Westvale SC
Westvale may refer to: * Westvale, Queensland, a locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia * Westvale, Merseyside, a location in England * Westvale, New York Westvale is a suburban community (and census-designated place) in Onondaga County, New York, United States. The population was 4,963 at the 2010 census. Westvale is in the town of Geddes, lying east of Fairmount and southwest of Solvay. Westval ...

Westvale, Queensland
Westvale is a locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Westvale had "no people or a very low population". Geography The locality is bounded on the west by Lake Somerset, the impoundment created on the Stanley River by the Somerset Dam. The creeks in the locality all contribute to the Stanley River. The terrain is quite mountainous, rising from above sea level at the lake to a number of unnamed peaks rising to . Some of the southern part of the locality is within the D'Aguilar National Park (which extends into neighbouring Mount Archer and Mount Bryon. Apart from the national park, the predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History Villeneuve Provisional School opened on 30 May 1887. About 1894, the school was physically relocated to Westvale. In 1902, it was renamed West Vale Provisional School. Due to low student numbers it closed in September 1907 but reopened in July 1908. It closed permanently in 1910. Demographics In the , ...
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West M-Wey
West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''vest'' in Romanian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (maarav) 'west' from עֶרֶב (erev) 'evening'. West is sometimes abbreviated as W. Navigation To go west using a compass for navigatio ...
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