<p>Mount Geikie is a mountain in the West Coast Range of Western Tasmania, Australia.</p><br>
<p>Mount Geikie has an elevation of 1,191 m above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Location and features</h2><br>
<p>Mount Geikie sits just north of Lake Margaret, and is just west of the smaller tributary lakes of Lake Margaret - Lake Mary, Lake Martha, and Lake Magdala. The east face of Mount Geikie area has two named features that lie to the north and south. The Chin at 1,116 m lies to the south, and is the point where the West Coast Range dips to the glacial features known as the Hamilton moraine. The Bastion at 1,107 m is part of a glaciated wall that extends north.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding high ground to the north of Mount Geikie is often known as The Tyndalls or confused with Mount Tyndall. The area is at the northern end of a block of mountains that are north of Mount Sedgwick which sits above the first large glacial valley between Mount Sedgwick and Mount Lyell. The Tyndalls have a number of glacial lakes, and lies south east of the Henty Gold-Mine, and Hydro Tasmania dam on the Henty River - and south of Lake Mackintosh, Lake Murchison and Tullah.</p><br>
<p>*This article is about the Eagle Heights in British Columbia, Canada. For the Eagle Heights in Queensland, Australia, please see Eagle Heights, Queensland.</p><br>
<p>Eagle Heights is an elevated area located south of Koksilah Ridge on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is centered at 48°40′N, 123°46′W. Its summit lies about 836 m above sea level. Populated areas where it is visible include North Saanich, Sidney, and Shawnigan Lake.</p><br>
<p>Its bedrock lithology is dominated by Upper Triassic period basalt at and around the summit. This formation is bordered on the west by Jurassic period volcanics which are of more variable composition. To the north, east and south is a complex of Pennsylvanian age argillite, chert, diabase and greywacke. A band of limestone lies within this complex on the southeast side between 550 and.</p><br>
<p>Most soils on Eagle Heights are shallow, stony gravelly sandy loams with podzol profile development. The forests they support belong to the Coastal Western Hemlock zone with Douglas-fir, western hemlock and western red cedar as the most common trees. Lower elevations near Koksilah River Provincial Park are home to arbutus, Garry oak and numerous rare plant species.</p><br>
<p>Loggers have harvested Eagle Heights over the years, leaving clear-cut areas which are most eye-catching when a snow cover is present. A particularly large clear area was present around the summit in the 1970s. This has since regenerated to native coniferous forest. In recent years the Heights were logged less heavily than neighboring hills until new logging activity began on part of the lower eastern slope in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Vancouver Island Ranges, formerly called the Vancouver Island Mountains, is a mountain range extending along the length of Vancouver Island which has an area of 31,788 km² . The Vancouver Island Ranges comprise the central and largest part of the island. The Geological Survey of Canada refers to Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the Alaska Panhandle as the Insular Belt including the sea floor out to 100 km  west of Vancouver Island. The Vancouver Island Ranges are a sub-range of the Insular Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Explorations</h2><br>
<p>The first European sighting of these ranges was likely Sir Francis Drake. A sighting of land on June 5, 1579 was recorded by his crew aboard the vessel Golden Hind at a latitude of 48 degrees north but not finding safe harbour, they moved on southward. The highest peak of the Vancouver Island Ranges, the Golden Hinde is named for his vessel.</p><br>
<p>The first European explorer likely to have observed any of the mountains of the Vancouver Island Ranges would have been Captain Juan José Pérez aboard the Spanish frigate Santiago. Although he anchored off Estevan Point, on August 8, 1774 he did not land. Captain James Cook entered Nootka Sound March 29, 1778 and spent about a month refitting his ships Discovery and Resolution. His logs contain the first recorded reference to the mountains of Vancouver Island. In 1788 British Captain John Meares began a small settlement at Nootka Sound and the following year, the Spanish built a permanent fort at Friendly Cove (Yuquot) in Nuu-chah-nulth territory. The Spanish claimed sovereignty and a dispute arose which was resolved with the Nootka Convention of the 1794. There was little further exploration until the Hudson&#39;s Bay Company was granted rights to Vancouver Island on January 13, 1849 leading to the first attempt, by Captain Hamilton Moffat in 1852 to ascend a major peak on the Island when he attempted Rugged Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Adam Grant Horne located a trail across the island from the Qualicum River to the Alberni Inlet in 1856 and Joseph Despard Pemberton, Surveyor General of the Colony of Vancouver Island explored much of the southern half of the Island in 1857. The southern Island was further explored by the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1865. By the mid-1880s the southern half of the island had been explored and by 1890 the northern region had been explored as well. The central part of the island, the area now within Strathcona Provincial Park, was explored by Reverend William Washington Bolton, Headmaster of the Victoria School for Boys, in 1894 and 1896.</p><br>
<h2>Ranges</h2><br>
<p>Only a few of the many subranges of the Vancouver Island Ranges have official names. These are:</p><br>
<p>Refugium Range: On the Brooks Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>Sophia Range: On Nootka Island, on the peninsula between Esperanza Inlet and Nuchatlitz Inlet.</p><br>
<p>Genevieve Range: Nootka Island.</p><br>
<p>Karmutzen Range: Between Nimpkish Lake, Tlakwa Creek and Karmuzten Creek.</p><br>
<p>Hankin Range: Between Nimpkish Lake and Bonanza Lake.</p><br>
<p>Franklin Range: Near Robson Bight on the Johnstone Strait between the Tsitika River and Kokish River.</p><br>
<p>Bonanza Range: Between the Nimpkish River and the Tsitika River by Bonanza Lake.</p><br>
<p>Sutton Range: Between Nimpkish River, White River, ktwanch River, Gold River.</p><br>
<p>Newcastle Ridge: Johnstone Strait, west of Sayward-Kelsey Bay and east/north of Adams River</p><br>
<p>Prince of Wales Range: East coast of Vancouver Island 40 km (25 mi) north of Campbell River.</p><br>
<p>Halifax Range: Along Johnstone Strait between Amor de Cosmos Creek and Pye Creek.</p><br>
<p>Beaufort Range: North of Port Alberni and west of Qualicum Beach.</p><br>
<p>Pelham Range: Between the Sarita River and Alberni Inlet.</p><br>
<p>Somerset Range: Between The Pacheena-Sarita River basins and the Klanawa River (between Nitinat Lake and Imperial Eagle channel)</p><br>
<p>Seymour Range: Between the valley of Cowichan Lake, San Juan River and Gordon River.</p><br>
<p>Gowlland Range: Near Victoria between Saanich Inlet and Brentwood Bay. Includes Mount Work Regional Park.</p><br>
<p>Pierce Range: South of Gold River between the Jacklah River and the Burman River.</p><br>
<p>Haihte Range: Between Tashsis River, the Nomash River, Zeballos Lake and Woss Lake.</p><br>
<p>The Elk River Mountains, located in Strathcona Provincial Park, are considered a range by some sources.Stone</p><br>
<h3>Peaks of the Vancouver Island Ranges</h3><br>
<p>The Hozu River is a part of Katsura River in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The river begins in the mountains near Kameoka, a town northwest of Kyoto City. It snakes into the Arashiyama section of western Kyoto before changing its name to Katsura River.</p><br>
<p>The Hozu River is considered scenic, and is known primarily for its association with Hozugawa Kudari, literally "down the Hozu river", a sightseeing whitewater boat that goes downstream from Kameoka to Arashiyama. Hozugawa Kudari is especially popular in the fall, when the Japanese Maple leaves change colors, and in the Spring, when the sakura, or Japanese cherry tree, blooms. The trip usually takes about two hours.</p><br>
<p>In August, 2006, a rock fell from the mountains that line the river and hit a woman on the head, seriously injuring her. Overall, however, Hozugawa Kudari is considered safe.</p><br>
<p>The Dead River is a 3.5 mi river located entirely within the city limits of Berlin, New Hampshire, in the United States. It is a tributary of the Androscoggin River, which flows south from Berlin before turning east at Gorham and into Maine, eventually joining the Kennebec River at Merrymeeting Bay. The Abenaki Indians called the Dead River Plumpetoosuc, which means "shallow, narrow river".</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The earliest known document to specifically name Dead River is the 1796 deed of sale by an Indian named Phillip, to Thomas Eames, John Bradly, Jonathan Eastman, and Nathan Hoit. The deed states, "... then up said Ammonoosuc River to Head Pond, then across the carrying place to a small pond on the head of the Plumpetussuck, or Dead River, then down said river to Andrewscoggin River sic..."</p><br>
<p>The name "Dead River" is thought to come from fact that the river is flat, or "dead," as it travels through the valley before reaching the Androscoggin River.</p><br>
<p>The Abenaki name for the river was Plumpetoosuc which means "shallow, narrow river." An alternate meaning is given by Benjamin Williams, who in 1805 led an expedition up the Androscoggin, "Situated between a mountain and a small bluff in a valley at Mainsbourgh, to the west of the islands at the falls, lies a river in which the savages call Paumpalussauke which means &#39;place where the god of the waters dwells.&#39; and it is because of this that they travel through here, but do not live here, in fear of this deity."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Long before Europeans settled North America, Abenaki Indians used the Dead River to travel between the Androscoggin River valley and the Connecticut River valley. In later years, the Glen Manufacturing Company, later purchased by the International Paper Company, used the river to conduct log drives to get pulpwood to its mills located where the Smyth Hydro Park is today.</p><br>
<p>In recent years, local interest in the river and its history has been renewed by Berlin Community Development Director Pamela Laflamme and Pierre Lessard, after Lessard erected a sign reading "Plumpetoosuc River" on his property near the river. The pair are leaders in an effort to rename the river to its aboriginal name. The cause has also led to the cleanup of Memorial Place II, a 1.4 acre park referred to locally as "Dead River Park", after Amy Michaud noticed the park&#39;s neglected state and created a Facebook group called "Friends of Dead River Park."</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Dead River is formed where Jericho Brook, flowing out of the White Mountain National Forest and Jericho Mountain State Park from the west, reaches Little People&#39;s Pond at a broad, flat valley occupied by NH Route 110 and the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad. Flowing southeast through the valley, the river is nearly flat, or "dead", until it reaches the center of Berlin, where it drops 40 ft in 0.5 mi to reach the Androscoggin.</p><br>
<p>The Little Dead Diamond River is a 7.1 mi long river in northern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Dead Diamond River, located in the Androscoggin River watershed of Maine and New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>The Little Dead Diamond River rises in the town of Clarksville, New Hampshire near the north end of Crystal Mountain, a seven mile long ridge with elevations ranging from 2,400 to 3,300 feet above sea level. Mount Pisgah (3,081 ft) lies just to the north of the headwaters. The river flows east into the Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy Grant, where it is joined by its west branch. The river then enters the Dartmouth College Grant and is joined by its south branch. The Little Dead Diamond then turns north, reenters the Atkinson and Gilmanton Grant, and joins the Dead Diamond River near the rapids and old logging camp known as Hell Gate.</p><br>
<p>The Middle Branch of the Dead Diamond River is a 9.0 mi long river in northern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the East Branch of the Dead Diamond River, located in the Androscoggin River watershed of Maine and New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>The Middle Branch flows for most of its length through Pittsburg, the northernmost town in New Hampshire. It flows southeast through a wide valley between Magalloway Mountain (3,383 feet above sea level) to the south and Diamond Ridge (3,230 ft) to the north. The river then turns south and flows parallel to the East Branch of the Dead Diamond, finally joining it in the Atkinson and Gilmanton Grant, less than one mile upstream from the confluence of the East Branch and the West Branch of the Dead Diamond.</p><br>
<p>The West Branch of the Peabody River is a 5.8 mi long river in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Peabody River, which flows into the Androscoggin River, which in turn flows south and east into Maine, joining the Kennebec River near the Atlantic Ocean. The West Branch of the Peabody is within the Great Gulf Wilderness of the White Mountain National Forest for most of its length. It is paralleled by the Great Gulf Trail, a popular route for backpackers.</p><br>
<p>The stream rises in Great Gulf, a large glacial cirque on the northern side of Mount Washington. The West Branch flows from the outlet of Spaulding Lake, a tarn seated at the foot of the east face of Mount Clay, and proceeds northeast deeper into the gulf, with Mount Jefferson of the Presidential Range to the west and Chandlers Ridge, a northern spur of Mount Washington, to the east. Upon reaching the outlet of Jefferson Ravine, the river turns east, with Mount Adams and Mount Madison rising above its northern bank.</p><br>
<p>The river ends at the Peabody River, 1.5 mi north (downstream) of Glen House, the entrance to the Mount Washington Auto Road.</p><br>
