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Teepees set up in modern-day Missoula south of the Clark Fork River, facing east. Today's Missoula lies at the bottom of what once was Glacial Lake Missoula, a 3,000-square-mile (7,800 km 2) proglacial lake which stretched from 60 miles (97 km) south and east of Missoula north to today's Flathead Lake and west to Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille.
Map of the Azores Islands (1584) by Abraham Ortelius. The following article describes the history of the Azores, an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
In 1979, MPC sold its water utility holdings as Mountain Water Company to Park Water Company in Downey, California, which since 2011 has been a subsidiary of The Carlyle Group. [162] In 2015, the City of Missoula was legally granted its " 'right to acquire ' the water system by exercising its power of eminent domain", [ 163 ] but as of June ...
Mount Jumbo (Salish: Sin Min Koos, meaning "obstacle" or "thing in the way"), [4] also called Mount Loyola by some locals, is a mountain overlooking the city of Missoula in the U.S. state of Montana. It is northeast of the city's downtown and, in its majority, is publicly owned.
Spain held the Azores under the Iberian Union from 1580 to 1642 (called the "Babylonian captivity" in the Azores). The Azores were the last part of the Portuguese Empire to resist Philip's reign over Portugal (Macau resisted any official recognition), until the defeat of forces loyal to the Prior of Crato with the Conquest of the Azores in 1583.
During the existence of Lake Missoula, it was a drain for the Little Bitterroot basin when the lake level exceeded 3,620 feet (1,100 m) asl and for the Camas Prairie basin when the lake level exceeded 3,680 feet (1,120 m) asl. At the maximum depth of Lake Missoula, the valley was a 520-foot-deep (160 m) waterway.
Alt, David (2001) Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods (Mountain Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0878424153). Norman B. Smyers and Roy M. Breckenridge (2003). "Glacial Lake Missoula, Clark Fork ice dam, and the floods outburst area: Northern Idaho and western Montana". In T. W. Swanson (ed.). Western Cordillera and adjacent areas. Geological ...
The Clark Fork, or the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, is a river in the U.S. states of Montana and Idaho, approximately 310 miles (500 km) long.It is named after William Clark of the 1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition.