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Northern Rhodesia

(Encyclopedia)Northern Rhodesia: see Zambia.

Northern Crown

(Encyclopedia)Northern Crown: see Corona Borealis. ...

northern lights

(Encyclopedia)northern lights: see aurora borealis. ...

Northern Land

(Encyclopedia)Northern Land: see Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. ...

Falkland Islands

(Encyclopedia)Falkland Islands fôkˈlənd [key], Span. Islas Malvinas, group of islands (2015 est. pop. 3,000), 4,618 sq mi (11,961 sq km), S Atlantic, c.300 mi (480 km) E of the Strait of Magellan. The islands ar...

Sea Islands

(Encyclopedia)Sea Islands, chain of more than 100 low islands off the Atlantic coast of S.C., Ga., and N Fla., extending from the Santee River to the St. Johns River. The ocean side of the islands is generally sand...

New Siberian Islands

(Encyclopedia)New Siberian Islands, Rus. Novosibirskiye Ostrova, archipelago, c.10,900 sq mi (28,200 sq km), N Siberian Russia, in the Arctic Ocean between the Laptev and East Siberian seas, part of the Sakha Repub...

Virgin Islands

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Virgin Islands, group of about 100 small islands, West Indies, E of Puerto Rico. The islands are divided politically between the United States and Great Britain. Although constituting the weste...

Northern Pacific Railway

(Encyclopedia)Northern Pacific Railway, former American rail line, following the northern route from Duluth and St. Paul, Minn., to Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Oreg. The Northern Pacific RR Company was chartered ...

Marianas

(Encyclopedia)Marianas: see Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. ...