The Channel Islands (Spanish: islas del Canal, Archipiélago del Norte) are an eight-island archipelago located within the Southern California Bight in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California.The four Northern Channel Islands are part of the Transverse Ranges geologic province, and the four Southern Channel Islands are part of the Peninsular Ranges province.

Channel Islands National Park consists of five of the eight Channel Islands off the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. Although the islands are close to the shore of the densely populated state, they have been relatively undeveloped. The park covers 249,561 acres (100,994 ha), ...

VAT-free imports from the Channel Islands were imports into the United Kingdom from the neighbouring Channel Islands that were exempt from value added tax (VAT), a European Union purchase tax. The exemption was a result of low-value consignment relief (LVCR), a tax relief that applies to low-valued imports into the EU. The UK was a member of the EU from 1973 until …

Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day.Liberation marks the date of either a revolution, as in Cuba, the fall of a dictatorship, as in Portugal, or the end of an occupation by another state, as in the Netherlands, thereby differing from original independence day or creation of statehood.

Other names for the island fox include coast fox, short-tailed fox, island gray fox, Channel Islands fox, Channel Islands gray fox, California Channel Islands fox and insular gray fox.. Description. The island fox is significantly smaller than the related gray fox, and is the smallest fox in North America, averaging slightly smaller than the swift (Vulpes velox) and kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis).

The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Marmara Sea, is an inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey.It connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, separating the country's European and Asian part. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Black Sea and the Dardanelles strait to the Aegean Sea. The former also separates Istanbul's European and Asian side.

Places. Western, Nebraska, a village in the US; Western, New York, a town in the US; Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia; Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia; Western world, countries that identify with shared "Western" culture; Arts and entertainment Films. Western, a French road movie directed by Manuel Poirier; Western, a German-Austrian film

A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream, creek, brook, rivulet, and rill.There are no official definitions for the generic term …

Las islas del Canal o islas Anglonormandas (Channel Islands en inglés; Îles Anglo-Normandes ou Îles de la Manche en francés, Îles d'la Manche en normando) son un grupo de islas del canal de la Mancha situadas al oeste de la península francesa de Cotentin en Normandía.Son Dependencias de la Corona británica pero no forman parte del Reino Unido. ...

The SARK (Search and Rescue Knife) or NSAR (Navy Search and Rescue) is a folding knife designed by knifemaker Ernest Emerson for use as a search and rescue knife by the US military. It has a hawkbill with a blunt tip in order to cut free trapped victims without cutting them in the process. There is a variant with a pointed-tip designed for police, known as the P-SARK (Police …