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(Encyclopedia)Antarctic Ocean: see Southern Ocean. ...Ocean City
(Encyclopedia)Ocean City. 1 City (1990 pop. 5,146), Worcester co., SE Md., largest ocean resort in the state; inc. 1880. Ocean City is 28 mi (45 km) E of Salisbury and extends 10 mi (16 km) along a penisular barrie...Ocean Island
(Encyclopedia)Ocean Island, Kiribati: see Banaba. ...ocean perch
(Encyclopedia)ocean perch: see rockfish.ocean sunfish
(Encyclopedia)ocean sunfish: see puffer.Mombasa
(Encyclopedia)Mombasa mŏmbăˈsə, –bäˈsə [key], city (1990 est. pop. 537,000), capital of Coast prov., SE Kenya, mostly on Mombasa island in the Indian Ocean and partly on the mainland (with which it is conn...Maputo Bay
(Encyclopedia)Maputo Bay, formerly Delagoa Bay dĕlˌəgōˈə [key], inlet of the Indian Ocean, c.55 mi (90 km) long and 20 mi (30 km) wide, S Mozambique, SE Africa; Maputo, the capital and chief port of Mozambiqu...Ellsworth, Lincoln
(Encyclopedia)Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880–1951, American explorer, b. Chicago, Ill. He was a surveyor and engineer in railroad building and later a prospector and mining engineer in NW Canada. He became the financia...Durban
(Encyclopedia)Durban dûrˈbən [key], city, now part and seat of eThekwini metropolitan municipality, KwaZulu-Natal prov., E South Africa, on Natal Bay, an arm of the Indian Ocean. Durban is an industrial center, ...Mwanamutapa
(Encyclopedia)Mwanamutapa mwäˌnämo͞otäˈpä [key], former state, SE Africa. The Mwanamutapa empire, headed by a ruler of the same name, was founded c.1420 among the Karanga people (a subgroup of the Bantu-spea...Browse by Subject
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