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Read record →Sourced using AISeventeenth–eighteenth centuries · Icelandic coast
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional history; observed by Cook in 1769 · Hawke’s Bay, North Island, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Crete, Greece; academic work in Britain and Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Astana, Kazakhstan
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1957–1961 · Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Montego Bay, Jamaica
Read record →Sourced using AI1887–1890s fieldwork; publications 1890s–1900 · Cherokee communities in North Carolina and Oklahoma
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval to early modern Europe; repeated conjunction cycles · European astrological and university traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Resolute Bay, Nunavut
Read record →Sourced using AIFirst widely reported 1978; later 1970s–1980s coverage · Lake Ikeda, Kagoshima, Kyushu
Read record →Sourced using AI1860s–1890s · Palenque, Chiapas
Read record →Sourced using AI1960s · Durban, Natal, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1934–1937 · Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Avoca, Pennsylvania
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Odessa and Black Sea approaches, Ukrainian SSR
Read record →Sourced using AIAugust 1976; later recalled under hypnosis · Near Eagle Lake, Maine, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Suva and Nadi, Fiji
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Sofia and Vitosha Mountain, Bulgaria
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Phoenix, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Jacksonville, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AIDecember 2004 · Coastal Sri Lanka
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 onward · Graz, Styria
Read record →Sourced using AI23 November 1953 · Lake Superior near Kinross, Michigan, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1990, exact date to verify · Shetland Islands, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober 1957 · São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais
Read record →Sourced using AI1946–1947; legend elaborated later · Antarctica, especially the Ross Sea region
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary 25, 1942 · Los Angeles, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1994–1995 · Lajas, southwestern Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Tiraspol and the Dniester region, Moldavian SSR
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Arabic narrative with older motifs; compilation and transmission dates disputed · North Africa and the legendary City of Brass, often reached through the Maghreb
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Casablanca
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 onward; exact date requires verification · Zambia, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1914–1918 · Manila and Manila Bay
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Ilopango Airport, San Salvador
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s–2020s studies · County Meath
Read record →Sourced using AISeptember 1995 · Delhi and other Indian cities
Read record →Sourced using AI1976 · Cross-cultural; includes Sub-Saharan African societies
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Graz, Styria
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Salzburg
Read record →Sourced using AI1887–1890, used in 1900–1946 debates · New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Rawalpindi, Punjab
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Brno area
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Kauai, Hawaii, including Lihue and the Na Pali coast
Read record →Sourced using AI26 June 1959 · Boianai, Milne Bay District
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