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Holter Lake has two parts, dubbed upper Holter Lake and lower Holter Lake. The central section of the lake is a narrow, 5-mile (8.0 km) neck, marked at its downstream end by the Gates of the Mountains. [37] The Gates of the Rocky Mountains were first recorded when the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed through the area in 1805.
In 1918, when Holter Dam was built forming Holter Lake, the water level of the Missouri River in the Gates was raised approximately 14 feet (4.3 m). The Gates of the Mountains area was considered multiple times for inclusion in the national park system.
The Sleeping Giant wilderness study area is an important habitat for mountain goats. The Sleeping Giant region is a roughly rectangular area bounded by Interstate 15 on the west and Holter Lake on the east, the south boundary runs from the Hilger Valley to the Ming Bar , and the north boundary runs from the northern edge of the Oxbow Bend of Holter Lake to Interstate 15.
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Watch a live view of the Gaza skyline as the Israel-Hamas war enters a fifth day. Palestinian civilians were scrambling to find safe havens on Wednesday morning (11 October) as Israel stepped up a ...
It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
The Holter Burg was initially built as a tower castle on a plateau with a diameter of around 50 metres located on a rocky hill spur. It was guarded by a section of moat with a roughly 20-metre-wide and up to 10-metre-deep ditch. A roughly 2-metre-thick enceinte protected the castle. In the east the height difference between the top of the wall ...
A paternoster lake is one of a series of glacial lakes connected by a single stream or a braided stream system. The name comes from the word Paternoster , another name for the Lord's Prayer derived from the Latin words for the prayer's opening words, "Our Father"; Paternoster lakes are so called because of their resemblance to rosary beads ...