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Ellis County, Texas, United States
Ellis County, Texas, county established December 20, 1849 from Navarro County, named for Richard Ellis; seat Waxahachie, 30 miles south of Dallas; 935.8 sq mi; population 192,455 (2020) growing to about 240,867 (2025).
Ellis Island
Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, was the main U.S. immigrant inspection station 1892–1954, processing almost 12 million arrivals; now part of Statue of Liberty National Monument, it houses the National Museum of Immigration and is reachable only by Statue City Cruises ferry.
Ellora Caves
Ellora Caves (Verul): 34 rock-cut Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monasteries and temples over 2 km of basalt cliff near Aurangabad, Maharashtra; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, famed for the monolithic top-down Kailasa temple (Cave 16).
Ellsworth Mountains
The Ellsworth Mountains are a mountain range in West Antarctica, inland from the Ronne Ice Shelf, that contain Antarctica's highest peak, Mount Vinson at 4,892 m.
Elmenteita Badlands
Elmenteita Badlands (Ututu), a Holocene pyroclastic cone and basalt lava field in the Kenya Rift between Lake Elmenteita and Eburru volcano; highest cone 2,126 m, volcano number 222071, no confirmed Holocene eruptions.
Elmira, New York
Elmira, New York: county seat of Chemung County in the Southern Tier near Pennsylvania, on the Chemung River. 26,523 residents (2020); known for the 1972 Agnes flood, its Civil War prison camp, and Mark Twain's grave.
Elmont, New York
Elmont, New York: a densely populated hamlet and CDP in Nassau County on the Queens border, Long Island; 35,265 residents (2020), 43.5% foreign-born, home to Belmont Park, UBS Arena, and the LIRR Elmont station.
Elora, Ontario
Elora, Ontario: historic village in Centre Wellington, Wellington County, founded 1832 by William Gilkison on the Grand River; known for the Elora Gorge, Elora Mill Hotel & Spa, and the Elora Festival.
Eloy Alfaro
Eloy Alfaro, also known as Durán, is a city and canton in Guayas, Ecuador, across the Guayas River from Guayaquil, named for President Eloy Alfaro and home to over 300,000 people.
Elpis Macula
Elpis Macula is a 500 km wide dark albedo feature (macula) on Titan at about 31°N, 27°W, adopted by the IAU in 2006 and named for the Greek goddess of happiness and hope.
Elsinore Corona
Elsinore Corona is the largest of three coronae on Uranus's moon Miranda, a 323 km ovoid region of deformed terrain named after Hamlet's castle in 1988.
Elslack Roman Fort
Elslack Roman Fort (Burwen Castle, Olenacum) in North Yorkshire: two superimposed Roman forts, a Flavian infantry fort of AD 70-80 and a larger stone-rampart fort, tentatively identified with Olenacum of the Notitia Dignitatum.
Elst
Elst is a town in the Dutch province of Gelderland, between Arnhem and Nijmegen, known for the remains of one of the largest Roman temples north of the Alps.
Elstree
Elstree is a historic village in Hertsmere, Hertfordshire, on Roman Watling Street (A5183), older than neighboring Borehamwood, with a conservation area designated 1976, St Nicholas church of 1188, and a parish council founded 1894.
Eltanin Rupes
Eltanin Rupes, a 370-km-long rupes (fault scarp) on Mercury in quadrangle H-15, IAU-approved 2013, named for the US research vessel Eltanin that surveyed the Antarctic sea floor.
Eltoro Zoo
Eltoro Zoo is a privately owned zoo and aquarium in La Castellana, Negros Occidental, Philippines, known for endemic Visayan species like the warty pig and spotted deer.
Eluru
Eluru (Telugu: ఏలూరు) is a city and district headquarters in coastal Andhra Pradesh, India. Its district, formed in 2022 from West Godavari and Krishna mandals, has 28 mandals, about 2 million people (2011), and a paddy, aquaculture, and wool-carpet economy.
Elusa (Haluza)
Elusa, known in Hebrew as Haluza and Arabic as al-Khalasa, was a Nabataean and Byzantine city in the Negev desert, Israel, abandoned by the eighth century.
Elusio
Elusio (Elesiodunum, Elusione), Gallo-Roman road station and wine-toll post at Saint-Pierre-d'Alzonne, Montferrand, Aude, France, on the Via Aquitania near the Naurouze ridge; cited by Cicero (Pro Fonteio) and the Itinerarium Burdigalense, with baths, necropolis, and a 4th-century basilica.
Elvaston Castle
Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire: Grade II Gothic Revival country house begun 1633, remodelled by James Wyatt, with William Barron gardens; since 1970 one of England's first country parks.
Elvey (lunar crater)
Elvey is an IAU-approved 80.21 km impact crater on the Moon at about 9.0°N, -100.6°E, named in 1970 for American astronomer and geophysicist Christian Thomas Elvey (1899-1970).
Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely in Cambridgeshire, is a Norman-founded Benedictine cathedral (1083, cathedral 1109) famous for its 14th-century wooden Octagon lantern built after the 1322 tower collapse.
Ely Roman Villa
Ely Roman Villa, Cardiff (Caerau), Wales: a scheduled Romano-British villa complex in a ditched enclosure, excavated 1894 and 1922 by Storrie and Wheeler, with a winged-corridor house, bath suite, ironworking, and rare domestic fortification.
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Ely, Cambridgeshire (Isle of Ely): England's second smallest cathedral city, founded around Etheldreda's monastery of c.673 on a Kimmeridge clay island in the Fens, home to Ely Cathedral's 14th-century Octagon and a growing Cambridge commuter city.
Ely, Nevada
Ely, Nevada: White Pine County seat at 6,200 ft in the Great Basin, a former copper-mining hub served by the Nevada Northern Railway (1905-1983) and now the gateway to Great Basin National Park on U.S. 50, the Loneliest Road.
Elysium Chasma
Elysium Chasma is an IAU-named canyon on Mars, about 130 km across, west of Elysium Mons; a floorless, roughly 2 km deep trough in the Southwest Elysium Canyon Complex, approved 1985.
Elysium Planitia
Elysium Planitia is a broad, flat lava plain near the equator of Mars, straddling the highland-lowland boundary and best known as the 2018 landing site of NASA's InSight lander.
Elysium Rupes
Elysium Rupes is an IAU-approved scarp (rupes) on Mars in the Elysium quadrangle, 130 km across, centered at 25.14°N, 148.0°E, approved 1985 from an Antoniadi albedo feature name.
Emakong Patera
Emakong Patera, an IAU-named (1979) dark-floored volcanic patera about 80 km across on Jupiter's moon Io at 3.33S 119.82W, surrounded by bright radial lava flows and interpreted as a quiescent lava lake.
Emalahleni
Emalahleni (formerly Witbank) is a coal-mining city in Mpumalanga, South Africa; the name means 'place of coal' in Nguni languages. Founded 1903, renamed 2006, home to major coal mines and power stations. Distinct from the rural Eastern Cape municipality of the same name.