occasionally ice islands occasionally break away from northern Ellesmere Island; icebergs calved from glaciers in western Greenland and extreme northeastern Canada; permafrost in islands; virtually ice locked from October to June; ships subject ... www.exxun.com/ArcticOcean/b_mp.html
occasionally occasionally severe earthquakes; droughts www.exxun.com/Armenia/b_mp.html
occasionally ... dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in central and southern ... www.exxun.com/Iraq/b_mp.html
occasionally ... a Dutch whaling captain who indisputably discovered it in 1614 (earlier claims are inconclusive). Visited only occasionally by seal hunters and trappers over the following centuries, the island came under Norwegian sovereignty ... www.exxun.com/JanMayen/a_fg.html
occasionally tropical; heavy year-round rainfall, especially in the eastern islands; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasionally severe damage www.exxun.com/Micronesia_FederatedStatesof/b_mp.html
occasionally frequent earthquakes, occasionally severe especially in north and west; flooding along the Indus after heavy rains (July and August) www.exxun.com/Pakistan/b_mp.html
occasionally ... American cocaine bound for growing domestic markets, to a lesser extent Western and Central Europe, and occasionally to the US; major source of heroin precursor chemicals; corruption and organized crime are key ... www.exxun.com/Russia/i_ti.html
occasionally ... and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; women and girls are trafficked internally - and occasionally to European and Asian countries - for sexual exploitation; women from other African countries are trafficked ... www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/i_ti.html
occasionally ice floes often block the entrance to Bellsund (a transit point for coal export) on the west coast and occasionally make parts of the northeastern coast inaccessible to maritime traffic www.exxun.com/Svalbard/b_mp.html
occasionally ... arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky ... www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/b_mp.html
occasions ... former King ZAHIR Shah held the honorific, "Father of the Country," and presided symbolically over certain occasions but lacked any governing authority; the honorific is not hereditary; King Zahir Shah died on ... www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/d_gv.html
occasions ... half and a gold and white ray pattern on the upper half; a stylized red, blue, and white ship rides on the wave pattern; the French flag is used for official occasions www.exxun.com/FrenchPolynesia/d_gv.html
occasions ... year terms); the designation of National Assembly or Zgromadzenie Narodowe is only used on those rare occasions when the two houses meet jointly elections: Senate - last held 21 October 2007 (next to ... www.exxun.com/Poland/d_gv.html
occasions ... outlined in black, one above the other; these three heraldic arms represent settlement by colonists from the Basque Country (top), Brittany, and Normandy; the flag of France is used for official occasions www.exxun.com/SaintPierreandMiquelon/d_gv.html
Occidental ... regions (regions, singular - region); Batha, Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti, Chari-Baguirmi, Guera, Hadjer-Lamis, Kanem, Lac, Logone Occidental, Logone Oriental, Mandoul, Mayo-Kebbi Est, Mayo-Kebbi Ouest, Moyen-Chari, Ouaddai, Salamat, Tandjile, Ville ... www.exxun.com/Chad/d_gv.html
Occidental 10 provinces (provinces, singular - province) and 1 city* (ville); Bandundu, Bas-Congo, Equateur, Kasai-Occidental, Kasai-Oriental, Katanga, Kinshasa*, Maniema, Nord-Kivu, Orientale, Sud-Kivu note: according to the Constitution adopted in ... www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/d_gv.html
Occidental ... at 38% in 2006. In 2006 the government of Alfredo PALACIO (2005-07) seized the assets of Occidental Petroleum for alleged contract violations and imposed a windfall revenue tax on foreign oil companies ... www.exxun.com/Ecuador/e_ec.html
Occidental ... large archipelago formed from the Crozet Plateau, Iles Crozet is divided into two main groups: L'Occidental (the West), which includes Ile aux Cochons, Ilots des Apotres, Ile des Pingouins, and the ... www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/a_fg.html
Occidental ... Union, Leyte, Maguindanao, Marinduque, Masbate, Mindoro Occidental, Mindoro Oriental, Misamis Occidental, Misamis Oriental, Mountain Province, Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, North Cotabato, Northern Samar, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, Palawan, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Quezon, Quirino ... www.exxun.com/Philippines/d_gv.html
Occidental ... drilling was given a boost in 2004 when the State Oil Company (Staatsolie) signed exploration agreements with Repsol, Maersk, and Occidental. Bidding on these new offshore blocks was completed in July 2006 www.exxun.com/Suriname/e_ec.html
occupancy ... after the 11 September 2001 attacks. The island experiences only a brief low season, and hotel occupancy in 2004 averaged 80%, compared to 68% throughout the rest of the Caribbean. The government ... www.exxun.com/Aruba/e_ec.html
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