August 15, - PM. Her father died when she was 13 and she volunteered shortly afterw. Majority of boaters, floaters in North Okanagan, Shuswap were breaking the rules this summer A report from the B. Conservation Officer Service found the vast majority of people on the water in the North Okanagan and Shuswap this past summer were breaking the rules. The highest rat. This is the time of year when snow hits higher elevations on a regular basis and can even descend to valley bottoms in the Thompson-Okanagan on any chilly damp night.
The most likely time to. In Kelowna, three operating rooms have been closed at Kelowna General Ho. The year-old who was allegedly attacked and robbed on the Okanagan Rail Trail in Kelowna yesterday suffered a fractured skull and a collapsed lung. The teen was riding his bicycle along a. What started as a report about an abandoned vehicle in Kamloops late last week ended with the arrest of heavily armed suspects including one wanted on a warrant.
An officer responding to a r. AP — Smokey Bear taught kids the importance of preventing wildfires. McGruff the Crime Dog. The legendary prince is actually called 'Hector', and we are all agreed that it's not, in fact, a cool name. So, what is it? A hectare is a unit of measurement for an area , specifically representing 10, square metres.
Fittingly, it does have something in common with Prince Hector: both come from Greece. Although France made the measurement official in , the word "hectare" comes from the Greek word "hekaton", meaning one hundred.
I told you this would be educational. That's just the symbol for hectare. Abbreviated, it is "ha". Now that you know what a hectare is, here's the complete guide: everything you could possibly want or need to know about the hectare , guaranteed to solve all your hectare-generian problems, whether you're brushing up for a Maths exam, or buying an expensive piece of land.
Hectares are a commonly used unit for descriptions of land in legal cases, planning, sale and agriculture. It's the maverick of the units, not technically forming an official part of the International System of Units, though it has now been accepted for use within that system. This honorary measurement is internationally recognised anywhere that uses the metric system, and it does a very useful job otherwise, there would be no term to describe an area between the sizes of a square metre and a square kilometre, and that's a vast difference with a huge range of areas in-between!
It stands to reason that we need a "medium sized" decimal concept between those small and massive areas. If you want to be able to visualise how big a hectare is, then simply turn your mind to sports.
Many sports pitches are close to a hectare in size. A hectare is most closely represented by an international rugby union field , which is only very slightly over at 1. If you're more of a football fan, then it might be helpful to know that FIFA standards for international matches dictate that the pitch can be between 0. American sports fans can mentally conjure a game of baseball: while the pitch areas have some variability, at 0.
Fans of the metre sprint should imagine running the race four times to get an idea of covering the distance around a square hectare's perimeter. But wait!
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