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Antarctica

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Mount Davis (Antarctica) Mount Davis () is a mountain located 1.6 km north of Mount Bentley and 2.4 km southeast of Mount Hale (Antarctica), Mount Hale in the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. Discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party of 1957–58, under Char ...
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Davis Island (Palmer Archipelago) Davis Island is an island about long, situated in a position which blocks much of the channel between Brabant Island and Liège Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It is separated from Liège Island on the north by Zlogosh Passage, and from Alben ...
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Davis Valley Davis Valley is an ice-free valley just east of Forlidas Ridge in north-east Dufek Massif, in the Pensacola Mountains of Queen Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos in ...
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Canada

* Davis, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community *
Davis Strait Davis Strait is a northern arm of the Atlantic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The strait was named for the English explorer Jo ...
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Mount Davis (British Columbia) Mount Davis is a mountain in British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscape ...


United States

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Davis, California Davis is the most populous city in Yolo County, California. Located in the Sacramento Valley region of Northern California, the city had a population of 66,850 in 2020, not including the on-campus population of the University of California, Da ...
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Davis, Illinois Davis is a village in Stephenson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 677 at the 2010 census, up from 662 in 2000. History Davis was founded in the 1850s when the railroad was extended to that point. The village was named for one ...
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Davis, Massachusetts Davis, Massachusetts is the abandoned location of the Davis Pyrite Mine, located in the town of Rowe, Massachusetts. Once the largest iron pyrite mine in Massachusetts, Davis grew to be a decent sized mining village at the beginnings of the Second I ...
, an abandoned mining village * Davis, Maryland, a ghost town *
Davis, Missouri Davis is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, Missouri, Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. History A post office called Davis was established in 1882, and remained in operation until 1959. The identity of the namesake of Davis ...
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Davis, North Carolina Davis is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Carteret County, North Carolina, Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census it had a population of 422. Geography Davis is ...
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Davis, Oklahoma Davis is a city in Garvin and Murray counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 2,683 at the 2010 census. History Davis is named after Samuel H. Davis, who moved to Washita in what was then Indian Territory in 1887. At the time ...
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Davis, South Dakota Davis is a town in Turner County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 54 at the 2020 census. Davis was laid out in 1893, and named for a first settler. Geography Davis is located at (43.257921, -96.993129). According to the Unite ...
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Davis, West Virginia Davis is a town in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Blackwater River. The population was 595 at the 2020 census. History Davis was named either for Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, or for his family generally. The ...
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Davis, Logan County, West Virginia Anthony Davis is an unincorporated community on Installation 07, Virginia West, Canadia. It is part of the Holden census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population de ...
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Davis Island (Connecticut) Davis Island, one of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut, was the site of President William Howard Taft's "Summer White House". See also *Thimble Islands *Outer Lands References *Wealthy Widow Buying Up Thimble ...
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Davis Island (Mississippi) Davis Island is a large island located in the Mississippi River. It lies mostly in Warren County in the state of Mississippi but is also partly in Madison Parish, in the state of Louisiana. It is located about 20 miles southwest of Vicksburg, Missi ...
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Davis Island (Pennsylvania) The Davis Island Lock and Dam Site on the Ohio river in Avalon, Pennsylvania, is the site of the former Davis Island lock that was completed in 1885. The lock and dam existed from 1878 to 1922, designed by William Emery Merrill and the U.S. Arm ...
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Davis Peak (Washington) Davis Peak is a mountain just north of Gorge Lake in North Cascades National Park, in the US state of Washington. It is located just south of the Picket Range. While not of particularly high elevation, even for the North Cascades, it is notabl ...
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Fort Davis, Oklahoma Fort Davis, Oklahoma was established in 1861 on the south bank of the Arkansas River two and one-half miles northeast of present-day Muskogee, Oklahoma to serve as a Confederate States of America headquarters in Indian Territory.Kathy Weiser-Alex ...
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Mount Davis (California) Mount Davis is a prominent peak in the Ansel Adams Wilderness on the Inyo National Forest and south of Yosemite National Park. The peak was named in honor of Lieutenant Milton Fennimore Davis, who was with the first troops detailed to guard Yosem ...
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Mount Davis (New Hampshire) Mount Davis is a mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire. The mountain is located along Montalban Ridge, a series of summits extending south from Mount Washington in the White Mountains. Mount Davis is named after the Davis family of Ma ...
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Mount Davis (Pennsylvania) Mount Davis () is the highest point in Pennsylvania. Located in the Forbes State Forest near the hamlet of Markleton in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County; it lies on a gentle crest of a ridge line extending from central Somerset County sout ...


