[Taxacom] Ochterlony Valley
Doug Yanega
dyanega at ucr.edu
Wed Mar 28 15:02:49 CDT 2012
2012
>Hi Michael,
> I don't have a specific answer to the question, but I think that
>finding the answer might be solved by searching for alternate
>spellings---especially Ouchterlony (instead of Ochterlony) and perhaps
>Gudalur instead of Gundalur. For instance I found the following quote
>using such alternate spellings:
>"Gudalur is much sheltered from the south-west by the spurs on the
>northern boundary of the Ouchterlony Valley."
It's precisely for this reason that one of my
most heavily-used bookmarks is for the Fuzzy
Gazetteer
http://isodp.hof-university.de/fuzzyg/query/
Even when people misspell place names on labels
(as is very, very common), this website is rather
good at finding them. In this case, no names
similar to "Ochterlony" appear in India, but
"Gudalur" is the #1 result for "Gundalur", and
there are actually three of them out of 2 8
m a t c h i n g p l a c e n a m e s
f o u n d :
* * * * G u d a l u r I n d i a ,
S t a t e o f T a m i l N ? ? d u
( p o p u l a t e d p l a c e )
[ L a t : 1 1 ? 4 5 ' 0 ' ' N ; L o n g :
7 9 ? 4 5 ' 0 ' ' E ] F i n d
s i m i l a r n a m e s
= * * * Gk d a lk r I n d i a ,
( p o p u l a t e d p l a c e )
[ L a t : 9 ? 4 1 ' 0 ' ' N ; L o n g :
7 7 ? 1 6 ' 0 ' ' E ] F i n d
s i m i l a r n a m e s
* * * Gk d a lk r I n d i a ,
( p o p u l a t e d p l a c e )
[ L a t : 1 1 ? 3 0 ' 0 ' ' N ; L o n g :
7 6 ? 3 0 ' 0 ' ' E ] F i n d
s i m i l a r n a m e s
Peace,
--
Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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