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  North Stradbroke Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
North Stradbroke Island is an Australian island in the state of Queensland, 30 km southeast of the capital Brisbane.
As an alternative, development of the island for seaside residential use was mooted and in 1970 a bridge from the mainland via Russell Island was under serious consideration by the Queensland government.
North Stradbroke Island is known for its long clean white beaches in the east, its peacefulness due to a long isolation and its rich diversity of nature varying from whales passing Point Lookout to the many wild orchids in the interior of the island.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Stradbroke_Island   (672 words)

  
 Walkabout - Stradbroke Island
The islands, they were separated by a storm in 1896, are only 13 km from the seaside suburbs of Cleveland and Redland Bay by regular ferry services.
Although the islands (at the time it was just one island) were sighted by both Captain James Cook and Matthew Flinders it wasn't until 1827 that the name Stradbroke, after the then Earl of Stradbroke, was given to the island by his son, Captain H. Rous, the commander of the HMS Rainbow.
Stradbroke Island's most famous resident was the late Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal), the highly regarded Aboriginal poet, who was born on North Stradbroke, established the Noonuccal Nughie Education and Cultural Centre on the island, and who has been at the forefront of attempts to curb the large scale sandmining which has occurred.
www.walkabout.com.au /locations/QLDStradbrokeIsland.shtml   (1249 words)

  
 AIDS: An Explosion of the Biological Time-bomb
Rous (1911) worked with a transmissible agent derived from chicken tumor cells [2] and this chicken tumor agent later came to be known as "Rous sarcoma" in honor of its originator.
Kabat (1939) demonstrated that the Rous sarcoma/leukemia virus produced enzymatic effects in infected cells [6] and thus, by the advent of World War II, a transmissible leukemia/sarcoma-causing virus was nearly hypothetically available as a biological weapon.
By 1943, Rous sarcoma was grown in cell culture and its effects on cells were observed [12].
facweb.bhc.edu /eastcampus/leeb/aids/biow1.html   (4856 words)

  
 Long Island Community Histories
The first Presbyterian church was built in Middle Island in 1766, with Rev. David Rose as pastor; he also was the pastor of the South Haven church until his death in 1799.
It was a stage coach stop for the stages that ran along the Middle Country road from the city to the east end villages before the railroad was opened to Greenport in 1844.
East of Ridge at the edge of the Longwood School District is the tiny community of Lake Panamoka.
www.longislandgenealogy.com /community.html   (4292 words)

  
 Moreton Island RAN7 Indicator Loop Station and Fort Cowan Cowan
The island is 98% National Park, protecting the flora, fauna, sandy coastline, freshwater lakes, wetlands and forests.
Moreton Island was once occupied by the Ngugi Aboriginal people but European settlement began in 1848 with the building of a pilot station near Bulwer on the North-western side of the island.
Their oldest son Arthur (aged 17 in 1943) had left the island in the late 1930s to become a fisherman at Maryborough and their youngest son Norman (aged 11) was rarely seen although he did visit the naval station from time to time.
home.iprimus.com.au /waldingr/comboyuro.htm   (6079 words)

  
 History of Nova Scotia; Acadia, Bk.1, 1755: The Taking of Beauséjour and the Deportation of the Acadians; Part 6; Ch. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The fleet was under the command of Captain John Rous.
The confidence that peace would continue was so deeply impressed on the minds of those who lived in the district, that none of these reasons sufficed to awaken the slightest alarm, and we continued to enjoy a sense of security as perfect as though we were residing in the centre of Paris.
Captain Rous, glad now to have some activity, sailed down the Bay to deal with the French at the St John River.
www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part6/Ch03.htm   (3230 words)

  
 Cyclone Nancy
Police officer in charge on the island senior sergeant Tangaroa Vaikai said that the six tourists were from Paradise Cove and they were moved to the Ziona Tapu in Arutanga after midday "to save the hotel workers and the guests the trouble of evacuating in the night".
Tuara said the island was experiencing rough seas and she expected the worst for the island's wharf which was badly damaged during Meena.
However, Rous says that if guests still want to stay at the hotel over the next two weeks, they will be welcomed and the staff will do all they can to ensure they enjoy their holiday here in Rarotonga.
www.cinews.co.ck /Nancy.htm   (2432 words)

