Maria Island

Maria Island is a mountainous island located in the Tasman Sea, off the east coast of Tasmania, Australia. The 115.5-square-kilometre (44.6 sq mi) island is contained with the Maria Island National Park, which includes a marine area of 18.78 square kilometres (7.25 sq mi) off the island's northwest coast. The island is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) in length from north to south and, at its widest, is about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) west to east. At its closest point, Point Lesueur, the island lies approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) off the east coast of Tasmania.

Tasmanians pronounce the name /məˈraɪ.ə/ mə-RY-ə, as did the early British settlers but the original pronunciation was /məˈriː.ə/ mə-REE-ə. The island was named in 1642 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman after Maria van Diemen (née van Aelst), wife of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia. The island was known as Maria's Isle in the early 19th century.

Local community and economy

The strait between Maria Island and the east coast of mainland Tasmania is called Mercury Passage and was named after the ship HMS Mercury, commanded by John Henry Cox, who charted the area in 1789. There are two towns of size in this part of the East Coast: Orford at the mouth of the Prosser River and Triabunna, some 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) further north at the head of Spring Bay.

Maria Est

Maria Atoll is an uninhabited small atoll of the Tuamotu group in French Polynesia. It is located in the far southeast of the archipelago, about 72 km southwest from Marutea Sud. Maria's closest neighbour is the small atoll of Matureivavao of the Acteon Group, 56 km to the northwest.

Maria Atoll is oval in shape and bound by a continuous reef. It is 5.6 km long and 2.9 km wide. Its islands are low and flat and the lagoon is hypersaline.

This atoll is mostly called "Maria Est" in order to avoid confusion with another small atoll called Maria (Nororotu) in the Tubuai (Austral Islands) division of French Polynesia.

History

The first recorded European who arrived to Maria Est was Jacques-Antoine Moerenhout in 1829. In some maps, Maria Atoll appeared as "Moerenhout Island". In 1850, it was inhabited by about 40 indigenous people.

Administration

Administratively, Maria Est belongs to the commune of the Gambier Islands.

References

Santa Maria

Santa María (with diacritic over the "i") or Santa Maria may refer to:

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Santa María (TV channel)

Santa María is a Catholic television channel broadcasting from the city of San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina through TeleRed, a cable television provider for most of Buenos Aires.

History

Signing on at the end of the 1990s, the station offered a mix of "family-friendly" programming, including cartoons (Superbook, Looney Tunes...), sitcoms (Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, Full House), dramas (Moonlighting), movies (Alive!, Indiana Jones, The Lion King...), telenovelas, newsmagazines (20th Century with Mike Wallace), educational and science shows, plus religious programs, mostly from EWTN.

The station signed on somewhere between 10am and noon, and signed off at midnight. After closing, a picture of Virgin Mary stayed all night long on screen, with choral music in the background. Around 2001, the channel suspended broadcasting, returning in 2002 with all religious programming from EWTN. Current programming includes EWTN all day long, aside from a few local shows (Por amor a tí, Padres de familia, etc.).

Sport Club Santa Maria

Sport Clube Santa Maria (also in Capeverdean Crioulos of ALUPEC or ALUPEK and Sal) is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Sal Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the town of Santa Maria in the southern part of the island of Sal. It is one of the most titled teams in Sal regional division, but it never achieved the National Championship title. Their greatest appearance was in the national finals where they lost to Académica do Mindelo in the 1989 edition.

Logo

Its logo represents a shield with a red ling with another line and its abbreviated form on top, it features the Atlantic Ocean on the bottom coloured from sky blue to navy blue with a soccer ball and a boat in the middle overlooking its setting sun which is colored along with the setting evening skies of yellow, light orange, orange and red.

Jersey

Its jersey has red shirt and socks and a white pants for its home games.

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