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  Your Favorite Cruise - P&O Cruise Line - Aurora
"Aurora" was built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany and arrived off the Isle of Wight on 16th April, where she was escorted by the "Tall Ships" into her home port of Southampton.
At the mouth of the estuary the rocky and picturesque Cies Islands shelter the bay from Atlantic gales.
Madeira is a Portuguese island lying west of Morocco in the Atlantic.
www.cruiseserver.net /travelpage/yourfav/yfc_po_aurora.asp   (4406 words)

  
 Up and Down California in 1860-1864; The Journal of William H. Brewer: Book 4, Chapter 4
These islands are entirely volcanic, and in one place the action can hardly be said to have ceased, for there are hundreds of hot springs over a surface of many acres.
About ten miles before reaching Aurora we struck into the hills north, the town being about fifteen miles due north of the east end of the lake, near what is called “Walker’s Diggings” on your maps.
Well, Aurora is the head of this—is a city, in fact, and the second in importance on the east side of the mountains.
www.yosemite.ca.us /library/up_and_down_california/4-4.html   (4089 words)

  
 Aurora Sailing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The 200 million pound Aurora's first voyage was cancelled on May 2 after a suspected bearing failure scuppered the holiday plans of its 1,800 passengers.
UK and Ireland: PO.L) are set to pay about six million pounds ($9 million) in refunds as well as a compensation package to passengers who had paid up to 7,825 pounds for a two-week Mediterranean cruise.
Aurora's Captain Steve Burgoine said as the ship set sail: ``We can't afford to get anything wrong and it will work, I'm sure.
www.lighthousetravel.com /News/aurora_sailing.htm   (136 words)

  
 Oceanic tropical private island for sale
An oceanic Island situated in the tropics, totally virgin and unexploited, to be developed as a project of a touristic centre of highest standards for the most priviliged clients in the world.
Planning permission for the island is for a world class casino, villas of the highest prestige, bungalows, appropriate restaurants, a shopping complex, boutiques, discotheque etc, price on application.
An island paradise with a sea-front setting below a nature reserve on the West (lee) shore of Carriacou in the Caribbean Grenadines.
www.antibes.co.uk /stratos/island.for.sale   (825 words)

  
 MV Aurora Luxury Yacht Charter Whitsunday Islands and Great Barrier Reef Queensland Australia
A masterpiece of Italian craftsmanship, the 95ft luxury motor yacht, Aurora is the epitome of seagoing splendour.
The wonder beneath the cobalt sea a magnet that draws you irresistibly to a place of quiet lagoons…palm fringed beaches…far away islands and the temperate waters of the Australian tropics.
During the 'big game' season, Aurora will be located on the sheltered blue warm waters of the Great Barrier Reef and positioned near to where the fishing is best.
www.holidaymagic.com.au /luxaurora.htm   (979 words)

  
 Erospace / Aurora Brochure
Aurora's overall size is very similar to the Aerostar 601, but the cabin interior is lengthened and widen slightly to provide Baron class 6-place seating.
Aurora has been designed to accommodate 6 full size, FAA 170 lb passengers, but a 95% human model (6'-4") was used to verify interior space for the pilot/copilot.
Aurora is designed to meet or exceed FAR Part 23 design requirements with a design factor of safety of 2.0.
members.aol.com /erospace/brochure.htm   (4229 words)

  
 Aurora Borealis by Kristin Shoemaker (Book) in Literature & Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Until Aurora, her scheming older sister, falls on hard times and comes to stay for "just a little while." Days turn into weeks turn into years, while Aurora sabotages Alice's career.
Aurora has just lost her millionaire husband and his fortune and needs some place to live.
Aurora Borealis is an entertaining novel, to be sure, but transcends that at moments with insights into human impulse that show promise for Shoemaker’s future direction as an author of serious fiction.
www.lulu.com /content/304630   (825 words)

