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Cape Salinas
Cape Salinas is the southernmost point of Majorca, used for reference by sailors and navigators.Purdy Purdy may refer to: People Surname *Al Purdy (1918–2000), Canadian poet *Amy Purdy (born 1979), American actress, model and Paralympic snowboarder * Ashley Purdy, Black Veil Brides bassist * Bill Purdy (born 1946), American rower * Brock Purdy ( ..., pp. 41–42 References Bibliography * Landforms of Mallorca Salinas {{Balearics-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majorca
Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands have been an autonomous region of Spain since 1983. There are two small islands off the coast of Mallorca: Cabrera (southeast of Palma) and Dragonera (west of Palma). The anthem of Mallorca is " La Balanguera". Like the other Balearic Islands of Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera, the island is an extremely popular holiday destination, particularly for tourists from the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. The international airport, Palma de Mallorca Airport, is one of the busiest in Spain; it was used by 28 million passengers in 2017, with use increasing every year since 2012. Etymology The name derives from Classical Latin ''insula maior'', "larger island". Later, in Medieval Latin, this became ''Maiorca'', "the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purdy
Purdy may refer to: People Surname *Al Purdy (1918–2000), Canadian poet *Amy Purdy (born 1979), American actress, model and Paralympic snowboarder * Ashley Purdy, Black Veil Brides bassist * Bill Purdy (born 1946), American rower * Brock Purdy (born 1999), American football player *Cecil Purdy (1906–1979), Australian chess player *Charlie Purdy (1905–1982), New Zealand boxer * Debbie Purdy (1963–2014), British music journalist, political activist and right-to-die patient *Frederick Warren Purdy (1911–1942), US Navy World War II officer * George B. Purdy, American mathematician and computer scientist * Gordon Purdy (1888–1972), Canadian politician * Hamish Purdy, Canadian art director and set decorator *Helen Purdy Beale, born Helen Alice Purdy (1893–1976), US virologist * Henry Purdy (cricketer) (1883–1943), English cricketer * Henry Purdy (politician) (c. 1744–1827), landowner, judge and political figure in Nova Scotia * Henry Purdy (rugby union) (born 1994), Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of Mallorca
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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