  4. Outline of geography - Wikipedia

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    Human geography – one of the two main subfields of geography is the study of human use and understanding of the world and the processes that have affected it. Human geography broadly differs from physical geography in that it focuses on the built environment and how space is created, viewed, and managed by humans, as well as the influence humans have on the space they occupy.

  5. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    Musicians can remember the notes associated with the five lines of the treble clef using any of the following mnemonics, EGBDF: (from the bottom line to the top) Every Good Boy Does Fine. [46] Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (or Friendship, Fun, Fruit, etc.) Eggnog Gets Better During February; Empty Garbage Before Dad Flips; Eat Good Bread Dear ...

  6. History of geography - Wikipedia

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    However, the concept of a Regional geography model focused on Area Studies has remained incredibly popular amongst students of geography, while less so amongst scholars who are proponents of Critical Geography and reject a Regional geography paradigm. During its heyday in the 1970s through the early 1990s, regional geography made substantive ...

  7. Cultural geography - Wikipedia

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    Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography.Though the first traces of the study of different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo, cultural geography as academic study firstly emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinist theories of the early 20th century, which had believed that people and societies are ...

  8. International Date Line - Wikipedia

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    However, the locals told them that it was actually Thursday, 10 July 1522. The crew was surprised, as they had recorded each day of the three-year journey without omission. [ 3 ] Cardinal Gasparo Contarini , the Venetian ambassador to Spain, was the first European to give a correct explanation of the discrepancy.

  9. Mount Compass, South Australia - Wikipedia

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    [3] [10] The name is derived from Mount Compass, a nearby mountain, whose name was given in respect to the loss of compass at that place by George Gawler, the second Governor of South Australia in about 1840. [1] [11] There is also a local area school that covers from years R-12 with the focus farm project that is run on the adjacent farm to ...