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Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) is a ski resort in the western United States, at Teton Village, Wyoming. In the Teton Range of the Rocky Mountains , it is located in Teton County , twelve miles (20 km) northwest of Jackson and due south of Grand Teton National Park .
A mountain range that seems to be a bunch of air? Alabama, New York: A township and small community in Genesee County, New York. New York has a number of places named after other states or countries. Alabaster, Alabama: Who's talking crap now, SHELBY?! Aladdin: A place in Wyoming probably filled with street rats. Also a ghost town in California.
Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...
The encirclement parent is found by tracing the contour below peak A's key col and picking the highest mountain in that region. This is easier to determine than the prominence parent; however, it tends to give non-intuitive results for peaks with very low cols such as Jabal Shams which is #110 in the list.
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three main ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the tip of a mountain above a geodetic sea level . [ b ] [ c ] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of the United States by elevation.
Chemic Tavern (formerly Chemical Tavern), Leeds, West Yorkshire. Named for the workers at the nearby Woodhouse Chemical Works, (C. 1840–1900) it was a beer house on the 1861 census when the licensee was James Lapish. [207] [208] Custom House Tavern, Wisbech: (now closed) named for the local customs post in the port. [3]
name: Wikidata label in the local language: Name of the mountain, peak or hill. other_name Other name for the mountain. See native_name if the name is in a different language. photo: Image on Wikidata: Photograph of the mountain. Preferably a distance shot to show most/all of the mountain rather than a view from the summit. photo_size: 280px
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...