<p>Fishing along the river is excellent. Big brook and rainbow trout can be caught throughout, unlike the other trails on Mt. Washington that are paralleled by rivers.</p><br>
<p>Montseny is a mountain range west of the coastal hills north of Barcelona. It is part of the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The Montseny massif is located within a triangle formed by the AP-7, C-17 and C-25 roads. It has the highest mountains in the area south of the Pyrenees and dominates the plains south of Girona. To the south lies the plateau of La Calma. In between is the Valley of the Tordera River.</p><br>
<p>The highest peaks are Turó de l&#39;Home (1,712 m), Les Agudes (1,703 m), El Matagalls (1,697 m) and Puig Drau (1,344 m).</p><br>
<p>There are a large number of megalithic structures in the massif, such as menhirs, indicating that the area was inhabited since very ancient times.</p><br>
<p>The Santa Fe Reservoir is located in the area of range; construction work began in 1920 and was completed in 1935.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The Montseny is a protected area, UNESCO designated the massif a biosphere reserve in 1978. The Generalitat of Catalonia regional government designated it a natural park in 1987, the Montseny Natural Park (Parc Natural del Montseny).</p><br>
<p>The Park is home to a wide variety of fauna from Mediterranean to alpine. The critically endangered Montseny brook newt is only known from the area of this massif.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago Club, founded in 1869, is a private social club located at 81 East Van Buren Street at Michigan Avenue in the Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. Its membership has included many of Chicago&#39;s most prominent businessmen, politicians, and families.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the mid-1860s, a social group formed in Chicago, Illinois that met on State Street. The group later met on the top floor of the old Portland Block on the southeast corner of Dearborn and Washington Streets. Known as the "Dearborn Club", members would meet in afternoons to drink and play cards. Members included Western Union co-founder Anson Stager, former New York State Senator Henry R. Pierson, Judge of the Cook County Court Hugh T. Dickey, and dry goods merchant Philip Wadsworth. The club was shut down by the Cook County Sheriff&#39;s Office in 1868.</p><br>
<p>In January 1869, former members of the Dearborn Club organized a meeting in the Sherman House. Although nothing was decided, a second meeting was scheduled, and there a resolution was passed to create a new club for one hundred Chicago citizens. For one hundred dollars, a gentleman could join the Chicago Club. Wadsworth was elected the first president. Stager, Charles B. Farwell, George Pullman, George & David Gage, and Wirt Dexter each lent the club five hundred dollars to cover early expenses. Former state representative Edward S. Isham drafted incorporation papers and Wadsworth delivered them to the state capitol of Springfield. The club then rented the former Henry Farnam mansion on the corner of Michigan Avenue between Jackson and Adams Streets. The first meeting of the Chicago Club was held on May 1, 1869.</p><br>
<p>The first clubhouse was destroyed by fire in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, so the club moved to 279 Michigan Avenue for two years, and then to the Gregg House at 476 Wabash Avenue. In 1876 the club built its first permanent home on Monroe Street across from the Palmer House.</p><br>
<p>In 1893, the club decided it needed larger quarters, and it purchased from the Art Institute of Chicago its former building on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street. This building has been put up in 1886-1887 and was designed by Burnham and Root to be the first home of the Institute, which moved across the street to its current location in 1892. This building remained the clubhouse until the 1920s, when it collapsed during remodelling.</p><br>
<p>To replace it, Granger and Bollenbacher designed an eight-story granite building in the Romanesque Revival style, which was completed in 1929. During construction, Burnham & Roots triple-arched entrance was moved around the corner from Michigan Avenue to Van Buren Street, where it remains the main entrance to the building, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and continues as the clubs headquarters today.</p><br>
<h2>Privacy</h2><br>
<p>The Chicago Club&#39;s by-laws specifically forbid working members of the press from entering the building. The one exception to this rule seems to have been in 1982 when a Chicago Tribune editor was able to obtain limited access.</p><br>
<p>he interior splendor of the Chicago Club is as private as a stately home in England, which it much resembles in décor. Indeed, few pedestrians passing by the eight-story red-granite clubhouse at Van Buren and Michigan even know what the place is. Club members – with such names as Field, Pullman, Lincoln, McCormick, and Blair – may have shaped Chicago history. But they also have developed a sense of privacy that politely but firmly excludes: 1) The entire world, except for the clubs 1,200 carefully selected members; 2) Until recently, women; and 3) Reporters and photographers. "Well fight to the death on that one," growls one club board member...</p><br>
<p>How do you get in? Don&#39;t ask. How tough is it to join? In a word, very. Not only is there a long waiting list, but an applicant needs a sponsoring member, a seconder, lots of letters of support, and a good deal of patience. Most applicants test the waters first, so formal rejections are few. But not even the well-connected can breeze in...</p><br>
<p>Historians might argue that the Chicago Club no longer has the power it wielded in the days when its "millionaires table" was the lunchtime gathering place of Marshall Field, George Pullman, N. K. Fairbank, John Crerar, and a half-dozen others, each worth millions in the days when that sum meant something. "Everything to be done in Chicago was discussed by that group, and then word was passed out", as Stanley Field put it.... But a visitor, seated on a lobby sofa, and those who sweep in for lunch, could hardly disagree with the recent pecking-order manual, "Who Runs Chicago?" Its conclusion: "The Chicago Club is the center of power in Chicago. It is mandatory for the citys biggest executives to join it, unless they want to be considered not-so-big executives.</p><br>
<h2>University of California "Centrality Study"</h2><br>
<p>G. William Domhoff, professor of sociology at the University of California, ran a network analysis study on the membership of think tanks, policy-planning groups, social clubs, trade associations, and opinion-shaping groups across the country for a research project he was doing on San Franciscos Bohemian Club. The Bohemian Club turned out to be the 11th "most connected" organization in the country. Only three social clubs ranked higher: New Yorks Links Club (3rd), San Francisco&#39;s Pacific Union (7th), and The Chicago Club (8th).</p><br>
<p>The Eaglehawk Neck is a narrow isthmus that connects the Tasman Peninsula with the Forestier Peninsula, and hence to mainland Tasmania, Australia. A township settlement in the same region is also called Eaglehawk Neck.</p><br>
<h2>Location and features</h2><br>
<p>At the, the settlement of Eaglehawk Neck had a population of 338.</p><br>
<p>Locally known as the Neck, the isthmus itself is around 400 m long and under 30 m wide at its narrowest point. The area features rugged terrain and several unusual geological formations. These include the Tessellated Pavement, an area of flat rock that looks to be manmade but is in fact formed by erosion.</p><br>
<p>A short walk further via Lufra Cove take you to Clyde Island accessible for crossings at low tide, sits at the northern entry to Pirates Bay. The island hosts two grave sites, a rumbling blow hole cleaves the island.</p><br>
<p>Eaglehawk Neck offers accommodation at Lufra Hotel and Apartments, near the Tessellated Pavement, and at various b&bs. A nearby footpath leads to Martin Cashs lookout near the top of the hill at the southern end.</p><br>
<p>Eaglehawk Neck is a well-known local holiday destination. On the eastern side, a beach that stretches around Pirates&#39; Bay is a popular surfing area. In summer the population rises as people return to their holiday homes.</p><br>
<h3>European history</h3><br>
<p>It forms a natural gateway between the peninsulas that was used by the British in 1830s when a line of dogs was chained to posts across the neck to warn of any convicts attempting to escape the Port Arthur prison. The area was heavily patrolled by soldiers, and the guards&#39; quarters still remains as a museum. Many attempts were made by convicts to escape via Eaglehawk Neck, including those of Martin Cash. The isthmus now provides road access via the Arthur Highway to Port Arthur, part of the Australian Convict Sites, a World Heritage Site that comprises eleven remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips. Collectively, these sites, including Port Arthur, now represent, "...the best surviving examples of large-scale penal transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts."</p><br>
<p>The first Eagle Hawk Neck post office was open from 1875 until 1877. It reopened on 11 January 1895 and closed in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Tessellated Pavement Sunrise Landscape.jpgTessellated Pavement at sunrise.</p><br>
<p>Tassie Trip Day 05 033.jpgPirates Bay and Doo Town.</p><br>
<p>Pushpagiri , at 1,712 m, is the highest peak in Pushpagiri Wildlife Sanctuary in the Western Ghats of Karnataka. It is located in the Somwarpet Taluk, 20 km from Somwarpet in the northern part of Kodagu district on the border between Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu district and hassan districts. It is 2nd highest peak of Karnataka.</p><br>
<h2>Pushpagiri Mountains</h2><br>
<p>The Pushpagiri or Subramanya Hills (also referred as Kumaraparvatha) is the second-highest peak of Kodagu, and sixth highest peak in Karnataka</p><br>
<p>About 36 km from Somwarpet and 1.5 km from Kumaralli, it is located amid the jungle. Trekking can be done from the base, Bhagati, which is a 10 km, three-hour walk. Otherwise, trekkers can cross Kukke Subramanya, located in Dakshina Kannada district of Pushpagiri Range. The trekking zone can be approached from Pushpagiri or from Kumaraparvata peaks.</p><br>
<p>The Eastern entrance can be reached from Beedehalli via Heggademane temple and the Western entrance from Kukke Subramanya via Giri gadde. However, the entrance through Beedehalli is less strenuous.</p><br>
<p>The entrance from Kukke Subramanya is located 165 m above sea level. The nearest airport is in Mangalore at a distance of 106 km.</p><br>
<h3>Demography</h3><br>
<p>Somwarpet</p><br>
<p>Madikeri</p><br>
<p>Kushalanagara</p><br>
<h2>Climatic conditions</h2><br>
<p>The climate is generally cool and wet. The climate is that of a highland, with no extreme variations. It receives heavy rainfall between June to September. From October to December the area is covered in mist almost all the time.</p><br>
<p>Rainfall: The rainfall in Coorg varies extensively, ranging from 3,500 mm per year in the western Highlands and to under 1,000 mm per year near the eastern plateau.</p><br>
<p>Temperature: November to January are generally the coldest months, with the daytime maximum temperatures that ranges of an average of around 7° to 20 °C. April and May are normally the warmest months here, with temperatures of an average 29 °C. The temperatures in Mercara and Virajpet are generally a few degrees cooler than in Kushalnagar because of the hilly terrace.</p><br>
<p>Visibility: This place often enjoys good visibility, although hill fog sometimes restricts the visibility.</p><br>
<p>The Little River is a 7.4 mile long  river in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Ammonoosuc River and part of the Connecticut River watershed.</p><br>
<p>The Little River rises in the White Mountain National Forest in a small glacial cirque surrounded by Zealand Mountain to the east, Mount Guyot to the south, and South Twin Mountain to the west. The river flows north into the town of Bethlehem, through a deep valley between North Twin Mountain to the west and Mount Hale to the east. Eventually the river enters the town of Carroll near the community of Twin Mountain, passes under U.S. Route 3, and ends at the Ammonoosuc River.</p><br>
<p>The Little River is a public water supply for the village of Twin Mountain. A portion of the river is paralleled by (and crossed three times by) the North Twin Trail, a hiking trail.</p><br>
<p>The Zealand River is a 6.3 mi long river in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Ammonoosuc River and part of the Connecticut River watershed.</p><br>
<p>The Zealand River flows north out of Zealand Notch in the town of Bethlehem, New Hampshire. It is paralleled first by the Zealand Trail, a hiking trail, and then by Zealand Road, maintained by the White Mountain National Forest. The river valley separates Mount Hale to the west from Mount Tom to the east. Farther north, the Rosebrook Mountains overlook the river to the east, and the small pegmatite knobs known as South, Middle, and North Sugarloaf rise to the west. The river passes the national forest Zealand Campground and reaches the Ammonoosuc River just east of the village of Twin Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Wollaston Lake is a lake in northeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is 550 km northeast of Prince Albert. With a surface area of 2286 km , it is the largest bifurcation lake in the world that drains naturally in two directions.</p><br>
<p>The Fond du Lac River flows out of the lake to the northwest, where it drains into Lake Athabasca, which ultimately drains into the Arctic Ocean via the Mackenzie River system. The Cochrane River flows out of the northeastern side of the lake and into Reindeer Lake, which drains via the Churchill River system into Hudson Bay. If Hudson Bay is defined to be part of the Atlantic Ocean, and if the Arctic Ocean is not defined to be part of the Atlantic, then Wollaston Lake drains into two oceans. For similar cases see List of unusual drainage systems.</p><br>
