The more generic toponym "Swan" invariably refers to black swans. The Gazetteer of Australia lists 57 examples in New South Wales, 32 in Tasmania, 20 in Queensland, 19 in Victoria, 10 in South Australia, 5 in the Northern Territory, and none in the other territories. Some idiosyncratic examples are Swan Hole (NSW), Swan Spit (Vic) and Swan Nook ...

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toponym Named after strontianite, the mineral. Strontianite itself was named after the town of Strontian where the mineral was found; Sròn an t-Sìthein literally means "nose ['point'] of the fairy hill". Yttrium (Y) 39 Ytterby: Swedish: proper name toponym Named after the mineral yttria (yttriumoxide), where it was originally extracted from.

Toponym. The city is named after Wulfrun, who founded the town in 985, from the Anglo-Saxon Wulfrūnehēantūn ("Wulfrūn's high or principal enclosure or farm"). Before the Norman Conquest, the area's name appears only as variants of Heantune or Hamtun, the prefix Wulfrun or similar appearing in 1070 and thereafter. Alternatively, the city may have earned its original name from ...

Etymology. Old English torr is from Latin turris via Old French tor.The Latin term together with Greek τύρσις was loaned from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language, connected with the Illyrian toponym Βου-δοργίς. With the Lydian toponyms Τύρρα, Τύρσα, it has been connected with the ethnonym Τυρρήνιοι as well as with Tusci (from *Turs-ci), the Greek and ...

Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the North Atlantic Ocean.Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1,770 km (1,100 mi) northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1,350 km (840 mi) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, west of Portugal, northwest of Brazil, 1,759 km (1,093 mi) north of …

Using toponym co-occurrences to measure relationships between places: review, application and evaluation — Evert Meijers, Antoine Peris – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands TCS Research at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Learning Robust Representations using Multi-Attention Architecture — Hardik Meisheri, Lipika Dey – TCS Research ...

The letters Q (chiu), W (dublu v), and Y (igrec or i grec, meaning "Greek i") were formally introduced in the Romanian alphabet in 1982, although they had been used earlier.They occur only in foreign words and their Romanian derivatives, such as quasar, watt, and yacht.The letter K, although relatively older, is also rarely used and appears only in proper names and …

Georeferencing means that the internal coordinate system of a map or aerial photo image can be related to a geographic coordinate system.The relevant coordinate transforms are typically stored within the image file (GeoPDF and GeoTIFF are examples), though there are many possible mechanisms for implementing georeferencing.The most visible effect of georeferencing is …