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De Vos was born in 1979 in Sri Lanka. [1] When she was six years old her parents would bring her second-hand National Geographic magazines. She would look through the pages and "imagine that that would be me one day – going places where no-one else would ever go and seeing things no-one else would ever see", inspiring her to dream of being an "adventure-scientist".
Sri Lanka has a total area of 65,610 km 2, with 64,740 km 2 of land and 870 km 2 of water, and a coastline that is 1,340 km long. The main island of Sri Lanka has an area of 65,268 km 2 and is the 25th largest island in the world by area. [2] Dozens of offshore islands account for the remaining 342 km 2 of area.
Women in Sri Lanka make up to 52.09% of the population according to the 2012 census of Sri Lanka. [7] Sri Lankan women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in many areas. Historically, a masculine bias has dominated Sri Lankan culture , although woman have been allowed to vote in elections since 1931 . [ 8 ]
The island is located between Neduntheevu, Sri Lanka and Rameswaram, India and has been traditionally used by both Sri Lankan Tamil and Indian Tamil fishermen. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1974, then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi accepted Katchatheevu as Sri Lankan territory under the Indo-Sri Lankan Maritime agreement aimed at resolving the ...
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Sri Lankan This category exists only as a container for other categories of Sri Lankan women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Sri Lanka will hold a parliamentary election on Nov. 14, the government announced on Tuesday, less than two months after the Indian Ocean island nation elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new ...
[17] [18] Kuru-Utumpala went on to become the first Sri Lankan as well as first and only Sri Lankan woman to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Kuru-Utumpala's summit also made Sri Lanka the fourth country in the world after Poland , Croatia and South Africa , from which a woman was the first person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
A toppled 4,000-year-old monolith was found at a “sacred site” on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Experts believe the new discovery at the Erimi archeological site offers the oldest sacred ...