  
 Sealetter Cruise Ship Review: P & O Cruises Aurora
As P and O's new ship Aurora was in her maiden season, we went ahead and booked in March for the "Canaries Caper" Cruise departing 18 June 2000.
We had covered all there was to see on this beautiful island on a previous two-week land trip, so we took a walk around town, visiting the cathedral built between 1485 and 1515, and the Market.
However, there was some excitement as one man was left on the quayside staring at the stern of Aurora as she left port; the ship stopped and the pilot boat sped out to let him join the ship -- he was geared up with a lifejacket and helped on board.
www.sealetter.com /Sep-00/aurora.html   (5043 words)

  
 Jonathan and Annette Gilmore Family
After 5 years of various experiences in the radio ministry, he began to realize that the Lord was pushing him forth into a total involvement in an itinerant evangelistic ministry, with a great burden for the spiritual plight of the Mediterranean islands.
In 1989 he married Annette Wheeler and since then, basing themselves near Messina, in Sicily, he is actively committed in various ways to meet the spiritual challenges of the "islands of the sea...".
As Aurora Mission missionaries, the ministry in which the Gilmores are involved is varied, extensive and developing.
www.auroraministries.org /mission/missionaries/gilmore_jonathan.htm   (838 words)

  
 Phantom island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
'''Phantom islands''' are islands that are believed to exist and appear on maps for a period of time (sometimes centuries), and they are removed after they are proven not to exist (or the general population stops believing that they exist).
Some Phantom islands arose through the mislocation of actual islands: for instance, Pepys Island was actually a misidentification of the Falkland Islands.
As opposed to Phantom Islands, Lost Lands are islands or continents believed by Some to have existed during pre-history, but to have dissapeared as a result of catastrophic geological phenomena.
phantom-island.iqnaut.net   (178 words)

  
 Secrets of the Polar Aurora
Something similar happens with the electrons that cause the aurora: they collide with atoms in the upper fringes of the atmosphere, give up their energy to those atoms and cause them to emit light.
Auroras, as was said, are caused by beams of electrons hitting the high atmosphere.
He enjoys photographing the aurora, and his collection of auroral images can give you a better feeling of "what the aurora looks like" than anything else I have seen on the web.
www.phy6.org /Education/aurora.htm   (4448 words)

  
 Aurora Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Aurora Islands were a group of three islands first reported in 1762 by the Spanish ship Aurora while sailing from Lima to Cádiz, and then again in 1794 by the corvette Atrevida, which had been sent to find them.
The islands were last sighted in 1856, and have subsequently been ascribed a mythical status, although they continued to appear on maps of the south Atlantic until the 1870s.
It is unknown if the Aurora Islands ever actually existed, or if persistent reports of them may have simply been the result of mid-ocean atmospheric peculiarities or optical illusions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aurora_Islands   (250 words)

  
 June 15, 2006; What's Gerry Parsky Doing In Caribbean? | City Lights | www.sdreader.com
He takes his own jet in the morning to Westwood, where he is chairman and a founding partner of Aurora Capital Group, which acquires companies with borrowed money and attempts to rake in bucks by offering the stock to the public.
By contrast, his adventures in the Cayman Islands have been hush-hush, buried deep in turbid prose in the financial filings of companies that Aurora took over and subsequently took public.
Aurora financed the buyout mainly with debt and in 2005 took the company public.
www.sdreader.com /php/cityshow.php?id=20060625   (1241 words)

  
 Aurora Photos
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, Aurora\ Photos Productions, Inc. shall have the right to commence and prosecute any legal or equitable action or proceeding before any non-U.S. court of competent jurisdiction to obtain injunctive or other relief in the event that, in the opinion of Aurora\ Photos Productions, Inc., such action is necessary or desirable.
www.auroraquanta.com /registration.shtml   (1663 words)

