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Kings River (Divides into the North Fork, South Fork and Clark's Fork distributaries in the San Joaquin Valley, not to be confused with the North and South Forks in the Sierra Nevada headwaters. North Fork connects to the Fresno Slough that drains into the San Joaquin River (during high flows), before turning to the south rejoining with the ...
Nansen's farthest north record lasted for just over five years. On 24 April 1900 a party of three from an Italian expedition led by the Duke of the Abruzzi reached 86°34′N, having left Franz Josef Land with dogs and sledges on 11 March. The party barely made it back; one of their support groups of three men vanished entirely. [131]
Boone, North Carolina – highest elevation (3,333 feet, 1015.9 m) east of the Mississippi River of any town of its size (over 10,000 population Eisenhower Tunnel , west of Denver, Colorado 39°40′43″N 105°55′12″W / 39.6785°N 105.92°W / 39.6785; -105.92 ( Eisenhower Tunnel ) – highest point on the Interstate Highway ...
1893–1896: Nansen's Fram expedition by Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen on the Fram and over ice towards the North Pole; 1894 Failed attempt by Walter Wellman to reach the North Pole from Svalbard; 1894–1897: Jackson–Harmsworth expedition, led by Frederick George Jackson, explores Franz Josef Land hoping in vain to find more land ...
Subcategories should be used for rivers which can be classified in them: Category: Rivers of Southern California — San Luis Obispo/Kern/San Bernardino and southward; see Southern California Counties.
Deer Creek (Tehama County, California) Deer Creek (Tulare County, California) Del Puerto Creek; Denniston Creek; Downie River; Dry Creek (Mokelumne River tributary) Dry Creek (San Mateo County, California) Dry Creek (Sonoma County, California) Dry Creek (Steelhead Creek tributary) Dry Creek (Tuolumne River tributary) Dutch Bill Creek; Dye Creek
The headwaters are in the Sierra Nevada, and include: North Honcut, Upper Rocky Honcut, South Honcut, and Natchez creeks. The creek area in the lower Feather River watershed includes Honcut, California, and locations of former settlements such as the Maidu's Honkut at the mouth of Honcut Creek and Honcut City, California, along North Honcut ...
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (Norwegian: [ˈfrɪ̂tːjɔf ˈnɑ̀nsn̩]; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and co-founded the Fatherland League.