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	Ross-on-Wye - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ross Sea, southern extension of the Pacific Ocean, indenting the coast of Antarctica, between Victoria Land on the west and Marie Byrd Land on the...
		Ross Dependency, the sector of Antarctica lying between longitude 160° East and 150° West, and the islands lying between those degrees of longitude...
		Ross and Cromarty, former county in north-west Scotland; Dingwall was the county town.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=Ross-on-Wye (243 words)

	Ross Dependency - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica (and other landmasses in the Southern Ocean) claimed by New Zealand.
		The Dependency originally bore the name King Edward VII Land - a name still used for the area around Cape Colbeck tothe west of the ice shelf - and the New Zealand Post Office overprinted some 23,492 postage stamps with that name for use by the1908 British Antarctic Expedition.
		Ernest Shackleton was sworn in as the first postmaster.In later years, the New Zealand Post Office issuedstamps under the name "Ross Dependency" for use by expeditions in the Dependency.
	www.the-free-web-encyclopedia.com /default.asp?t=Ross_Dependency (416 words)

	Ross Dependency - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica (and other land masses in the Southern Ocean) claimed by New Zealand.
		The Governor of the Ross Dependency is (as of 2004) the Governor-General of New Zealand.
		The Dependency originally bore the name King Edward VII Land - a name still used for the area around Cape Colbeck to the west of the ice shelf - and the New Zealand Post Office overprinted some 23,492 postage stamps with that name for use by the 1908 British Antarctic Expedition.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ross_Dependency (471 words)

	Today
		On the death of the Earl of Buchan and Ross, at the battle of Verneuil in France in 1424, the earldom of Ross reverted to the crown.
		On the forfeiture of the Lord of the Isles in 1476, the earldom of Ross became vested in the crown.
		Alexander Ross of Balnagown, Master William Ross and William Ross were killed in the battle of Aldecharwis in 1468; and Fanella Ross, daughter of Alexander Ross and Jean Gillan, was baptized in Forres, Moray, in 1852.
	www.ross.sphosting.com /surnames.htm (4281 words)

	Ross Sea - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ross Dependency, area of land and sea extending from the South Pole to latitude 60° South, and bounded by longitude 160° East and 150° West....
		Ross and Cromarty, former county, northwestern Scotland; Dingwall was the county town.
		Ross Island, in the Ross Sea, is the location of the volcano Mount Erebus.
	encarta.msn.com /Ross_Sea.html (163 words)

	Ross Dependency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		However, the actual amount of land mass claimed is not large; most of the area defined as being in the Ross Dependency is either in the Ross Sea or the Antarctic Ocean.
		The Governor-General of New Zealand is also the Governor of Ross Dependency.(MFAT Speech of 23-Apr-02, Antarctic Conference) Officers of the Government of the Ross Dependency are annually appointed to run the Dependency.
		Ross Island, Balleny Islands and the small Scott Island also form part of the Dependency, as does the ice-covered Roosevelt Island.
	www.1bx.com /en/Ross_Dependency.htm (603 words)

	Search Results for "Ross"
		Ross Sea, arm of the Pacific Ocean, Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land.
		Part of the Ross Dependency, the island is separated from Victoria Land by McMurdo Sound....
		Ross, John, whose name in Cherokee is Kooweskoowe (koo´wis´koowe´) (KEY), 1790-1866, Native American chief, b.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Ross (258 words)

	Ross Dependency
		The Ross Dependency stretches from 160 degrees east to 15 degrees west of the Greenwich meridian.
		Ross Dependency stamps were first issued in 1957, such stamps were, however, discontinued in 1987 when the New Zealand Post Office on the ice was closed.
		Ross Dependency stamps are not valid for posting within New Zealand.
	stamps.nzpost.co.nz /Cultures/en-NZ/Stamps/OtherCountriesAndTerritories/RossDependency (204 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Ross,
		Ross Island with Mt. Erebus, an active volcano, is in the western part of the sea; Roosevelt Island is in the east.
		Ross quit school at the age of 14 to work at the Salt Lake City Tribune.
		Ross, John whose name in Cherokee is Kooweskoowe, 1790-1866, Native American chief, b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Ross, (599 words)

	Ross Island - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ross Island in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
		Geochemistry of metavolcanic rocks of the Ross Island and Ingalls Head formations, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.
		RIS&G Investigation Shows Ross Island Uplands and Lagoon Are Environmentally Safe; Unprecedented Three-Year Study of Soil, Sediment and Water Shows That The Complex Poses No Real Threat to Human Health, the Environment or Drinking Water.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-rossi1sl.html (304 words)

