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Furness, peninsula, 15 mi (24 km) long and 4 mi (6.4 km) wide, Cumbria, NW England, between the estuary of the River Duddon and Morecambe Bay. The term is also applied to areas N of Morecambe Bay that are part of the Lake District Lake District, region of mountains and lakes, c.30 mi (50 km) in diameter, NW England. It includes the Cumbrian Mts. and part of the Furness peninsula. The district comprises 15 lakes, among them Ullswater, Windermere, Derwentwater, and Bassenthwaite; several ..... Click the link for more information. . In the southwest are virtually extinguished iron mines, which gave rise to the great steelworks formerly centered on Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-in-Furness (–fûr`nĭs), city (1991 pop. 50,174) and district, Cumbria, NW England, on the tip of the Furness peninsula. ..... Click the link for more information. . Farming and tourism are the peninsula's primary industries. Furness Abbey (now in ruins), near Barrow, was a wealthy institution founded by the Benedictines in 1127. |
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| Although many studies have demonstrated antagonistic bioaccumulation patterns between Se and Hg (Cuvin-Aralar and Furness 1991; Southworth et al. pseudogenitalium was described in 1979 by Furness et al. To determine the skuas' eating patterns, researchers relied on a project started by coauthor Robert Furness, also of the University of Glasgow. |
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