<p>Wollaston Lake&#39;s main inflow is the Geikie River which flows from the southwest into the southwest section of the lake. If the aforementioned oceanic definitions are used, then the Geikie is the largest river in the world to flow naturally into two oceans.</p><br>
<p>Wollaston Lake is also the largest lake entirely within Saskatchewan, although the Saskatchewanian portions of Lake Athabasca and Reindeer Lake are both larger.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Hearne learned of the lake in 1770 and David Thompson noted in 1796 the dual outlets as “perhaps without parallel in the world.” In 1807, Peter Fidler named the lake after George Hyde Wollaston.</p><br>
<p>The only settlement on its shores is also named Wollaston Lake. The settlement includes the northern hamlet of Wollaston Lake with a population of 129 and the adjacent village of Wollaston Post of the Hatchet Lake Dene Nation with a population of 1251.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Access to the lake is provided by the community airstrip (Wollaston Lake Airport) and an all-weather road (Highway 905) to La Ronge. This road passes by the western side of the lake, while the community of Wollaston Lake is located on the eastern side, but the lake can be crossed by a winter road when the lake is frozen (November through June) and by the Wollaston barge when it is not. Air service is also provided to Points North Landing, a service centre for nearby uranium mines. This industry provides jobs for local residents, but has raised concerns over possible contamination of the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Fish species</h2><br>
<p>Fish species found in the lake include walleye, yellow perch, northern pike, lake trout, Arctic grayling, lake whitefish, cisco, burbot, white sucker and longnose sucker.</p><br>
<p>Treated effluent from the Rabbit Lake uranium mine is released into Hidden Bay on the southwestern side of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Ullock Pike is a fell situated in northern part of the English Lake District. It is located seven kilometres north west of Keswick and achieves a height of 692 metres . The fell sits on Skiddaw’s south western ridge along with two other fells , this ridge is regarded as the finest way to ascend Skiddaw, with Alfred Wainwright commenting:</p><br>
<p>‘There is no doubt in my mind that by far the best approach to the top of Skiddaw is by way of its north-west ridge. This offers a fine expedition along a narrow crest in exciting surroundings and provides excellent views throughout … for the collector of summits here are three waiting to be picked off in addition to Skiddaw’.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The fell’s name comes from the Old Norse language and translates as ‘The peak where the wolves play’. With úlfr meaning wolf and leikr meaning play, there are records that the fell was called Ulvelaik in the 13th century.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Ullock Pike drops away steeply on its eastern side to the little-known valley of Southerndale while its western slopes, which are clothed in woodland lower down, fall to Bassenthwaite Lake. When viewed from the north Ullock Pike is observed as a slender peak which catches the eye but from other directions it is seen as just a bump at the end of Longside Edge. The fell of Long Side is just 600 metres away along the ridge to the south west and Ullock Pike has just 14 metres of topographic prominence from it and therefore fails to qualify as a Hewitt or a Nuttall and relies on Wainwright to give it the status of a separate fell, which he does mainly because of the quality of the view and the excellence of its form from the north.</p><br>
<p>Ullock Pike has a low-lying outlying top, which stands 1.5 kilometres away along the northern ridge and has the unusual name of ‘Watches’. With a height of 333 metres it is a distinctive summit made more remarkable by an unusual rash of igneous rocks amongst the grass and local Skiddaw slate. These give the initial impression of being an ancient stone circle or even a small quarry but are apparently a natural rock formation. (left) from the north east</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>In common with much of the Northern Fells the Kirk Stile Formation of the Skiddaw Group predominates. This is composed of laminated mudstone and siltstone with greywacke sandstone and is of Ordovician age. There are many small intrusions of lamprophyre and diorite.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>There are two possible starting points for the ascent of Ullock Pike from the north, the one from the Ravenstone Hotel at grid reference is hampered by a lack of parking space but does have a bus stop (there is parking in Dodd Wood 1.5 km to the south). The other starting place is at on the minor road to Orthwaite. Both routes utilise the northern ridge to climb the fell. There is a significant false top which is in view for a long time before the true summit is attained.</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>The top of the fell is a small neat spot carpeted with heather which gives a fine all-round view even though it is curtailed by the bulk of Skiddaw to the east.</p><br>
<p>North Twin Mountain is a mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. The mountain forms the north end of the Twin Range of the White Mountains. North Twin overlooks the village of Twin Mountain, lying to the north of the mountain at the intersection of US Routes 3 and 302. The summit of South Twin Mountain is approximately one mile to the south of North Twin.</p><br>
<p>The north and east faces of North Twin drain into the Little River, thence into the Ammonoosuc and Connecticut Rivers, and into Long Island Sound in Connecticut. The west side of North Twin drains to the North Branch of the Gale River, another tributary of the Ammonoosuc River.</p><br>
<p>The summit of North Twin is reached by the North Twin Trail, which ascends from the village of Twin Mountain via the Little River valley. The North Twin Trail continues south along the crest of the Twin Range to South Twin.</p><br>
<p>Malesiada is a village and a community in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. The village belongs to the municipal unit of Inachos. Through the village passes the provincial road which leads from Agrinio and Amfilochia to Empesos and further to Arta and Evrytania .</p><br>
<p>The municipal district Malesiada consists of the villages Nea Malesiada, Ano Kampos and Maraneli.</p><br>
<h2>Nea Malesiada</h2><br>
<p>Nea Malesiada is the largest village of the municipal district Malesiada. The old village Malesiada was isolated and the villagers asked from the State to reestablish it at a new place along the provincial road which connects Agrinio with Empesos in order to have better living conditions.</p><br>
<p>After the reestablishment, the village took the name "Nea Malesiada" with "Nea" meaning "New". In the village there is a market that sells meat products.</p><br>
<p>From Malesiada comes the Malesiadas family, members of which (Georgios, Kostas, Stamoulis) fought during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1827). It was this family which gave its name to the village.</p><br>
<p>The last thirty years the population steadily declines because the young people moved to other parts of the country, especially to Athens and Agrinion or even abroad for finding better work or living conditions.</p><br>
<p>Prinias , Crete, 35 kilometres southwest of Iraklion, about halfway between Gortyn and Knossos, is an archaeological site that has revealed a seventh-century BCE temple with striking similarities to Egyptian architecture, and an Egyptianizing seated goddess. Above the site is a peak sanctuary, a sub-Minoan survival.</p><br>
<p>Prinias developed at a similar time frame with Lato and Polyrrhenia as an Archaic Period settlement, colonised by Greeks from the mainland.</p><br>
<p>The site contains vestiges of "the first stone buildings since the fall of the Mycenaean kingdoms". Temple A, dated to around 625 BCE, is the earliest known Greek temple decorated with sculpture. Although its plan follows the Mycenaean model, the building had a flat roof and three massive piers on the façade. The most remarkable surviving detail is a limestone lintel bearing two monumental statues of goddesses, seated facing each other. The figures, whose identification is disputed, each wear a long skirt and a cape, reminiscent of the so-called "Lady of Auxerre". Below the figures is an orientalizing frieze representing three panthers on each side; the motif is typical for North Syria.</p><br>
<p>Temple B is known for its Daedalic sculpture, which "consists of a statue of a goddess seated on a throne and wearing a polos and a stiff garment decorated with animals, a horse, a lion, and a sphinx". The goddess could have represented either Rhea or Artemis as "the mistress of animals". Most of the finds from Prinias (including a singular frieze of horsemen) are conserved at the Archaeological Museum at Heraklion.</p><br>
<p>Further evidence of Orientalizing culture was extracted from the necropolis which spreads to the west from the ancient town. Some 680 burials (including ritual burials of dogs and horses) were made in the area between the 13th century and 600 BCE. The ritual has Oriental features, with bodies cremated, and heads buried separately.</p><br>
<p>The North Branch of the Millers River is a river in southwestern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts in the United States. It is a tributary of the Millers River, which flows west to the Connecticut River, which in turn flows south to Long Island Sound, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The North Branch rises in Rindge, New Hampshire, at the outlet of Island Pond. It flows west past East Rindge and Converseville to Lake Monomonac. From the lake&#39;s outlet in Massachusetts, the North Branch flows south parallel to USA Route 202, joining the Millers River at Whitney Pond in Winchendon.</p><br>
<p>The North Branch is 6.0 mi long, 4.0 mi of which are in New Hampshire, with 2.0 mi in Massachusetts. If the channel length of 2.9 mi through Lake Monomonac were included, the total length would be 8.9 mi.</p><br>
<p>Kidsty Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the west of Haweswater Reservoir. It is a subsidiary top of Rampsgill Head, but has long achieved the status of a separate fell, thanks to its classic peaked profile. Wainwright followed this convention in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Two valleys run up westwards from Haweswater, above what was the village of Mardale Green before the raising of the lake. Riggindale is the southern arm and runs straight with a classic "U"-shaped profile. Randale starts north-westerly, rising quickly before turning due west above approximately 1800 ft. Between these valleys is Kidsty Pike, the east ridge of Rampsgill Head.</p><br>
<p>The northern flank falls at a shallow gradient over grass to the high gathering grounds of Randale. In contrast, the southern side of the ridge drops over crag and scree to Riggindale, 1,500 ft below. The difference in slopes gives Kidsty Pike its appeal when viewed from Haweswater, or (for example) on the M6 motorway near Shap. From here, in profile the summit appears as an acute angled peak.</p><br>
<p>Rampsgill Head is only a short distance away, but eastwards the ridge continues for about a mile, dropping gently to Kidsty Howes above the lake. This rocky outcrop marks the final steep descent to the shore.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>The only direct route of ascent is from the road end at Mardale Head. The lakeshore is followed to the ruins of Riggindale Farm. Like the other houses in the valley, this was blown up by the Army as demolition practice while the waters rose. From here, the old path up the ridge can be followed via Kidsty Howes.</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>The summit has a small cairn on grass, immediately above the Riggindale face. The higher fells of the High Street range obscure much of the view, although a section of Lakeland is visible across the Straits of Riggindale.</p><br>
<p>Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel in Oconee County, South Carolina is an incomplete railroad tunnel for the Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina in Sumter National Forest. This is now a Walhalla park which also features nearby Isaqueena Falls.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The tunnel was first proposed in 1835 by residents of Charleston, South Carolina as a new and shorter route for the Blue Ridge Railroad between Charleston and the Ohio river valley area which until then was only accessible by bypassing the mountains entirely to the South and then traveling up north through Georgia and middle Tennessee. In 1852, 13 miles of tunnel were proposed to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains through South Carolina, North Carolina, and into Tennessee. Construction on the railway was begun in the late 1850s and was successful through most of South Carolina until hitting the mountains around Wallhalla in Oconee County. There Stumphouse tunnel along with three other tunnels was to be built.</p><br>
<p>Construction on Stumphouse tunnel began in 1856 when the George Collyer Company of London brought many Irish workers into the area for this project. Many of the workers lived in housing on top of Stumphouse mountain called Tunnel Hill. By 1859, the State of South Carolina had spent over a million dollars on the tunnel and refused to spend any more on the project, therefore the tunnel work was abandoned. The tunnel had been excavated to a length of 1,617 feet of the planned 5,863 total feet. Today, where the tunnel was meant to end on the other side of the mountain, there remains a mound of earth (intended for the railway tracks) submerged during the summer months under Crystal Lake, located just west of Highway 28.</p><br>
