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Groblersdal is a farming town situated 32 km north of the 178 million m³ Loskop Dam in the Sekhukhune District of Limpopo. The town is South Africa 's second largest irrigation settlement.
This is a list of the larger offshore islands of Europe. In the Atlantic Ocean. Major islands and the island groups of the British Isles (Anglo-Celtic Isles) Great ...
He was heading to the Faroe Islands but drifted off course and landed near Reyðarfjörður in Iceland. As he returned to his boat it started to snow and thereby he reputedly named the land Snæland (lit. Snowland). [citation needed] Garðarr Svavarsson discovers Iceland. Blown from a storm near the Orkney Islands. He circumnavigated Iceland ...
It may have been Europe's most prosperous hunting, fowling, and fishing ground in the Mesolithic period. [ 6 ] [ 11 ] One extensive river system found by a 3D seismic survey undertaken by the Birmingham "North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project" drained the southeastern part of the Dogger Bank hill area into the east end of the Outer Silver Pit lake.
During the Weichselian glaciation, almost all of Scandinavia was buried beneath a thick permanent sheet of ice and the Stone Age was delayed in this region.Some valleys close to the watershed were indeed ice-free around 30 000 years B.P. Coastal areas were ice-free several times between 75 000 and 30 000 years B.P. and the final expansion towards the late Weichselian maximum took place after ...
Norsemen settled the Faroe Islands in the 9th or 10th century. The islands were officially converted to Christianity around the year 1000, and became a part of the Kingdom of Norway in 1035. Norwegian rule on the islands continued until 1380, when the islands became part of the dual Denmark–Norway kingdom, under king Olaf II of Denmark.
The region has grown rich from trade with China and Eastern Europe, its merchants dealing in silk, furs, amber, honey, and walrus ivory. During his rule, Qutayba subjugates the mercantile cities of Bukhara and Samarkand (modern Uzbekistan ), as well as the Oxus delta area of Khwarezm , south of the Aral Sea .
Pest, at the Margaret Island. There is a complete roadway under the water (2006-04-03) There is a complete roadway under the water (2006-04-03) The Danube river was at its peak 865 cm (28 ft 4 in) high in Budapest , Hungary , higher than the previous record of 848 cm in 2002.