Place-name synopses of the regions 129Reserve. Braunschweig. Haga-Haga. Indian Ocean. Bonza Bay. Haga-Hago. Wild
Coast. (1999 pop.; 2001 image)
Edmonton (Canada)
Native People’s land. Stony Plain Moraine. Beaver Hills. Riverbend. Fort
Saskatchewan. Leduc. Yellowhead Trail. Terrace Heights. Sturgeon. Petrochemical
Alley. Big Lake. Saskatchewan to east. Canadian Rockies to west. River corridor.
Long freight trains. Flat ranchland and cropland. Cold wind. Big river. Treasured
poplar--aspen--spruce stands. Royal Alberta Museum. Shallow prairie lakes. The
bison herd. (2001 pop.; 2002 image) (Saleyet al.2003,Wein2006)
Erzurum (Turkey)
Cifte Minare. Palaneloken peaks. Hunis. Tekman. Cat. Bayburt. Aras
River. Coruh Nehri. Askale. Ispir. Ilica Spa. Pasinler. Dogu Karadeniz Mountains.
Bingoze wetlands. Koprukoy. Tercan Reservoir. Dumludagi. Tortum Selalesi.
Attaturk University. Kavurmacukuru. Haho. Narman. Horasan. Abdullahkomu.
Toptepe. Hyspiratus. Black Sea to north. Armenia and Georgia to northeast.
Kurdish centers and Iran to southeast. Treeless hills and steppe. Riparian vege-
tation. Dadas area. Skiing. (2000 pop.; 2002 image)
Iquitos (Peru)
Nauta. 12 km wide powerful turbulent muddy Amazon. Rio Nanay.
Mazan. Francisco de Orellana. Rio Napo. Tamshiyacu. Tigre. Lake Quistococha.
Itaya River. Ex Petroleros. Trece de Febrero. El Dorado. Paujil. Rainforest-squeezed
long narrow city. Boats coming, going. Native Peoples from la selva. Little-river
transportation routes. Logging, deforestation, wood products up rivers. Road con-
struction. Meanders. Erosion. Coca. Palm products. (1998 pop., adjusted to year
2000 using 5 % annual growth rate; 2001 image) (Browder and Godfrey1997,
Lauranceet al.2000,Makiet al.2001)
Kagoshima (Japan)
Sakurajima Volcano. Tarumizu. Sata Misaki. Osumi Hanto. Kushima.
Shibushi Wan. Kagoshima Bay. Pacific Ocean. Kanoy. Onajime. Hi Zaki. Osaki.
Aira. Fukuyama. Kokubu. Kirishima Yaku National Park. Togo. Yokogawa. Izumi.
Kushikino. Havato. Iriki. Ouza. Makurazaki. Ikedo Ko. Bono Misaki. Satsuma
Hanto. Kuta Shima. Kaimon Dake. Kiire. Kawanabe. Kyushu, Japan’s subtropi-
cal South. Ryukyu Islands and East China Sea to south. Ferry boats and fishing.
Volcanic puffings. (2002 pop.; 2002 image) (Yamamoto1930)