GEOGRAPHICAL-themed crossword
by Eddie James
Quiz version of Geog June 2002

Across

9Ship used in James Cook's 1768 Tahiti voyage (9)
10Ring-shaped coral reel enclosing a lagoon (5)
11The 'Cowboy State', USA's 9th largest (7)
12Vessel used to tow ships e.g. into harbour (7)
13Human-like creatures said to exist in the Himalayas (5)
15French port/bathing resort S.W. of Cannes (2,7)
17/19Continental isthmus between Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea (7,7)
21Tourist resort on Gran Canaria (3,6)
24Another term for tropical rainforest (5)
26Large church seen e.g. in York (7)
28Bucharest is its capital (7)
30Native Americans inhabiting Nunavut, parts of Greenland and Alaska (5)
31Republic in Central America (the 'rice coast') (5,4)

Down

1River that rises in Sussex and flows through Kent (6)
2Capital of Alberta (8)
3Landlocked republic in western Africa (4)
4Mountain range and département in N.E. France (6)
5South Africa's administrative capital (8)
6The (masculine) one of two principles of oriental philosophy (4)
7Capital of Colombia (6)
8Italy's national airline (8)
14Damascus is in this Middle East republic (5)
16Jetties or breakwaters (5)
17S. American republic with coasts on the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea (8)
18Third largest city in the Irish Republic (8)
20Midwestern USA state associated with Lincoln (8)
22Wide outwash plain left by glacial meltwater (6)
23Underground pressure that produces an earthquake (6)
25Turkish mountain where Noah's ark reportedly landed (6)
27One of Britain's four major art galleries (4)
29Extinct New Zealand ostrich-like birds (4)

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