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In the United States and Canada, the Mountain Time Zone is to the east of the Pacific Time Zone and to the west of the Central Time Zone. In some areas, starting in 2007, the local time changes from MST to MDT at 2 am MST to 3 am MDT on the second Sunday in March and returns at 2 am MDT to 1 am MST on the first Sunday in November.
Mount Augustus. Mount Augustus is located roughly 1,000 km north of Perth, in the Mount Augustus National Park in Western Australia. The name is also given to the neighbouring pastoral lease, Mount Augustus Station. The local Wadjari people call it Burringurrah, after a Dreamtime figure, a young boy who was speared and turned into a rock. [1]
Mount Augustus National Park is located 852 km north of Perth, 490 km by road east of Carnarvon and 390 km northwest of Meekatharra, in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Mount Augustus itself, the feature around which the national park is based, is known as Burringurrah to the local Wadjari Aboriginal people.
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of the United States and North America. Mount McKinley is the third most topographically prominent and third most topographically isolated summit on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the United States of America.
Mount Augustus It is situated about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south west of Paraburdoo and 300 kilometres (186 mi) north west of Meekatharra in the Gascoyne region. The Upper Lyons River and Frederick River both run through the property, and the lease area once included Mount Augustus , which is claimed to be the largest monocline in the world.
Of the 100 highest major summits of greater North America, only Denali exceeds 6000 meters (19,685 feet) elevation, 11 peaks exceed 5000 meters (16,404 feet), and all 100 peaks exceed 4076 meters (13,373 feet) elevation. Of these 100 peaks, 81 are located in the United States, 17 in Canada, seven in México, and one in Guatemala.
The station is situated approximately 164 kilometres (102 mi) south west of Paraburdoo and 334 miles (538 km) north west of Meekatharra.The station is bordered by Mount Augustus National Park, Mount Augustus Station, Mount Phillip and Gilford Stations. [1]
Burringurrah (also referred to as Mt Augustus) is a medium-sized Aboriginal community, located in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Upper Gascoyne. In the 2011 census , Burringurrah had a total population of 117, including 102 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. [ 1 ]