  
 Transcript of Lecture Delivered by Mac Griswold  on Thursday, October 18, 2001 at The East Hampton Library
An island with forty miles of coastline and many harbors that was only very nominally a part of the New Haven Colony across the Sound and was far from any tariff port was indeed an advantage for those who wished to circumvent these acts (O'Callaghan 1849 [I ]: 166-7).
Middleton was appointed navy commissioner at Portsmouth, England in 1664, and became the surveyor of the British navy in 1667 (Latham and Mathews 1983 [V]: 314; [VIII]: 62).
In his 1680 will Nathaniel claims full ownership of the island and its improvements on the basis of the fine (L500) he was obliged to pay to the Dutch during the Third Anglo-Dutch war of 1673-4 on behalf of his English partner, Middleton, and his brother, Constant (Nathaniel Sylvester 1680).
www.easthamptonlibrary.org /lic/lectures/mac_griswold_lecture.htm   (3236 words)

  
 North Channel 1996 Cruise
NOTICE TO MARINERS Cockburn Island: a large submerged object 1.6 km east of Cockburn Island in position 45 50.5 N, 083 19.0 W Weather Advisory At 2147 UCT Sunday July 7 Severe Thunderstorm warning issued for Southern Lake Huron.
Between Eagle and S. Benjamin Islands the seas were confused, and Voyager III began a miserable roll, back and forth, because we had little sail aloft to stabilize her.
Once out of the lee of S. Benjamin Island, the waves are running rather tall, and I watch the dingy flail around in our wake, wondering all the time when the motor is going to tilt down by itself and cause a mess.
continuouswave.com /sail-logs/nc1996   (7358 words)

  
 www.FAXTS.com - Travel & Home - North Stradbroke Island -
The island is mainly sand, although there is also a beautiful national park on the east coast of the island called Blue Lake National Park.
These are all towards the north of the island, the southern part of the island being closed to the public due to sand mining.
Once on North Stradbroke Island there is a wide choice of accommodation based around the three main centres, including a number of campsites, hostels, cabins and self contained accommodation all of which you can rent.
www.faxts.com /northstradbroke.html   (1656 words)

  
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The colony was hemmed in by the sea to the East, the Blue Mountains to the West, and more arable land was needed to feed the prisoners and their minders.
The Norfolk began as the longboat from the HMS Sirius, wrecked on Norfolk Island in 1790.
It became the hull of the 25ton sloop which was planked with Norfolk Island pine, and fitted with sails, and used by Bass and Flinders to circumnavigate Tasmania, in 1798, proving it to be an island.
www.rag.org.au /wmhs/facts.htm   (910 words)

  
 Zosimus, New History. London: Green and Chaplin (1814). Book 1.
She was the wife of 22 Odonathus, but had the courage of a man, and with the assistance of her husband's friends, acted in every respect as well as he had done.
While affairs were thus situated in the east, intelligence was brought to Gallienus, who was then occupied in the Scythian war, that Aurelianus, or Aureolus, who was commander of the cavalry posted in the neighbourhood of Milan to watch the motions of Posthumus, had formed some new design, and was ambitious to be emperor.
Aurelianus, being informed of this, hastened into the east, without any preparation, and arriving at Antioch, surprized all the people, who were.then attending a horse-race, and were astonished at seeing him.
www.ccel.org /p/pearse/morefathers/zosimus01_book1.htm   (10711 words)

  
 AusEmade: Stradbroke Island (North and South), Queensland (QLD), Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
North Stradbroke Island is approximately 38 km long and 11 km wide, with South Stradbroke Island being the smaller at only 22 km long and about 2.5 km wide.
Originally sighted by Captain James Cook and Matthew Flinders, it wasn't until 1827 that the island was named after the then Earl of Stradbroke by his son Captain H J Rous, whilst commander of the HMS Rainbow.
Another one of the many island paradises in Australia, North Stradbroke has long, white beaches on its eastern coastline and a rich diversity of flora as can be found in the Blue Lake National Park.
www.ausemade.com.au /qld/destination/s/stradbroke-island.htm   (894 words)

