Lahn
The Lahn River is a 245.6-kilometer (152.6 mi)-long, right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine River in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).
It has its source in the Rothaargebirge, the highest part of the Sauerland. It meets the Rhine at Lahnstein, near Koblenz. Important cities along the Lahn include Marburg, Gießen, Wetzlar, Limburg an der Lahn, Weilburg and Bad Ems.
Tributaries to the Lahn include the Dill, the Weil and the Aar Rivers. The lower Lahn has many dams with locks, allowing regular shipping from its mouth up to Runkel. Riverboats are also used on a small section north of the dam in Gießen.
Source area
The Lahn River is a 245.6-kilometer (152.6 mi)-long, right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine River in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km).
The Lahn originates at the Lahnhof, a locality of Nenkersdorf, which is a constituent community of Netphen in southeastern North Rhine-Westphalia, near the border with Hesse. The source area is situated along the Eisenstraße scenic highway and the Rothaarsteig hiking trail.
Lahn (Wald im Pinzgau)
Lahn is a dispersed settlement in the Oberpinzgau, the upper Salzach valley and the district of Zell am See/Pinzgau, and a village in the municipality of Wald im Pinzgau, on the southern rim of the Kitzbühel Alps.
Geography
The settlement, which has about 280 inhabitants and 80 houses, lies higher up the valley from Wald and Vorderwaldberg on the southern slopes of the Salzach valley, between 900 metres (2,950 ft) on the valley floor and the B 165 Gerlos Road, 1,100 metres (3,610 ft) on the Old Gerlos Road (Alten Gerlosstraße), the L 133, (Ghf. Grübl) and 1,200 metres (3,940 ft) in the Lahnbauer wilderness with several other farmsteads. In addition the village has a halt, Lahnsiedlung, on the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn, the Postbus line 670 Zell am See – Krimml stops in the Finksiedlung.
Also part of the village are the eastern slopes of the Trattenbach valley – the western slopes belong to Rosental (Gemeinde Neukirchen) – to the north, with the alpine meadows of Besensteinalm, Wurfgrundalm, Wurf-Hochalm, Happingalm, Happing Hochalm on the Gernkogel and Trattenbachalm, Trattenbach-Hochalm on the Kröndlhorn. The parish area runs up to the state border with Tyrol at the Filzenscharte ridge, extending about 8.2 kilometres (5.1 mi) from north to south.
Lahn, Lower Saxony
Lahn is a municipality in the Emsland district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Maritime Jewel
Maritime Jewel is a double hull oil tanker built in 2000; her length is 332 metres (1,089 ft) and her width is 58 metres (190 ft). It was known as Limburg until 2003.
Bombing
On 6 October 2002, Limburg was carrying 397,000 barrels (63,100 m3) of crude oil from Iran to Malaysia, and was in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen to pick up another load of oil. It was registered under a French-flag and had been chartered by the Malaysian petrol firm Petronas.
While it was within some distance offshore, an explosives-laden dinghy rammed the starboard side of the tanker and detonated. The vessel caught on fire and approximately 90,000 barrels (14,000 m3) of oil leaked into the Gulf of Aden. Although Yemeni officials initially claimed that the explosion was caused by an accident, later investigations found traces of TNT on the damaged ship.
One crew member, a 38-year-old Bulgarian named Atanas Atanasov, was killed, and 12 other crew members were injured. The fire was put out, and four days later Limburg was towed to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The damage to the tanker was around $45 million USD. The ship was sold to Tanker Pacific by 2003 under the new name Maritime Jewel, who repaired her for $8.5 million USD.
Limburg (Netherlands)
Limburg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlɪmbʏrx]; Dutch and Limburgish: (Nederlands-)Limburg; French: Limbourg) is the southernmost of the 12 provinces of the Netherlands. It is in the southeastern part of the country, stretched out from the north, where it touches the province of Gelderland, to the south, where it borders the Walloon province of Liège. Its long eastern boundary is the international border with the German state of Northrhine-Westphalia, while on the west the southern part borders the Flemish province of Limburg, with much this border running along the River Maas, and its northern part has North Brabant to its west.
Limburg's major cities are the provincial capital Maastricht and Heerlen in the south, Roermond in the middle, and Venlo in the middle-north, all upon the Meuse river. In South Limburg, there are also urban agglomerations at Sittard-Geleen and Parkstad Limburg, which includes the city of Heerlen.
Limburg has a highly distinctive character. The social and economic trends that affected the province in recent decades generated a process of change and renewal which has enabled Limburg to transform its peripheral location into a highly globalized regional nexus, linking the Netherlands to the Ruhr metro area and the southern part of the Benelux region. A less appreciated consequence of this international gateway location is rising international crime, often drug-related, especially in the southernmost part of the province.
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