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	Wilkes Land - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wilkes Land, coastal region, Antarctica, extending along the Indian Ocean from longitude 102° East to 142°20' East.
		Victoria Land, region in Antarctica, south of New Zealand, bounded by Ross Sea to the east and Wilkes Land to the west.
		Wilkes, John (1725-97), British political leader and reformer, who supported the American patriots in their revolution against Great Britain and...
	encarta.msn.com /Wilkes_Land.html (149 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Unlike the other seven counties (which were fashioned from existing colonial parishes), Wilkes was created from the "ceded lands north of Ogechee" -- a reference to the land ceded in 1773 by the Creeks and Cherokees in their respective Treaties of Augusta (see map).
		Wilkes County was named for British politician John Wilkes, who supported the cause of the American colonies' cause in the House of Commons.
		Between 1790 and 1854, the legislature took land from Wilkes County to form Elbert County (1790), Oglethorpe County (1793), and Lincoln County (1796), and to help form Warren County (1793) and Taliaferro County (1825).
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/histcountymaps/wilkeshistmaps.htm (155 words)

	Military.com Content
		Wilkes was convicted at court-martial and suspended for one year.
		The "Wilkes expedition," as it was commonly known, was authorized by Congress as a response to popular demand for further knowledge of the wider world.
		Wilkes died on Feb. 8, 1877, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=ML_wilkes_bkp (448 words)

	Descendants of Thomas Wilkes
		Land was at the mouth of Morattico Creek, and was 600 acres.
		Wilkes attended Ripley, Tenn., High School and was a graduate of Cumberland University Law School at Lebanon, Tenn. He began a Memphis partnership in 1929 with Metcalf, Metcalf and Apperson and for 14 years was a law partner of Charles L. Neely.
		Wilkes of Gates, and resided in the county most of his life with the exception of the time he was in the army and a short stay in Memphis.
	www.infomrt.com /familyhistory/wilkes_cf/descends.html (7856 words)

	SCAR » Appendix 7
		The Wilkes Land is a key area to reconstruct the evolution of the Wilkes Land continental margin and Indian Ocean region during the past 100 Ma.
		At present, interpretation on the nature and age of the seismic sequences and events in the Wilkes Land margin are mainly based on the seismic character and indirect correlations with DSDP 268 and 269.
		At present the nature and age of the seismic sequences and events recorded on the Wilkes Land margin are mainly based on the seismic character, relative stratigraphic position and indirect correlation of these sequences to DSDP 269 (Eittreim and Smith, 1987; Wannesson et al., 1985; Tanahashi et al., 1994).
	www.scar.org /publications/reports/16/appendix7/wilkesland.html (2466 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: Charles Wilkes
		Wilkes sighted land on several occasions as he sailed along the edge of the ice pack south of Australia for some 1500 miles.
		Wilkes abandoned the expedition and sent the SEA GULL to Deception Island where her captain was to land and collect a self-registering thermometer that was left on the island in 1829.
		Charles Wilkes was not aware of the fact that the RELIEF nearly wrecked at the entrance to the straits and that she, like the PEACOCK, had decided to sail directly to Valparaíso.
	www.south-pole.com /p0000079.htm (2774 words)

	The Wilkes Expedition in the Pacific Northwest
		Wilkes was unsure of the reception he would receive from the Company, but soon learned that they intended to give him whatever service they could.
		After Wilkes landed at Fort Nisqually, chief trader Alexander Anderson aided him in the construction of two log cabins, one to serve as an observatory for the instruments used to determine and check longitude, and the other for the use of chart makers.
		Not surprisingly, Wilkes was favorably impressed by the order and discipline maintained at the post, and he greatly enjoyed the affable company of McLoughlin and Douglas on tours of their establishment and during the long after-dinner conversations with brandy and cigars.
	www.wshs.org /wshs/columbia/articles/0187-a1.htm (3353 words)

