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Sasol Secunda. Secunda (from Latin: second, secund, secundi meaning second/following) is a town built amidst the coalfields of the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.It was named for being the second Sasol extraction refinery producing oil from coal, after Sasolburg, [2] some 140 kilometres (87 mi) to the west.
The Trees of Europe. For the purposes of this category, "Europe" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It excludes Eastern Aegean Islands and Cyprus, which although geopolitically part of Europe are considered floristically part of ...
Secunda, a variant of the number two (2), may refer to: Secunda (Hexapla), the first known Hebrew-Greek transliteration of The Old Testament, attributed to Author Origen; Secunda, South Africa, a town developed by Sasol fuel company; Rufina and Secunda, Roman virgin-martyrs and Christian saints; Don E. Secunda, founder of U.S. Gas and Electric
There are few towns in the true montane birch forest zone and alpine zone in Norway and Sweden. On the northernmost coast, the towns Hammerfest and Vadsø are situated in the montane birch zone. In southern Norway, Røros, Geilo and Hovden are situated in, or partly in, the montane birch zone. In contrast to the lowlands, there are many ...
Britannia Secunda or Britannia II (Latin for "Second Britain") was one of the provinces of the Diocese of "the Britains" created during the Diocletian Reforms at the end of the 3rd century. [1] It was probably created after the defeat of the usurper Allectus by Constantius Chlorus in AD 296 and was mentioned in the c. 312 Verona List of the ...
Germania Inferior ("Lower Germania") was a Roman province from AD 85 until the province was renamed Germania Secunda in the 4th century AD, on the west bank of the Rhine bordering the North Sea. The capital of the province was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (modern-day Cologne ).
Southern Europe is focused on the three peninsulas located in the extreme south of the European continent. These are the Iberian Peninsula, the Italian Peninsula, and the Balkan Peninsula. [12] [13] These three peninsulas are separated from the rest of Europe by towering mountain ranges, respectively by the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Balkan ...
The Iberian conifer forests is a Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregion in southwestern Europe. It includes the mountain forests of southern and central Spain. The ecoregion has montane Mediterranean climate. Rainfall averages 1,100 mm annually, and can exceed 1,500 mm in some high-elevation areas.