Showing posts with label u. Show all posts
Showing posts with label u. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

38 - Uliastay, Mongolia

Main western city.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

12 - Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia


On the coast, 50mi. S of Wollongong.

The name "Ulladulla" comes from the aboriginal word Nulladulla, which means "safe harbour".
The town gained its first traffic light in the 1990s; one of its most notable landmarks is the Marlin Hotel with its big fluorescent marlin on the roof, which can be viewed from the sea.

Monday, June 16, 2008

101 - Upper Arrow Lake, British Columbia, Canada


Runs due N-S, just above (of course) Lower Arrow Lake. It's actually just a widening in the Columbia River — and since a 1960 damming they're actually one lake. Here's an old-time steamship on the Arrow Lakes:

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

75 - Uncastillo, Spain



In Aragon/Zaragosa, between Pamplona and Huesca. I like how the satellite view of the region looks like a polished slice of especially lively marble.

Friday, April 25, 2008

48 - Umanaq, Greenland


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In a fjord on the mid-west coast. Here's an 1896 watercolor of a boy in Umanaq, by Arctic explorer Russell W. Porter:

Thursday, March 27, 2008

23 - Urn Island, Hong Kong

Not a lot of U's in SE China, at least in the pinyin system used in my Times Atlas. Urn Island is in the NE part of the Hong Kong territories. Seems to be the island now known as Tai Tau Chau (大頭洲). Here's some footage that may be of 大頭洲, or if not that, shot from 大頭洲 looking elsewhere.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

111 - Uvalde, Texas

80mi. W of San Antonio.