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Read record →Sourced using AIColonial New Spain; literary versions 19th century · Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1979–1980 · San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro
Read record →Sourced using AI1866 · Calaveras County, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIearly 8th century CE · Crowland, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik and Kyrgyz SSR airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Maui, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1945 · Bogotá region
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Cairo, Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Maine
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Greenland airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1952–1953 · Mount Ararat, eastern Turkey
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 · Mount Shasta, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1968–1971 · Uruguay
Read record →Sourced using AI1896–1897 · Japan; locations vary by newspaper report
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Anchorage, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1991 · Central Pacific air route between Samoa and Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1982–1986 · North Caucasus, RSFSR
Read record →Sourced using AI1942–1945 · Christchurch and Canterbury, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1940s onward; formal naming disputed · California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AILate 13th century emergence in Castile; later accretions · Castile, especially the circle around Moses de León; wider Jewish transmission
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Pennsylvania, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Russian Far East
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s cryptozoological book treatment · Zambia and adjacent central African regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1905–1907 · Southern German East Africa, especially Ngarambe and Rufiji regions
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward scholarship and translations · Classical South Asian philosophical tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Lusaka airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIPublished 1590 · Peru and Spanish America; written from colonial observations
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Kiruna, Norrbotten
Read record →Sourced using AI19th-century literary documentation; older oral antecedents claimed · Dominican Republic, especially mountain and forest regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1976 · Karaganda region, Kazakh SSR
Read record →Sourced using AI1983–1984 · Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1943 · Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI2024 · Near Niue, South Pacific
Read record →Sourced using AI1937–1939 · Mombasa
Read record →Sourced using AI1926 · Morocco
Read record →Sourced using AI1944–1945 · Japanese home-island approaches and airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1973–1978 · North America; especially New York and California
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 · Recife, Pernambuco
Read record →Sourced using AIArtefacts removed and debated in the colonial period; 1900–1946 scholarship and public commentary · Great Zimbabwe, later museums in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Black Mountains and central Bhutan
Read record →Sourced using AILate antique texts; early modern reception before 1800 · Jewish communities in Europe and the Mediterranean
Read record →Sourced using AI1915 · Maastricht and Dutch Limburg
Read record →Sourced using AI1891 · Hamburg, Germany
Read record →Sourced using AI1992 · Reykjanes Peninsula, near Keflavík
Read record →Sourced using AI1614–1616 · Kassel, Frankfurt, Strasbourg
Read record →Sourced using AI1848 · South Atlantic, near Saint Helena
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