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Rhyl
(Encyclopedia) RhylRhylrĭl [key], town (1991 pop. 22,714), Denbighshire, N Wales, on the Irish Sea at the mouth of the Clwyd River. A seaside resort, it was at its height in the 1960s and 70s, but…Plynlimon
(Encyclopedia) Plynlimon or PlinlimonPlinlimonboth: plĭnlĭmˈən [key], Welsh Plumlumon Fawr, mountain, 2,468 ft (752 m) high, W Wales, on the Powys-Ceredigion border W of Llanidloes. It has three…Prince of Wales Island, United States
(Encyclopedia) Prince of Wales Island, 2,231 sq mi (5,778 sq km), off SE Alaska; largest island of the Alexander Archipelago. The island is heavily forested, but has little arable land, no source of…Port Talbot
(Encyclopedia) Port TalbotPort Talbottôlˈbət [key], town (1981 pop. 40,078), Neath Port Talbot, S Wales, at the mouth of the Avon (Afan) River on Swansea Bay. Port Talbot is a popular seaside resort…Pembrokeshire
(Encyclopedia) Pembrokeshire, Welsh Sir Benfro, county, 614 sq mi (1,590 sq km), SW Wales. In 1974, the county of Pembrokeshire became part of the nonmetropolitan county of Dyfed, but in 1996 Dyfed…Parramatta
(Encyclopedia) ParramattaParramattapârˌəmătˈə [key], city (2016 pop. 226,149), New South Wales, SE Australia, a suburb of Sydney, on the Parramatta River. It is the regional center for the western…West Glamorgan
(Encyclopedia) West GlamorganWest Glamorgangləmôrˈgən [key], former county, S Wales. Created in the 1974 reorganization of Welsh local government from portions of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire, in the…Neath
(Encyclopedia) NeathNeathnēth [key], Welsh Castell-nedd, town (1981 pop. 48,687), Neath Port Talbot, S Wales, on the Neath River. Neath is both a market and an industrial town. Metallurgy and a…Seward Peninsula
(Encyclopedia) Seward Peninsula, W Alaska, projecting c.200 mi (320 km) into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle. The region is mostly bleak tundra,…Sandringham
(Encyclopedia) SandringhamSandringhamsănˈdrĭngəm [key], village, Norfolk, E England, near the Wash River. Sandringham House, with its large estate, was purchased in 1861 by Edward VII, then prince of…Trending
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