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Christy, Cuthbert, 1863 - 1932 (explorer and zoologist)

 Person

Found in 265 Collections and/or Records:

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Best methods of tapping

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/117
Scope and Contents

79 x 98 mm. A view showing a tree tapped on five consecutive days using the DHS (the Double Half Spiral) system and the 'Funtumia knife'. The second tapping is 1½ inches above and to the right of the first.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Best methods of tapping

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/118
Scope and Contents

79 x 100 mm. A view showing a tree tapped on three consecutive days using the DHS (the Double Half Spiral) system and the 'Funtumia knife'. Photograph probably by Christy.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Big bush elephant shot at Lado Enclave, Mongalla, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/178
Scope and Contents

99 x 74 mm. A view showing Christy writing up his journal seated on the corpse of a bush elephant with tusks weighing 114 and 116 lbs. He records that he was injured by a tree uprooted by this animal in the Wele district.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Big bush elephant shot at Lado Enclave, Mongalla, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/179
Scope and Contents

99 x 74 mm. A view showing Christy writing up his journal seated on the corpse of a bush elephant with tusks weighing 114 and 116 lbs. He records that he was injured by a tree uprooted by this animal in the Wele district.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Big bush elephant shot at Lado Enclave, Mongalla, 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/180
Scope and Contents

99 x 74 mm. A view showing Christy writing up his journal seated on the corpse of a bush elephant with tusks weighing 114 and 116 lbs. He records that he was injured by a tree uprooted by this animal in the Wele district.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Big forest elephant (tusks weighing 89 and 94 lbs), Ituri Forest, 1913, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/196
Scope and Contents

101 x 81 mm. A view showing the head and tusks of an elephant shot by Christy.

Dates: 1913
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Big forest elephant (tusks weighing 89 and 94 lbs), Ituri Forest, 1913, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/197
Scope and Contents

101 x 81 mm. A view showing the head and tusks of an elephant shot by Christy.

Dates: 1913
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Big forest elephant (tusks weighing 89 and 94 lbs), Ituri Forest, 1913, 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/198
Scope and Contents

101 x 81 mm. A view showing the head and tusks of an elephant shot by Christy.

Dates: 1913
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bishop's Palace, Wells

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/363
Scope and Contents

296 x 88 mm. A panoramic view looking across lawns towards the Bishop's Palace. Photograph presumably by Christy.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Blackwater Fever notebook, 1896-05-14 - 1898-09-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/2/1
Scope and Contents

Contains 29 pages of detailed case notes for five patients from 1898.

Dates: 1896-05-14 - 1898-09-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Branch of Funtumia Africana, 1903 - 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/69
Scope and Contents

97 x 72 mm. A view of a Funtumia Africana branch at the Botanic Gardens, Victoria, Cameroons, showing leaves and empty seed pods.

Dates: 1903 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bringing in the bushbuck (n.d.)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/244
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. A view showing two African porters carrying a shot bushbuck lashed to a pole.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bush elephant killed at Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo (Aba-Niangara Road), 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/181
Scope and Contents

101 x 76 mm. A view showing two Africans standing beside an elephant shot by Christy. In Christy (1924), he states that the tusks weighed between 119 and 120 lbs, but on the back of two copies of this print the figure is given as 97 and 107 lbs. There would appear to be some confusion between this elephant and another featured in this collection.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bush elephant killed at Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo (Aba-Niangara Road), 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/182
Scope and Contents

101 x 76 mm. A view showing two Africans standing beside an elephant shot by Christy. In Christy (1924), he states that the tusks weighed between 119 and 120 lbs, but on the back of two copies of this print the figure is given as 97 and 107 lbs. There would appear to be some confusion between this elephant and another featured in this collection.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Bush elephant killed at Bodjo, Upper Wele, Congo (Aba-Niangara Road), 1915, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/183
Scope and Contents

101 x 76 mm. A view showing two Africans standing beside an elephant shot by Christy. In Christy (1924), he states that the tusks weighed between 119 and 120 lbs, but on the back of two copies of this print the figure is given as 97 and 107 lbs. There would appear to be some confusion between this elephant and another featured in this collection.

Dates: 1915
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Camp at Kikandikila, Cataract Region, Lower Congo, 1904, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/154
Scope and Contents

101 x 74 mm. A view showing the campsite at Kikandikila during the first Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases sleeping sickness Expedition to the Congo in 1904. Dr J. Everett Dutton, another member of the expedition, is seated in a campchair in the background.

Dates: 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Camp at Kikandikila, Cataract Region, Lower Congo, 1904, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/155
Scope and Contents

101 x 74 mm. A view showing the campsite at Kikandikila during the first Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases sleeping sickness Expedition to the Congo in 1904. Dr J. Everett Dutton, another member of the expedition, is seated in a campchair in the background.

Dates: 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Camp at Kikandikila, Cataract Region, Lower Congo, 1904, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/156
Scope and Contents

101 x 74 mm. A view showing the campsite at Kikandikila during the first Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases sleeping sickness Expedition to the Congo in 1904. Dr J. Everett Dutton, another member of the expedition, is seated in a campchair in the background.

