For alternate meanings, see Wales (disambiguation) National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Official languages: English and Welsh Capital: Cardiff First Minister: Rhodri Morgan AM Area - Total: - % water: Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² xx% Population - Total (2001): - Density: Ranked 3rd UK 2,903...
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[The Isle of] Anglesey or Anglesea ( Welsh: [Ynys] Môn, pronounced as Uh-niss Mawn, in IPA), is an island and county at the Western extremity of North Wales. It is separated from the mainland by a narrow stretch of water called the Menai Strait. It is connected to...
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Bodafon Mountain or The Signal Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. For other meanings, see Wales (disambiguation). Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg), not to be confused with the Welsh dialect of English, is a Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in the western part of Britain known as Wales (Cymru), and...
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Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). The elevation of a mountain usually refers to its summit. A topographic map shows variations in elevation by contour lines. Elevation is mainly used when...
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metres (584 This article is about a foot as a unit of length. For other uses of foot, see foot (disambiguation). A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length. The popular belief is that original standard was the length of a mans foot. The average foot...
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In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height or prime factor (in Europe), is a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains. It describes how tall a peak is relative to neighbouring peaks, and in a way that makes precise the intuition that the worlds...
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178 This article is about the unit of length. For other uses of metre or meter, see meter (disambiguation). The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units. It is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in an absolute vacuum during a...
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This article is about the map grid references in the UK. For the Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. The national grid reference system was devised by the Ordnance Survey, and is heavily used in their survey data, and in maps (whether published by the Ordnance Survey or...
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Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. Please note we are limited to ten such images A 1:50,000 map of Shepshed in Leicestershire The Ordnance Survey (OS) is now a civilian...
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Peak bagging (also hill bagging, mountain bagging, or among enthusiasts, just bagging) is a popular activity for hillwalkers and mountaineers in which they attempt to reach the summit of each peak in a region above some height, or having a particular feature. Styles For some peak baggers, simply being present...
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A Marilyn is a hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres, regardless of absolute height or other merit. The name is a pun (Munro — Marilyn Monroe — Marilyn). There are currently 1551 Marilyns identified in Great Britain: 1213 in Scotland, 178 in England, 156 in Wales...
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Mynydd Bodafon is a small hill, the higest on the A small island in the Adriatic sea An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands are called islets. Although seldom adhered to, it is also proper to call an emergent land feature on...
island of [The Isle of] Anglesey or Anglesea ( Welsh: [Ynys] Môn, pronounced as Uh-niss Mawn, in IPA), is an island and county at the Western extremity of North Wales. It is separated from the mainland by a narrow stretch of water called the Menai Strait. It is connected to...
Anglesey (although not in the Originally, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (in Great Britain, an earl, though the original earldoms covered larger areas) by reason of that office. The term has since tended to represent a tertiary geographical unit of administration intermediate between the larger, secondary state or province...
county of Angelsey - see Holyhead Mountain (Mynydd Tŵr in Welsh) is the highest hill on Holy Island, Anglesey, and the highest in the county of Anglesey, north Wales. It lies about three kilometres west of the town of Holyhead, and slopes steeply down to the Irish Sea on two sides. There is...
Holyhead Mountain). Its summit is also known as Yr Arwydd. It lies about four kilometres west of the COAST, an acronym for Cache On A STick, is a packaging standard for modules containing SRAM used as an L2 cache in a computer. COAST modules look like somewhat oversided SIMM modules. COAST modules were somewhat popular in the early 1990s, but as of 2004, most cache is build-in...
coastal town of Moelfre.
The island was devastated by the Danes (Dub Gint or fl nations, gentes), especially in 853.
Anglesey is a relatively low-lying island with slight risings such as Parys Mountain, Cadair Mynachdy (or Monachdy, i.e., "chair of the monastery"; there is a Nanner, "convent", not far away), MynyddBodafon and Holyhead Mountain.
It was known as the breadbasket of Wales, referred to during the Middle Ages as Anglesey, Mother of Wales (Welsh: Môn, Mam Cymru).