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National City

(Encyclopedia)National City, city (1990 pop. 54,249), San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1887. Structural metal is fabricated, and there is shipbuilding and the manufacture of recycling machinery, plas...

Fujisawa

(Encyclopedia)Fujisawa fo͞ojēˈsäwä [key], city, Kanagawa prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Sagami Bay. It ...

Gaspé

(Encyclopedia)Gaspé găspāˈ, găsˈpā, Fr. gäspāˈ [key], city, E Que., Canada, on Gaspé Bay...

Fitzroy

(Encyclopedia)Fitzroy, rivers in Australia. 1 River, 174 mi (280 km) long, formed by the junction of the Dawson and the Mackenzie rivers, E Queensland, Australia, and flowing past Rockhampton to Keppel Bay of the C...

Flamborough Head

(Encyclopedia)Flamborough Head flămˈbərə [key], chalk promontory, East Riding of Yorkshire, E England, N of Bridlington Bay. There is a lighthouse at the tip. Danes' Dyke (an ancient earthwork fortification) cr...

Fogo Island

(Encyclopedia)Fogo Island fōˈgō [key], c.100 sq mi (260 sq km), at the entrance to Notre Dame Bay, NE Ne...

Foxe Basin

(Encyclopedia)Foxe Basin, a widening of the waterway between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula, c.340 mi (550 km) long and c.225 mi (360 km) wide, Nunavut Territory, Canada. The basin is shallow and is ice-c...

Imandra

(Encyclopedia)Imandra ēˈməndrə [key], lake, 340 sq mi (881 sq km), NW European Russia, on the Kola Peninsula S of Murmansk. Deeply indented, it contains some 140 islands and receives about 20 large rivers. It e...

Howell, John Adams

(Encyclopedia)Howell, John Adams, 1840–1918, American naval officer and inventor, b. Bath, N.Y., grad. Annapolis, 1858. He served as a lieutenant throughout the Civil War, fighting under Admiral Farragut at Mobil...

Ishinomaki

(Encyclopedia)Ishinomaki ēshēˈnōmäkē [key], city, Miyagi prefecture, N Honshu, Japan, on Ishinomaki Bay. It is ...