Other

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Than Kyun Than Kyun or Davis Island is an island at the southern end of the Mergui Archipelago, Burma. It is the largest and highest island of the Alladin Islands, a scattered cluster of islands extending to the W and SSW of Zadetkyi Island Zadetkyi Island ...
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Mount Davis, Hong Kong Mount Davis or Mo Sing Leng is an area surrounding and including the westernmost hill on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It is 269m tall. Home to mostly luxury residences, Mount Davis was originally settled after the construction of Victoria Road, ...


Train stations

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Davis station (California) Davis station is a train station in Davis, California. The station is owned by the city, while the tracks are owned by the Union Pacific Railroad. The station is served by Amtrak ''California Zephyr'', ''Capitol Corridor'', and ''Coast Starlight' ...
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Davis station (CTA) Davis is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, on the Purple Line in Evanston, Illinois. It is located at 1612 Benson Avenue (directional coordinates 1600 north, 800 west), in the middle of downtown Evanston, and next to th ...
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Evanston Davis Street station Evanston Davis Street is a commuter railroad station in downtown Evanston, Illinois. It is served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line with trains going south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin. In Met ...
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Davis (MBTA station) Davis station is an underground Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Red Line rapid transit station located at Davis Square in Somerville, Massachusetts. The accessible station has a single island platform for the Red Line, as well ...
, subway station in Somerville, Massachusetts


People

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Davis (surname) Davis is a surname of English and Welsh origin. As an English surname it may be a corruption of Davy or a reference to King David in the Old Testament. As a Welsh surname may be a corruption of Dyfed, related to Irish colonists who occupied an ...
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List of people with surname Davis Davis is a common English-language surname shared by many notable people. People with the surname Davis A *Aasha Davis (born 1973), American actress * Abel Davis (1874–1937), American officer * Abraham Hopkins Davis (1796–1866), Australian ...
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Davis (given name) Davis, according to one source, derives from the French ''Devis''. Davis is a masculine given name which may refer to: People A *Davis Agesa (born 1995), Kenyan footballer *Davis Allen (1916–1999), American interior designer *Davis Allen (Amer ...
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Dāvis Dāvis is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to: *Dāvis Bertāns (born 1992), Latvian basketball player *Dāvis Ikaunieks (born 1994), Latvian footballer *Dāvis Indrāns Dāvis Indrāns (born 6 June 1995) is a Latvian football pl ...


Other uses

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Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organis ...
, premier international team event in men's tennis *
University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...
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Davis Station The Davis Station, commonly called Davis, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Davis is situated on the coast of Cooperation Sea in Princess Elizabeth Land, In ...
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Davis Entertainment Davis Entertainment (also known as Davis Entertainment Company) is an American film and television production company, founded by John Davis in 1984. Davis's three divisions–feature film, independent film, and television–develop and produc ...
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Davis Motorcar Company The Davis Motorcar Company was an American automobile manufacturer based in Van Nuys, in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, which produced three-wheeled automobiles from 1947 to 1948. In total the company produced 13 veh ...
, manufacturer of three-wheeled automobiles from 1947 to 1948 * "Davis", a song by Chaz Jankel from the album ''
Chazablanca ''Chazablanca'' is the third solo studio album by the English singer and multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel. It was originally released in 1983, on the label A&M. Track listing Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. *Chas ...
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See also

* Davis County (disambiguation) *
Davis Township (disambiguation) Davis Township may refer to: Arkansas * Davis Township, Grant County, Arkansas, in Grant County, Arkansas * Davis Township, Van Buren County, Arkansas, in Van Buren County, Arkansas Indiana * Davis Township, Fountain County, Indiana * Davis Towns ...
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Fort Davis (disambiguation) Fort Davis may refer to the following. *Fort Davis National Historic Site *Fort Davis, Alaska *Fort Davis, Oklahoma *Fort Davis, Panama *Fort Davis, Texas *Fort Davis (Washington, D.C.) Fort Davis is a residential neighborhood located in south ...
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Davis's law Davis's law is used in anatomy and physiology to describe how soft tissue models along imposed demands. It is the corollary to Wolff's law, which applies to osseous tissue. It is a physiological principle stating that soft tissue heal according to ...
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Davis gun The Davis gun was the first true recoilless gun developed and taken into service. It was developed by Commander Cleland Davis of the United States Navy in 1910, just prior to World War I. Development Davis' design connected two guns back to back ...
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Davis wing The Davis wing is a World War II-era aircraft wing design that was used by Consolidated Aircraft on the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, as well as other models. The airfoil had a lower drag coefficient than most contemporary designs, which allowed ...
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Justice Davis (disambiguation) Justice Davis may refer to: * Alton Davis (born c. 1946-47), associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court *Charles Davis (Vermont judge), associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court * Charles H. Davis (judge) (1906-1976), chief justice of the ...
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