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North Bend State Park sits on 2,459 acres (995 ha) [2] along the North Fork of the Hughes River in Ritchie County near Harrisville, West Virginia.The park is named after the sharp bend in the river that the formed three sides of the original park boundary.
Polokwane Game Reserve, formerly Pietersburg Nature Reserve, [1] is situated near Polokwane in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is 2800 ha in size, [1] making it one of the largest municipal game reserves in South Africa. [2] The reserve entrance is near its northern limit, about 1 km south of the N1 freeway. It is accessed via Silicon ...
Harrisville is a town and the county seat of Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. [5] Harrisville is located at the junction of State Routes 31 and 16, five miles south of U.S. 50 . Within the community are an elementary school, the county board of education, many businesses, three banks, a library, offices of the Ritchie Gazette and ...
This is a list of the National Natural Landmarks (NNLs) in West Virginia. There are sixteen in all — five are wetlands (such as bogs and swamps), three are forests , six are limestone caves / karst , and two are rock formations.
West Virginia is situated in the Appalachian Mountains of the Upper South region of the 48 contiguous states. Usually considered part of the South Eastern United States, West Virginia is bounded on the northeast by Pennsylvania and Maryland, on the southeast by Virginia, on the northwest by Ohio, and on the southwest by Kentucky.
Ice Mountain was also detailed in Hu Maxwell and Howard Llewellyn Swisher's History of Hampshire County, West Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present (1897), O. F. Morton's History of Hampshire County (1910), and Homer Floyd Fansler's "Ice Mountain: Nature's Deep Freeze" in the July 1959 issue of West Virginia Conservation. [6]
Bear Rocks is known for its cool climate, alpine appearance and northern wildlife. Strong prevailing winds bring clouds from the west. While rising to clear the ridge of the Allegheny Front they cool, causing mist and rain totaling more than 60 inches (1,500 mm) per year.