Kilometre

Red giant stars reach sizes of 62 million to 621 million miles in diameter (100 million to 1 billion kilometres), 100 to 1,000 times the size of the sun today. The energy of the star is spread out across a larger area, like the pixels when one expands a raster graphic. Because of this, the star actually becomes cooler reaching only a little more than half…

Islands in Indonesia. Mount Tambora is one of the many volcanoes in the ring of fire and the only volcano in recorded history to reach a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 7. On the day of the eruption the explosion was heard from approximately 2000 kilometres away among the Sumatran islands. Mount Tambora is described as a Stratovolcano a large volcan layered within with ash and magma form past devastations. Mount Tambora was created and formed by the active subduction zone beneath it. The…

Death was caused by the head injury or asphyxia, or a combination of both. It seemed that death had most probably occurred within a day of the kidnapping. A house in Clontarf, around three kilometres from the spot where Graeme’s body was found had been suspected after having relation to crucial police evidence. At the time of the kidnapping the house had been inhabited by a Hungarian man named Stephen Leslie Bradley, along with his wife Magda…

Muhammad adopted the practice of praying alone for several weeks every year in a cave on Mount Hira near Mecc. Islamic tradition holds that during one of his visits to Mount Hira, the angel Gabriel appeared to him in the year 610 and commanded Muhammad to recite verses which would later be included in the Quran. There is a consensus that the first words of the Quran to be revealed were the beginning of Surah 96:1. Upon receiving his first revelations, he was deeply distressed. After returning…

Mt Tamborine Protection Strategy 1.0 INTRODUCTION Tamborine Mountain is a 28 square kilometre plateau (8 km long by 4 km wide) and is located in the Scenic Rim local government area of South East Queensland. It is approximately 600 meters above sea level and about 80km South of Brisbane. Mt Tamborine is a hot, moist and humid part of Australia with no extremes of temperatures. Trees and plants such as ferns, cycads and pines are found on Mt Tamborine. This mountain was called Mt Tamborine,…

The Western Front: The most important battlefield from World War I was the Western Front. This was home to fighting soldiers from Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Australia. This battle eventually resulted in trench warfare with 700 kilometres of zig zag trenches spread from the “Swiss Frontier to the English Channel, cutting across northern France and into southern Belgium.” This trench warfare started a stalemate and was home to some of the most gruesome suffering and horrible conditions…

it is not a movie it is an enduring legacy. This tragedy has affected both young and old members of this First Nation community for many years. Grassy Narrows, Ontario, is located in the Kenora District on the English-Wabigoon river system, 89 kilometres northeast of Kenora (Bray, 2009), The Asubpeeschoseewagong First Nation is an Ojibway First Nation (grassynarrows.ca, n.d.), with a registered population of 1,115 members of whom approximately 951 members currently live on the reserve. This…

restriction after explaining the honey study. Carrington begins by providing context about the study on honey. First, his inclusion, early in the article, that honey is “an excellent indicator of the pesticide pollution” since “bees range over many kilometres to collect nectar and pollen”…

Continental Drift Gondwana was an ancient supercontinent that existed hundreds of millions of years ago. It was made of many continents that we know today. It broke up a long time ago because of something called Continental Drift. Continental drift is what it is called when the tectonic plates move around and rearrange and reshape the continents. Gondwana was made up of 5 main pieces; Africa, South America, Australia, India, and Antarctica. Gondwana existed roughly 300-180 million…

The chosen National Park in this case is the Wilson Promontory Park. It is located in the Gippsland region of Victoria and has an area of 505km2. Wilsons Promontory is mostly consisted of mountains and open forests, so many hikers and bush walkers love walking through it to catch a glimpse of the magnificent scenery. Currently this Park is under restrictions and laws and enforcements have been made so they keep this area clean and as eco-friendly as possible, but so far these enforcement…