Once a marshland called the Poitevin Marsh (French Marais Poitevin) is Poitou. This region is located along the Gulf of Poitou, on the west coast of France, just north of La Rochelle and west of Niort. Some French colonists, later known as Acadians, who settled in 1604 in eastern North America, came from southern Poitou. ","Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.","England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It occupies more than half of the land of the area. It shares its borders with Wales to the West and Scotland the to its north. Laced by great rivers and small streams, England is a fertile land which has supported a thriving agricultural economy for millenia.","Ireland was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/domesday_book.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/Lancashire England.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","","","",null],"mode":"f","s":"Mogle","sU":"MAGULL","oC":"EN","o":"English","o2":null,"cOk":true,"c":"/dpreview/MAGULL/EN/Mogle/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"/dpreview/ANDERSON/SC/Anderson/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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