  
 Scott Polar Research Institute » Polar Information Sheets
One isolated volcanic island and offlier; in the Southern Ocean.
One main volcanic island with offliers; Shag Island lies 11 km N and McDonald Islands 38 km W; in the Southern Ocean.
For comparison with the details of the peri-Antarctic islands, the continent of Antarctica with ice shelves, offlying and outlying islands has an area of almost 14 x 106 km2, the highest elevation is 4897 m (Vinson Massif), it is 99·6% glacierized, was sighted in 1819 and the first landing was probably in 1821 by sealers.
www.spri.cam.ac.uk /bob/periant.htm   (1357 words)

  
 Aurora, St. John Villa
Aurora is a 2,400 square foot, three bedroom, four bath villa with pool and separate one bedroom luxury apartment.
Aurora's unique location, the Estate Contant area, combines convenience with seclusion and spectacular sunrise to sunset views.
Aurora's spacious main living/dining area and its adjacent 40 foot deck enjoy spectacular sunsets and sparkling nighttime views of St. Thomas.
www.islandhideaways.com /villa.php?villa_id=35   (582 words)

  
 The Map House - Mythical Islands
The first appearance of the Island of California on a map dates to 1622 on a map by Henry Briggs, this became standard for maps throughout the seventeenth century.
Frisland was a mythical island that appeared on almost all maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through to the 1660s.
Legend was that demons and wild beasts populated the island.
www.themaphouse.com /specialistcat/mythical/mythical.html   (1330 words)

  
 Phantom island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phantom islands are islands that are believed to exist and appear on maps for a period of time (sometimes centuries) but are later removed after they are proved nonexistant or the general population no longer believes they exist.
A few phantom islands may have been actual islands or sand banks that are no longer above water, while others appear to have always been mythical.
As opposed to phantom islands, lost lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during pre-history but have disappeared as a result of catastrophic geological phenomena or slowly rising sea levels since the end of the last Ice Age.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phantom_island   (289 words)

  
 Spaceweather.com: February 2004 Aurora Gallery
Auroras (and my wedding) were the reason for our Lapland holiday.
The auroras were bright enough to cast faint shadows.
The auroras seemed like they were falling out of the sky.
science.nasa.gov /spaceweather/aurora/gallery_01feb04.htm   (649 words)

  
 The Acceleration of the Aurora
Observers on the ground, however, don't see that"diffuse aurora," which is dim and lacks sharp outlines.
Artificial aurora was also created by electrons released from high-altitude nuclear tests between 1958 and 1962, visible in Hawaii, Samoa and off the Azores Islands, places too close to the equator for natural aurora.
Other acceleration processes are also at work, as evidenced by oxygen ions which seem to have been accelerated not along field lines but perpendicular to them, boosting the energy with which they circle their guiding lines.
www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov /Education/waurora2.html   (851 words)

  
 Resource Investor - Press releases - Aurora Gold Corporation is pleased to announce that the Company's wholly owned ...
Aurora Gold Corporation is pleased to announce that the Company's wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary, Aurora Gold Mineração Ltda, has secured the mineral rights over the Branca de Neve property in the Tapajos Gold province, Pará state, Brazil.
Aurora Gold is confident that further high-grade gold systems will be identified on the property in the near future.
If Aurora Gold Mineração decides to proceed with acquiring a 100 percent interest in the title to the mineral rights then Aurora Gold Mineração would give notice to the vendors of its intention to acquire title to the mineral rights at least five days prior to the expiration of the aforementioned period.
www.resourceinvestor.com /pebble.asp?relid=18763   (981 words)

  
 Shag Rocks — 70South - Antarctic News, Antarctic Information, Interactive and Updated Daily...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Shag Rocks are the smallest of the sub-Antarctic islands, and consist of six islands all together.
The islands are part of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands territory.
The main wildlife found on the islands are the eponymous shags, prions and wandering albatrosses.
www.70south.com /resources/antarctic-islands/shag-rocks   (153 words)

