 "Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)")
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The real Gambia; KATIE BODINGER left the comfort of her hotel behind to look at real life in the tiny African country of Gambia.(News)
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Byline: STEVE RACE
IT WAS hard to imagine I could be in paradise after just a six hour plane ride from the cold and rainy UK.
But here I was, sipping a cocktail in a swanky hotel by a swimming pool, overlooking the deep blue sea.
The Gambia, or the smiling coast, is half the size of Wales and situated in a line along the River Gambia.
It is becoming an increasingly popular tourism destination because of its tropical climate and the fact there is no time difference - and that means no jet lag.
I stayed at the newly-built five star ...
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Tropical cyclone moves eastward towards Mascarene Islands
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...00-0000 Tropical Cyclone 16s will move east of northern Madagascar Tuesday and is expected to head toward the Mascarene Islands. In northern Africa, meanwhile, tropical moisture from the Atlantic will stream across the region bringing scattered...
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Geochronology of the Letete and Waweig formations, Mascarene Group, southwestern New Brunswick.
Magazine article from: Atlantic Geology
; ...Silurian strata underlying the Mascarene Basin on the northwestern...ascertained that the entire Mascarene succession to the northwest...northwestern margin of the Mascarene Basin in this region is defined...from conglomerate on Cookson Island in Oak Bay reportedly indicates...
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Neoproterozoic and Cambrian U-Pb (zircon) ages from Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick: implications for stratigraphy and northern Appalachian terrane correlations.(Era overview)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
; ...only on offshore islands, is younger than...marble of the Kent Island Formation, which...the New River and Mascarene terranes of southern...than Grand Manan Island. Resume : Des...Le granite Three Islands, affleurant uniquement...New River et de Mascarene du sud du ...
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Caribbean Island asteraceae: systematics, molecules, and conservation on a biodiversity hotspot.(Report)
Magazine article from: The Botanical Review
; ...and Juan Fernandez Island [e.g., Dendroseris...sunflowers on larger island groups of continental...these "alternative" islands have endemic genera...Madagascar, Comoros and Mascarene Islands (Nordenstam, 2007...scale. The Caribbean Island Biodiversity Hotspot...
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Mr. Elizabeth, Island Storyteller: Symbol and Creolization in Indian Ocean Folktales
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore
; ...women "representing" the island; here was a ponderous foreign...Selve 1995). Nowadays the island produces more music CDs than...Mauritius, and its dependent island, Rodrigues, are known as...Deegan or William Shea.1 The Mascarene islands lie in the Indian Ocean 800...
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Geochemistry of metavolcanic rocks of the Ross Island and Ingalls Head formations, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.
Magazine article from: Atlantic Geology
; Southeastern Grand Manan Island consists of explosive and effusive volcanic rocks of the Ross Island and Ingalls Head formations...explosion des formations de Ross Island et d'Ingalls Head, qui comprennent...the Silurian - early Devonian Mascarene Group. The Avalon composite...
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Commonwealth to participate in presentations by small island states to the UN.
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association
; ...earlier this year. The Cook Islands became the first Pacific island country to make a continental...their submission, the Cook Islands seeks to secure access to...Seychelles became the first small island countries to make a joint...submission concerning the Mascarene Plateau in December ...
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Medicinal and aromatic plants of Indian Ocean Islands.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Southern Medical Journal
; ...of biodiversity. Even remote islands are not spared. For instance, the present day flora of some islands in the Indian Ocean represents...booming business. Indian Ocean islands such as the Mascarene Islands, Comoros, Seychelles...
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An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...perhaps those dealing with the island's import and export slave...commercial exploitation of the island," that ultimately undermined...plantation economies of the Mascarene Islands (Reunion and Mauritius...expansion into the east of the island. This is followed by chapters...
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An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies
; ...1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire. By Gwyn Campbell. African Studies...least nominal control over much of the island during the nineteenth century. To this...some of his claims about the Malagasy-Mascarene relationship-and especially the slave...
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