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Ben Lomond, just north of Ogden, Utah, is a peak in the northern portion of the Wasatch Mountains. A popular trail passes over its summit (elevation 9,716 feet (2,961 m)), accessible from four different trailheads to the north, south, and east.
Since 1995, the area around Ben Lomond, including the mountain summit, has been designated as a war memorial, called the Ben Lomond National Memorial Park. [13] The park is dedicated to those who gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars and was created out of the former Rowardennan Estate with the support of the National Heritage ...
The Tasmanian Aboriginal palawa kani name for Ben Lomond is turapina [3] and was recorded in various word lists as turbunna, toorbunna or toorerpunner. [4]: 369, 421 [5]: 995 [6] The meaning of this name is uncertain, but the suffix bunna/pina is thought to denote tableland or plateau and linguistic research suggests that the stem tur/tura means bluff or precipitous cliffs. [7]
A walking track leads to the summit from the ski village and from Carr Villa hut in the northern foothills of Ben Lomond. [6] Before Legges Tor was surveyed, Stacks Bluff (at the plateau's southern extremity) was thought to be the highest elevation on the Ben Lomond plateau. From 1905 to 1912 a full survey of Ben Lomond was conducted by Legge ...
Cross country skiing is possible within the Tasmanian Wilderness and two small downhill ski-fields have been developed at Ben Lomond and Mount Mawson. Mount Ossa is the highest point on the island at 1,617 metres (5,305 ft) above sea level, but Tasmania has eight mountains exceeding 1,500 metres (4,900 ft).
As late as the mid-1950s adequate surveying of the mountains had not been completed - with the height of 19 peaks described as about in the list in Walch's Tasmanian Almanac of the over 115 peaks mentioned [112] The lack of sufficient surveying at that time also had the order of the top 10 peaks as: [112]
Connecticut: Louis' Lunch. New Haven. The holy grail of burger joints, not just hole-in-the-wall ones, is Louis' Lunch.The hamburger sandwich is thought by many to have been invented here, way ...
Mount Victoria is a mountain in the Mount Victoria Forest Reserve in north-east Tasmania, Australia, and also forms part of the Ben Lomond bioregion and the Ben Lomond National Park. The peak has an elevation of 1,213 metres (3,980 ft) above sea level [1] and is the 58th highest mountain in Tasmania. It is a prominent feature of the reserve ...