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Sourced using AIlate prehistoric Polynesian period; historic use continued · Raiatea, Society Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Beirut and eastern Mediterranean airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1991 · Marrakesh
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Mulgildie, Queensland, Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Near Calcutta, West Bengal
Read record →Sourced using AILong-duration Great Lakes tradition; reports especially frequent from the nineteenth century onward · Lake Erie, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Rio de Janeiro area
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 · Denver, Colorado
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Port of Spain
Read record →Sourced using AI2016, exact date to verify · Hamilton, Waikato
Read record →Sourced using AIMid-to-late nineteenth century · Southern Vietnam
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Read record →Sourced using AI30 March 1990 · Belgium, including the area near Glons and Wavre
Read record →Sourced using AIApril 1897 · Lincoln, Nebraska
Read record →Sourced using AIPrint tradition established in the early 20th century; claimed oral antecedents disputed · Texas and the American Southwest, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIFirst published 1578 · Coastal Brazil, especially the Guanabara region
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Alma-Ata and southeastern Kazakh SSR airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 (exact date requires verification) · Tromsø
Read record →Sourced using AI1957–1961 · Canada
Read record →Sourced using AIOld Babylonian composition, approximately 18th century BCE · Mesopotamia; tablets from sites including Sippar
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Washington State airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward heritage, archaeological, and tourism sources · Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Limpopo
Read record →Sourced using AI1997–2001 · Southeast Asia
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Nashville, Tennessee
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly Buddhist narrative tradition; Pali collection compiled in antiquity · South Asian Buddhist literary world
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward comparative scholarship · South Asian Hindu and Buddhist traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI1997 · Vienna and Vienna International Airport area
Read record →Sourced using AIHaitian Kreyòl tradition; documented from the late 18th century and especially 20th century · Haiti
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Samoa and South Pacific air routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1953 · Albuquerque and Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AIBefore 1900 · Timor
Read record →Sourced using AI20 May 1967 · Near Falcon Lake, Manitoba
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Limestone, Maine
Read record →Sourced using AI1994–1995 · São Paulo State, Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AIUsually dated broadly between the 5th and 6th centuries CE, though debated · Puhar, Madurai, and Vanchi in Tamilakam
Read record →Sourced using AI1999–2001 (date uncertain) · Pokhara, Gandaki
Read record →Sourced using AI1840s · Qazvin and Karbala region
Read record →Sourced using AI1960s · Bulawayo, Rhodesia
Read record →Sourced using AI1979 · Multiple Sub-Saharan African locations
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s · Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Veracruz, Veracruz
Read record →Sourced using AI1947 · Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AI10 May 1978 · Emilcin, Lublin Voivodeship
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · New York City, New York, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Council Bluffs, Iowa
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 (exact date requires verification) · Marina Bay, Singapore
Read record →Sourced using AIFounded 1492; destroyed or abandoned by 1493 · Northern Haiti, traditionally near modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas or Baie de l'Acul
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Sea of Galilee, northern Israel
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