	Ross Dependency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica between the Ross Sea and the South Pole that the British government took possession of in 1923 and entrusted to the administration of New Zealand.
		The Ross Island, Balleny Islands and the small Scott Island also form part of the Dependency.
		The Dependency originally bore the name King Edward VII Land, and the New Zealand Post Office overprinted some 23,492 postage stamps with that name for use by the 1908 Shackleton expedition.
	www.usapedia.com /r/ross-dependency.html (259 words)

	» Ross Dependency Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Ross Dependency is the wedge-shaped part of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand.
		ANTARCTICA - Geography of the Ross Dependency - 1966 Encyclopaedia...
		Associated with New Zealand are Ross Dependency (in Antarctica), Niue, Tokelau, and the Cook Islands (in the...
	www.rossdependency.info /info/Ross-Dependency-Mountains (146 words)

	New Zealand Antarctic Covers - the 1980s
		There were no Ross Dependency stamps available from 1987 until the new Ross Dependency issues in 1994.
		Ross Dependency stamps are valid for postage in New Zealand.
		Ross Dependency Agency Christchurch - photos - (scroll down), part of the Christchurch Philatelic Sales branch of New Zealand Post.
	www.100megsfree3.com /glaw/scott/80s.htm (973 words)

	Ross Dependency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Ross Dependency comprises an area of Antarctica between the Ross Sea and the South Pole claimed by New Zealand.
		Greenpeace maintained its own Antarctic station in the Ross Dependencey called World Park Base from 1987 to 1992, which was on Ross Island.
		The Dependency originally bore the name King Edward VII Land - a name still used for the area around Cape Colbeck to the west of the ice shelf - and the New Zealand Post Office overprinted some 23,492 postage stamps with that name for use by the 1908 Shackleton expedition.
	ross-dependency.kiwiki.homeip.net (557 words)

	Antarctica - Nuggies On Ice
		The road from the Ross Island bases to the airfields on the ice shelf goes over an area known as a transition.
		The relatively small plant is capable of providing about 7,000 litres of water daily when run for the whole 24-hour period.
		Sea water drawn up from the Ross Sea is passed through membranes under pressure.
	www.geocities.com /nuggies2 (1671 words)

	step 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ross Dependency stamps have the sole purpose to be sold to collectors.
		They never see the territory whose name is written on them: they may be used only in the 'New Zealand Post Ross Dependency Agency' in Christchurch.
		Ross stamps are not valid for use in NZ unless on mail that is generated from Ross."
	members.tripod.com /~azenion/step5.htm (124 words)

	ROSS DEPENDENCY : Encyclopedia Entry
		However, under the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty System, to which New Zealand is a signatory, no nation may make efforts to enforce sovereignty or territorial claims over the Antarctic continent proper.
		The Governor-General is the Governor of Ross Dependency.(MFAT Speech of 23-Apr-02, Antarctic Conference) Officers of the Government of the Ross Dependency are annually appointed to run the Dependency.
		In the late 1980s when the non-governmental exploratory vessel Southern Quest sank in the Ross Sea, United States Coast Guard helicopters rescued the crew, who were taken to McMurdo Station.
	bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Ross_Dependency (569 words)

	Dependency
		In computer science, dependency is a state in which one object uses a functionality of another object.
		The Ross Dependency is an area of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand.
		A chemical dependency is such a strong need for a substance that it becomes necessary to have this substance just to function properly.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3Ddependency%26type%3Den (146 words)

	Ross Dependency Details, Meaning Ross Dependency Article and Explanation Guide
		The Dependency includes most of the Ross Ice Shelf.
		New Zealand has a summer-only base in the western highlands of the dependency called Vanda Station.
		Greenpeace maintains its own Antarctic station in the Ross Dependencey called World Park Base, which is on Ross Island.
	www.e-paranoids.com /r/ro/ross_dependency.html (430 words)

	Commonwealth Secretariat - The Ross Dependency
		The Ross Dependency in the Antarctic comprises all the islands and territories south of 60°S latitude between 160°E and 150°W longitude.
		The deep embayment of the Ross Ice Shelf forms part of the western ice-sheet; here, at 30-60m, the ice is 200-300 years old and samples show the increase in atmospheric pollution at the start of the industrial revolution in Europe.
		Antarctica New Zealand is responsible for developing and managing New Zealand's national activities in the Ross Dependency and New Zealand's activities generally in Antarctica, and is a Crown entity managed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /Templates/YearbookInternal.asp?NodeID=140414 (1013 words)

	The Antarctic
		In the Kainan Maru the expedition reached the Ross Sea in early March of 1911.
		The expedition was back in the Ross Sea the following January and later landed at the Bay of Whales where they encountered some of Amundsen's party.
		In 1957 New Zealand issued a set of stamps for the Ross Dependency including this one with a map of the New Zealand claim.
	sio.midco.net /mapstamps/poles3.htm (308 words)