  
 Geographical limits
The waters enclosed by the meridian of 124°30' E, the parallel of 15°26' S, the southern shore of Augustus Island, the meridian of 124°38' and the mainland shore.
The waters enclosed by the meridian of Jarman Island, the parallel of the north end of Bezout Island, the meridian 117°10' E and the Mainland shore.
South of Dirk Hartog Island, operations are also limited to east of a line drawn: (i) from Surf Point on Dirk Hartog Island due south to the mainland..
www.dpi.wa.gov.au /imarine/1289.asp   (567 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
He also placed on the north-east of the island a new plate giving the name of his ship and the date of arrival.* The old plate remained for a while longer, but was not to be found when King** made a careful search for it in 1822.
Those on the remaining island, either not being aware of what had transpired or being too weak to defend themselves, were attacked by a party of Cornelisz' ruffians, and all but seven boys and six women were murdered.
This caused the postponement of the proposed voyage.
gutenberg.net.au /ebooks05/0500301.txt   (14846 words)

  
 The main tourist regions in Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
It is an island of legends, monsters and imagination, and homeland of the very important and famous tree known as "Dam Al-Akawain tree (meaning the two brothers blood tree).
At the east of the old Maeen state there are ruins representing parts of an ancient temple built during the rule of Maeen kingdom.
Sheba Kingdom, and is situated 173km east of Sana'a, the capital.
www.yemeninfo.gov.ye /ENGLISH/CULTURE/Tregions.htm   (4990 words)

  
 North Channel, p.1
The trip was advertised as a GLSKA C-3 trip from Little Current to the Benjamin Islands, organized by Ron Coulson.
However, the channels are wide enough that it's easy for a group of kayaks to stay outside the main (buoy marked) channel, and we puttered along at a comfortable pace until we hit the north side of East Rous Island.
We were tentatively heading for Landing Beach on Bedford Island, but before we got there, Ron spied some perfect (there's that word again) limestone ledges, and we pulled in there shortly after 4 p.m.
johanna.wandel.ca /nc02/tripreport1.htm   (639 words)

  
 The Lusiad: Dissertation on the Fiction of the Island of Venus
And though, as in Homer’s island of Rhadamanthus, the description is sometimes only cursory; at other times they have lavished all their powers, and have vied with each other in adorning their edifices and landscapes.
Nor can the island of Armida, in Tasso, be compared to it, in poetical embroidery or passionate expression; though Tasso as undoubtedly built upon the model of Camoëns, as Spenser appropriated the imagery of Tasso when he described the bower of Acrasia, part of which he has literally translated
She poetically describes every region, and the principal islands, and concludes, "All these are given to the western world by you." It is impossible any poem can be summed up with greater sublimity.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/lus/lusbk09a.htm   (2114 words)

  
 Lucy Terry Prince - Singer of History
That she was brought first to Rhode Island there is general agreement, and is altogether plausible as that colony dominated the colonial American slave trade.16 It is not possible to identify in what ship the child came, but the event must have taken place about 1730.
A study of the slave trade in Rhode Island reveals that in the period when Lucy arrived the rum-slave-molasses traffic from Newport or Bristol to Africa and the West Indies was in its early development.
He says she was brought "from Rhode Island to Enfield, Ct. when 5 years old (date unknown)."24 This statement is the probable explanation of why she was known as Lucy Terry before her marriage to Abijah Prince in 1756.
www.americancenturies.mass.edu /classroom/curriculum_12th/unit1/lesson9/lucy_terry.html   (6862 words)

  
 Istria on the Internet - Nautica - 1800s: British Ships in the Adriatic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
AMPHION reached Malta on the evening of the 15th and NELSON was confirmed in his opinion that the island was an important outwork to India and of immense value to the navy.
BALEINE had been assumed to be a frigate of the largest class but it turned out that she was intended for the transport of stores and was armed with 26 to 30 guns with a crew of 150 men.
The carpenter reported that she was bilged and, as the majority of the men worked on the pumps, they could feel the rocks grinding through her as the tide fell.
www.istrianet.org /istria/history/napoleon/1811_britishnavy.htm   (19444 words)

  
 Containing Iran
Tehran continues to denounce the U.S. as the Arrogance, calls for the expulsion of American influence from the Middle East, seeks to discredit and overthrow moderate Arab governments friendly to the U.S., advocates the destruction of Israel, and adamantly opposes the U.S.-spon sored Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.
These strategic islands, Abu Musa and the two Tunbs, are located astride the vital shipping lanes that carry roughly 20 percent of the.worlds oil through the Strait of Hormuz to Western and Asian markets.
Iran could use these islands as bases for launching attacks on shipping or as staging areas for aggression against the nearby United Arab Emirates, and other Gulf states.
www.heritage.org /Research/MiddleEast/bg980.cfm   (6335 words)

