landed
... islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C., but Arawak Indians populated the islands when Columbus landed on his second voyage in 1493. Early settlements by the Spanish and French were succeeded ...
www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/a_fg.html
landed
... Argentina invaded the islands on 2 April 1982. The British responded with an expeditionary force that landed seven weeks later and after fierce fighting forced an Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/a_fg.html
landed
... limited to servicing meteorological and geophysical research stations, military bases, and French and other fishing fleets. The fish catches landed on Iles Kerguelen by foreign ships are exported to France and Reunion
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/e_ec.html
landed
Dutch traders landed at the southern tip of modern day South Africa in 1652 and established a stopover point on the spice route between the Netherlands and the East, founding the city ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/a_fg.html
landed
... adopted in late 1999 to reduce illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, which in the 2000-01 season landed, by one estimate, 8,376 metric tons of Patagonian and Antarctic toothfish. In the 2006-07 Antarctic ...
www.exxun.com/SouthernOcean/e_ec.html
Landespolizei
no regular military forces (constitutionally prohibited); Principality of Liechtenstein National Police (Landespolizei, LP) (2008)
www.exxun.com/Liechtenstein/h_ml.html
landfill
contamination of groundwater on Saipan may contribute to disease; clean-up of landfill; protection of endangered species conflicts with development
www.exxun.com/NorthernMarianaIslands/b_mp.html
landfill
... 2010); by 2005 the government reduced the amount of industrial and commercial waste disposed of in landfill sites to 85% of 1998 levels and recycled or composted at least 25% of household ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/b_mp.html
landholders
... accounts for about 35% of GDP and employs about 55% of the work force, mainly small landholders. Ghana opted for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) program in 2002 ...
www.exxun.com/Ghana/e_ec.html
landholdings
... a British possession in 1783. The island's sugar plantation economy was converted to small farm landholdings in the mid 19th century. Much of this island was devastated and two-thirds of ...
www.exxun.com/Montserrat/a_fg.html
landing
... internet broadband services began in 2003 with approximately 200,000 subscribers in 2006 international: country code - 213; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-4 fiber- optic submarine cable system that provides links ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/f_cm.html
landing
... towns; a privately-owned, mobile-cellular service provider began operations in 2001 international: country code - 244; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe ...
www.exxun.com/Angola/f_cm.html
landing
general assessment: NA domestic: modern internal telephone system international: country code - 1-264; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) optic submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the ...
www.exxun.com/Anguilla/f_cm.html
landing
... account for Antarctica's limited economic activity. Antarctic fisheries in 2004-05 (1 July-30 June) reported landing 147,000 metric tons (estimated fishing from the area covered by the Convention on the Conservation ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/e_ec.html
landing
53 note: all year-round and seasonal stations operated by National Antarctic Programs stations have helicopter landing facilities (2007)
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/g_tr.html
landing
general assessment: NA domestic: good automatic telephone system international: country code - 1-268; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) optic submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the ...
www.exxun.com/AntiguaandBarbuda/f_cm.html
landing
... and mobile telephone use is rapidly expanding; broadband services are gaining ground international: country code - 54; landing point for the Atlantis-2, UNISUR, and South America-1 optical submarine cable systems that ...
www.exxun.com/Argentina/f_cm.html
landing
... domestic: increased competition through privatization; 3 wireless service providers are now licensed international: country code - 297; landing site for the PAN-AM submarine telecommunications cable system that extends from the US Virgin ...
www.exxun.com/Aruba/f_cm.html
landing
the landing of illegal immigrants from Indonesia's Rote Island has become an ongoing problem
www.exxun.com/AshmoreandCartierIslands/c_pp.html
landing
Australia Day, 26 January (1788); ANZAC Day (commemorated as the anniversary of the landing of troops of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I at Gallipoli, Turkey), 25 ...
www.exxun.com/Australia/d_gv.html
landing
... in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile cellular telephones international: country code - 61; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable with links to Asia ...
www.exxun.com/Australia/f_cm.html
landing
... is designed to satisfy increasing demand for voice and broadband internet services international: country code - 1-242; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) fiber-optic submarine cable that ...
www.exxun.com/Bahamas/f_cm.html
