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Moreton Bay

(Encyclopedia)Moreton Bay môrˈtən [key], inlet of the Pacific Ocean, 65 mi (105 km) long and 20 mi (32 km) wide, Queensland, E Australia, nearly enclosed by Moreton and Stradbroke islands. Receiving the Brisbane...

Kra, Isthmus of

(Encyclopedia)Kra, Isthmus of krä [key], narrow neck of the Malay Peninsula, c.40 mi (60 km) wide, SW Thailand, between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Thailand. It has long been the proposed site of a ship cana...

Ryan, Loch

(Encyclopedia)Ryan, Loch lŏkh rīˈən [key], inlet, 9 mi (14.5 km) long and 31⁄2 mi (5.6 km) wide, at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland. The port of Stranraer is at the head of...

Barito

(Encyclopedia)Barito bärēˈtō [key], river, c.550 mi (890 km) long, rising in the mountains of central Borneo, Indonesia, and flowing generally S to the Java Sea. Banjarmasin is the head of oceangoing navigation...

tax exemption

(Encyclopedia)tax exemption, immunity from the requirement of paying taxes. Federal, state, and usually local law provide exemption from taxation for a wide variety of organizations, usually not-for-profit, such as...

Tehuantepec, Isthmus of

(Encyclopedia)Tehuantepec, Isthmus of, c.125 mi (200 km) wide at its narrowest, S Mexico, between the Gulf of Campeche and the Gulf of Tehuantepec. It is mostly a rolling, tropical lowland with the lowest pass elev...

Aletsch

(Encyclopedia)Aletsch äˈlĕch [key], glacier, 66 sq mi (171 sq km), 16 mi (26 km) long and 1.2 mi (1.9 km) wide, S central Switzerland, largest in the Alps. It lies between the Jungfrau and the Aletschhorn, one o...

Giusti, Giuseppe

(Encyclopedia)Giusti, Giuseppe jo͞ozĕpˈpā jo͞osˈtē [key], 1809–50, Italian satirical poet. He directed his original and ironic polemics against Austrian rule and also attacked demagoguery and graft. The id...

Évripos

(Encyclopedia)Évripos ĕvˈrĭpôs [key], strait, c.5 mi (8 km) long and from 120 ft to 1 mi (37 m–1.6 km) wide, forming the central and narrowest part of the channel separating the island of Évvoia from the Gr...

Ericht, Loch

(Encyclopedia)Ericht, Loch lŏkh ĕrˈĭkht [key], lake, 15 mi (24 km) long and 1 mi (1.6 km) wide, Highland and Perth and Kinross, central Scotland. It is drained by the River Ericht. Part of a hydroelectric proje...