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French language - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about French language French developed from Latin as spoken in Gaul and was established as a distinct language by the 9th century. Crawley, as a diplomatist, was exceedingly proud of his own skill in speaking the French language (for he was of the world still), and not a little pleased with the compliments which the governess continually paid him upon his proficiency. This book proves how little hold the French language had upon the English people, for although our land had been ruled by Frenchmen for a hundred and fifty years, there are very few words in Layamon that are French or that are even made from French. encyclopedia.farlex.com /French+language   (417 words)

French Island Tourist Association - www.frenchisland.org The wetlands of French Island National Park are extensive and diverse, ranging from seasonal to permanent open water and providing an ideal environment for indigenous plants and safe habitat for birds and animals. French Island National Park has much to offer the visitor who appreciates unspoiled natural bush land and walking along beaches where your only companions are hundreds of wading birds. The French Island Koala population is free of the disease Chlamydia, so the first transfers of Koalas to re-colonise areas of the mainland were made in 1923. www.frenchisland.org /about.html   (494 words)

Acadia National Park -- History As a nod to its French heritage, it was named Lafayette National Park. The park's last major acquisition came in 1943, with the donation of 3,000 acres on unspoiled Isle au Haut, an island that is about 15 miles southwest of Mount Desert Island in Penobscot Bay. Eighty years later, in 1604, the French explorer Samuel Champlain was struck by the bareness of the island's mountaintops while sailing along the coast. americanparknetwork.com /parkinfo/ac/history   (1303 words)

They Brake for Turtles in Padre Island Park Padre Island National Seashore is not at all pristine, nor is it a good test case for those who would draw absolute lines in the sand about what should and should not be allowed in a national park. Johnny French, the retired biologist who was traveling on the beach with the brown pelican, said Padre Island would be well served if everyone who cares about the park reined in rhetoric with fact. Since the Park Service decided to allow new gas drilling here, the most serious environmental complaint — and the focus of an unresolved lawsuit by the Sierra Club — has been the harm that could be done to the world's smallest and most endangered sea turtle, the Kemp's ridley. www.fishbelly.com /news/Dec2002/PadreIslandParkTurtles.htm   (1008 words)

Western Port - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Western Port looking west from French Island to the Mornington Peninsula The coastline, including that of the islands, is some 263 km. Western Port (also known as Western Port Bay) is an inlet on the southern coast of Australia from Bass Strait and the Pacific Ocean, adjacent and to the east of Port Phillip on which is sited Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Western_Port   (317 words)

Proposed Marine National Parks - Western Port Bay The Churchill Island Marine National Park is representative of the south, influenced in part by the nearby open coast. The Victorian Government has established a system of marine national parks and marine sanctuaries to ensure that samples of this magnificent underwater world and the impressive array of marine life which inhabits it are fully protected. This system of marine national parks is a splendid legacy for us, as current custodians, to pass on to our children and to future generations. www.nre.vic.gov.au /dse/nrencm.nsf/FID/-634FB7C54517C7C8CA256B91001FE898?OpenDocument   (736 words)

Prince Edward Island National Park - people The French, the first to settle on the island in 1720, were soon joined by a small number of Acadians from Nova Scotia, the first group to seek refuge from British oppression there. The first tangible clues of aboriginal occupation come from a Rustico Island shell midden first excavated in 1894 and subsequently investigated over a seventy-five year period until it was totally excavated by Parks Canada in 1988. Within the park, the first British settlers cleared most of the land in Cavendish, Rustico Island and Stanhope. www.canadianparks.com /prince_edward/peislnp/page4.htm   (243 words)

the great outdoors The 220-hectare farm is set in the middle of the French Island National Park and as well as doing time in the historic jail visitors are free to explore at their leisure. French Island is also home to the world's largest disease-free koala population. Historically, French Island is famous for the mid-security jail that operated here for 59 years. thegreatoutdoors.com.au /display.php?location=VIC&ID=1310   (381 words)

NPS Historical Handbook: Statue of Liberty Although the island was then abandoned as a military post, it remained under the control of the War Department, with the exception of an acre or so at its north end which was set aside for the Lighthouse Board which operated the light in the torch. Three sites—Governor's Island, Ellis Island, and Bedloe's Island—were chosen for defense fortifications, and on February 15, 1800, by act of the New York Legislature, the three islands were ceded to the United States Government. For a while referred to merely as the "works on Bedloe's Island," it later was named "Fort Wood" in memory of a distinguished hero of the War of 1812 who was killed in 1814 during an attack on Fort Erie. www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/11/hh11m.htm   (729 words)

natpark.txt Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Box 74680, Fairbanks, AK 99707 (907) 456-0281 Jagged peaks, gentle arctic valleys, and numerous lakes characterize this park and preserve north of the Arctic Circle. Many lesser-known parks are historical areas, such as battlefields of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, forts along the routes of western exploration and migration, ruins of the dwelling places of pre-Columbian native peoples, and homes of Presidents and other men and women who contributed significantly to the nation's progress. National Colonial Farm, an agricultural-historical project of Accokeek Foundation, provides an exhibit and demonstration of agricultural methods, crops, and livestock of a modest tidewater farm of the mid-18th century. www.pueblo.gsa.gov /cic_text/travel/natpark/natpark.txt   (13171 words)

