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Woodall Mountain is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Mississippi at 806 feet (246 m). It is located just off Mississippi Highway 25 , south of Iuka in Tishomingo County in the northeast part of the state.
The earliest mention of Mount Qingyuan is from around 221–207 BCE. Rapid development of Mount Qingyuan began in 618–1279 CE, and reached its peak during 1297 to 1911. The centuries of development on Mount Qingyuan has imprinted various important historical and cultural artifacts.
Iuka is a city in and the county seat of Tishomingo County, [3] Mississippi, United States. Its population was 3,028 at the 2010 census. Its population was 3,028 at the 2010 census. Woodall Mountain , the highest point in Mississippi, is located just south of Iuka.
Anna Gutu [a] (1990 or 1991 – October 7, 2023) was a Ukrainian-American climber and high-altitude mountaineer. She is known for her pursuit to become the first American woman, and the third overall American climber, to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders (which are peaks above 8,000 meters in elevation).
The outcropping above sea level is composed of metamorphosed limestone marble, gneiss, and green schist, and is classified as a metamorphic complex area of Dananao on the geological map. Because there are very few coastal cliffs in the world that exhibit such a great elevation drop, the natural landscape of "high cliff valley" makes Qingshui ...
In other cases, the mountains seem real enough, but a mythological or fictional layer or layers have been added to their description; for example, the stories told about the Flaming Mountains. Due to the features of Chinese vocabulary, syntax, and resulting translations, it is not clear whether a given "mountain" is one mountain, a mountain ...
The Bailong Elevator, 2009. The Bailong Elevator (Chinese: 百龙电梯; literally Hundred Dragons Elevator) is a glass double-deck elevator built onto the side of a cliff in the Wulingyuan area of Zhangjiajie, China, an area noted for more than 3,000 quartzite sandstone pillars and peaks across most of the site, many over 200 metres (660 ft) in height.
Model of the Monkey King's homeland on Mount Huaguo, at Mount Huaguo (Jiangsu).. Mount Huaguo (traditional Chinese: 花 果 山; pinyin: Huāguǒ Shān; Wade–Giles: Hua 1 kuo 3 Shan 1; Japanese: Kakazan; Vietnamese: Hoa Quả Sơn) or Flowers and Fruit Mountain, is a major area featured in the novel Journey to the West (16th century).