<p>As a part of the planned Blue Ridge Railroad, two other tunnels were begun in the 1850s and are all connected by terrain at railroad grade. Middle Tunnel, a quarter mile from Stumphouse Tunnel was successfully completed but mostly collapsed and was partially sealed off in the mid-1900s. It is only accessible by foot. Saddle Tunnel, the last of the South Carolina complex was also begun for a short distance 1.5 miles north of Middle Tunnel. Saddle is partially completed yet is mostly submerged by a small lake. Only the entrance to the tunnel is visible.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in the 1950s Stumphouse tunnel was used by Clemson University to grow blue cheese until the 1970s when the blue cheese operation was relocated to air-conditioned cheese ripening rooms where the tunnel environment was duplicated.</p><br>
<p>Today, Stumphouse tunnel is operated as a public park along with nearby Isaqueena Falls by the city of Walhalla. It is open daily except Christmas Day and during inclement weather from 10am until 5pm. Inside the tunnel the temperature is a constant 50 degrees with humidity of 85%. The tunnel is easily accessible by foot, a few yards from a gravel parking lot. The structural integrity of the tunnel is solid and almost no cracking is apparent minus an enlarged vent halfway through the tunnel. In 1999 this vent was impacted by a rock slide, however in 2000 the town of Walhalla re-excavated the tunnel and safely returned it to public use.</p><br>
<p>After a developer attempted to purchase the property from the City of Walhalla in 2007, Naturaland Trust, a conservation agency created by C. Thomas Wyche, pledged about $2 million to protect the surrounding property; and a consortium of non-profit conservation groups, private individuals, and the state of South Carolina provided the money and resources to preserve the mountain for public use.</p><br>
<p>Thornthwaite Crag is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the west of Haweswater Reservoir. It is a focal point of the Far Eastern Fells, standing at the head of several valleys.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>The summit area is broadly horseshoe-shaped, concave to the north with the head of Hayeswater Gill in the opening. The north-western horn of the shoe connects to Gray Crag and the north-eastern ridge to High Street and Mardale Ill Bell. Two other principal ridges run south to Froswick and west to Caudale Moor.</p><br>
<p>The north-eastern and southern ridges enclose the head of Kentmere with scree and crag predominating. To the south-west of Thornthwaite Crag is the craggy head of the long valley of Troutbeck, emptying into Windermere. Between the western and north-western ridges is the head of Pasture Beck, which ultimately joins Hayeswater Beck en route to Ullswater.</p><br>
<p>The western ridge to Caudale Moor is narrow and rough, dropping very steeply to the depression of Threshwaite Mouth at 1,950 ft. The other ridges are broad and grassy, although there is some marshy ground when crossing the depression toward High Street. The southern ridge narrows considerably before reaching Froswick.</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>The grassy top is crossed by a stone wall which rises up from Threshwaite Mouth and then peters out a few hundred yards to the east of the summit. A section of old fenceposts then continues the boundary line toward High Street before again being replaced by stone wall. The actual top is marked by one of the most impressive columnar cairns in the district. Named Thornthwaite Beacon, it towers 14 feet above an angle in the wall.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>The High Street Roman road reaches the summit plateau along the south ridge, but then detours east around the actual top, making a bee-line for the fell bearing its name. All of the connecting ridges carry good paths from the summit, which is an important walkers’ crossroads. The view is good, particularly westwards, although it can be improved by moving to the edge of the plateau in various directions.</p><br>
<p>Thornthwaite Crag can be climbed direct from Hartsop via Pasture Beck and from Troutbeck via Scot Rake (the Roman road), or via Threshwaite Mouth. Various ascents from Kentmere are also possible.</p><br>
<p>Sturgeon Lake is a lake in north-western Alberta, Canada. It has a total area of 49.1 km&sup2; and a maximum depth of 9.5 m. It is located in the hydrographic basin of the Little Smoky River at an elevation of 685 m, 20 km west of the town of Valleyview, along Highway 43.</p><br>
<p>Young&#39;s Point Provincial Park is located on the northern shore of the lake, and Williamson Provincial Park lies on the southern shore. The Sturgeon Lake First Nations reserve of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is established on the southern shore. The hamlet of Sturgeon Heights is located at the western tip of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Just near Williamson Provincial Park is the. Sturgeon Lake Campground is a co-operative effort between M. Isley Enterprises Inc. and the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation. It has been recently re-energized with all new washroom facilities, 50 power and water sites, 54 non-serviced sites, a group campsite, a brand new store and a playground for the kids. The campground is also the site of a giant teepee with beautiful artwork emblazoned on its sides. It is also the site of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Pow Wow Arbour. The arbour is where the ceremonial dances of the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation are performed.</p><br>
<p>The waters of the lake are drained into the Little Smoky River through the 28 km long Sturgeon Creek.</p><br>
<p>Despite the name, the lake doesn&#39;t host any Sturgeon fish.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Sturgeon lake offers a variety of recreations opportunities. A variety of fish are available consisting of Pickerel (Walleye), Jackfish (Northern Pike), Perch, Burbot (Lingcod), White suckers & White-fish.</p><br>
<p>Boat launch sites are located on both south and north shores, as are campgrounds and day use areas.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Gymnasium  is a historic building located on the campus of the University of Florida  in Gainesville, Florida. It opened in 1949 as a 7,000-seat multi-purpose arena that was home to the Florida Gators mens basketball team and other UF indoor sports teams until it was replaced by the Stephen C. OConnell Center in 1980. While serving as the home court of the basketball team, it acquired the nickname "Alligator Alley."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before the Florida Gymnasium, UFs basketball team played and practiced in University Gymnasium, a small on-campus building which had opened in 1919. The University Gym was designed to be a recreational facility for students, not an arena to host spectators, so it was not considered a proper home court for an intercollegiate sports program. Design work on a larger facility was started in the early 1940s by university architect Rudolph Weaver, but the project was postponed during World War II. Plans were completed by Guy Fulton, and the building was completed in 1949, soon after the university became co-educational. The old University Gymnasium then became the Womens Gymnasium.</p><br>
<p>Alligator Alley was a difficult venue for opponents because the seating was very close to the court and, when full, the noise level was "deafening". However, it had no air conditioning and few amenities, and the court had to be shared by all UF indoor sports programs. As years passed, it was increasingly seen as small and outdated, and was compared to a "dismal and dreary old high school gym" by observers. By the early 1970s, Florida was the only school in the Southeastern Conference without a modern basketball facility, a factor that affected the recruiting of top players and held back the growth of its long-mediocre basketball program.</p><br>
<p>In 1975, the university began planning for a much larger multi-purpose sports arena. The OConnell Center debuted in December 1980 as the new home of all of UFs indoor athletic teams.</p><br>
<p>The Florida Gymnasium was gradually adapted to other uses after the O&#39;Connell Center opened. It was used primarily as a student recreation center, and a series of renovations repurposed space for use by the College of Health and Human Performance. In the mid-1990s, the much larger Southwest Recreation Center opened across campus, and a major renovation of the Florida Gym removed the last of the original seating sections and added many modern classrooms. The basketball court remains in the center of the building, however, and is still used for student recreation and other purposes.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, Florida Gymnasium became a contributing property in the University of Florida Campus Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1989.</p><br>
<p>Laurel River Lake, located west of Corbin, Kentucky, in the USA, is a reservoir built in 1977 by the USA Army Corps of Engineers on the Laurel River, a tributary of the Cumberland River, in the Daniel Boone National Forest. The lake covers parts of Laurel and Whitley counties.</p><br>
<p>The 282 foot (86 m) high dam was built between 1964 and 1974. It is a combination earth and rock-fill dam. Hydropower production began in 1977. As of 2006, it produced an average annual energy of 67 gigawatt hours of hydroelectricity.</p><br>
<p>The Army Corps of Engineers and the Forest Service cooperate on developing recreational facilities around the reservoir. Today most of the lake is managed by the Forest Service as part of Daniel Boone National Forest. The Army Corps of Engineers manages the operation of the dam itself, and runs recreational facilities at the dam.</p><br>
<p>Laurel River Lakes drainage area is 282 square miles (730 km²). The area of the lake changes based on how full it is, but it is about 19 miles (31 km) long, with 206 miles (332 km) of shoreline. Its area ranges from about 5,600 to 6,060 acres (23 to 25 km²), with a maximum flood-control size of 6,650 acres (27 km²). The reservoirs storage capacity (volume) also changes, but is about 435,000 acre.ft.</p><br>
<p>Lake Todos los Santos  is a lake located in the Los Lagos Region of southern Chile, 96 km northeast of the regional capital Puerto Montt and 76 km east of Puerto Varas, within the boundaries of the Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park. It has a surface area of 178.5 km² and a maximum depth of 337 m. The Lake&#39;s National Park status has ensured protection to its environment. The catchment is largely covered with old-growth Valdivian temperate rain forests. The present form of the lake is the result of glacial and volcanic processes.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>The main tributary of the lake is the Río Peulla/Río Negro, next to the Peulla locality. Its outflow at the Petrohué locality gives rise to the Petrohué River, with an average outflow of 270 m³ per second. Even though the lake has a regulating effect, it is subject to water level variations that may exceed 3 m and reflect in the discharge at the outflow. At a short distance from the Petrohué locality, the river flows through the Petrohué Waterfalls.</p><br>
<p>The lake may appear green, blue or silver depending on the cloud cover and weather on a given day. The majority of the greenish tint comes from glacial meltwater containing mineral debris.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As recently as 20,000 years ago, the basin of Todos los Santos Lake was filled by a large glacier that did not withdraw until approximately 10,000 years ago. At that point, the area was still a glacial basin with rivers flowing through it. The lake itself did not form until lava flows from the Osorno and Calbuco volcanoes formed a dam across the lower part of the valley, trapping the water from the rivers and gradually forming the lake.</p><br>
<p>This lake has been known by multiple indigenous names in the past: Purailla, Pichilauquen, and Quechocavi. German colonists in the 19th century labelled it Lake Esmeralda ("Emerald Lake"), due to the green color of its water. However, later practice reverted to the name given by Jesuit missionaries, Todos los Santos Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>A regular road/boat transport service provides tourist transport between Puerto Montt/Puerto Varas in Chile and San Carlos de Bariloche on Nahuel Huapi Lake in Argentina. There are two main lake ports: Petrohué at the western end, and the village of Peulla at the eastern end; there is no road connecting these places. The lake is surrounded by steep mountains leaving only minor plains. Three snow-capped mountains are famous: the Osorno volcano in the west, the Puntiagudo to the north, and the Tronador to the east.</p><br>
<p>Lake Awoonga was formed on the Boyne River by the dam located 30 km from Gladstone, in Central Queensland, Australia. It is approximately 30 minutes drive from Gladstone, via Benaraby.</p><br>
<p>Lake Awoonga is the main water supply for the Gladstone region. Its recreation areas and recreational fishery are provided free to locals and tourists by the Gladstone Area Water Board.</p><br>
<h2>Specifications</h2><br>
<p>Built across the Boyne River south west of Gladstone, the Awoonga Dam is a rockfill structure with a concrete upstream face slab. The embankment was formed from rock excavated from a quarry on the side of the dam wall. The embankment is over 650 m in length and 54.4 m in height, with a volume of approximately 2,000,000 m&sup3; of rock. The spillway’s height is 40 m AHD(Australian Height Datum). This design of the current dam allows for further raising, if necessary, through the addition of gates to the top of the spillway. The maximum capacity of the present dam is 777,000 Ml.</p><br>
<p>When full the lake is 40 m (111 feet) above sea level. Lake Awoonga is one of the only dams in Australia to have been stocked with mangrove jack.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The lake hosts more than 225 species of birds. Species include the southern squatter pigeon which is listed as vulnerable and a further twenty-seven bird species listed on International Migratory Conservation Agreement Lists.</p><br>
<p>The Gladstone Area Water Board has a fish breeding program in place and breeds barramundi and mangrove jack for stocking into Lake Awoonga as well as some of the surrounding waterways. Approximately 200,000 fish are released into Lake Awoonga each year (200,000 barramundi and small numbers of mangrove jack). The fish are bred at a purpose-built fish hatchery, operated jointly by the Gladstone Area Water Board and the Gladstone Ports Corporation.</p><br>