	Wilkes Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilkes Land is a large district of land in easternAntarctica, formally claimed by Australia as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, though this claim is not legally recognised by the signatories of the Antarctic Treaty, which includes Australia itself.
		Wilkes Land is named after Lieutenant Charles Wilkes (later a Rear Admiral), the American explorer who commanded the 1838–42 United States Exploring Expedition.
		The naming is in recognition of Wilkes' discovery of the continental margin over a distance of 2,400 km (1,500 miles) of coast, thus providing substantial proof that Antarctica is a continent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilkes_Land (317 words)

	Wilkes, Charles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Wilkes, then a lieutenant, set sail (1838) from Norfolk, Va., in charge of a squadron of six ships and 346 seamen, and accompanied by a team of nine scientists and artists.
		Wilkes explored Fiji in 1840, visited the Hawaiian group, and in May, 1841, entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the Pacific coast of the United States, and explored the Pacific Northwest.
		The impetuosity of his nature, for which he was twice court-martialed, was demonstrated when early in the Civil War, as commander of the San Jacinto, he stopped the British mail ship Trent and, contrary to all regulations, forcibly removed Confederate commissioners John Slidell and James M. Mason.
	www.bartleby.com /65/wi/Wilkes-C.html (419 words)

	A Brief Family History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wilkes County is west of Orange County and is where William Triplett made his initial purchase of 50 acres for 25 Shillings.
		Wilkes County, North Carolina was formed in 1777 from Surry County and is situated in the north western part of North Carolina.
		Wilkes County is bounded on the north by the Blue Ridge, on the east by Surry and Yadkin Counties, on the south by Iredell and Alexander Counties and on the west by Caldwell and Watauga Counties.
	home.earthlink.net /~bdvw/debsfamilyhistory/id1.html (3306 words)

	SPACE.com -- Giant Crater Found: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever
		The crater, buried beneath a half-mile of ice and discovered by some serious airborne and satellite sleuthing, is more than twice as big as the one involved in the demise of the dinosaurs.
		The crater's location, in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia, suggests it might have instigated the breakup of the so-called Gondwana supercontinent, which pushed Australia northward, the researchers said.
		"This Wilkes Land impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs, and probably would have caused catastrophic damage at the time," said Ralph von Frese, a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/060601_big_crater.html (596 words)

	Charles Wilkes and the US Exploring Expedition
		Wilkes was court-martialled twice, and found guilty twice, the second time for almost provoking war with England, and yet he still ended up Rear Admiral.
		This meant that Wilkes was not only denied his discovery of new land, he was made to look universally foolish, both in the Pacific, and back in America.
		Though Wilkes fixed such names as Knox Land, North's High Land etc., to coasts reported to have been seen by him, it has been left for us to commemorate his own name in like manner by attaching it to this new stretch of coast.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~macinnis/ockhams/wilkes.htm (2558 words)

	UFO Area Big bang in Antarctica - killer crater found under ice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Its size and location -- in the Wilkes Land region of East Antarctica, south of Australia -- also suggest that it could have begun the breakup of the Gondwana supercontinent by creating the tectonic rift that pushed Australia northward.
		The Wilkes Land crater is more than twice the size of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan peninsula, which marks the impact that may have ultimately killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
		"This Wilkes Land impact is much bigger than the impact that killed the dinosaurs, and probably would have caused catastrophic damage at the time," said Ralph von Frese, a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University.
	www.ufoarea.com /earth_changes_bbangcrater.html (1658 words)

	John Toliver (around 1725 - ?) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1778 and 1779, he entered claims for land in Wilkes Co., NC, on Harris's Creek and the south fork of the Roaring River.
		Thursey told the paper that she was born Nov. 6, 1812, on the waters of Calskins or Calfskins Creek, near the Ashe County Courthouse in North Carolina, and that her father, Charles Toliver, was a flsmith who brought the family to Indiana from NC in 1815.
		Because the more traditional genealogical evidence (land records, etc.) indicates there was a connection between John Toliver and the other "brothers," it is possible that he was their cousin on the maternal side.
	www.moonzstuff.com /Cheek/ToliverJohn.html (1555 words)

