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The Kehlsteinhaus (known in English as the Eagle's Nest) is a Nazi-constructed building erected atop the summit of the Kehlstein, a rocky outcrop that rises above Obersalzberg near the southeast German town of Berchtesgaden. It was used exclusively by members of the Nazi Party for government and social meetings.
Eagle Nest, New Mexico, a village in Colfax County, New Mexico; Eagle Nest camp, an Adirondack Great Camp on Eagle Lake in Blue Mountain Lake, New York; Eagle Nest Canyon or Mile Canyon, a canyon on the Rio Grande near Langtry, Texas; Eagle's Nest, William K. Vanderbilt II's estate in Suffolk County, New York, now the Vanderbilt Museum
View from Kehlsteinhaus. Obersalzberg is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany.Located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) south-east of Munich, close to the border with Austria, it is best known as the site of Adolf Hitler's former mountain residence, the Berghof, and of the mountaintop Kehlsteinhaus, popularly known in the English-speaking world ...
A badger's nest is called a sett. A beaver's nest is called a lodge. An eagle's nest is called an eyrie. [16] An otter's den is called a holt or a couch. A pheasant's nest is called a nide. [17] [vague] A rabbit's nest is called a form. [18] A squirrel's or ringtail possum's nest is called a drey. A wasp's nest is called a vespiary. [19]
A mountaintop structure, the Kehlsteinhaus, nicknamed Eagle's Nest by André François-Poncet, a French diplomat, was built in 1937–38 above the Berghof, but Hitler rarely went there. [13] Venus and Amor by Paris Bordone, that adorned the "Great Hall", was ceded after the war to the National Museum in Warsaw. [14]
The Kehlstein mountain (1,835 m or 6,020 ft), with its Kehlsteinhaus (Eagle's Nest), is located in the area. ... (called Fürstpropstei Berchtesgaden) ...
The aptly named Eagle Nest Lake in Colfax County is a good spot to try to see bald eagles any time of the year, as well as 169 other bird species. Silfox/istockphoto. New York: Montezuma National ...
Mile Canyon received its name due to its length being approximately one mile long. In more recent years, this canyon is more commonly referred to as Eagle Nest Canyon, named after a nesting pair of golden eagles observed nearby. [2] It has been an important area of many archaeological and geological expeditions over the past century.