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The hunt for the location of Cofitachequi has been stimulated by the century-old search for the route of Hernando de Soto in his 4-year traverse of much of the southeastern United States. The Spaniards described Cofitachequi as about 10 days of travel eastward from Ocute through an uninhabited wilderness. Cofitachequi was situated on a large ...
The only truly uninhabited places in the Sahara are the ergs: sand dune fields. Even the hot and salty dried lake beds have Bedouin communities within them that graze their animals in the salt marshes and at nearby oases, for example the below-sea level Qattara Depression contains the tiny village of Qara Oasis and cannot be said to be truly ...
These wilderness areas cover about 4.5% of the United States' land area, an area larger than the state of California. About 52% of the wilderness area is in Alaska, with 57,425,569 acres (89,727.452 sq mi; 232,393.03 km 2) of wilderness.
The Girl Scout National Center West was located just outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming, among the Big Horn Mountains, [1] near the entrance to Ten Sleep Canyon. [2] A portion of the center was one of the largest encampments in the world at 15,400 acres (62 km 2) (14,600 acres (59 km 2) also reported) of rugged wilderness near the entrance to Ten Sleep Canyon near the Bighorn National Forest.
Nihoa (/ n iː ˈ h oʊ. ə /; Hawaiian: Nīhoa [niːˈhowə] or Hawaiian: Nihoa), also known as Bird Island or Moku Manu, is the tallest of ten islands and atolls in the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). The island is located at the southern end of the NWHI chain, 296 km (160 nmi) southeast of Necker Island.
The simplest and most common technique is the binary method, using regions that are known to be uninhabited, such as water bodies and government-owned land, and cropping these regions out of the choropleth districts, so that they appear empty on the final map. If the variable being mapped is area-dependent (such as population density), the ...
ASHEVILLE - The Board of Adjustment hearing on a 74-unit condo project known as "Wilderness Ridge" was continued to January during the board's Nov. 8 meeting. It was the fifth time the hearing has ...
Kuwohi, looking east from the summit of Silers Bald. While Silers Bald is hardly mentioned in Cherokee lore, a petroglyph was discovered near the summit in 1917. [3] The mountain's elevation is probably recorded by Arnold Guyot during his 1859 survey of the Smokies crest but under a different name (possibly Guyot's "Big Stone Mountain," which Guyot listed with an elevation of 5,614 feet (1,711 ...