	Wilkes Land crater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wilkes Land crater is a proposed name for a 500 km (300 mile) wide geological feature, located in Wilkes Land, Antarctica, and centered at 70°′S 120°′E, that has been explained as an impact crater.
		It was discovered in 2006 by a team of researchers led by Ralph von Frese and Laramie Potts, using the gravity measurements by NASA's GRACE satellites to identify a 200 mile (300 km) -wide mass concentration.
		This mass anomaly is centered within a larger ring-like structure visible in radar images of the land surface beneath the Antarctic ice cap.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilkes_Land_crater (453 words)

	PROSEDANT - Work areas - Wilkes Land
		The Wilkes Land continental rise sediment ridges develop within the glacial sedimentary sequences.
		Reflection configurations within the steep flank of the sediment mounds consist of irregular, discontinuous, undulating and mounded reflectors, whereas the gentler flank is characterized by parallel, subparallel and continuous reflector configurations.
		Bottom-currents (>15 cm/sec) presently sweep the Wilkes Land continental rise from east to west.
	www.ugr.es /~cescutia/PROSEDANT/Wilkes.htm (130 words)

	Wilkes Co
		Wilkes County was formed in 1777 as an original county from the Cherokee and Creek sessions of 1773.
		Wilkes is bordered by the counties of Elbert, Lincoln, McDuffie, Warren, Taliaferro and Oglethorpe.
		James Denley to William Odear, both of Wilkes Co., for 50 pounds, 120 acres, Clarkes Fork of Long Creek, part of 2140 acres granted Denley in lieu of an old warrant, beginning near a comer of said 2140 acres, granted 5 Jan. 1785.
	gen.culpepper.com /archives/ga/wilkes.htm (838 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Note: This is NOT the official web site of Wilkes County or of any county officials; it is an educational web site about the history of the county courthouse and the county itself.
		County History: Wilkes County was established by Georgia's first state constitution -- the Constitution of 1777, which became effective Feb. 5, 1777.
		Unlike the other seven counties (which were fashioned from existing colonial parishes), Wilkes was created from the "ceded lands north of Ogechee" -- a reference to the land ceded in 1773 by the Creeks and Cherokees in their respective Treaties of Augusta (
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/courthouses/wilkesCH.htm (433 words)

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		This land was on Kings Creek and went West to "the dividing ridge between the county of Wilkes and Birk".
		Was this the elder Benjamin Grayson of Wilkes County?
		Furthermore, Jesse Grayson obtained 200 acres of land by grant from Tenn. on the NW side of the Sequatchie River in Tenn. on 9 June 1826 (grant #1613) and he and his family were in the 1830 census for Marion County, Tenn.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /richardgrayson/Ri74/benjamin.htm (2604 words)

	Wilkes Land - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LOCAL REDEVELOPMENT: 2 towns in tussle for land: Luzerne County is deciding who will get control of 67 acres to create a park - Laurel Run or Wilkes-Barre Township.
		Purchase of Land by Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pa., Airport Is Delayed.
		Formation, ecology, and geography of Cryosols of an ice-free oasis in Coastal East Antarctica near Casey Station (Wilkes Land).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-w1ilkesl1a.html (266 words)

	Land Use Attorneys New York State Zoning Law Environmental Lawyers Westchester Rockland County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The New York zoning and land use attorneys at Huff Wilkes, LLP, work with private owners, developers, neighborhood associations and municipalities from cities to villages in Westchester, Rockland, Dutchess, Orange and Putnam Counties.
		Huff Wilkes' experienced legal team is qualified to handle land use and zoning issues. Our attorneys' practice has spanned a broad range of zoning, land use and environmental law concerns.
		The land use lawyers at the law firm of Huff Wilkes, LLP, provide legal counsel and litigation services to businesses, municipalities and individuals in Westchester County and Rockland County, New York. Contact Huff Wilkes to discuss your zoning and land use concern.
	huffwilkes.com /CM/MunicipalLaw/Land-Use-Zoning.asp (230 words)

