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RMS Majestic was a British Ocean liner working on the White Star Line’s North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Liner SS Bismarck. At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship ever operated by the White Star Line under its own flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie in ...
Hamish Hamilton. Publication date. 1955. Media type. Print ( hardcover and paperback) Pages. 286. Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman is a biography of the German statesman Otto von Bismarck by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in June 1955.
Bismarck Strait. Coordinates: The Bismarck Strait is a channel in Antarctica. It is located between the southern end of Anvers and Wiencke Islands and the Wilhelm Archipelago. It was surveyed in 1874 by First Antarctic German expedition under Captain Eduard Dallmann . This channel was named by Dallmann after Otto von Bismarck .
A Bismarck tower (German: Bismarckturm) is a specific type of monument built according to a more or less standard model across Germany to honour its first chancellor, Otto von Bismarck (d. 1898). A total of 234 of these towers were inventoried by Kloss and Seele in 2007 [1] but more have been discovered since making the total around 240.
Cape Bismarck is located at the southern end of Germania Land, between the northern end of Dove Bay and the Greenland Sea. [5] It lies in an area of small islands, SSE of Danmarkshavn. Lille Koldewey, a reddish rocky island off Store Koldewey 's NE shore, lies about 4 km (2.5 mi) to the SW of the cape. [6]
Bismarck Archipelago. / 5.000°S 150.100°E / -5.000; 150.100. The Bismarck Archipelago ( German: Bismarck-Archipel, pronounced ['bɪsmɑrk ˌaʁçiˈpeːl]) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about 50,000 square km.
The Metz Bismarck Tower is 13.5 metres (44 ft) tall, and is one of the first Bismarck towers to be built in the Götterdämmerung style conceptualised by Wilhelm Kreis (squat construction, with a fire beacon at the top). It is thus very similar in design to its sister tower in Stuttgart (1904). Construction works were carried out by the firm ...
Bismarck hanging parrot. The Bismarck hanging parrot or green-fronted hanging parrot ( Loriculus tener) is a small species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae . It is endemic to forest in the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the orange-fronted hanging parrot .