Jenkins's Ear, War of
Jenkins's Ear, War of (1739–41) A war between Britain and Spain that broke out as a result of Britain's trade with South America. The Peace of
UTRECHT, which gave the British South Sea Company a limited trade monopoly with the Spanish American colonies, caused general friction, but the main trouble-makers were illicit traders who defied both the Company and the Spanish government. In 1737 British merchants were protesting at a tightening-up of Spanish control. The Spanish government and
WALPOLE both wanted peace but Walpole's enemies made it an excuse to attack him: a merchant captain named Jenkins was produced to tell a story of torture and the loss of an ear. Popular clamour was such that Walpole consented reluctantly to declare war. Admiral Vernon captured Porto Bello and France sent two squadrons to the West Indies. In 1740 the war merged into that of the
AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION.
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Kermadec Island hit by quake.
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 5/17/2005; 464 words
; ...of the New Zealand territory of Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands - an uninhabited Pacific island group 700km northeast of Auckland, New...unlikely to have caused a tsunami." He said Kermadec Islands regularly record strong quakes because...
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Strong quake shakes Kermadec island group north of New Zealand; no tsunami likely
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 5/16/2005; 322 words
; ...of the New Zealand territory of Raoul Island in the Kermadec Islands _ an uninhabited Pacific island group 700 kilometers (435 miles) northeast...caused a tsunami," Gledhill said. The Kermadec Islands regularly record strong quakes because...
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Strong quake jolts Kermadec island
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 2/18/2009; 237 words
; Strong quake jolts Kermadec island BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Kermadec island in South Pacific Ocean at 5:53 a.m. Thursday Beijing Time...
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Strong earthquake hits Kermadec Islands off New Zealand
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 1/18/2009; 303 words
; Strong earthquake hits Kermadec Islands off New Zealand WELLINGTON...on the Richter scale jolted Kermadec Islands north of New Zealand...damages were reported. The Kermadec Islands are uninhabited apart from...some 80 km south of Raoul Island, and 1, 005 km northeast...
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Urgent: Strong earthquake rocks Kermadec Islands
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 5/15/2009; 254 words
; ...Urgent: Strong earthquake rocks Kermadec Islands HONG KONG, May 16 (Xinhua...7 on the Richter scale jolted Kermadec Islands Region at 9:06 a.m...was initially determined to be in Kermadec Islands Region, 31.5 south longitude...
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Urgent: 7.3-magnitude earthquake hits Kermadec islands off New Zealand
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 2/18/2009; 237 words
; ...3-magnitude earthquake hits Kermadec islands off New Zealand WASHINGTON, Feb...magnitude earthquake hit Wednesday the Kermadec islands off New Zealand, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The Kermadec islands, 1,000 km north of New...
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Strong quake jolts areas near Kermadec Islands
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 12/9/2008; 259 words
; ...Strong quake jolts areas near Kermadec Islands BEIJING, Dec. 9...scale jolted the areas near Kermadec Islands at 2:24 p.m. Beijing...west longitude, it said. The Kermadec Islands are an island arc in the South Pacific Ocean...
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Strong earthquake rocks areas near Kermadec Islands
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 12/9/2008; 299 words
; ...earthquake rocks areas near Kermadec Islands WELLINGTON, Dec...Zealand's remote areas of Kermadec Islands in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday...at 215 km southeast of Raoul Island, Kermadec Islands,990 km northeast of Auckland...
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Prehistoric Mobility in Polynesia: MtDNA Variation in Rattus exulans from the Chatham and Kermadec Islands.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...prehistory of that island group. In addition...pattern observed in the Kermadec Islands and New Zealand. The...systems, making the islands a difficult and dangerous...origin for Chatham Island colonists (Clark 1994...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Kermadec Islands lie approximately ...
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Fed: Earthquake hits Kermadec Islands
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 6/3/2001; 222 words
; ...2001 Fed: Earthquake hits Kermadec Islands CANBERRA, June...Richter scale has hit near the Kermadec Islands, halfway between Fiji and...200 kilometres of Raoul Island, the main population centre of the islands. "It was quite a large...
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Kermadec Islands
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kermadec Islands , almost uninhabited, active volcanic...a dependency. Raoul, or Sunday, Island, the largest, is mountainous, with...annexed to New Zealand in 1887. The islands are adjacent to the Kermadec-Tonga Trench.
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Tonga-Kermadec Trench
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Tonga-Kermadec Trench The oceanic trench in the western Pacific Ocean which forms part...and Pacific Plates . There is a volcanic gap (i.e. a break in the island arc ) to the north-west of the trench, possibly related to the subduction...
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Tonga
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...also known as the Friendly Islands, is an archipelago consisting of 171 islands in the South Pacific Ocean...Zealand to Hawaii. The nearest island groups are the Nieu Islands to the east, the Kermadec Islands to the south, Fiji...
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New Zealand
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the South Island (the two principal islands), Stewart Island , and the Chatham Islands . Small outlying islands belonging...include the Auckland Islands, the Kermadec Islands, Campbell Island, the Antipodes, Three Kings Island...
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Australian and New Zealander Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...and several dependencies, in addition to several small outlying islands, including Stewart Island, the Chatham Islands, Auckland Islands, Kermadec Islands, Campbell Island, the Antipodes, Three Kings Island, Bounty Island, Snares Island...
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