<p>The hatchery is one of the largest breeders of barramundi fingerlings in Queensland and their mangrove jack breeding program has resulted in Lake Awoonga holding the largest stocks in Australia with more than 50,000 released. Other fish species include Agassiz&#39;s glass perch, banded grunter, barramundi, bony bream, eastern rainbowfish, eeltail catfish, fly-specked hardyhead, forktail catfish, gudgeon, long-finned eel, longtom, mouth almighty, sea mullet, snub-nose garfish and spangled perch. Also present in low numbers are Hyrtl’s tandan, mangrove jack, saratoga, silver perch, sleepy cod, sooty grunter, and yellowbelly. Since 1996, over 2.5 million barramundi fingerlings and 470,000 mullet fingerlings have been released into the lake. Barramundi in the 10–25 kg range are regularly caught from the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>More than 415 plant varieties play a vital role in the health of the Lake Awoonga region. Ranging from vine thickets and rainforests to tall woodlands and grassy woodlands, they include over 45 confirmed species of aquatic plants such as ribbon weed, hornwort and sedges found in the shallow water areas. Aquatic plants have an important function in that they provide food and cover for animals, stabilise the river bottom against erosion and recycle nutrients.</p><br>
<p>Several plants of conservation significance exist in the region Awoonga including Persoonia Amaliae and Eucalyptus melanoleuca which are listed as rare, while Cycas Megacarpa and Grevillea venusta are noted as vulnerable. Banksia integrifolia and Xanthorrhoea latifolia are common protected species that can also be found in the area.</p><br>
<p>There are a number of declared alien plants and environmental weeds proliferating throughout the river system and the catchment including parthenium, salvinia, cat’s claw vine, lantana, oleander and rubbervine. A pest management plan has been developed to supplement the annual weed control programme.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation facilities</h2><br>
<p>Swimming is permitted from the shore and there is a 24-hour boat ramp that provides access for sailing, fishing, and skiing etc. Various watercraft, including house boats can be hired and organised. Fishing cruises are also available.</p><br>
<p>The waters of Lake Awoonga are controlled by Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol and Queensland Water Police and all users of the lake are required to adhere to the posted speed limits.</p><br>
<p>The lake is a popular fishing spot, especially for barramundi. The barramundi closed season does not apply to Lake Awoonga, although some limits do apply. Camping is permitted at two places on Lake Awoonga, the Caravan Park and the Boynedale Bush Camp. The main recreation area is provided free to the public and includes picnic shelters, barbecues, walking paths.</p><br>
<p>The Boynedale Bush camp is a basic camping facility around the southern side of Lake Awoonga, ten minutes from the townships of Many Peaks and Ubobo. Access is via a dirt road from the Gladstone to Monto Road which may become boggy in wet weather. There is no potable water at this site.</p><br>
<h2>Glengarry Homestead</h2><br>
<p>The area inundated by the dam includes much of the Glengarry pastoral station, making it unviable as a pastoral property and so it was purchased by the Gladstone Area Water Board on 1 August 1979. It is expected when the dam is at its highest levels of inundation, the heritage-listed Glengarry Homestead will be on an island within the dam.</p><br>
<p>Cobia Island  is an island in Fiji, and is a member of the Ringgold Isles archipelago, which forms an outlier group to the northern island of Vanua Levu. It has a land area of 69.29 hectares. The island is shaped like a crescent moon.</p><br>
<p>Cobia Island is located within the Budd Reef and has a submerged volcanic crater with the highest elevation on the west side of the island. The geological formations and the beach forests of the island contribute to its natural significance as outlined in Fiji&#39;s Biodiversity and Action Plan.</p><br>
<p>The island is a popular snorkeling, kayaking and scuba diving location with a reported visibility under water of 120 feet or 36 meters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island was considered a "conspicuous landmark" for navigators on ships sailing around and through the Fiji Islands. The island and its surrounding reef were described in Alexander Agassiz&#39;s publication, The Islands and Coral Reefs of Fiji (1899).</p><br>
<p>Ushayka  is a river in Russia, right tributary of the Tom. Its length is 78 km. Its source is in the Kuznetsk Alatau , and it flows through the territory of Tomsk Oblast. It flows into the Tom approximately through the central part of Tomsk.</p><br>
<p>According to a local legend rivers&#39;s name descends from name of a youth Ushay (Ушай), a sweetheart of beauty Toma, who gave her name to Tom.</p><br>
<p>The Ushayka was navigable in the 19th century, but now it is no longer used for navigation. The Ushayka divides Tomsk into northern and southern parts; there are more than ten bridges over it. In its upper reaches the Ushayka is a forest river, very cold even in the middle of summer and clear. When it gets to the territory of Tomsk, Ushayka becomes rather dirty due to large amount of manufacturing and domestic water flowing into it.</p><br>
<p>The Rising Sun Auto Camp, also known as the Roes Creek Auto Camp, East Glacier Auto Camp or simply Rising Sun preserves a portion of the built-up area of Glacier National Park that documents the second phase of tourist development in the park. Rising Sun is located along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, approximately 7 mi from the east entrance to Glacier National Park, Montana, United States. Rising Sun is a wayside area that has a National Park Service campground, a camp store and gift shop, picnic area, restaurant, as well as a motel and guest cabins which are managed by the park&#39;s concessionaire,. In the immediate area, there is also a boat dock as well as sightseeing boats which allow visitors to tour Saint Mary Lake, the second largest lake in the park. "The most popular spot for tourists is Rising Sun, an overlook of Goose Island in St. Mary Lake and one of the most photographed spots in the park."</p><br>
<h2>Establishment</h2><br>
<p>After the creation of a series of hotels for train-borne visitors, courtesy of the Great Northern Railway&#39;s hotel concession, facilities were developed for the increasing numbers of automobile-borne tourists, drawn to Glacier by the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The Rising Sun Auto Camp was created for these new tourists. Located in the Rising Sun region of the park, it includes a rustic general store, built in 1941 by the Glacier Park Hotel Company, surrounded by a number of log tourist cabins., as well as a shower and laundry house and other supporting structures.</p><br>
<p>The Rising Sun Motor Inn and Cabins preserves historic paintings donated by Glacier Park, Inc. The pieces were originally owned and/or commissioned by the Great Northern Railway, and many depict iconic scenes from in and around Glacier National Park. All are estimated to have originated between 1909 and 1915 and created by John Fery, Frank Stick, R.H. Palenske and Charles Defeo.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby features</h2><br>
<p>The Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin also known as the Baring Cabin was destroyed by the Reynolds Creek Wildland Fire in July 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin and the Rising Sun Auto Camp are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Radan  is a mountain in southern Serbia, near the town of Kuršumlija. Its highest peak, Šopot, has an elevation of 1,408 meters above sea level.</p><br>
<p>Radan separates the valleys of the Toplica and Jablanica rivers. It is well covered with deciduous and evergreen forests.</p><br>
<p>The best known spot on Radan is the Devils Town – a peculiar rock formation consisting of hundreds of mushroom-like posts, located on its southern slopes. Near the Devils Town there are ruins of Ivanova kula – city of Ivan Kosančić, medieval military commander. Justiniana Prima (Caričin grad), a Byzantine city from the 6th century, is located on the southeast of the mountain, near Lebane.</p><br>
<p>In summer 2010, Radan attracted media attention because of a "magnetic hill" located on a road near the village of Ivanje. After initial sensationalist articles about "anti-gravity", it soon turned out that it is just an optical illusion. Still, the hill is seen as an opportunity for a tourist attraction.</p><br>
<h2>Nature Park</h2><br>
<p>In October 2017 the government placed part of the mountain under the protection, as the Nature Park Radan, citing its geological, biological and landscape diversity. It spreads over the area of four municipalities, Bojnik, Medveđa, Prokuplje and Kuršumlija, and covers an area of 41,312.66 hectare. Declared the "protected area of exceptional importance" (IUCN Category I), it is divided in three levels of protection, with the highest level occupying 1,077.52 hectare or 2,61% of the total area. Though the best known feature on the mountain, the Devil&#39;s Town is not included in the newly formed nature park, though it was previously declared a geo-park on its own.</p><br>
<p>Samiopoula  is a Greek islet located on the south of Samos Island and at a distance of.85 km. It is under the authority of the regional unit of Samos and the local jurisdiction of the municipal unit of Pythagoreio. The 2001 census reported a population of five inhabitants. The name Samiopoula is a derivative of Samos  and literally means "small Samos".</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The islet measures approximately 2.15 km in length and.7 km in width. There are few buildings on Samiopoula, mainly the small parish churches of Agia Pelagia (in Greek Αγία Πελαγία) and of the Ascension of Christ (in Greek: Αναλήψεως του Σωτήρος), a small tavern and few small houses and shelters. Electricity and telephone services are provided via underwater cables from nearby Samos. Photovoltaic systems provide some alternative electrical power. There are few cisterns on the island and rainwater is conserved throughout winter. Most of the terrain is rocky with very few trees and several species of wild bushes, shrubs and wildflowers. Wild goats out-number the few inhabitants by far, even when visitors and tourists storm the little island during the summer season. The islet is easily accessible during the tourist season via daily excursions from the ports of Pythagoreio and Ormos Marathokampou. Τhe only beach on the island, Psalida (in Greek Ψαλίδα), is quite small and may be crowded during peak summer season though it offers uniquely beautiful white sands and turquoise waters. Sailing boats typically approach the islet through the small bay of Katsakas (in Greek Κατσακάς) which is sheltered by the prevailing north-westerly winds.</p><br>
<p>The Eldon Range is a mountain range located in the west coast region of Tasmania, Australia.</p><br>
<p>The range is located at the north eastern edge of Lake Burbury and is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area which includes the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park.</p><br>
<p>The range is east of the main line of the West Coast Range and runs at right angle to it in a west-east direction. It is separated from that range by the King River valley and is bordered by the Eldon River to the north and west.</p><br>
<h2>Naming</h2><br>
<p>It is claimed that Henry Hellyer named the present day Mount Farrell near Tullah with this same name in 1828 after Lord Eldon Lord Chancellor of England., however Charles Gould in 1869 gives this name to the range.</p><br>
<h2>Peaks</h2><br>
<p>Eldon Peak ({{coord|41|58|12|S|145|43|48|E|region:AU-TAS_type:mountain}}) is a mountain that is the highest point on the range. The peak has an elevation of 1,440 m above sea level, and is the western peak.</p><br>
<p>The similarly named Eldon Bluff ({{coord|41|58|S|145|49|E|region:AU-TAS_type:mountain}}) is the eastern peak. A smaller peak to the south is known as the Little Eldons, with an elevation of 640 m above sea level and it is separated from the Eldon Range by the South Eldon River.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s Eldon Peak was used as the starting point of a walk by F Smithies of Launceston and C Bradshaw of Linda. In 1991 Crawford and Reid&#39;s climb is found described in Crawfords book on the King</p><br>
<p>Eldon Peak is one of the least visited peaks in Tasmania due to its remoteness. It was climbed in 1947 by Keith Lancaster, a Tasmanian bushwalker who recorded a cairn on the summit, indicating it was not the first European ascent. Lancaster ascended from the King River valley, a route no longer possible due to the impoundment of the river. Modern approaches would be from the south-east or south arriving at Lake Ewart at the foot of Eldon Bluff. All approaches are over trackless terrain with patches of difficult scrub.</p><br>
<p>Part of the route from the south east follows the western border of the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, marked with poles by the bushman Charlie Spencer. Few of the poles still survive, and could not be relied upon. Navigation in this area would be extremely difficult in poor weather.</p><br>
<p>Eldon Peak, from west.JPG|Eldon Peak from the west</p><br>
<p>Eldon Peak from south east.JPG|Eldon Peak from the south east</p><br>
<p>Eldon Peak from air, from north.JPG|Eldon Peak from the north</p><br>
<p>Duffy Square is the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City. It is located between 45th and 47th Streets, Broadway and Seventh Avenue and is well known for the TKTS reduced-price theater tickets booth located there.</p><br>