	New Zealand Antarctic Covers
		The Ross Dependency stamps used there were first issued in 11 January 1957 before the official base opening.
		James Clark Ross was the commander of the British 1839-43 expedition to the area in HMS Erebus and Terror.
		Ross and Scott are both remembered by stamps in a 1972 British set.
	www.100megsfree3.com /glaw/scott/index.htm (736 words)

	Wired News: Antarctic History Frozen in Time
		ROSS ISLAND, Antarctica -- In the hut from which Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions left on their doomed trek to the South Pole, pony snowshoes are piled up in what were the stables, and seal blubber still oozes in the hallway.
		For the privileged visitor, the huts on Ross Island -- the Discovery and Terra Nova used by Scott's expedition, and the Nimrod, built by Ernest Shackleton's team for their attempt to reach the South Pole -- display the most extraordinary detritus from polar exploration that's almost a century old.
		These days, visitors to the huts are asked to not touch anything and to keep numbers in the huts low, since the moisture from humans is thought to add to the wear and tear.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,48372,00.html (1016 words)

	JOHN ROSS - CLIPPED SIGNATURE
		Ross turned back at Lancaster's Sound, claiming the way was blocked by mountains he named the Croker Mountains after John Wilson Croker, First Lord of the Admiralty.
		In 1829, Ross departed on a private expedition to the Arctic, funded by London gin magnate Felix Booth, and discovered, with his nephew James Clark Ross (see Lot 242) the North Magnetic Pole.
		The Rosses were given up for lost but returned in 1833 after having abandoned their ship and survived the winters with the help of their Eskimo neighbors.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/8_2002/explorer/JOHN_ROSS.htm (216 words)

	ANTARCTICA - Geography of the Ross Dependency - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		ANTARCTICA - Geography of the Ross Dependency - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		The coasts of the Ross embayment are approximately those of the New Zealand Ross Dependency.
		The Ross Dependency sector, then, is largely shelf ice and sea fringed to the west and east by ice-clad coasts, just within and paralleling the 160°E and 150°w boundaries.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/A/Antarctica/GeographyOfTheRossDependency/en (463 words)

	Rick Ross: Frequently Asked Questions
		Because of this and other factors such as learned dependency, thought reform and little if any meaningful accountability, a formula for abuse and exploitation often exists in such group relationships.
		This can be seen as an individual who becomes so dependent upon others through cult indoctrination that they often make decisions which are not in their own best interest.
		Those dominated within abusive/controlling relationships may be so completely under the influence of another person that they appear to have lost the ability to think independently, much like the member of a destructive cult.
	www.rickross.com /faq.html (3950 words)

	Antarctic Philately: Ross Dependency
		In 1923 Great Britain established the Ross Sea Dependency.
		It claimed that territory, in addition to the Falkland Islands Dependencies, and levied taxes on whaling companies operating in those areas.
		Shortly thereafter the jurisdiction of the Ross Dependency was given to New Zealand.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000121.htm (90 words)

	A limited budget can still mean unlimited fun
		These five stamps were issued by New Zealand for its Antarctic research facility, Ross Dependency.
		Ross Dependency stamps, five of which are shown in Figure 4, are listed in the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue at the back of the New Zealand section.
		The first Ross Dependency stamps were issued in 1957.
	www.linns.com /howto/refresher/budget_20020819/refreshercourse.asp?uID= (1283 words)

	Antarctica - The Ross Dependency: NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		The Ross Dependency is constitutionally part of New Zealand, meaning anyone born there is a New Zealand citizen.
		These had the effect of adopting as the law of the Ross Dependency, all present and future laws and enactments of the New Zealand Parliament, so far as they were applicable to the conditions of the Dependency.
		The law of New Zealand is therefore in force in the Ross Dependency through adoption into the law of the Ross Dependency (which constitutes a legal system separate from that of New Zealand).
	www.mfat.govt.nz /Foreign-Relations/1-Global-Issues/Antarctica/1-New-Zealand-Relationship-with-Antarctica/rossdependency.php (590 words)

	Historic Huts
		Early exploration of the Ross Dependency of Antactica during the so-called "heroic-age" (1895-1917) was carried out by mainly British expeditions.
		Two of these are from Scott's expeditions, one at Hut Point from his 1901-04 "Discovery" expedition, and the other at Cape Evans from the 1910-13 expedition of "Terra Nova." A hut at Cape Royds, was built for Shackleton's 1907-09 "Nimrod" expedition.
		All three Ross Island huts were also used by the Ross Sea Party of Shackleton's attempted Trans-Antarctic expedition who were marooned at Cape Evans in 1915.
	homepage.mac.com /spinandmarty/antarctichuts/Personal68.html (286 words)

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