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The Grand Concourse was first developed through the generosity of the Johnson Family Foundation with Paul Johnson as its president and founder. A series of studies commissioned between 1989 and 1992 by the Foundation established the feasibility of connecting walks and parks via the publicly owned shorelines of aquatic networks throughout the St. John's Urban Region. [1]
Lodge at the entrance to Mount St John. Mount St John is a historic building and estate in Felixkirk, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. William Percy founded the Mount St. John Preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers in the area in 1148. It was abandoned following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and while the current Mount St John's ...
St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos, [1] meaning "hoar rock in woodland") [2] is a tidal island in Mount's Bay near Penzance, Cornwall, England (United Kingdom). The island is a civil parish and is linked to the town of Marazion by a causeway of granite setts , passable (as is the beach) between mid-tide and low water.
Mount Saint John, height 11,435 feet (3,485 m), is located in the Teton Range, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, northwest of Jenny Lake. [3] The mountain towers above the northwest shore of Jenny Lake, and along with Symmetry Spire and Rockchuck Peak, form a massif which looms to the north above Cascade Canyon.
Mount John Jay, also known as Boundary Peak 18, a summit located on the border between Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, U.S. and Kitimat–Stikine, British Columbia, Canada. It is named after American statesman and diplomat John Jay , one of the Founding Fathers .
University of Canterbury Mount John Observatory (UCMJO), previously known as Mt John University Observatory (MJUO), is New Zealand's premier astronomical research observatory. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is situated at 1,029 metres (3,376 ft) ASL atop Mount John at the northern end of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island , and was established in 1965. [ 2 ]
The Colony's first Surveyor General, John Septimus Roe, recognised the qualities of the area and tried to protect it, by identifying the land to be set aside for public purposes. [3] By 1835 Roe's protection was overturned and the first shipment of five tonnes of jarrah was cut on Mount Eliza, becoming the colony's first export. [12]
The Mount St John Anti-Aircraft Battery is a good example of the standard HAA gun station complex used throughout Queensland, with four 3.7-inch (94 mm) gun positions (in this case of a surface emplacement type), four magazines (two still buried), a semi-underground command post, a Light Anti-Aircraft (LAA) position and camp site remnants at ...