<p>In the 18th and 19th centuries Lowes Lane connected Bloomingdale Road to Eastern Post Road. The west end of the lane was at the modern Duffy Square, and the east end at approximately the modern Third Avenue and 42nd Street. Lowes Lane and Eastern Post Road were suppressed late in the 19th century, but Bloomingdale Road survives under the name of Broadway.</p><br>
<p>Duffy Square was briefly dominated by a fifty-foot, eight-ton plaster statue entitled Purity (Defeat of Slander) by Leo Lentelli in 1909. Now the square has two statues: a bronze statue of Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York&#39;s "Fighting 69th" Infantry Regiment, after whom the square is named, sculpted by Charles Keck, and another statue depicting composer, playwright, producer and actor George M. Cohan, by sculptor Georg J. Lober. The statue was dedicated by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on May 2, 1937, who also signed the law authorizing the renaming of the square to "Father Duffy Square" on March 29, 1939; on June 13 of that year, the street signs were changed. The statue of Duffy and the square itself were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Lipno Dam  is a dam and hydroelectric plant constructed along the Vltava River in the Czech Republic.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Due to frequent flooding and subsequent damage, the Vltava River in Southern Bohemia was problematic for Český Krumlov and other settlements situated on it. To harness the power of the river, and to prevent continued catastrophe, it was decided that a hydroelectric plant would be built high on the Vltava. Preparatory work at the town of Lipno began in 1951. Construction on the dam began in 1952, and the dam was completed in 1960.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The stream bed of the Vltava near Lipno was chosen because it has a slight incline, facilitating the construction of a reservoir there. The dam is built along the highest-elevated stage of the Vltava Rivers cascade (roughly 726 metres above sea level), thus enabling large amounts of hydropower out-put. This area is mountainous, and borders the Šumava National Park and Nature Reserve. A smaller reservoir near Vyšší Brod is linked to the main reservoir by an artificial underground waterway. This smaller reservoir, named Lipno II&#39;, serves to level the water of the main reservoir.</p><br>
<h2>Power plant</h2><br>
<p>Lipno Hydro Power Plant has two turbines with a nominal capacity of 64 MW each having a total capacity of 128 MW.</p><br>
<p>The Hunt–Morgan House, historically known as Hopemont, is a Federal style residence in Lexington, Kentucky built in 1814 by John Wesley Hunt, the first millionaire west of the Alleghenies. The house is included in the Gratz Park Historic District. The Alexander T. Hunt Civil War Museum is located on the second floor of the Hunt–Morgan House.</p><br>
<p>Other notable people who resided at Hopemont include John Wesley Hunt&#39;s grandson, General John Hunt Morgan, a general in the Confederate Army. Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, the first Kentuckian to win the Nobel Prize, was born in the house in 1866.</p><br>
<p>The House has many beautiful architectural features, including the Palladian window with fan and sidelights that grace its front façade. In 1955 the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation was formed to save this home from impending demolition. The organization restored the home to its Federal appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Hunt–Morgan House is located on the corner of Mill and Second Streets, at 201 N. Mill Street, in Lexington.</p><br>
<p>Wansfell is a fell in English Lake District situated 1½ miles  east of the town of Ambleside. The fell is part of the long southern ridge of Caudale Moor and occupies the swathe of territory between Ambleside and the Troutbeck valley.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Wansfell has an extensive summit ridge with two tops. The highest point of the fell is called Baystones with a height of 488 m (1,601 ft) while Wansfell Pike, which lies a kilometre to the south west reaches an elevation of 482 m (1,581 ft). Of the two summits Wansfell Pike is regarded as the “true” summit of the fell by many fell walkers because of its superior view, even though it is the lower of the pair.</p><br>
<p>Despite its modest elevation, Wansfell has significant topographic prominence, being linked to the higher fell of Caudale Moor by a col near the Kirkstone Pass road (A592) with the height of around 339.2 metres. This gives the fell a prominence of 147.7 metres, which means it just fails to achieve the necessary prominence to be a Marilyn.</p><br>
<p>The summit was deleted from the original list of Marilyns in 1999 but was re-instated due to a change in the recorded summit position. A team including John Barnard surveyed the hill on 18 September 2009 and on 11 February 2010 announced that the summit and col height measurements were 486.9m and 339.2m respectively, and thus it was once again removed from the list of Marilyns.</p><br>
<p>Wansfell has strong connections to Ambleside and is seen as very much belonging to the town, with Bill Birkett saying “Wansfell is to Ambleside what St. Pauls is to London”. The popularity of the ascent from Ambleside led to severe erosion which became so bad that the path underwent restoration work in the late 1990s using stone blocks. Sections of the path now resemble a very irregular stone staircase.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The fells name is thought to originate from the Old Norse language and can draw a parallel with Wansdyke in Somerset in that it is named after the main Norse god and means “Wodens Fell”.</p><br>
<h2>Fell race</h2><br>
<p>Wansfell hosts a popular short fell race which takes place annually between Christmas and the New Year, the winning runner usually taking around 20 minutes to complete the four-kilometre course.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>The fell is predominantly ascended from Ambleside using the road which leaves the town centre and goes past Stockghyll Force waterfall before bearing right onto the restored footpath which is followed to the summit. An ascent is also possible from Troutbeck, on the eastern side of the fell, following a farm track called Nanny Lane until the open fell is reached from where it is an easy climb to the summit. A path through Skelghyll Wood ascends via Kelsick Scar and visits a disused aqueduct observatory on the way.</p><br>
<p>Wansfell is on the route of the Windermere Way, a long distance path that circumambulates Windermere.</p><br>
<h2>Summits</h2><br>
<p>The fell&#39;s two summits are linked by a dry stone wall. Wansfell Pike is the lower of the two but has a more attractive rocky top and a better view, with Windermere looking particularly attractive to the south. The highest point (Baystones) is a grassy hummock marked by a few stones.</p><br>
<p>Hartsop Dodd is a fell in the English Lake District, standing to the south east of Brothers Water. It is a subsidiary top on the north ridge of Caudale Moor, but was given separate fell status by Wainwright in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells. That convention is followed here.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>A broad grassy ridge descends gently from Caudale Moor, running north from the summit plateau and topped by a stone wall. After about half a mile it narrows considerably and turns north-west for the same distance again. Finally it throws up a small grassy dome which is the summit of Hartsop Dodd. After this the ridge drops quickly to valley level between Hartsop village and Brothers Water.</p><br>
<p>The western flank of the ridge stands above the high valley of Caudale, which is a feeder of Kirkstone Beck and Brothers Water. On the eastern side is Pasture Bottom, the valley of Pasture Beck. This stream joins the outflow of Brothers Water near Hartsop. At the point where the ridge narrows and turns, a short spur is thrown out on the eastern side. The ends abruptly in Raven Crag.</p><br>
<p>From Hartsop, looking straight up the nose of the ridge, Hartsop Dodd appears to be an independent fell — a steep-sided, symmetrical, bell-shaped peak of considerable height. From elsewhere it can be seen for what it is, an offshoot of the higher Caudale Moor.</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>The summit is crossed by the stone wall, a timber post marking the high point. Many of the eastern and far eastern fells are in view with Dovedale particularly impressive.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>Ascent is made up the ridge from Hartsop or via one of the grooved paths on the western side of the ridge.</p><br>
<h2>Mining history</h2><br>
<p>There are old mineworkings on the nose of the ridge above Hartsop. These are the remains of Low Hartsop Mine, also called Myers Head Mine. This was worked for lead between 1867 and 1870, but proved a commercial failure.</p><br>
<p>The Sandwich Range is located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States, north of the Lakes Region and south of the Kancamagus Highway. Although the range is not outstanding for its elevation, it is very rugged and has excellent views of the surrounding lakes, mountains, and forests.</p><br>
<p>The Sandwich Range extends east-west about 30 miles from Conway, New Hampshire on the Saco River to Campton on the Pemigewasset River. The Kancamagus Highway runs along the north side of the mountains, from Conway to North Woodstock. The highest peak in the range is Mount Tripyramid, with an elevation of 4,170 ft.</p><br>
<p>The east part of the range drains by various streams into the Saco River and thence into the Atlantic Ocean at Saco, Maine. The west part drains into the East Branch Pemigewasset River and Mad River, thence into the Pemigewasset, Merrimack and into the sea at Newburyport, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The range shares its name with the town of Sandwich, situated at the range&#39;s western end.</p><br>
<h2>Summits</h2><br>
<p>From northeast to southwest, the range&#39;s principal summits include:</p><br>
<p>Mount Chocorua (1,065 m / 3,490 ft)</p><br>
<p>Mount Paugus (975 m / 3,198 ft)</p><br>
<p>Mount Passaconaway (1,232 m / 4,043 ft) *</p><br>
<p>Mount Whiteface (1,225 m / 4,020 ft) *</p><br>
<p>The Sleepers (1,180 m / 3,880 ft)</p><br>
<p>Mount Tripyramid (1,270 m / 4,170 ft) *</p><br>
<p>Mount Kancamagus (1,147 m / 3,763 ft)</p><br>
<p>Sandwich Mountain (1,217 m / 3,993 ft)</p><br>
<p>The summits marked with an asterisk (*) are included on the Appalachian Mountain Club&#39;s peak-bagging list of "Four-thousand footers" in New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>Kuh-e Bandaka  or Kohe Bandaka, Koh-i Bandaka, Bandako, or incorrectly Koh-i-Bandakor) is one of the highest peaks of the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan. It is northeast of Kabul and west of Chitral. Separated by a relatively low pass from the core of the Hindu Kush, it is the highest mountain entirely within Afghanistan, and the most topographically prominent peak in all of Afghanistan.</p><br>
<p>On September 22, 1960, the second German expedition to visit the Hindu Kush made the</p><br>
<p>first ascent of Kuh-e Bandaka. The members of the expedition were Wolfgang von Hansemann, Dietrich Hasse, Siegbert Heine, and Johannes Winkler, all from West Berlin; all attained the summit. They made four camps, with their base camp in the Dare-Sachi Valley at an altitude of 4,100 m. The expedition also made multiple first ascents in the Pagar Valley of the Hindu Kush, and made meteorological and geological observations and sketch maps.</p><br>
<p>There have been over fifteen subsequent ascents, via a variety of routes; however there have been no recorded ascents since 1977.</p><br>
<p>Mount Mora Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in St. Joseph, Missouri. Among those who are buried in the cemetery are three governors, a USA senator, soldiers from both sides in the American Civil War and riders of the Pony Express. In October 2006, several headstones including that of Missouri governor Silas Woodson were damaged by vandals.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in July 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>James Craig (Missouri) (1818–1888) - Civil War general and congressman</p><br>
<p>Willard Preble Hall (1820-1882), 17th Governor of the State of Missouri</p><br>
<p>Benjamin F. Loan (1819–1881) - USA Representative and Union general</p><br>
<p>William Ridenbaugh (1821–1874) - St. Joseph Gazette founder</p><br>
<p>Robert Marcellus Stewart (1815-1871), 14th Governor of the State of Missouri</p><br>
<p>M. Jeff Thompson (1826–1876) - Confederate general known as the "Swamp Fox"</p><br>
<p>Robert Wilson (Missouri) (1803–1870) - USA Senator</p><br>
<p>Sir William Wiseman (1814–1874) - British Rear Admiral</p><br>
<p>Silas Woodson (1819–1896), 21st Governor of the State of Missouri</p><br>
<p>Huston Wyeth (1863–1925) - Industrialist</p><br>
<p>Sungei Serangoon  is a river in the north-eastern part of Singapore. The 8-kilometre river starts as a canal near Tampines Road, and flows through Hougang, where it is joined by tributary Sungei Pinang just before Sengkang, before flowing towards Lorong Halus, where it is joined by another tributary Sungei Blukar, before emptying into the Serangoon Harbour. The river is also known as the Serangoon Estuary. Since 2011, the river has been converted into a reservoir - Serangoon Reservoir.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Although sections of the river have been canalized at Hougang and Lorong Halus, wildlife at the river is relatively unaffected. Birds like herons, terns, kingfishers can still be found at the river. The area near Lorong Halus is considered one of the best bird-watching spots in Singapore. Monitor lizards and sometimes otters can also be found near the banks.</p><br>
<p>The stretch of the river near Hougang has a 2.2 km jogging track (known as the Serangoon Park Connector) running along its western bank. Although this stretch is close to residential areas, a variety of garden, grassland and estuarine birds can still be found there.</p><br>
<h2>Developments</h2><br>
<p>A number of development projects at Sungei Serangoon had been carried out, which include the construction of an overhead bridge linking Old Tampines Road and the KPE expressway to Sengkang and the metal bridge linking Punggol East and Lorong Halus.</p><br>
