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	Informat.io on Hanko
		Hanko (IPA: /ˈhɑŋko/) (Hangö in Swedish, or Гангут in Russian), is a small bilingual port city on the south coast of Finland, 130 km west of Helsinki.
		The Battle of Gangut between Swedish and Russian navies was fought in 1714 in the archipelago north of the peninsula.
		Hanko was the port of choice for emigrants leaving Finland for a new life in North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.informat.io /?title=hanko (750 words)

	Hanko Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Hanko peninsula, on which the town is located, is the southernmost tip of continental Finland.
		Following the armistice of the Finnish Winter War on March 6th, 1940, Hanko was leased to the Soviet Union as a military base for a period of 50 years.
		The role of the Hanko naval base was replaced by Porkkala in the armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union of September 19th 1944.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/h/ha/hanko.html (228 words)

	Hanko, Finland
		Hanko (IPA: /ˈhɑŋko/), or Hangö in Swedish, is a small bilingual port town on the south coast of Finland, 130 kilometers west of Helsinki.
		The skyline of Hanko is dominated by the churh and water tower.
		Hanko is known for its beautiful archipelago, see this photo, a panorama taken from the water tower.
	www.creekin.net /c3463-n66-hanko-finland.html (451 words)

	Nonette Hanko, the environment's 'mum' (May 07, 2003)
		Hanko's perseverance in supporting land acquisition to accomplish the trails "greenbelt" also extends to her current interests: seeing the district expand to the coast and overseeing completion of two trails that would encircle San Francisco Bay, one in the baylands and the other along the ridge lines of the mountains that encircle the Bay.
		Hanko was an early supporter of the district's volunteer program for everything from "docent" guides to trail maintenance and construction.
		Hanko is proud of her four children and seven grandchildren who, she says, "live close to her heart." But she thinks of MROSD as a "fifth child" and is known affectionately to its staff as "mum."
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2003/2003_05_07.hanko07.html (809 words)

	Hanko, Finland
		Hanko (Swedish Hangö), situated on a peninsula in southwestern Finland, is the country's most southerly town.
		The peninsula was fortified at the end of the 18th century.
		Hanko received its municipal charter, however, only in 1874, when the opening of the railroad line from Helsinki gave the town's economy a boost.
	www.planetware.com /finland/hanko-sf-udn-han.htm (281 words)

	Hanko, Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The skyline of Hanko is dominated by the church and the water tower.
		It is situated to the south of Hanko.
		Hanko and later Porkkala (Baltic Sea peninsulas in Finland)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hanko (843 words)

	Hanko > Main
		Hanko became a pearl of Southern Finland at once - magnificent summer residences and villas (area Spa Park) began appears here in the beginning of the last century.
		By the Soviet-Finnish peace treaty in 1940 the peninsula of Hanko was rented by Soviet Union for 30 years for creation the naval base.
		By the armistice of 1944 of USSR refused of the rent of peninsula.
	www.nortfort.ru /hanko/index_e.html (584 words)

	Moscow Peace Treaty (1940) Encyclopedia Article @ Accorded.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Hanko Peninsula was to be leased to the Soviet Union for 30 years.
		Finally, the Hanko Peninsula was leased to the Soviet Union as a naval base for 30 years.
		Contrary to common belief, the Soviet troop transfer rights by railway to the Hanko base were not granted in the peace treaty, but they were demanded first on July 9, after Sweden had acknowledged railway transit of Wehrmacht troops to occupied Norway.
	www.accorded.net /encyclopedia/Moscow_Peace_Treaty_(1940) (1196 words)

	Tvärminne Zoological Station, enviroment
		Hanko peninsula itself is a mixture of Precambrian bedrock and a geologically recent end-moraine complex, Salpausselkä, that runs as a continuous ridge from the Russian Karelia through the whole of southern Finland and even further into the northern Baltic Sea.
		In the northern Baltic proper, off the coast of the Hanko peninsula, the greatest water depths are 50–80 m and the salinity of the surface water is around 5.5–7 ‰.
		Apart from the esker area of the Hanko peninsula, where sandy soils are predominant, the shores are mainly rocky and stony.
	luoto.tvarminne.helsinki.fi /english/enviroment.html (1809 words)

	The Port City of Hanko
		Hanko was founded in 1874, and was a major point of departure from Finland between 1881 and 1931.
		Hanko Harbor as seen from the Hanko water tower.
		In the summer, this is the central point for the Hanko Regatta, which happens the first weekend in July, with over 200 boats competing every year.
	www.wathenadesigns.com /Finland/Towns/Hanko/hanko.html (685 words)

