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The estancia was named for Harberton, the home of his wife, Mary Ann Varder (1842-1922), in Devon, England. Bridges was the author of a dictionary of the Yámana or Yaghan language , and their son Lucas Bridges (1874-1949) wrote The Uttermost Part of the Earth about his boyhood, the Yahgan people , and the family's adventures in getting the ...
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer. [3] Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. [1]
Harberton is a village, civil parish and former manor 3 miles south west of Totnes, in the South Hams District of Devon, England. The parish includes the village of Harbertonford situated on the main A381 road. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,285. [1] The village is a major part of the electoral ward of Avon and Harbourne
The name Death Valley was given by a group of pioneers lost in the valley around the years 1849-1850 during the winter season. The group assumed that the valley would become their “grave” even ...
In 1886 Thomas Bridges resigned his position as a missionary; Lucas helped his father to create the Estancia Harberton (named after his mother's hometown in England), a sheep farming ranch, in a sheltered bay on the coast of the Beagle Channel. The location was a Yahgan safe port.
The hottest temperature ever officially recorded on Earth was 134 F (56.67 C) in July 1913 in Death Valley, though some experts dispute that measurement and say the real record was 130 F (54.4 C ...
Tourists are flocking to Death Valley hoping to experience record breaking temperatures. Death Valley in California hit a US record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.6C) in 1913. The US National ...
Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death Valley came into existence.