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This is a list of lists of hills. A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. By form. List of artificial hills; List of breast-shaped hills;
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia defined "hill" as an upland with a relative height of up to 200 m (660 ft). [10] A hillock is a small hill. Other words include knoll and (in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England) its variant, knowe. [11] Artificial hills may be referred to by a variety of technical names, including mound and tumulus.
The "Hills" chapter of Gladys Hansen's San Francisco Almanac [4] repeated the list given in Hills of San Francisco and added the then-recently-named Cathedral Hill for a total of 43, but the "Places" chapter [5] listed many additional hills. More recent lists include more hills, some lesser-known, some not on the mainland, and some without names.
Pages in category "Hills" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Ethels are 95 hills in the Peak District of England, mostly over 400 m (1,300 ft) above sea level but including various prominent lower hills. The Ethels are a tribute to Ethel Haythornthwaite who pioneered the establishment of the Peak District as Britain's first national park in 1951.
Saint Paul, Minnesota – The exact list of seven hills varies, but every list includes Cathedral Hill, Capitol Hill, Dayton's Bluff, Crocus Hill (sometimes also called St. Clair), and Williams Hill—which is no longer a hill. [19] Valera, Trujillo, Venezuela [20] San Francisco, California (see List of hills in San Francisco) [citation needed]
This is a list of gravity hills and magnetic hills around the world. A gravity hill is a place where a slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope due to the layout of the surrounding land, creating the optical illusion that water flows uphill or that a car left out of gear will roll uphill. Many of these sites have no specific name and ...
The revised list of hills known as Grahams was formally published in 1995 and 1999 [7] as part of the TACit Tables series. The list of Grahams remained stable for almost twenty years until Alan Dawson began a programme of accurate hill surveying using GNSS equipment. As a result, in 2014, three Grahams were removed as they were only 609 m high ...