<p>Another significant project was the damming of the estuary of Sungei Serangoon to form a reservoir in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Colston Hall is a concert hall and Grade II listed building on Colston Street, Bristol, England. It is owned by Bristol City Council and named after the slave trader and merchant Edward Colston, who founded a school at this location in the early 18th century. Since 2011, management of the hall is undertaken by Bristol Music Trust.</p><br>
<p>The hall first opened as a concert venue in 1867, and became a popular place for classical music and theatre. In the mid-20th century, wrestling matches were in strong demand, while in the late 1960s it developed into one of the most important rock music venues in Britain. The hall has been redeveloped several times, and was gutted by two fires in 1898 and 1945, though the original Bristol Byzantine foyer has survived. A major refurbishment, adding an extra wing, opened in 2009 and redevelopment of the cellars is planned by 2019.</p><br>
<p>The hall&#39;s official capacity is 2,075, with an additional 350 in "The Lantern", built as part of the 2009 redevelopments. As well as the main entertainment areas, there are a number of licensed bars and a restaurant.</p><br>
<p>After upcoming renovations Colston Hall will open with a new name. The change reflects concerns over the association of Colston with the slave trade. The new name is yet to be decided, but as part of fundraising plans it is hoped to be in recognition of a commercial partner.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There has been a building around the location of Colston Hall since the Middle Ages. During the 13th century, a Carmelite friary called Whitefriars stood on this site. In the Tudor period, it was replaced by a mansion called the Great House. The Great House was built in 1568, by John Young/Yonge, the descendant of a merchant family and courtier to Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I stayed here when visiting Bristol in 1574. In the 17th century, a sugar house was established here by the merchant venturer Edward Colston to refine sugar that was brought in from the Caribbean to Bristol Harbour. The sugar refinery included thirteen cottages for workers in its grounds which extended towards the current sites of the Red Lodge Museum.</p><br>
<p>In 1708, Colston established the Colston Boys&#39; School in this building in order to educate the poor. It was managed by the Society of Merchant Venturers. Colston adhered to a strict moral and religious code which was enforced in the school. After his death in 1721, the school continued at the Great Hall until 1857, when it moved to Stapleton.</p><br>
<p>The site was acquired by the Colston Hall Company in 1861, who raised £12,000 in £10 shares. They demolished the old school building in order to build a concert hall. The venue opened on 20 September 1867.</p><br>
<p>The architects were local firm Foster & Wood, working in the Bristol Byzantine style. The basement was used as a bonded warehouse handling the cargoes from the docks. The original hall included a coffered barrel-vaulted ceiling, and was modelled after St Georges Hall, Liverpool. The foyer building with the grand staircase and smaller hall were opened in 1873. A meeting calling for Womens suffrage was held at the hall in November 1880.</p><br>
<p>On 1 September 1898, a fire broke out in the neighbouring Clark&#39;s clothing factory, which quickly spread to the hall, while it was in use for the Trades Union Congress. The auditorium suffered extensive damage, with only the walls remaining, and the pipe organ was completely destroyed.</p><br>
<p>The hall was rebuilt and re-opened in 1901. It was in use throughout World War I; In 1915, David Lloyd George addressed a meeting in the hall to discuss the production of munitions, while in 1919 a Roll of Honour took place there for soldiers who had been decorated for their service during the war. The Bristol Corporation, which became Bristol City Council, bought the building for £65,000 in 1919.</p><br>
<p>The second hall was closed for remodelling in 1935, as it was difficult for all of the audience to see the orchestra performing. It re-opened the following December.</p><br>
<p>The hall was rebuilt, and reopened in 1951 to mark the Festival of Britain. In 1966, the building was Grade II listed by English Heritage.</p><br>
<p>The first computerised booking system was installed in February 1983.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, the hall briefly closed as part of a £500,000 modernisation programme to rewire the building and improve the technical facilities, as well as redecorating the backstage area. In 1999, removable seats were installed in the front of the stalls, in response to rock concerts where fans at the front wanted to move around freely, as well as increasing capacity. The official capacity of the hall is now 2,075.</p><br>
<p>From 2007 to 2009, the Colston Hall underwent extensive refurbishment with the construction of a new foyer alongside the present building, topped by a wind turbine. As part of the redevelopment, the old bar area (called the "Little Theatre" or "Lesser Colston Hall") became a performance space called "The Lantern". The venue can accommodate a standing audience of 350, and has additional performance spaces, meeting rooms, and restaurants. In 2011, management of Colston Hall transferred from Bristol City Council to Bristol Music Trust.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, the Bristol Music Trust announced a fundraising campaign to raise £45 million to refurbish and modernise the main hall. Proposed works include converting the cellars into studios, as well as other internal modernisations. By 2016, £25 million had been raised by Bristol City Council, the national Government, and Arts Council England. Work is expected to begin in 2018, with completion by 2020.</p><br>
<h2>Artists and performers</h2><br>
<h3>Classical</h3><br>
<p>Details of early performances at the hall are limited due to the subsequent fires, but the archive of the Royal College of Music holds programmes from 1896 onwards which reference a triennial musical festival that was founded in 1873, as well as performances by the (long defunct) Bristol Symphony Orchestra. The British Library holds details of the 1912 festival at the hall which, among other concerts, included a performance of Wagner&#39;s Ring Cycle over four days.</p><br>
<p>It is known that the great pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff performed at the hall in the 1920s, and a concert programme from 1969 lists forthcoming weekly classical concerts with soloists such as Arthur Rubinstein and Igor Oistrakh as well as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the (now defunct) Bristol Sinfonia, conducted by Sidney Sager and concerts by Bristol Choral Society which has staged at least three concerts annually at the Hall since its formation in 1889.</p><br>
<p>There is an annual International Classical Concert Season featuring regular appearances by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and visiting UK and international orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Berliner Symphoniker in the 2011–12 season, as well as solo artists such as Murray Perahia.</p><br>
<p>The hall can stage theatrical productions. From 22–30 December 2011 it hosted 15 performances of the Bristol Old Vic production of Coram Boy while the Old Vic was closed for refurbishment.</p><br>
<h3>Rock</h3><br>
<p>Colston Hall has been a popular venue for many rock and pop music acts since the 1960s. The Beatles first performed at the hall on 15th March 1963 as part of a package tour with Chris Montez and Tommy Roe. The group returned there to play the last gig of a British tour on 10 November 1964, where four fans managed to sneak backstage and tip flour over their heads. Jimi Hendrix played twice at the hall during 1967.</p><br>
<p>From the late 1960s onwards, Colston Hall became one of the major rock music venues in the country. The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elton John, Queen, Thin Lizzy, Roxy Music, Bob Marley and Lou Reed all performed there. The Who first played Colston Hall on 10 November 1968, part-way through recording Tommy, with support from Free, and returned on 7 March 1970. Led Zeppelin played at Colston Hall in June 1969, part-way through recording Led Zeppelin II. Pink Floyd gave one of the first live performances of The Dark Side of the Moon at Colston Hall on 5 February 1972, over a year before the album was released.</p><br>
<p>Queen twice headlined the Colston Hall, firstly on Tuesday 12th November 1974 as part of the "Sheer Heart. Attack" tour, returning on 18th November 1975 as part of the "Night At The Opera" tour.</p><br>
<h3>Comedy</h3><br>
<p>In addition to rock and pop artists, the Hall regularly hosts comedians (including multiple-date sell-out runs by Billy Connolly and Bristol-born Stephen Merchant). An annual silent comedy festival takes place at Colston Hall.</p><br>
<h3>Wrestling</h3><br>
<p>Colston Hall was popular for wrestling matches from 1951.</p><br>
<h2>Controversy</h2><br>
<p>Campaigners, many from the city’s Afro-Caribbean community, have called for the hall’s name to be changed because of Edward Colston’s link to the slave trade, much of his wealth having come from that trade, and his investments in the Royal African Company. The proposal sparked a heated controversy in the pages of the local press, although the majority of letters printed favoured retaining the Colston name. In April 2017, the charity that runs Colston Hall announced that it would be dropping the name after refurbishment is completed in 2020.</p><br>
<p>Inis Beag  is a remote island off the coast of Connemara, Ireland, near the Aran Islands. It contains a small, isolated Irish-speaking Catholic community which cultural anthropologist John Cowan Messenger observed in the 1960s, leading to several longer treatises, including "Inis Beag: Isle of Ireland" and "Sex and Repression in an Irish Folk Community". During the period of his study between 1958 and 1966, Inis Beag supported a population of around 350, mostly living by subsistence farming and fishing. The name "Inis Beag" is a name made up by researchers to protect the privacy of the island&#39;s people. Its true identity is Inisheer.</p><br>
<h2>Nativism</h2><br>
<p>Messenger used his study to discuss the pitfalls and advantages of nativism as it applied to the folk people of the island. After seven centuries of English occupation, a movement of Irish patriots promoted what they saw as the essential elements of Irish identity, including language and religion. This led to many researchers, tourists, and authors holding up Inis Beag and the surrounding areas as examples of true Irish identity. According to Messenger, the island was the subject of a great many works he described as "romanticized," focusing on cultural forms that outsiders found attractive. These included "the traditional garb of the folk, their skill in rowing the famed canoe, called curach, the manner in which they manufacture soils and grow in them a variety of crops, and their Gaelic speech." Messenger was critical of the attitude of outsiders towards the purity of these customs. He found that 11 of the 111 adult males and 9 of the 85 adult females had given up the traditional local garb for imported styles from the mainland. This behavior was especially prevalent among the younger women, with no adherents between the ages of 18 and 29. He also found that use of the local curach had declined in recent decades, from 30 to 50 three-man crews fishing nearly all year in the early 1900s to nine crews working from the island in 1960. And despite the nativist opinion of the region&#39;s Gaelic, in his visit to the island, Messenger found that essentially all of the islanders older than eight spoke English proficiently, mixed English regularly into their speech, and even confessed to their priests in English. He attributed the rise in English to a practical view of language; many young people emigrate and would be disadvantaged by speaking only Gaelic.</p><br>
<h2>Sexuality</h2><br>
<p>Messenger&#39;s study of this community has often been cited by anthropologists and sexologists as an example of extreme sexual repression. He reported that Inis Beag had no formal sex education, and sexual intercourse was treated by both sexes and the local curate as a "duty" which must be "endured." Messenger proposed that the early replacement of physical affection with verbal affection—by the time a child can walk—led to institutionalized repression of sexual conduct. As he put it, "any forms of direct or indirect sexual expression—masturbation, mutual exploration of bodies, use of either standard or slang words relating to sex, and open urination and defecation—are punished severely by word and deed." Children were separated by gender in almost all activities. Islanders tended to bathe only the hands, face, and feet and developed an "obsessive fear" of nudity early in life. In some households, "dogs were whipped for licking their genitals and soon learned to indulge in this behavior outside when unobserved." The repressive atmosphere, according to the researchers, led to high levels of masturbation, drinking, and alcohol-fueled fights. And, of course, repression of sexuality also manifested in intercourse. Elders of the island boasted that there was no premarital sex, although some young men did admit to it in rumor. When couples did have sex with each other, as reported to Messenger, the husband always initiated, the wife was commonly passive, couples left their underclothes only partially removed and used only the male superior position, and when the man orgasmed, he fell asleep almost immediately.</p><br>