  
 EastBeach
Geographically, East Beach at Ocean Springs, Mississippi is defined as the shoreface on the Bay of Biloxi and Davis Bayou, from Weeks Bayou on the northwest, southeasterly to Stark Bayou, a linear distance of about 1.3 miles.
It is believed that her husband died at East Beach before the conveyance and Mrs.
As the ink on this essay dries, the romantic view of Deer Island from East Beach, is threatened to be replicated as a clone to Biloxi's rapidly developing casino-resort, skyline.
www.oceanspringsarchives.com /eastbeach.htm   (9764 words)

  
 NORTH CHANNEL AFFAIR
Their tale was quite long, but suffice it to say they missed one of those critical early turns amongst the islands (very easy to do), and managed to sail a great distance out of the way.
But inside the tents the mosquitoes went too, and an uncomfortable night was had by all--except for the Burtons, that is, whom slept quite serenely within the bug tight enclosure of their ground tent.
We were glad to be snugly tucked in shore, when we awoke the next morning to heavy clouds and what was surely a strong wind on the "outside" and the imminent threat of rain.
www.uswayfarer.org /cruising_logs/north/affair.html   (4639 words)

  
 US Navy Submarine, USS Triton (SS-201) operated out of Brisbane Submarine Base during WW2 - Was it sunk by friendly ...
Official records indicate that she was sunk by Japanese depth charges north west of the Admiralty Islands on 15 March 1943 with the loss of 74 crew members.
There was a mine field installed between Bribie Island and Moreton Island by the British Navy ship "Job Fifty-one".
If you were based at Fort Bribie, Fort Cowan, Fort Rous or Fort Lytton in March 1943, could you please let me know if your diary shows an details of an explosion at sea around the 28 or 29 March 1943.
ozatwar.com /ozatwar/usstriton.htm   (1829 words)

  
 NJDARM: Proprietors and Adventurers, What people are saying...
He served in absentia, having been named East Jersey governor because he was a prominent Quaker leader who was able to bring in other land purchasers.
But Bendetta Rous, a Christie’s spokeswoman, said yesterday that once the auction house details the items for sale through its Web site and catalogs and alerts collectors worldwide, private sales on the side are no longer possible.
It includes the first constitution of East Jersey, early charters and grants from Sir George Carteret, the Duke of York, and “proclamation and documents concerning all aspects of the governance, survey and settlement of the new colony and its relations with other colonies.” It is expected to sell for $100,000 to $150,000.
www.state.nj.us /state/darm/links/adventurerssay.html   (9222 words)

  
 Sri Lanka Navy murders 13 civilian Tamils (including a 4 month old baby and a 4-year-old child) in Mandaithivu
People of the Islands are renowned for their business acumen and entrepreneurial skills.
The Islands have been under Government control from 1990.Earlier the navy was assisted by EPDP cadres in maintaining security.
Thirteen Tamil civilians were reportedly killed in a spate of incidents on Kayts Island, a small islet off the northwestern coast of the Jaffna Peninsula that is strictly controlled by the Sri Lanka Navy, which has a major base there.
www.tamilnation.org /indictment/continuingwar/060513madaithivu.htm   (8041 words)

  
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I The New World, even before it became clear that it was a new world, captured the imagination of the Renaissance not simply with promises of wealth and empire, though these were strong inducements to exploration and settlement, but with visions of an earthly paradise and a past golden age.
We can see these associations even in the letter Columbus wrote describing what he has seen on his first voyage: This island [Hispaniola, later Haiti] and all others are very fertile to a limitless degree, and this island is extremely so.
Others were no doubt quite taken in; some even attempted to locate More's mythical island on their maps. Of course, the location, the topos or place, of Utopia is intentionally problematical: Eutopia, the good place, is also Utopia, no place.
www.wam.umd.edu /~mlhall/Idea_Report.doc   (3957 words)

  
 Clubbe, "The Tempest-Toss'd Summer of 1816"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
1815 with an immense volcanic eruption in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) when Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa threw an immense amount of fine dust into the atmosphere.
Climatologists rank the eruption as the greatest producer of atmospheric dust between 1600 and the present.' In addition to Tambora, two other major volcanic eruptions had recently taken place: Soufriere on St Vincent Island in 1812, and Mayon in the Philippines in 1814.
From east to west, following the course of the lake, the flening squalls (grains) increase in violence before spending themselves on Geneva.
www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Articles/clubbe.html   (5900 words)

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