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  • Port Refuge is located off the south coast of Grinnell Peninsula in a small bay on the south coast of Devon Island in Nunavut, Canada. The site received...
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    Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten (English translation: Port of Refuge on the Norwegian Coast or Norwegian Harbor of Refuge) is a painting by Norwegian romanticist painter...
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    Vavaʻu (category Divisions of Tonga)
    above sea level at Mount Talau. The capital is Neiafu, situated at the Port of Refuge (Puatalefusi or Lolo-ʻa-Halaevalu). In Polynesia, it is said that the...
    11 KB (1,140 words) - 13:46, 29 December 2023
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    Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge is a 10,780-acre (43.6 km2) National Wildlife Refuge located on the Mississippi River at the border of Illinois and...
    3 KB (183 words) - 00:28, 26 January 2022
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    population of 3,845 in 2021. It is situated beside the Port of Refuge, a deep-water harbour on the south coast of Vavaʻu, the main island of the Vavaʻu...
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    has emerged as a refuge for internally displaced persons in Sudan. Port Sudan was built between 1905 and 1909 by the administration of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
    22 KB (1,496 words) - 22:47, 26 April 2024
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    shorter than four hours from a port of refuge, or cargo craft of 500 gross tonnage no more than eight hours from a port of refuge. All passengers are provided...
    29 KB (3,151 words) - 23:03, 7 February 2024
  • under Australian naval command, is ordered to sail north from its port of refuge in Melbourne (Australia's southernmost major mainland city) to contact...
    18 KB (2,247 words) - 03:22, 8 May 2024
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    Afrikaners (category South African people of Dutch descent)
    behalf of King James I, but this action was not ratified. They eventually settled on Saint Helena as an alternative port of refuge. Due to the value of the...
    140 KB (14,616 words) - 19:21, 2 May 2024
  • benefit of the cargo-owner. Yet other expenses, such as port charges incurred to enter the port of refuge, are for the benefit and safety of both ship...
    25 KB (3,992 words) - 23:23, 18 April 2024
  • As of 2022, there are 588 National Wildlife Refuges in the United States, with the addition of the Green River National Wildlife Refuge. Refuges that...
    216 KB (9,578 words) - 20:49, 27 April 2024
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    Place: On the coast of Norway On his homeward journey, the sea captain Daland is compelled by stormy weather to seek a port of refuge near Sandwike in southern...
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    Wildlife Refuge System. The first part of the Great Swamp that was assembled and donated for perpetual preservation by the park service of the federal...
    14 KB (1,581 words) - 04:31, 14 April 2024
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    MV Fremantle Highway (category Cargo ships of Panama)
    Jasmina Ovcina (3 August 2023). "Towing of Fremantle Highway begins with Eemshaven selected as the port of refuge". Offshore Energy. Retrieved 3 August...
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  • A place of refuge for ships is a safe harbor or other secure place where a ship in distress can safely be taken to "prevent further damage or deterioration...
    2 KB (260 words) - 15:58, 3 December 2023
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    Island and Saint Helena as alternative ports of refuge. Dutch interest was aroused after 1647, when two employees of the Dutch East India Company were shipwrecked...
    222 KB (21,081 words) - 16:01, 11 May 2024
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    Bath. Because of the natural layout of the harbour, Ilfracombe became a significant safe port (registered port of refuge) on the Bristol Channel. It also...
    49 KB (5,423 words) - 16:20, 12 April 2024
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    unrecognized language (link) Official Site of the Lilac Garden Tourism Charlevoix - Topo of "The garden of lilac" Port of Refuge Website Brigitte Lavoie, journalist...
    14 KB (1,979 words) - 14:02, 28 April 2024
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    (1938). Port of refuge. London: Faber and Faber. Toksvig, Signe (1941). Life boat. London: Faber and Faber. Toksvig, Signe (1933). The life of Hans Christian...
    6 KB (538 words) - 10:50, 28 April 2024
  • New Life Children's Refuge case was an incident of alleged kidnapping and the ensuing legal cases which occurred in the aftermath of the January 12th 2010...
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