<p>The folk of the island behaved so strangely because informal and formal social control left them ignorant. Phenomena such as menstruation and menopause were regarded with profound misgivings because of extreme ignorance. Perplexed women asked Messenger&#39;s wife about the female cycle more than any other question about sex phenomena. Young women were often traumatized by menarche, and at least three older women had, in 1960, confined themselves entirely to bed to avoid a potential "madness" induced by menopause. Women sent their children out of the room when Messenger&#39;s wife would inquire about their pregnancies. Men were also guilty of gross ignorance in regards to sex. Female orgasm was unknown to the men, not experienced by the women, or shunned and hidden. Messenger reported that one middle-aged bachelor who considered himself "wise in the ways of the outside world . . . described the violent bodily reactions of a girl to his fondling" and when Messenger explained, he "admitted not knowing that women also could achieve climax." Men of the island thought intercourse would weaken them, and would abstain the night before an exhausting task. Despite all this, Messenger could not report a single family that was childless due to ignorance, a phenomenon in some other regions of Ireland. When Messenger inquired how newly-married couples learned how to copulate, he was told that "after marriage, nature takes its course."</p><br>
<p>Gorbea or Gorbeia is a mountain and massif, the highest in Biscay and Alava , with a height of 1,481 m AMSL. The massif covers a wide area between the two provinces. The main mountain is a round grass-covered summit where a 20-metre-tall metallic cross has been constructed to reach the altitude of 1,500 m. Other important mountains of the massif are the Berretín , Lekanda  and Aldamin  limestone peaks.</p><br>
<p>Part of the massif is delimited North by the high karstic plateau of Itxina, an intrincate landscape of limestone full of shafts and caves such as Supelegor. The Atxular&#39;s Eye cave is the only walking access to the plateau.</p><br>
<p>The South is delimited by the Berretín mountain and the lush forests of Zuia</p><br>
<p>The entire massif has been enclosed in a natural park of 200 km² created by the Basque Government in 1994 to preserve the local flora of beech and oak and fauna of wild boar and deer. The main access points for the mountain are Murgia from Alava and Areatza from Biscay.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The peak of the Gorbea measures 1.482 meters. It is one of the five “bocineros” mountains of Biscay where general meetings are announced with stakes. It is between Alavas and Biscays frontier. It is accessible from all its slopes and it is surrounded of a natural environment which has been used for agriculture and other type of rural works. This land was habitated of the first mans since the beginning the prehistoric life. This place, conserved apart of the civilization, forms the Natural Park of Gorbea. This park is near Urquiola Natural Park. Both of them have a variety of animals and plants diversity.</p><br>
<p>It has always been so popular for basque mountaineers who reach the top from all of the slopes. One of the traditions of this mountain is to trek the mountain the last day of the year and the first one. But the most important reference of Gorbea is the cross with the virgin Begoña. Near it, there is mailbox where people can leave their letters.</p><br>
<h2>The cross</h2><br>
<p>In 1899, Pope Leo XIII ordered crosses built on the highest Christian mountains as a sign of the new century. Due to the importance of Catholicism in the Basque Country the crosses were built.</p><br>
<p>Therefore, the commission of the Basque Country directed by Ceánuri decided to build the cross on the highest mountain of the Basque Country, Gorbea.</p><br>
<h3>The first cross</h3><br>
<p>It was agreed to build a cross of 33.33 meters and it was supposed to be opened in 1900 but it was not possible. After that, in 1901, the work started. However, the budget was only 300 euros. On 12 November 1901, the cross was opened. However, most shepherds expected that the cross would fall within a few days, and they were right. By the next month, the cross had already fallen.</p><br>
<h3>The second cross</h3><br>
<p>No sooner had the first cross fallen down than they were building the second one. This time, the cross had the same height as the first one but it was stronger. 22 month after, the second cross was opened and in the first of October 1903 the cross was blessed with water from the river Jordan. But it was not going to endure for many years. In fact, on 12 February 1906, the cross was pulled down by a gale.</p><br>
<h3>The third cross</h3><br>
<p>In 1907, work began on the third cross. However, the design was much simpler and it was not as tall as the two earlier ones. This one was 17.23 metres long and its structure was very similar to the Eiffel tower. Its base is square and it has 4 feet, 2 in Alava and 2 in Biscay. The structure is much more compact and strong. This time, it was more stable and done by experienced architects. The 4 feet extend diagonally and are joined at the top. Also, it has good across in the top pointing the East and the West.At the base, a flame is represented as the light which lights the world.It was built by Serapio de Goikoetxea and Palacio. On 23 June 1963, the religious complex was supplemented with the image of the Virgin Begoña which was installed by the Alpine Group Baskonia.</p><br>
<p>Sour Howes is a small fell in the English Lake District. It is situated five kilometres east of Ambleside, between the Troutbeck and Kentmere valleys and is one of the two separate fells on Applethwaite Common .</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Sour Howes, which reaches a height of 483 m (1,585 ft) is mostly grassy although heather grows on the eastern slopes, a high dry stone wall crosses the top and links with the neighbouring fell of Sallows, which lies just over a kilometre to the north east, and with Sour Howe’s subsidiary top of Capple Howe (445 m, 1,460 ft) which is located 600 metres to the south east.</p><br>
<p>The fells western flank falls away steeply to the Troutbeck valley, this slope is traversed lower down by the Dubbs Road bridleway which goes north joining the track which crosses the Garburn Pass (Byway open to all traffic) on its way to Kentmere. The disused and now wooded Applethwaite quarry stands on these western slope alongside the Garburn track, it is quite substantial and an interesting place to explore. On its eastern side Sour Howes drops more gently to the Kentmere valley with the stream of Park Beck draining the fell and being a tributary of the River Kent. There are some well made grouse butts amongst the heather on these eastern slopes.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>Sour Howes can be ascended from the Troutbeck or Kentmere valleys, its ascent can be combined with the adjacent fell of Sallows and also with a visit to the more stirring Yoke to Thornthwaite Crag ridge to the north. The ascents from either valley utilise the Garburn Pass track to its highest point before going south to the summit following the dry stone wall.</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>The top of the fell is a series of grassy knolls with the highest of these marked by a small pile of stones, the view is extremely fine for such a small fell, there is a fine vista of the high mountains to the west, to the south Windermere is well seen and beyond that Morecambe Bay.</p><br>
<p>The Mira River is a Portuguese river in southwestern Alentejo. It is 145 km long.</p><br>
<p>It has its sources on the northern slopes of the Serra do Caldeirão and pursues a southeast&ndash;northwest course with a generally mild inclination to the Atlantic Ocean, where it discharges through a small calm delta near the town of Vila Nova de Milfontes, 115 km south of Lisbon. It is one of the two only rivers in Portugal with a chiefly south&ndash;north orientation (the other being its neighbour Sado) and one of the few rivers in Europe with this orientation.</p><br>
<p>Mira basin borders Sado River basin at north and Guadiana River basin eastwards.</p><br>
<p>Main tributaries in the right bank: Torgal Rivulet, Luzianes River and Perna Seca River. Main tributaries in the left bank include rivers Macheira, Guilherme and Telhares.</p><br>
<p>Distributary streamlines run perpendicularly along the coastline and discharge directly to the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<p>Since its name origins are prior to Roman dominion in the zone, it is believed, that the name Mira may have the same Celtic or pre-Celtic origin of that of the old city of Miróbriga (cradle of the modern city of Santiago do Cacém), the ruins of which lie 32 km to the north. It is known that in the pantheon of the local tribes (called Celtici by the Romans) there was a god for whom devotion was made to protect the waters, whose name was Mirobieus.</p><br>
<p>Urkiola is a mountain range of the Basque mountains in Biscay near Durango, in the western Basque Country, Spain. The highest mountain in the range is Anboto . The range runs from west to east and forms the water divide between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean basins.</p><br>
<p>It was declared natural park on 29 December 1989 prompted by the Basque government&#39;s determination to protect the diversity of wildlife and flora it harbours. In the center of this natural park is a church called Santuario de Urkiola. This is the church of both Saint Antonio Abad and Saint Anthony of Padua. It stands out as one of the most beautiful and visited Basque churches.</p><br>
<p>Basque mythology is also present in this natural park. Tradition holds that a cave perched on eastern side of the Anboto mountain holds the abode of Basque goddess Mari.</p><br>
<h2>Mountains</h2><br>
<p>It is formed by several limestone massifs, from west to east:</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Aramotz (800 m)</p><br>
<p>Ezkubaratz (1010 m)</p><br>
<p>Mugarra (980 m)</p><br>
<p>At this point of the range the Urkiolamendi pass breaks through it at a height of 711 m, where a sanctuary was built.</p><br>
<p>Untxillaitz (900 m)</p><br>
<p>Aitz Txiki (791 m)</p><br>
<p>Alluitz (1043 m)</p><br>
<p>Anboto (1331 m)</p><br>
<p>To the south of the limestone peaks are two round shaped mounts, called Saibigain and Urkiolamendi (1011 m).</p><br>
<p>The entire area is enclosed in the Urkiola Natural Park, created by the Basque government to preserve this rich natural area, often known as Little Switzerland. The closeness to Bilbao and easy access through Urkiolamendi pass attract many tourists and hikers all year round.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There is evidence that the Roman empire passed through Urkiola. Some archaeologists found pieces of ceramic in the coast, near the ruins of a Roman village. Above these ruins now exists a Basque village called Forua, a name that comes from "foro".</p><br>
<p>In Mañaria archaeologist have found a lot of evidence that Visigoths used to live in that part of the mountain range. This could happen due to the fights that the Christians had against the Muslims near Vitoria. Some tablets have been found in Elorrio, proof of Christian presence in the valleys.</p><br>
<p>In the Middle Ages pastoral activity was common in the mountains and there were a lot of villages in the valleys. There were no people living on the top of the mountains, but there was a military base on the "Aitz txiki" mountain.</p><br>
<p>There were a lot of churches in Urkiola in the 10th century. One of the most important pieces of evidence of that is a letter from the king of Pamplona Nájera Gárcia Sánchez who says that the churches of Durango are allowed. There are more letters of some abbots of churches like the one which is in Abadiano.</p><br>
<p>The Round Tower Lodge was situated in the central reservation of the A556 road in Sandiway, Cheshire, England. It was recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>The tower was all that survived of a gate lodge to the house of Vale Royal Abbey. The lodge was built on the main Chester to Manchester road as an entrance to Vale Royals New Park and was linked to the house by a driveway containing a second lodge building, Monkey Lodge. The tower was a circular, two-storey building constructed of sandstone. On top of the tower was a crenellated parapet. On the south-west elevation was a planked and studded oak door built into a Gothic-style arch. There were also three Gothic-style windows. Above the door and windows were four unglazed crossloops. To the east of the tower was a short stub wall which used to be part of a square single-storey room which was integral with the towers construction. It was built in the early 19th century but the exact date of its construction has not been recorded. Also the name of the architect is unknown.</p><br>
<p>The gate to the house lay to the west of the tower the posts of which were connected to the lodge by a low boundary wall surmounted by iron railings. In late 19th and early 20th century additions were made to the eastern room. There was an extension consisting of another square stone structure and there is evidence of yet a further extension which was probably a lean-to shed-like structure. In 1871 the lodge was tenanted by a shepherd named William Ree who lived there with his family. The last occupants, in the 1920s, were Hughie Preston and his wife. The tower itself provided the main living quarters, the first extension was the bedroom and the extension beyond that was the kitchen.</p><br>
<p>Towards the end of the 19th century New Park was renamed Pettypool Park and after World War I it became Sandiway Golf Course. Other than the tower, the lodge buildings were demolished when the main road was converted into a four-lane dual carriageway in the 1930s, the tower becoming stranded in the central reservation when the southern end of the Northwich by-pass was completed in 1958. The old road was retained as the eastbound carriageway and the westbound carriageway was added to the south of the tower. It was owned by the Highways Agency who carried out repairs which were completed in 2002. It was a Grade II listed building and is included in the Sandiway Conservation Area.</p><br>
<p>On 14 November 2013, the Round Tower Lodge was badly damaged when a car collided with it. The tower was declared to be unsafe, and was demolished. In response, Cheshire West and Chester Council stated that the tower materials had been stored and a reconstruction was already planned; costs were to be pursued from the driver&#39;s insurance company. After renovation, rebuilding of the tower was completed in 2015.</p><br>
