FORUM GAMES - Place Names

Robin Hood’s Bay - a village on the North Yorkshire coast. Many of the streets are steep and narrow and can only be accessed on foot.

Sahara Desert Oasis

Tewitfield - a village near Carnforth in north Lancashire. Tewitfield marina is the farthest navigable point at the north end of the Lancaster Canal.
The canal used to go all the way to Kendal but was cut off at Tewitfield in the early 1970s by the construction of the M6 motorway.

Uddingston Lanarkshire Scotland home of the famous Tunnocks teacake
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Vrnywy Lake

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Warton - village near Preston in Lancashire. Warton is where the Typhoon fighter aircraft are made by British Aerospace.
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Twin Lakes, Mammoth Lakes, California

Xanthi, Greece

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Yvetot - a small town near Rouen in the Normandy region of France.
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ZAMBIA, a country in central Africa and home of Victoria Falls

Abidjan - a major city on the coast of Cote d’Ivoire. Last night’s semi-final in the African Cup of Nations was played in Abidjan.
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BOLZANO, ITALY–in northern Italy–it blends German and Italian influence

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Crail - a coastal village with a harbour in the east of Fife in Scotland.
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Dakar Senegal :senegal:

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**Easter Island-**One of the most isolated settlements in the world, an island in the middle of the Pacific, 3,526 miles from the nearest continent(Chile). There are more than 900 of these massive statues (Moai) on the island. The local people that have lived there since @ 400 BC are called the Rapa Nui.

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**Faroe islands ** The Faroe Islands is a self-governing archipelago, part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It comprises 18 rocky, volcanic islands between Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic Ocean, connected by road tunnels, ferries, causeways and bridges. Hikers and bird-watchers are drawn to the islands’ mountains, valleys and grassy heathland, and steep coastal cliffs that harbor thousands of seabirds.

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Great Britain

Halifax - a town in West Yorkshire

Istokpoga Lake, Florida

Jupiter

fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, and slightly le