  
 Aurora, Philippines - Beaches
From the islands collectively known as Lukso-Lukso, one can hike to the white coral beach of Barangay Zabali.
Dilasag, a municipality at the northernmost area of Aurora, offers a coast with kilometer upon kilometer of white sand beach alternating occasionally with forests, hills, and cliffs.
This rock formation is actually a small island just a few meters away from the reef shore of Barangay Cemento and serves as a point identifying the southernmost tip of Baler Bay.
www.aurora.ph /tourist-beaches.html   (1275 words)

  
 Aurora Lodge, luxury accommodation Waipu Cove, New Zealand. Bird watching, golf, peaceful beaches
Aurora Lodge, luxury accommodation Waipu Cove, New Zealand.
For your comfort and privacy each bedroom is fitted out with own ensuite bathroom, television, electric blankets and hair dryer.
Aurora Lodge is in an elevated position facing north, giving maximum all day sunshine.
www.auroralodge.co.nz   (118 words)

  
 Aurora, Philippines - Baler
As the capital and oldest municipality of Aurora Province, Baler is the seat of government and the center for trade and industry.
The most progressive town in Aurora, Baler commands the most resorts, public institutions and facilities, as well as business establishments.
In addition to the Baler Catholic Church and other historical sites, there are resorts at Sabang Beach and Cemento Beach, where surfers from all over the world compete for the annual International Aurora Surfing Cup.
www.aurora.ph /baler.html   (294 words)

  
 Hippolyte's Island Graphis - Find Articles
His particular Interest here is in the Aurora Islands, which stop appearing on maps after the 1700s.
We're supposed to believe that these mysterious islands actually appear and disappear in random intervals (think auroraborealis, those mystical lights that grace the Northern sky), but one would do better to just enjoy the adventure-and the scenery along the way.
It's the illustrations that contribute the most convincing evidence to the tar-fetched tale, and provide their own sensory experience that is the real point of the book anyway.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3992/is_200203/ai_n9075559   (447 words)

  
 JAMES WEDDELL
News of the discovery of the South Shetland Islands by William Smith had just broken, and Weddell suggested to Strachan that fortunes might be made in the new sealing grounds.
In 1829 he was still master of the Jane, but on a passage from Buenos Aires to Gibraltar the Jane leaked so badly that on arrival at Horta, in the Azores, she was condemned and allowed to founder.
Weddell and his cargo were transferred to another ship for the passage to England, but this ran aground on the island of Pico, and Weddell survived only by lashing himself to a rock.
www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/weddell.html   (1979 words)

  
 PhotoVoyage | Ireland's Aran Islands:
The isolated Aran Islands stand off of the coast of Ireland in the Atlantic, a symbol of solitude and tradition.
As rugged as the people who settled there more than 3,000 years ago, the islands have provided a harsh yet enduring way of life.
Tourists, trade and a dwindling population are now challenging the face of this unique place that didn't have electricity until the 1970's.
wpni01.auroraquanta.com /pv/aranislands   (130 words)

  
 ARRLWeb: The K7RA Solar Update
Six meters open around the clock, and the Aurora was magnificent (radiowise).
Jon Jones, N0JK, in Kansas wrote to say that there was a big aurora display associated with coronal mass ejections on May 30.
Reports from stations in Maine said that the aurora activity was too far south for them for optimum participation.
www.arrl.org /news/stories/2003/06/06/3   (1147 words)

  
 P&O Cruises Aurora Cruise Reviews
Special cabins allow these vehicles to be taken onboard, and where needed, four hefty crew members are on hand to help passengers and their transport, on and off the ship.
It took just three hours to unload 2,000 passengers and their luggage in Southampton, and within 10 hours of arriving she was back at sea, with new guests, heading for Gibraltar.
Their 12 night voyage from Southampton to the Canary islands on Aurora, in a twin bed, balcony cabin with shower and bath, cost £3,500 after a 45 per cent early booking discount.
www.cruisereviews.com /POCruises/Aurora2.htm   (1500 words)

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