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Fran's retirement presentation by the Health Sciences Library staffTRANSCRIPT
Lets Play a game
Where in the world is......................
is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is
surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets
Dublin, Ireland
• Dublin is Ireland’s best known city and the place where most travelers who make their way by plane will first touch down.
It’s the newest of the 50 U.S. states (August 21, 1959), and
is the only state made up entirely of islands.
• The Island of Hawaii, also called the Big Island or Hawaii Island
is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Neighboring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the
Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and
New Zealand to the southeast.
Australia
• The official residence of the Governor-General of Australia
The islands are geologically young and famed for their vast number of
endemic species,
• The Galapagos Islands are a small archipelago of islands belonging to Ecuador in the eastern Pacific Ocean.. The Galapagos archipelago consists of 13 main islands and 6 smaller isles, which together embrace some 50,000 sq km (19,500 sq miles) of ocean.
is a country in Central America with coastlines on both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, with Colombia (and South America) to the southeast
and Costa Rica (and North America) to the northwest.
PANAMA
• The Panama Canal is a 77 km (48 mi) ship canal that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific ocean and a key conduit for international maritime trade. Annual traffic has risen from about 1,000 ships in the canal's early days to 14,702 vessels in 2008, displacing a total 309.6 million Panama Canal/Universal Measurement System (PC/UMS) tons.
is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south
by Germany.
Copenhagen, Denmark
• A view over Copenhagen, Denmark, as seen from the Church of Our Saviour (Vor Frelsers Kirke).
an English-speaking country consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets (rocks). It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and
Haiti) and the Caribbean Sea, northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast
of the United States of America (nearest to the state of Florida)
The Bahamas
• Parliament of the Bahamas, located in downtown Nassau, is the meeting place of the two houses of the Bahamian Parliament.