	Town History - Town of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
		One of the documents was a $100,000 bond that was voted on by Wilkes County as a grant to the Railroad Company in exchange for railroad stock.
		In early Wilkes County there had been two major merchandising successes, the Waugh and Finley enterprise that served merchants throughout the southeast well before North Wilkesboro existed, and the Smithey chain of general merchandise and food stores in northwestern North Carolina.
		When Hill-Burton federal grant-supported hospitals were being constructed around the country, Wilkes County government hesitated, so the doctors asked the town of North Wilkesboro to sponsor a new hospital, and Wilkes Regional Medical Center has evolved into today's outstanding and respected 200-bed institution, and it continues to grow.
	www.north-wilkesboro.com /history (2450 words)

	Virginians: The Family History of Minor Wilkes I (c.1735-1811)
		On 6 October 1809 Minor Wilkes sold to his son Richard “one Negro man slave, James, and one yoke of oxen” in consideration of “the love and affection I have and bare for my son Richard Wilkes.” Witnesses were Phillip Snead and Ann Snead.
		The land was bounded by that of Edmund Winn, Sally Snead, Peyton Doswell, and land belonging to the estate of Benjamin Snead.
		This land was in both Sumner and Robertson counties and was part of the “White House” tract, which was encumbered by the life estate of Matilda (Cheatham) Wilkes, third wife of Richard Stone Wilkes.
	www.virginians.com /topics/168.htm (11759 words)

	Stanley Documents Wilkes Co., NC
		1807 Mar 17 - Wilkes Co.,NC - Shadrack was the bondsman for the marriage of Richard Parker to Susannah Smoot.
		1822 Aug 26 - Wilkes Co,.NC - Reuben was a bondsman for the marriage of Aaron Chambers and Polly Dowell.
		1829 Aug 11 - Wilkes Co.,NC - Reuben was a bondsman for the marriage of Merril Becknell and Sarah Lewis.
	www.fmoran.com /stanley/standoc2.html (7230 words)

	Early Combs &c. Families of Wilkes County, North Carolina (-1800)
		Wilkes County, North Carolina was formed in 1777 from Surry (earlier Rowan) and, some say, the District of Washington, although the boundary description doesn't include land from Virginia, and in fact Washington County (now Tennessee) was created simultaneously in the same session.
		Wilkes is in the northwestern section of the State and is bounded by Yadkin, Iredell, Alexander, Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany and Surry counties.
		Wilkes County, North Carolina was born at war, and some of the Combs of Surry and Wilkes may have been at war with each other.
	www.combs-families.org /combs/records/nc/wilkes (3135 words)

	Snow accumulation variability in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, and the relationship to atmospheric ridging in the ...
		Wilkes Land annual snow accumulation variability is explored together with ice core chemistry data as proxies for circumpolar atmospheric circulation in the 110°E–135°E sector of the circumpolar trough.
		Interannual variability of snow accumulation rate throughout Wilkes Land was found to be dependent upon shifts in the preferred tracks of cyclones along or across the coast and in the location of cyclolysis regions.
		Strong, surface wind drainage during tropospheric ridging in Wilkes Land produces anomalous snow accumulation and annual mean NO concentration in firn at GD09.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2003/2002JD002995.shtml (423 words)

	Charles Wilkes - MSN Encarta
		Charles Wilkes (1798-1877), American naval officer and explorer, born in New York City.
		In 1830 he was made head of the newly established Depot of Charts and Instruments, which became the Naval Observatory.
		He received command of a U.S. government expedition (1838-42) that explored the northwest coast of North America and the part of the coast of Antarctica that was later named Wilkes Land; charted almost 300 Pacific islands; and circumnavigated the globe.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555995/Charles_Wilkes.html (226 words)

	Judge Johnson Jay Hayes
		He moved his family back to Wilkes and held federal court in Wilkesboro in the old Federal Court building and later in the new federal court building which was given his name sake and named the Johnson Jay Hayes Federal Court Building.
		In 1960 his interest turned to the community college movement as he was ever mindful of the cost and struggle of his own college years.
		His effort with the state legislature and the citizens of Wilkes County were the moving force that saw the establishment of Wilkes Community College where a building is named in his honor.
	www.wilkesnc.org /history/hayes (371 words)

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