	The development of coastal dunes and their vegetation in Finland
		The Hanko Peninsula is part of a large ice marginal formation (end moraine), the First Salpausselkä (Fig.
		The bay of Yrjänä is situated on the western shore of the Tauvo Peninsula in Siikajoki (Fig.
		Röyttänhieta is situated on the east coast of the peninsula of Karsikko and is separated from the present shoreline by high pine forest.
	ethesis.helsinki.fi /julkaisut/mat/maant/vk/hellemaa/dunes.html (14199 words)

	Hanko (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		New hanko, meet old public sectorA hanko, for the uninitiated out there, is a personal seal that serves as your signature for most official purposes in Japan.
		The Hanko and the Ringi-sho: The Sword and Shield of the Japanese...
		Hanko are also used for the ringi-sho, and if you are living in Japan and...
	www.sport-opinion-upshot.info /Hanko (1141 words)

	'Friends' gain more support for hospital
		Peninsula Health Care District oversees the public land upon which the hospital would be built.
		Board members Terilyn Hanko and Dr. Tobin Schneider have refrained from the discussions upon advice from the state Fair Political Practices Commission, indicating possible sources of income conflicts.
		Hanko is in the process of appealing the FPPC advice.
	www.mills-peninsula.org /news/articles/friends.html (927 words)

	Wikinfo \| Moscow Peace Treaty (1940) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Swedish Cabinet also decided to reject repeated pleas from the Finns for regulary Swedish troops deployed in Finland, and in the end the Swedes also made clear that their support in arms and munition could not be maintained for much longer.
		Diplomatically Finland was squezed between Allied hopes for a prolonged war and Scandinavian fears for a continued war propagating to the Scandinavian peninsula (or for the surge of refugees after a Finnish defeat).
		The Hanko penisula was also leased to the Soviet Union as a military base for 30 years.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Moscow_Peace_Treaty_(1940) (717 words)

	Hanko 1940-41 and Porkkala 1944-56 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the Peace Treaty of Moscow on May 12, 1940 Finland was compelled to lease to the Soviet Union Hanko headland and the town of Hanko for a naval base for a time period of 30 years.
		The Russians retreated from Hanko on December 2, 1941.
		The Russians renunciated Hanko as a base finally in the later peace treaty of Paris in 1947.
	www.histdoc.net /history/hanko.html (276 words)

	Hanko bird observatory - Tringa ry
		Hanko Bird Observatory (Halias) is maintained by The Birding Society of The Helsinki Area, Tringa ry.
		The actions of Hanko Birding Observatory are yearly published in Tringa-magazine and national Linnut-yearbook (in Finnish).
		In the springtime the peninsula of Uddskatan doesn't gather birds in as big numbers as in the autumn and therefore the ringing activities are not continuous.
	www.tringa.fi /lintuasemat/hanko_observatory.html (1377 words)

	Meetings with the Allies
		Situated at a distance of 220 miles from Kronstadt the peninsula of Hanko was encircled by the enemy.
		But the threat to the Crimean Peninsula from the isthmus of Perekop compelled GHQ to commit the whole of the Black Sea Fleet and Coastal Army to the defence of the Crimea, of Sevastopol in particular.
		The islands of Osel and Dago, and the peninsula of Hanko in the west, and the islands of
	admiral.centro.ru /memor06.htm (11313 words)

	Battle of Gangut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The naval Battle of Gangut took place on July 27, 1714 during the Great Northern War (1700-21), in the waters north of the Hanko Peninsula, near the site of the modern-day city of Hanko, Finland, between the Swedish Navy and Imperial Russian Navy.
		When the Russian ships arrived near the peninsula they were met by a strong Swedish naval fleet under the command of Admiral Wattrang.
		The majority of the troops in Turku were moved according to his request to the peninsula.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Gangut (878 words)

	Bird observatories- Tringa ry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Two bird observatories are situated in the area of Tringa birding society: Halias in Hanko and Rönnskär in Kirkkonummi.
		However, you will get a permit to enter these areas if you are a birdwatcher, you pay the yearly fee of the observatory and if there is room for you at the observatory.
		Halias was established in February 1979 and is situated at the very southwestern point of Hanko peninsula (59°49' N, 22°54' E), at the edge of the outer archipelago a few kilometers from the town of Hanko.
	www.tringa.fi /lintuasemat/birdobservatories.html (242 words)

