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The Stephen H. Long Expedition of 1820 traversed America's Great Plains and up to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. [1] It was the first scientific party hired by the United States government to explore the West. Lewis and Clark (1803–1806) and Zebulon Pike (1805–1807) explored the western frontier but they were primarily military ...
The Helderberg Escarpment, also known as the Helderberg Mountains, is an escarpment in eastern New York, United States, roughly 11 miles (18 km) west of the city of Albany. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The escarpment is the northeastern extremity of the Allegheny Plateau.
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Blue Mounds, highest summit of the Ocooch Mountains; Belmont Mound, (Ocooch Mountains) Mount Pisgah; Platte Mound, (Ocooch Mountains) Wildcat Mountain; Ocooch Mountains, highest and most rugged part of the Driftless Area of the upper Midwest. Penokee Mountains, an ancient heavily eroded mountain range spanning northern Wisconsin and Michigan ...
The mountain now known as Mount York lies on the traditional lands of the Dharug people, very close to the eastern edge of traditional lands of the Wirajuri people. [5]Mount York was the point where Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Wentworth viewed the Hartley Valley and the 'west' for the first time during their successful crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813, although some ...
A small memorial commemorates Aboriginal people that fought in wars. There is a path on the eastern face of the mountain that can be used for hiking. Plants on the mountain include red and sugar maple and poison ivy (animikiibag—"thunder-leaf" in the Ojibwe language). The top of the mountain has glacial erratics and jack pines.
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Mount Nirvana, at 2,773 m (9,098 ft) is the unofficial name of the highest mountain in the Northwest Territories, Canada. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The mountain is a part of Nahanni National Park Reserve , the largest national park in the Northwest Territories.