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Map of the division of the states during the American Civil War (1861–1865); states in blue represent northern Union states, those in light blue representing five largely Union-supporting border southern states that permitted slavery, known as border states, and both Missouri and Kentucky, which had competing Confederate and Unionist governments, and states in red representing southern ...
North of that lie the Iron Hills of Dain's dwarves; between those and Mirkwood is Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, once home to Smaug the dragon, and afterwards to Thorin's dwarves. [10] The large lands to the east of Rhûn and to the south and east of Harad are not described in the stories, which take place in the north-western part of Middle-earth.
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
Map of the Arctic region showing the Northeast Passage, the Northern Sea Route within it, and the Northwest Passage. The Beluga group of Bremen, Germany, sent the first Western commercial vessels through the Northern Sea Route (Northeast Passage) in 2009. [29]
The Discovery of North America (1972) R. C. West et al., Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples (3d ed. 1989) T. L. McKnight, Regional Geography of the United States and Canada (1992) S. Birdsall, Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada (4th rev. ed. 1992) T. Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and ...
The northern lights will be visible for parts of the northern U.S., according to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center's aurora forecast. The aurora will be visible over much of Canada and ...
Maps issued by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey contain a diagram showing the difference between true north, grid north, and magnetic north at a point on the sheet; the edges of the map are likely to follow grid directions rather than true, and the map will thus be truly rectangular/square. [citation needed]
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.