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La Noyée (drowned lady). A mountain range seen from Notre-Dame-des-Monts, Quebec. Local legend says the mountains are the silhouette of a Native American woman who drowned while swimming across Lac Nairne to meet her lover. La Mujer Muerta (the dead woman). A mountain range located in the Sistema Central, Spain. Highest point La Pinareja, 2197 m.
Mount Susitna, also known as Sleeping Lady, (Dena'ina: Dghelishla) is a 4,396-foot (1,340 m) mountain in the U.S. state of Alaska.It is located on the west bank of the lower Susitna River, about 33 miles (53 km) northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. [1]
The Sleeping Lady may refer to: List of mountains named The Sleeping Lady; The Sleeping Lady, a small clay figurine/statuette recovered from the prehistoric Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta; The Sleeping Lady, a 1980 book by Canadian poet Joe Rosenblatt; Sleeping Lady, a 1996 novel by American author Sue Henry
Named after Kong Rei, the beautiful daughter of the ogress in the Khmer folk tale of the Twelve Sisters (Khmer: Puthisen Neang Kong Rei), this mountain is important in Cambodian culture. [5] The people who live in Kampong Chhnang Province believe that the Kong Rei mountain range is the legendary lady at rest and warn their children to not eat ...
The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names, [2] and has been reported in publications since at least 1890. [11] However, the town is named after the mountain, and the town was founded in 1881 at the completion point of a southern transcontinental railway southeast of the mountain where a ...
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Doi Nang Non (Thai: ดอยนางนอน, pronounced [dɔ̄ːj nāːŋ nɔ̄ːn]; 'Mountain of the Sleeping Lady') is a mountain range in the Thai highlands in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. It is a karstic formation with numerous waterfalls and caves rising at the southern end of the Daen Lao Range .
The mountain, which has an elevation of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), was named Mount McKinley in 1896 after a gold prospector exploring the region heard that McKinley, a champion of the ...