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The General Post Office (GPO) is the headquarters of Hongkong Post. Built in 1976, it is located at Connaught Place , Central , Hong Kong . The office was adjacent to the former Star Ferry Pier , and it is adjacent to Jardine House and the International Finance Centre .
Brown boobies atop pier posts at Johnston Atoll, September 2005. The United States Minor Outlying Islands is a statistical designation applying to the minor outlying islands and groups of islands that comprise eight United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean (Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island) and one ...
ISO 3166-2:UM is the entry for the United States Minor Outlying Islands in ISO 3166-2, a part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
2 Ursae Minoris (2 UMi) is a single [9] star a few degrees away from the northern celestial pole. Despite its Flamsteed designation , the star is actually located in the constellation Cepheus . This change occurred when the constellation boundaries were formally set in 1930 by Eugene Delporte .
ʻUmi-a-Līloa (fifteenth century) was the supreme ruler Aliʻi-ʻAimoku (High chief of Hawaiʻi Island) who inherited religious authority of the Hawaiian Islands from his father, High Chief Līloa, whose line is traced, unbroken to Hawaiian "creation". [1] Aliʻi-ʻAimoku is the title bestowed on the ruler of a moku, district or island.
Gamma Ursae Minoris has apparent magnitude +3.05 [2] and can be readily observed with the naked eye even in a city-lit night sky. It has an absolute magnitude of –2.84. [ 6 ] Measurement of the star's spectrum resulted in a stellar classification of A2 III, [ 3 ] with the luminosity class of 'III' indicating this is an expanding giant star ...
Ahu A ʻUmi Heiau means "shrine at the temple of ʻUmi" in the Hawaiian Language. [2] It is also spelled "ahu-a-Umi", or known as Ahua A ʻUmi Heiau , which would mean "mound of ʻUmi". It was built for ʻUmi-a-Liloa , often called ʻUmi, who ruled the island of Hawaiʻi early in the 16th century.
Ban-dai sake is made in Umi. Umi (宇美町, Umi-machi) is a town located in Kasuya District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. [1] As of 31 March 2024, the town had an estimated population of 36,907 in 16691 households, and a population density of 1200 persons per km². [2] The total area of the town is 30.21 km 2 (11.66 sq mi)