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Abadan,

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Nedlands (Western Australia)

One of Perth’s most prestigious and salubrious suburbs, Nedlands is just six kilometres or so south of Perth’s CBD, running down to the northern shore of the Swan River. On Nedland’s western boundaries are the University of Western Australia and, a littler further along, beautiful Kings Park, which overlooks Perth's CBD, the broadest reaches of the river and several of the city's inner southern suburbs.

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Sparr. Florida

Over the years, Sparr Building & Farm Supply has maintained a positive reputation throughout the area. Locally, when residents say, "I'm going down to Sparr," most are referring to the store instead of the town it resides in.

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Roxby Downs (South Australia)

Purpose built to lure workers to the edge of the desert to mine and service the controversial Olympic Dam uranium deposits, Roxby Downs survived bitter protests in the early 1980s to develop into a modern town with all the facilities needed for a quality lifestyle.

It has its own shopping centre, tavern, swimming pool, golf course, tennis and squash courts and bowling green. The town also hosts the Boogie in the Bush knees-up in July and a picnic race meeting in August.

Visitors can take organised tours of the surface mining and processing operations from March to November. The small fee charged for the tour goes to the Royal Flying Doctor Service

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Salo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo%2C_Finland

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Orroroo (South Australia)

Graced by broad, tree-lined streets, faithfully restored 1870s buildings and shop fronts set against the backdrop of the Southern Flinders Ranges, Orroroo is a delightful heritage town.

Orroroo’s 1879 early settler’s home is a superb example of the traditional pug-and-pine pioneer cottage, while the 1888 Memorial Hall has a story or two to tell. So, too, does the Yesteryear Costume Gallery, whose parade of fashion dates from the 1830s - a collection, curiously for a town decidedly closer to desert than surf, which includes an engaging array of women's swimming costumes.

The Pekina Creek recreational reserve picnic area opens on to a bush trail which leads visitors past Aboriginal carvings, natural springs, fossilised algae and an 1896 poem carved in rock.

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Osa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osa%2C_Perm_Krai

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Anthony, Florida

The most famous resident of Anthony is John Travolta, who lives in the Jumbolair Aviation Estates.

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Yamba (NSW, Australia)

At the mouth of the Clarence River, about 680 kilometres north of Sydney, lies Yamba, the largest town in Maclean Shire. The town, with its population of around 5000, is the focal point of the shire's booming tourist industry which is fuelled by fine beaches, great surfing and excellent fishing.

Yamba enjoys some of the best and most consistent weather in the world, making it an ideal year-round holiday destination in surroundings of rare natural beauty.

Visitors are drawn by the opportunity to go whale watching, when Southern Right and Humpback whales can be seen as they migrate north in August and September. A good spot to see them is from Yamba Lighthouse, an interesting place to visit at other times too. Dolphins can be seen at any time of the year, and other activities include surfing, boating and fishing.

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Abaza
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaza_%28city%29

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Alligator Creek (Queensland,Australia)

Alligator Creek lies some thirty kilometres south of Townsville, in Bowling Green Bay National Park, the largest national park between Bowen and Townsville. The creek, which gives its name to the village, is an integral feature of the 55,300ha park which conserves mangroves, saltpans, coastal wetlands, heath and tropical rainforest.

Alligator Creek is studded with waterfalls, cascades and deep pools, and a track which begins at the camping area follows the watercourse toward Mt Elliot, the dominant feature of the park.

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Kannus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannus

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I noted in Wikipedia that the town of Kannus is "is unilingually Finnish." What exactly does that mean?

Spring Creek, Florida
Spring Creek is a small fishing community 13 miles south of Wakulla Springs. Spring Creek Restaurant is owned by the Leo Lovel family. The fried oyster sandwich is plump and delicious. Leo describes his "mullet catching, turkey shooting, offshore fishing, and law evading" activities. We're suitably intrigued and ask him to elaborate. He tells us it was nothing serious: "Just fishin' with an outlawed net, but I'm still in court for it." The exchange somehow raises more questions than it answers.

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I noted in Wikipedia that the town of Kannus is "is unilingually Finnish." What exactly does that mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedi...ties_of_Finland

Spring Creek, Florida
Spring Creek is a small fishing community 13 miles south of Wakulla Springs. Spring Creek Restaurant is owned by the Leo Lovel family. The fried oyster sandwich is plump and delicious. Leo describes his "mullet catching, turkey shooting, offshore fishing, and law evading" activities. We're suitably intrigued and ask him to elaborate. He tells us it was nothing serious: "Just fishin' with an outlawed net, but I'm still in court for it." The exchange somehow raises more questions than it answers.

Kauniainen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauniainen

Approximately 57% of the population have Finnish as their mother tongue while 41 % are Swedish speakers. The dominant party in the city council has traditionally been the Swedish People's Party.

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Nowra (New South Wales,Australia)

Nowra on the NSW South Coast is the main commercial and administrative centre of Shoalhaven City, 160km south of Sydney. It was declared a government town in 1852, but didn’t really go ahead until the nearby town of Terara was devastated by floods in 1870.

The name Nowra comes from an Aboriginal word meaning camping place or black cockatoo. The reverse spelling of Nowra, of course, gave the 1978 winner of the Melbourne Cup, Arwon, its name.

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Alingsås
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alings%C3%A5s

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Sans Souci (New South Wales,Australia)

On historic Botany Bay, just a few kilometres south of Sydney airport, Ramsgate rolls down to the bay and Lady Robinson’s Beach, a multicultural gathering point, especially at the weekends.

There’s great fishing and sailing in the bay, and now that the bayfront shops and restaurants are going up-market, you’ll find a diversity of foods and ambient surroundings in which to dine as you gaze over the bay to the coastal shore line where Captain Cook made his historic landfall in 1780.

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Ikaalinen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikaalinen

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Nelson Bay (New South Wales,Australia)

Port Stephens is unchallenged in its claim to the title of ‘Dolphin Capital of Australia’, and if there is a capital in the chain of resort towns which hug the shores of this unique aquatic playground then it is Nelson Bay. Certainly many of the cruise and charter craft specially adapted to dolphin-watching ply their trade out of Nelson Bay on the port’s south-eastern shore. The port is home to almost 150 bottlenose dolphins which take as much pleasure riding the bow waves of the craft with which they rendezvous daily as the passengers derive from watching them at play. Twice a year the Port also hosts pods of humpback whales as these leviathans of the sea make their migratory journey north to the warmer waters off Queensland to breed before making the return run back to Antarctica.

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Yelabuga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelabuga