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Sourced using AI2010 (exact date to verify) · Saskatchewan, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1991 · Lake Balkhash, Kazakh SSR
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Barranquilla, Colombia
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 English edition · Yucatán, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1873 · Bengal, literary setting
Read record →Sourced using AIPublished in stages, 1589–1601 · New Granada, especially present-day Colombia and Venezuela
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s · Wake Island
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s–1930s · Anchorage, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s retellings · Canadian Arctic
Read record →Sourced using AI1865 · Sherghati, Bihar
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · Istanbul and the Marmara region
Read record →Sourced using AI1998–2009 · Alameda, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 25,500–25,300 BCE · Huns Mountains, southern Namibia
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Johannesburg and nearby airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIPublicized by Daniel Ruzo from the 1950s · San Pedro de Casta, Lima Region, Peru
Read record →Sourced using AILate 19th century to present; origin narratives are disputed · Xocén, Yucatán
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Coyhaique, Aysén
Read record →Sourced using AI1940–1946 · Honduras, probably Tegucigalpa or coastal routes
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Khabarovsk
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 2006 · Chicago, Illinois
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 (exact date requires verification) · Newport News, Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Anshan, Liaoning
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 (exact date requires verification) · Near Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI17th century; canonization inquiries 17th–18th centuries · Copertino, Assisi and Osimo
Read record →Sourced using AI1976–1980s · New South Wales and Queensland, Australia
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional; recorded in nineteenth-century ethnographic collections · Northeastern United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s retrospective circulation · South Pacific, between Samoa and Tokelau
Read record →Sourced using AI1866 · Dominican Republic, especially the Cordillera Central
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Union, Missouri
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Milan, Lombardy
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth century · Bombay Harbour and the western coast of India
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Iran, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1951 · Mongolia, exact air route to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 · Brisbane, Queensland
Read record →Sourced using AI1937 · Nanjing, Jiangsu
Read record →Sourced using AI1942–1943 · New Jersey coast, New Jersey
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Hubei Province, China
Read record →Sourced using AI18 August 1868 · Algeria and the Mediterranean
Read record →Sourced using AIReported in late twentieth-century local folklore · West Coast roads, Tasmania
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 · Kraków/Balice, Poland
Read record →Sourced using AI1942 · Strasbourg area and adjacent French-German airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Boulder, Colorado
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Lyon
Read record →Sourced using AI21 April 1934 · Loch Ness, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Assam and northeastern India
Read record →Sourced using AIArchaic Greek epic through classical and Roman literature · Strait of Messina in later geographic identification
Read record →Sourced using AI1998–2001 · Concepción and Talcahuano, Biobío Region
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Lake Champlain, New York and Vermont; Quebec basin
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