	The Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940 (History Alive)
		For the Finns, the terms were harsh; they had to cede the Carelian Isthmus and the area surrounding Lake Ladoga, practically every battle field they had fought on and fought for, was now behind the border.
		The Soviet Union also demanded that they would be allowed to rent the Hanko Peninsula from Finland, and build a military base there.
		He suggests, that the struggle was not in vain, because “The Soviet Union had abandoned its efforts to control the whole of Finland and had resigned itself to securing its immediate strategic interests.” These interests were of course the Carelian Isthmus, and the Hanko peninsula.
	s3.invisionfree.com /History_Alive/ar/t176.htm (1033 words)

	12 October 1939 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		They are proposing that Finland should give over territory in the Karelian Isthmus, the islands at the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland and lease a base at Hanko peninsula in Finland's southern coast.
		Finns resisted because the territory in the Isthmus would include the southern part of the main defensive line (that would later be known as the 'Mannerheim Line'), because the Hanko base would be uncomfortably near Helsinki, and because the territory in Karelia the Soviets are offering is strategically and economically worthless undeveloped land.
		But the most important reason is that the Finns are afraid that the Soviet proposals are just the first step in an attempt to annex Finland.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1939/10/12.htm (272 words)

	Finnish Navy in WW II - Organization
		The Finnish Navy was divided between two areas; east and west from Hanko peninsula lease area.
		The bulk of the Navy, including Coastal Fleet, was operating west from Hanko.
		The mine sweeping detachment in Hanko area had two groups: the eastern and western ones.
	users.tkk.fi /~jaromaa/Navygallery/Background/Organization/Oob-41.htm (524 words)

	Hanko - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Hanko" at HighBeam.
		TRANSFENNICA: New express service between Lubeck and Hanko.
		A thousand pints for life: Blood drive honors woman injured in crash
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hanko.html (233 words)

	Hanko island defence (22.06.41-02.12.41). Battle Of Leningrad - leninbat.spb.ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Defenсe Hanko peninsula 22.6-2.12.41, battle actions Soviet Baltic navy with the purposes of a defense of the Finnish gulf and distant approaches to Leningrad.
		Into structure Military Navy Base entered garrison (27 thousand man), coastal and anti-aircraft guns (35 guns of calibre up to 305 mm), air-group (20 aircrafts), 7 boats, 16 auxiliary ships.
		From 23.10.41 till 5.12.41 22 thousand heroic defence of Hanko peninsula with arms and engineering were delivered in Leningrad.
	leninbat.spb.ru /eng/hank.htm (85 words)

	FISKARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fiskars holdings on the Hanko peninsula consist of 4,000 hectares.
		The real estate company Ferraria has together with neighboring municipalities prepared a partial general plan for the area.
		With the purpose of attracting new permanent settlers and environmental small industry, preparations of a general plan for the Skogby-Harparskog has started.
	www.fiskars.fi /business/liiketoiminta_2_3.html (58 words)

	Viikon Kuva 39/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For the first time in a while the forecast promised sunny weather round the south coast for this weekend.
		I thought that the change in the weather would encourage raptors to migrate and decided to make a daytrip to the Halias bird station in Hanko peninsula.
		And there were some nice occasions with Sparrowhawk and Honey buzzard but all in all the raptor migration was very modest.
	www.lintukuva.fi /markus/0439.html (146 words)

	The word Hanko may refer to Hanko Finland Hanko Finland... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The word Hanko may refer to Hanko Finland Hanko Finland...
		"Hanko" is sometimes a misspelling of Hankou Hankou (汉口), China msg:disambig
		A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
	www.biodatabase.de /Hanko (63 words)

	Winter War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It also demanded that Finland lease the Hanko Peninsula to the USSR for 30 years for the creation of a naval base there.
		Military troops and remaining civilians were hastily evacuated in line with the terms of the treaty, as only a few score civilians chose to remain under Soviet governance.
		The Front Museum on the Hanko Peninsula, documenting the lease of Hanko to the USSR
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Winter_War (4720 words)

	The development of coastal dunes and their vegetation in Finland
		Geomorphological observations were made and plant and sand samples were collected from the sites.
		The development of the morphology and plant cover on the shores of Yyteri and Hanko were observed almost every summer between 1987-1996, and a total of 38 soil samples were taken in summer 1991 along the coast from Tulliniemi on the Hanko Peninsula to Haikaranhietikko on the foreland of Tauvo (Fig.
		The processes affecting the shores in winter were observed during a field trip to Yyteri on 13 March 1994.
	ethesis.helsinki.fi /julkaisut/mat/maant/vk/hellemaa/methods.html (1457 words)

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