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Sourced using AIColonial tradition recorded from the 16th century onward · Llanganates mountain range, Ecuador
Read record →Sourced using AI1914–1918 · Karachi, Sindh
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly second millennium BCE manuscript tradition · Southern Mesopotamia; associated with Eridu and Nippur traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI1930–1939 · Cuba, location to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1981 · La Serena and Coquimbo, Coquimbo Region
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Erquy, Côtes-d'Armor
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Peoria, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Naples
Read record →Sourced using AI1560 · Paris, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 · Samoa and American Samoa
Read record →Sourced using AI2003–2006 · Chittagong, Bangladesh
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 · Stirling and central Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Israel and Jewish diaspora traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI1886 founding; later reports · Austin, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · South African domestic air route
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Algiers
Read record →Sourced using AI2024 · Venice lagoon, Veneto, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 (exact date to verify) · Quito, Pichincha
Read record →Sourced using AIProbably 2nd century CE; surviving manuscripts are later and incomplete · Egyptian manuscript tradition with broad modern European study
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 1913 · King George V Land, Antarctica
Read record →Sourced using AI1952–1954 · Bangkok and central Thailand
Read record →Sourced using AILate sixteenth century · Tlaxcala and central Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1978–1989 · United Kingdom and continental Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI1486–1487 · Holy Roman Empire
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Palermo, Sicily
Read record →Sourced using AI1961 · São Paulo state
Read record →Sourced using AI1986 · Belgium, locations disputed
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Lima
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober–November 1975 · Malmstrom Air Force Base and associated missile fields, near Great Falls, Montana
Read record →Sourced using AI29 August 1967 · Cussac, Cantal
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s–2020s retellings of older traditions · Tunis Governorate
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Johannesburg and Gauteng, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Read record →Sourced using AI1857–1890s · Cawnpore (Kanpur), Uttar Pradesh
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Nuuk, Greenland
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Kuala Lumpur, Selangor
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 · Veracruz, Veracruz
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–present · Shennongjia Forest District, Hubei
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Qingdao, Shandong
Read record →Sourced using AI1916 · Bristol Channel and adjacent coasts
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1981–1989 · Republic of the Congo and international media
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Kraków, Poland
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Guangzhou (then Canton), Guangdong
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 last widely reported sighting; earlier abandonment in 1931 · Beaufort Sea and Arctic coast of Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Milan, Lombardy
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