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2. Mount Rogers - Wikipedia

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   Mount Rogers is the highest natural point in Virginia, United States, with a summit elevation of 5,729 feet (1,746 m) above mean sea level. The summit straddles the border of Grayson and Smyth Counties, Virginia, about 6.45 miles (10.38 km) WSW of Troutdale, Virginia. Most of the mountain is contained within the Lewis Fork Wilderness, while the ...

3. List of highest mountains on Earth - Wikipedia

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   The fourteen eight-thousanders. The summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. K2, the highest summit of the Karakoram. Kangchenjunga, the second-highest mountain of the Himalaya. Lhotse, the third-highest mountain of the Himalaya. Makalu in the Himalaya. 6 Cho Oyu in the Himalaya.

4. Mountain peaks of Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Mount Rogers in the Blue Ridge Mountains is the highest peak in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. This article comprises three sortable tables of the major mountain peaks of Virginia . This article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least 100 meters (328.1 feet) of topographic prominence , and a major summit as a summit with at ...

5. V&A Waterfront - Wikipedia

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   The V&A Waterfront is a central part of the very beginning of the settlement of the city of Cape Town. [14] In 1654, two years after his arrival in this relatively safe bay at the foot of Table Mountain, Jan van Riebeeck built a small jetty as part of his task to establish a refreshment station at the Cape. [14]

6. Minor's Hill - Wikipedia

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   Minor's Hill's historic marker. Minor's Hill is a geographic eminence located in the western tip of Arlington County, Virginia. Its summit rises to 459 feet (139 meters) above sea level which makes it the highest point in the county. [1] The hill is named after a man named George Minor who lived there at the time of the American Revolutionary War.

7. Hawksbill Mountain - Wikipedia

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   Hawksbill Mountain is a mountain with an elevation of 4,050 feet (1,234 m). [1] Marking the border between Madison County and Page County in Virginia, the summit of Hawksbill Mountain is the highest point in Shenandoah National Park, as well as the highest point in both Madison and Page counties. The north face of Hawksbill Peak is a 2,500-foot ...

8. Sewell's Point - Wikipedia

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   Sewell's Point. Sewells Point is a peninsula of land in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States, located at the mouth of the salt-water port of Hampton Roads. Sewells Point is bordered by water on three sides, with Willoughby Bay to the north, Hampton Roads to the west, and the Lafayette River to the south.

9. Furnace Mountain (Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   Furnace Mountain is the tallest peak of Catoctin Mountain in Loudoun County, Virginia. It rises steeply from the southern banks of the Potomac River across from Point of Rocks, Maryland and continues southward for 1 mile (1.6 km), reaching an elevation of 891 feet (272 m) before falling to a gap between it and an unnamed peak of 800 feet (240 m ...