seafaring
... Provinces declared their independence from Spain in 1579; during the 17th century, they became a leading seafaring and commercial power, with settlements and colonies around the world. After a 20-year French ...
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/a_fg.html
seafood
garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood
www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/e_ec.html
seafood
cotton, cashews, shea butter, textiles, palm products, seafood
www.exxun.com/Benin/e_ec.html
seafood
bananas, pineapples, coffee, melons, ornamental plants, sugar; seafood; electronic components, medical equipment
www.exxun.com/CostaRica/e_ec.html
seafood
... recent years, and the country now ranks sixth in cashew production. Guinea-Bissau exports fish and seafood along with small amounts of peanuts, palm kernels, and timber. Rice is the major crop ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea_Bissau/e_ec.html
seafood
meat processing, seafood, soap, breweries, tanneries, sugar, textiles, glassware, cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum, tourism
www.exxun.com/Madagascar/e_ec.html
seafood
paddy rice, coffee, rubber, cotton, tea, pepper, soybeans, cashews, sugar cane, peanuts, bananas; poultry; fish, seafood
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/e_ec.html
seagoing
1,770 km (seagoing vessels use inland seas) (2007)
www.exxun.com/Japan/g_tr.html
seahorse
... capital letters; the main elements of the coat of arms, flanked on either side by a seahorse, appear above a scroll with the motto RA HACHIRI (We are Vigilant); the only official ...
www.exxun.com/Mayotte/d_gv.html
Seal
... US at Dixon Entrance, Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; US works closely with Canada to intensify security measures to monitor ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/i_ti.html
seal
... island of the Crozets). Discovered and claimed by France in 1772, the islands were used for seal hunting and as a base for whaling. Originally administered as a dependency of Madagascar, they ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/a_fg.html
seal
protection of the arctic environment; preservation of the Inuit traditional way of life, including whaling and seal hunting
www.exxun.com/Greenland/b_mp.html
seal
These uninhabited, barren, sub-Antarctic islands were transferred from the UK to Australia in 1947. Populated by large numbers of seal and bird species, the islands have been designated a nature preserve.
www.exxun.com/HeardIslandandMcDonaldIslands/a_fg.html
seal
... 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 in 1929 ...
www.exxun.com/JanMayen/a_fg.html
seal
red with a green pentacle (five-pointed, linear star) known as Sulayman's (Solomon's) seal in the center of the flag; red and green are traditional colors in Arab flags, although ...
www.exxun.com/Morocco/d_gv.html
seal
... REPUBLICA DEL PARAGUAY, all within two circles); the reverse (hoist side at the right) bears the seal of the treasury (a yellow lion below a red Cap of Liberty and the words ...
www.exxun.com/Paraguay/d_gv.html
seal
three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red, with the Slovenian seal (a shield with the image of Triglav, Slovenia's highest peak, in white against a blue background at ...
www.exxun.com/Slovenia/d_gv.html
seal
The islands, which have large bird and seal populations, lie approximately 1,000 km east of the Falkland Islands and have been under British administration since 1908 - except for a brief period in ...
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/a_fg.html
seal
... arms features a shield with a golden lion centered; the shield is supported by a fur seal on the left and a penguin on the right; a reindeer appears above the shield ...
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/d_gv.html
seal
... incidental mortality of seabirds resulting from long-line fishing for toothfish note: the now-protected fur seal population is making a strong comeback after severe overexploitation in the 18th and 19th centuries
www.exxun.com/SouthernOcean/b_mp.html
seal
... arms on the hoist side of the yellow band; the coat of arms includes the royal seal framed by the Pillars of Hercules, which are the two promontories (Gibraltar and Ceuta) on ...
www.exxun.com/Spain/d_gv.html
seal
... nearly 60% of the Norwegian population on the island, runs many of the local services, and provides most of the local infrastructure. There is also some hunting of seal, reindeer, and fox
www.exxun.com/Svalbard/e_ec.html
Seal
... Canada at Dixon Entrance, Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; The Bahamas and US have not been able to agree on ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/i_ti.html
sealing
... south between 50 degrees and 130 degrees west]); Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (limits sealing); Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (regulates fishing) note: many nations (including ...
www.exxun.com/SouthernOcean/b_mp.html
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