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Icy Trees of Huangshan Steps downhill View from a cable car. The Huangshan mountain range has many peaks, some more than 1,000 meters (3,250 feet) high. [4] The three tallest and best-known peaks are Lotus Peak (Lianhua Feng, 1,864 m), Bright Peak (Guangming Ding, 1,860 m) and Celestial Peak (Tiandu Feng, literally Capital of Heaven Peak, 1,829 m).
The Hangzhou-Huangshan section runs 265 km (165 mi) through northwestern Zhejiang and southern Anhui and accommodates trains traveling at speeds up to 250 km/h (160 mph). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Travel time from Hangzhou to Huangshan was reduced to about one and one-half hours. [ 1 ]
Lower elevations of Huangshan City have a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with short, cool winters and long, very hot and humid summers.At the central Tunxi District, the monthly mean temperature ranges from 4.4 °C (39.9 °F) in January to 28.1 °C (82.6 °F) in July, and the annual mean is 16.66 °C (62.0 °F).
The Hangzhou South-to-Jiande and Jixi-to-Huangshan sections would have rail laid on conventional gravel beds. [1] The design speed of the railway was changed from an initial speed of 250 km/h (155 mph) with expansion capability for 350 km/h (220 mph) operation to 250 km/h (155 mph) without any expansion capability to higher speeds. [ 1 ]
The Tour of Huangshan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Anhui Province, China. The race consists of three stages and is part of the UCI Asia Tour . The event was first held in 2023 as a 2.2 UCI race [ 1 ] and was created in order to promote cycling in Huangshan City .
The expressways of Singapore are special roads that allow motorists to travel quickly from one urban area to another. Construction of the system was authorized when construction of the Pan Island Expressway began in 1962.
As of June 2016, two portions of State Highway 99 have been completed: a 14.5-mile segment completed in April 2008 that runs from Interstate 10 in Mont Belvieu to Business State Highway 146 in Baytown, east of Houston; and a 71-mile segment completed between August 1994 and March 2016 that runs from Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59 in Sugar Land ...
Singapore Airlines presently operates the longest and second longest flights in the world, non-stop to New York–JFK and Newark respectively, using the Airbus A350-900ULR. Singapore to Newark was the world's longest flight from 2004-2013, and 2018-2021, when they started JFK to Singapore.