Acadia English - Little Cranberry Island / Acadia National Park Famous as a place where mountains meet the sea, Little Cranberry Island and nearby Acadia National Park are at the heart of one of the most beautiful natural areas on the east coast of the USA. Originally populated by the ancestors of Maine’s Wabanaki people, Mt. Desert Island (from the French l’Ile des Monts Déserts) was named by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who sailed here in 1604. The island is dominated by Mt. Cadillac, at 466 meters the tallest mountain on the east coast of North America. www.acadiaenglish.com /cranberry.cfm   (507 words)

St. Lucia National Trust Pigeon Island was restored by the National Trust as a landmark encompassing all aspects of the rich heritage, with emphasis on the glorious period of the late eighteenth century, Pigeon Island was therefore a key factor in the Battles between the British and the French. Pigeon Island National Landmark is heralded as one of the most important monuments of St.Lucia's history. www.slunatrust.org /pisland.htm   (813 words)

History of Acadia Today the park encompasses 35,000 acres, and the simple pleasures of "ocean, forests, lakes, and mountains" that for over a century and a quarter have been sought and found by millions, are yours to enjoy. The English victory at Fernald Point doomed Jesuit ambitions on Mount Desert Island, leaving the land in a state of limbo, lying between the French, firmly entrenched to the north, and the British, whose settlements in Massachusetts and southward were becoming increasingly numerous. Deep shell heaps indicate Indian encampments dating back 6000 years in Acadia National Park, but prehistoric records are scanty. www.acadia.net /anp/w95026ap.html   (1105 words)

About Ship Island Part of Gulf Islands National Seashore and protected by the National Park Service, the unspoiled island is home to an interesting variety of plants and wildlife, including many species of migratory birds. The island was named in 1699 by French explorers who were impressed with the protected, deep-water anchorage it offered their ships. The National Park Service provides a designated swim beach. www.msshipisland.com /island.htm   (438 words)

Mornington, Sorento, Frankston, Hasting, Dandenong, Portsea, Philip Island, Frenchs Island, Greater Melbourne, Vic, Victoria - FrogandToad, Australias Ultimate Online Guide The area is renowned for Phillip Island, where the nature park is home to the nightly Penguin Parade, the shearwaters that every year fly between Alaska and Phillip Island, the seals that cavort around Seal Rocks and the koalas on a treetop boardwalk. The Mornington Peninsula National Park has long been a favourite for summer holidays. Phillip Island is mainly flat with low-level hills to break the landscape. www.frogandtoad.com.au /vic/grmelbourne/mornington   (1017 words)

Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4 In 1604, Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec City four years later, ran aground on an island which he named Mount Desert, in Maine's Acadia National Park, because of the bare mountain peaks which he observed. What began as a trickle of French speaking immigrants from the Provinces of Québec and New Brunswick at the time of statehood for Maine in 1820, became a torrent during the last half of the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth. Using three variables (French spoken at home, French ethnic origin and French language vitality as expressed as the ratio between the two), this contemporary section locates Maine's French speaking and French ancestry populations at different geographic scales. www.francomaine.org /English/Pres/Pres_intro.html   (600 words)

Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park Museum/Attraction Review Cape Breton Island Frommers.com The park was built to re-create life as it looked in 1744, when this was an important French military capital and seaport; visitors today arrive at the site after walking through an interpretive center and boarding a bus for the short ride to the site. The first was early in the 18th century, when the French first colonized this area -- aggressively -- in a bid to stake their claim in the New World. The historic French village of Louisbourg has had three lives. www.frommers.com /destinations/capebretonisland/A31473.html   (451 words)

AllRefer.com - Isle Royale National Park, United States (U.S. National Park System) - Encyclopedia Glaciated, the island has many lakes, streams, and inlets and remains a roadless, forested wilderness. More articles from AllRefer Reference on Isle Royale National Park In the early 1900s the island was a popular vacation retreat. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/IsleRoya.html   (264 words)

Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cape Breton Island, Canada - National Parks - proudly presented by Kanada News' Canada Vacation Planner The Online Travel Directory Entrances to the Park are located on the Cabot Trail north of Cheticamp (west side of the Island) and at Ingonish Beach (east). The Park stretches across the northern tip of Cape Breton Island between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean. Cape Breton Highlands National Park can be discovered by car or bicycle, utilising the 298 km Cabot Trail, one of the world’s most scenic highway. www.canadavacationplanner.com /listings/EN/698   (249 words)

Statue Of Liberty National Monument (National Park Service) Located on 12-acre Liberty Island in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty was a gift of international friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States and is one of the most universal symbols of political freedom and democracy. Statue Of Liberty National Monument (National Park Service) Liberty Island is federal property located within the territorial jurisdiction of the State of New York. www.nps.gov /stli   (288 words)

