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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on 8 March 2014, after departing from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. [1] Malaysia's then Prime Minister, Najib Razak, stated that the aircraft's flight ended somewhere in the Indian Ocean, but no further explanation was given at the time. [2]
The 6g cell and its sub-grid.. Geohash is a public domain geocode system invented in 2008 by Gustavo Niemeyer [1] which encodes a geographic location into a short string of letters and digits.
Outline of Marree Man The Artemision Bronze. The Marree Man geoglyph depicts a man holding either a woomera (a throwing stick) or a boomerang (but see Plaque section below).. By December 1998, it had been noted that the outline matched, in reverse, that of the Artemision Zeus bronze raised from the bottom of the Aegean Sea in 1928.
Like Heizer's Double Negative (1969), City is designed and executed on a massive scale. Covering a space approximately one and a quarter miles long and more than a quarter of a mile wide (2 km by 0.4 km, roughly the scale of the National Mall), City is one of the largest sculptures ever created.
Satan's Kingdom has been noted for its unusual place name. [2] [3] Stories say that it was named Satan's Kingdom after a resident of Northfield walked out of a church where a sermon about the fires of hell had just been given and saw a forest fire across the Connecticut River, and observed that Satan's Kingdom was burning.
The Pilchuck River (Lushootseed: dxʷkʷiƛ̕əb) [4] is a river in Snohomish County in the U.S. state of Washington.It is a tributary of the Snohomish River.The name is derived from the Chinook Jargon pilpil ("blood", "red") and chuck ("water"), or "red water". [5]
The island was highlighted on Google Earth in February 2009, which brought the island to worldwide attention. [1] Recent activity on the island has created two large scars across the heart, one spanning the island from a pier on the north to the south, and the other to the west of it where the olive and fig trees are planted.
Geodetic latitude and geocentric latitude have different definitions. Geodetic latitude is defined as the angle between the equatorial plane and the surface normal at a point on the ellipsoid, whereas geocentric latitude is defined as the angle between the equatorial plane and a radial line connecting the centre of the ellipsoid to a point on the surface (see figure).