Dates: 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Camp at Kikandikila, Cataract Region, Lower Congo, 1904, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/157
Scope and Contents

100 x 76 mm. A view showing the campsite at Kikandikila during the first Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases sleeping sickness Expedition to the Congo in 1904. Dr J. Everett Dutton, another member of the expedition, is seated in a campchair in the background.

Dates: 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Camp at Kikandikila, Cataract Region, Lower Congo, 1904, 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/158
Scope and Contents

100 x 76 mm. A view showing the campsite at Kikandikila during the first Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases sleeping sickness Expedition to the Congo in 1904. Dr J. Everett Dutton, another member of the expedition, is seated in a campchair in the background.

Dates: 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Catalogue of fishes, 1926 - 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/7/7
Scope and Contents

Notebook (36 pages) describing some of the fish collected, the locations where they were found, and how they were packed for transportation.

Dates: 1926 - 1927
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Christy collection of photographs on Africa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A
Scope and Contents Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...
Dates: 1880 - 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Congo Mission letter book, 1912-02-12 - 1912-05-25

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/5/7
Scope and Contents

Copies of letters (102 leaves) written by Christy while conducting research into zoology and rubber cultivation in the Congo for the Belgian Government. An alphabetical index of recipients is included.

Dates: 1912-02-12 - 1912-05-25
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Congo Mission letter book, 1909-12-07 - 1912-11-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/5/8
Scope and Contents

Copies of letters (circa 100 leaves) written by Christy while conducting research into zoology and rubber cultivation in the Congo for the Belgian Government. An alphabetical index of recipients is included.

Dates: 1909-12-07 - 1912-11-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Congo Mission letter book, 1912-11-25 - 1913-06-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124/5/9
Scope and Contents

Copies of letters (circa 100 leaves) written by Christy while conducting research into zoology and rubber cultivation in the Congo for the Belgian Government. An alphabetical index of recipients is included.

Dates: 1912-11-25 - 1913-06-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Subject
Africa (continent) 222
Congo (nation) 54
Uganda (nation) 38
Europe (continent) 35
Nigeria (nation) 27
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Congo (general region) 25
Sudan (nation) 24
Orientale (province) 21
Cameroon (nation) 19
Sud-Ouest, Province du (province) 18
Madeira (autonomous region) 17
Portugal (nation) 17
Funchal (district (national)) 16
Great Britain (island) 16
Madeira (island) 16
Victoria (inhabited place) 16
Southern (region) 13
British Isles (island group) 11
United Kingdom (nation) 11
Bahr al Ghazal (province) 10
England (country) 10
Asia (continent) 9
Tanzania (nation) 9
Liberia (nation) 8
Malawi (nation) 8
Niangara (inhabited place) 7
Scotland (country) 7
Kenya (nation) 6
Monrovia (inhabited place) 6
Calabar (inhabited place) 5
India (nation) 5
Kakata (inhabited place) 5
Kisangani (inhabited place) 5
Stanley Falls (waterfall) 5
Tanganyika, Lake (lake) 5
Cross River (state) 4
Ghana (nation) 4
Highland (unitary authority) 4
Kasanga (inhabited place) 4
Khartoum (inhabited place) 4
Nile River (river) 4
Baraka (watercourse) 3
Benin City (inhabited place) 3
Eastern Equatoria (province) 3
Entebbe (inhabited place) 3
Funchal (inhabited place) 3
Gabon (nation) 3
Ituri (river) 3
Kampala (inhabited place) 3
Kashmir (general region) 3
Kigoma (inhabited place) 3
Luebo (inhabited place) 3
Mongalla (inhabited place) 3
Pakistan (nation) 3
Victoria, Lake (lake) 3
Ashanti (region) 2
Cameroon Mountain (mountain) 2
Central (province) 2
Edinburgh (inhabited place) 2
Edo (state) 2
Egypt (nation) 2
Ibadan (inhabited place) 2
Kalémié (inhabited olace) 2
Kibanga Port (inhabited place) 2
Kinshasa (inhabited place) 2
Kinshasa, Ville de (province) 2
Lahore (inhabited place) 2
North Buganda (province) 2
Nyasa, Lake (lake) 2
Oyo (state) 2
Somalia (nation) 2
Usambara Mountains (mountains) 2
Abolition of slavery 1
Ahmadnagar (inhabited place) 1
Area disputed by India and Pakistan (disputed territory) 1
Argentina (nation) 1
Arrochar (inhabited place) 1
Balloch (inhabited place) 1
Basra (inhabited place) 1
Benin (nation) 1
Bioko (island) 1
Bombay (inhabited place) 1
Brazil (nation) 1
Bujumbura (inhabited place) 1
Burundi (nation) 1
Canary Islands (autonomous community) 1
Congo, Democratic Republic of the (nation) 1
Dar es Salaam (inhabited place) 1
Darlington (inhabited place) 1
Darlington (unitary authority) 1
Dumbarton (inhabited place) 1
Edinburgh (unitary authority) 1
Equatorial Guinea (nation) 1
Falkirk (inhabited place) 1
Fort Portal (inhabited place) 1
France (nation) 1
Greater Antilles (island group) 1
Iran (nation) 1
Iraq (nation) 1
Jamaica (nation) 1
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