Pigeon Island National Park, Travel and Tourist information In the 1970s a sandy causeway was constructed between Gros Islet and Pigeon Island, turning the island into a peninsula, and in 1979 Pigeon Island was established as a national park. Pigeon Island has a spicy history dating back to the 1550s when St Lucia's first French settler, Jambe de Bois ('Wooden Leg'), used it as a base for raiding passing Spanish ships. Two centuries later British admiral George Rodney fortified the island, using it to monitor the French fleet on Martinique. www.destinationplanner.com /north_america/saint_lucia/pigeon_island_np.html   (193 words)

VNPA Parks protected areas Together these national parks and reserves ostensibly protect around 3.6 million hectares, or about 16% of Victoria, and cover around 40% of the remaining native vegetation. There are currently 52 national parks, 30 state parks, three wilderness parks, ww marine sanctuaries, and other areas covering approximately 3.2 hectares under Victoria's National Parks Act (1975). These parks are not just pieces of land critical to conservation in Victoria, they are also great places to visit, offering experiences and adventures that are all too rare in today's busy world. www.vnpa.org.au /theparks/protected_areas.htm   (268 words)

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area A measure of good will with surrounding communities has been rekindled and a productive partnership with National Park Service has begun to emerge; one that will have to be emulated in situations all over the country where National Parks face a shortage of money and manpower. The National Recreation Area was originally conceived as an adjunct to "management" of the Delaware River. And to harmonize stepped-up promotion of the Park with concerns of the surrounding communities about maintenance, rateables, and multitudes of visitors will be a Herculean achievement. www.njskylands.com /pkdwgnra.htm   (1526 words)

World Heritage Sites in the United States In 1932 Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park were designated by Canada and the United States as an "international peace park," the first such joint recognition in the world. Carlsbad Caverns National Park was established in 1930 and contains 46,766 acres of rugged mountain land and 80 caves. Mammoth Cave National Park, with more than 345 miles of explored passageways, is the longest known cave system in the world. www.thesalmons.org /lynn/wh-usa.html   (963 words)

State goes greener as parks expand - Science - www.theage.com.au Closer to Melbourne, additions will be made to parks such as French Island National Park, Bunyip State Park, Steiglitz Historic Park and Woodlands Historic Park. The Victorian National Parks Association said the move added 14,000 hectares to the state's national parks and another 23,000 hectares for conservation reserves. Charlie Sherwin from the Victorian National Parks Association applauded the additions, but said new areas must be backed with more funding for park management and better management of existing protected areas. www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/06/03/1086203564102.html   (396 words)

L.L.Bean: Park Search - Prince Edward Island National Park Skirting the north shore of Prince Edward Island along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, this national park was a popular vacation spot in the late 19th century and was designated a national park in 1937. The park protects a spectacular system of sand dunes, beaches, red sandstone cliffs, salt marshes, freshwater ponds and two cultural landmarks: Green Gables and Dalvay-by-the-Sea National Historic Site. A wide range of interpretive activities are held daily throughout the park and at Green Gables throughout the summer. www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/1934llt.htm   (241 words)

French Island Eco Tours Detail The tour discusses the threats to French Island, and what is being done (practically) to conserve areas such as French Island in their pristine states, for the benefit of the endangered flora and fauna, and the enjoyment of future generations. French Island Eco Tours are members of the Ecotourism Association of Australia and their "General Interest and Special Interest Eco Tours, have been awarded Advanced Eco-Tourism Certification under the NEAP Program. French Island Eco Tours are an Accredited Bus, Coach and Tour operator (#AC00856), under the Victorian Dept Of Infrastructure. www.labyrinth.net.au /~aussie/fietdetl.htm   (1881 words)

Maria Island National Park - Highlights  The story of Maria Island is dominated by the sea: from the rise and fall of the sea that created the island and left a legacy of sea creatures fossilised in its cliffs, to the history of its human occupation. The island was soon infamous for the number of escapes and was known among convicts as a place of ease. So alongside native pademelons which occured on the island naturally, are Forester kangaroos and Bennetts wallabies which have been introduced to the island. www.parks.tas.gov.au /natparks/maria/highlights.html   (535 words)

NPS Historical Handbook: Statue of Liberty (Contents) The National Park System, of which Statue of Liberty National Monument is a unit, is dedicated to conserving the scenic, scientific, and historic heritage for the benefit and enjoyment of the people. This publication is one of a series of handbooks describing the historical and archeological areas in the National Park System administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. It is printed by the Government Printing Office and may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D.C. Price 25 cents www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/hh/11/hh11toc.htm   (116 words)

National & State Parks of the Mornington Peninsula This is Victoria's most visited national park, attracting more than 2.5 million visitors per year. National and State Parks of the Mornington Peninsula First discovered in 1802 and settled in 1852, this 43,000 hectare island is only 90 minutes by train and ferry from Melbourne. www.visitor.com.au /parks.html   (417 words)

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