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From the upper end of the lake, at Nidau, the river issues through the Nidau-Büren Canal, also called the Aare Canal, [4] and then runs east to Büren. The lake absorbs huge amounts of eroded gravel and snowmelt that the river brings from the Alps, and the former swamps have become fruitful plains: they are known as the "vegetable garden of ...
The town is located on flat alluvial land called Bödeli between two lakes, Brienz to the east and Thun to the west, and alongside the river Aare, which flows between them. Transport routes to the east and west alongside the lakes are complemented by a route southwards into the near mountain resorts and high mountains, e.g. the famous high ...
Åre is situated in Åredalen (Åre Valley), approximately 400 metres (1,300 ft) AMSL at the coastline of Åresjön lake. The European route E14 and the Mittbanan railway pass through Åre, connecting the larger towns Östersund and Trondheim .
The Aare Gorge (German: Aareschlucht) is a section of the river Aare that carves through a limestone ridge near the town of Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. [1] The gorge is an indirect product of glaciation ; 10,000 years ago, just as the Ice Age was coming to an end, torrential runoff water from melting glaciers ...
Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aare, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura Mountains, [3] and is west of Zürich, [4] 58 kilometres (36 miles) south of Basel and 65 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Bern. [5] The municipality borders directly on the canton of Solothurn to the west. It is ...
Daniel DeCoursey, chief of law enforcement at the Florida Gaming Control Commission speaks to the media after Indian River County Sheriff’s Office deputies closed the Moonlight Express arcade in ...
Moonlight Basin is a private club in southwestern Montana, located in the Madison Range of the Rocky Mountains in the resort village of Big Sky.It became part of Big Sky Resort in October 2013 when it, along with ski terrain within the Club at Spanish Peaks, were bought and merged into Big Sky Resort, making it one of the largest single ski resorts in the United States, with 5,750 acres (2,330 ...
Object history: George Percy, 2nd Earl of Beverley, later 5th Duke of Northumberland (1778–1867) Purchased by Thomas Baring (1799–1873), London, 1851