39 - Voyampolka, Russia

On the W coast of Kamchatka.

13 - Victoria Downs, Queensland, Australia

S of Chapters Towers.

Victoria Downs, once Australia's largest pastoral property and the largest cattle station in the world, is synonymous with Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King. In the 1920s, after a malaria epidemic, John Flynn built a hospital on the station which was operated by the Australian Inland Mission until it closed down in 1942. Both the original homestead, which is located some kilometres south of the current Victoria Downs homestead, and the hospital are now listed as part of the National Estate.

102 - Villa Ahumada, Mexico

In Chihuahua, about 100mi. S of El Paso.

Villa Ahumada (officially Miguel Ahumada) is a town in northern Mexico with about 9,000 inhabitants (2008), located in the state of Chihuahua along Highway 45, about 130 km south of Ciudad Juárez and 247 km north of the city of Chihuahua.
The city has several roadside restaurants and burrito stands and is known for its good cheese.
Villa Ahumada entered the international news in 2008 when it was terrorized for several hours by an out of town gang. This was presumably part of the wave of drug-smuggling related violence in Mexico that resulted in about 4,000 deaths between early 2007 and mid 2008. At the night of May 19, 2008, dozens of men drove through town, firing assault rifles and killing the police chief, two police officers and three civilians, and abducting at least 10 people. The remaining policemen then left, and the state and federal governments sent troops to restore order. Officials did not offer a theory about the perpetrators. According to local rumors, the town's drug dealers had been aligned with police and were linked to the Juárez Cartel. After a local drug boss was killed and another arrested, a rival gang was possibly trying to take over the drug trade along the route from Ciudad Juárez to the state of Sinaloa.

76 - Vila do Bispo, Portugal

On the Cabo de São Vicente peninsula, on the SW corner of the country.

49 - Valencia, Spain

Basically due S of London.


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Here's the Decemberists' music video for "O Valencia":

24 - Vorontsovka, Kazakhstan

150mi S of Semipalatinsk.

113 - Veniaminof Volcano, Alaska

Midway up the Alaskan Peninsula, W of Chignik.



Wikipedia:

Mount Veniaminof is an active stratovolcano located on the Alaska Peninsula. The Alaska Volcano Observatory currently rates Veniaminof as Aviation Color Code Green and Volcano Alert Level Normal. The mountain was named after Ioann (Ivan Popov) Veniaminov (1797-1879), a Russian Orthodox missionary priest whose writings on the Aleut language and ethnology are still standard references.
The volcano was the site of a colossal (VEI 6) eruption around 1750 BC. This eruption left a large caldera. In modern times the volcano has had numerous small eruptions (over ten of them since 1930); these are located at a cinder cone in the middle of the caldera.
Veniaminof has one of the highest elevations of Alaskan volcanoes. Partly for this reason, it is covered by a glacier that fills most of the caldera. Because of the glacier and the caldera walls, there is the possibility for a major flood from a glacier run at some point in the future.