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A meadow near the headwaters of the Middle Fork South Platte River below Montgomery Reservoir in South Park. South Park is a grassland flat within the basin formed by the Rocky Mountains' Mosquito and Park Mountain Ranges [1] within central Colorado. This high valley ranges in elevation from approximately 9,000 to 10,000 ft (3,000 m).
His great achievement in the field of cartography was the use of a new technique of charting with meridians, his imaginary north–south lines, and parallels, his imaginary west–east lines. [29] These axis lines were placed over the map of the Earth with their origin in the city of Rhodes and divided the world into sectors.
The Shahid-i Sadiq included The 32 sheet atlas—with maps oriented towards the south as was the case with Islamic works of the era—is part of a larger scholarly work compiled by Isfahani during 1647. [46] This map measures 661 cm × 645 cm (260 in × 254 in; 21.69 ft × 21.16 ft). [47]
A view of the memorial on the Midway to Thomas Masaryk by sculptor Albín Polášek, represented as a legendary Knight of Blaník Mountain. The word "plaisance" is both the French spelling of and a quaint obsolete spelling for "pleasance", itself an obscure word in this context meaning "a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water".
Between around 1489 and 1491, he produced at least one world map which is remarkably similar to the terrestrial globe produced by Martin Behaim around 1492, the Erdapfel. Both show novel adaptations of the existing Ptolemaic model, opening a passage south of Africa and creating an enormous new peninsula east of the Golden Chersonese .
Entering from the south on Colorado State Highway 9. South Park National Heritage Area is a U.S. National Heritage Area encompassing the South Park of Colorado.Established on March 30, 2009, by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111–11 (text) §7002), the South Park NHA is managed by the Park County, Colorado Office of Tourism to promote and interpret the area's natural ...
The Erdapfel (German for 'earth apple'; pronounced [ˈeːɐ̯tˌʔapfl̩] ⓘ) is a terrestrial globe 51 cm (20 in) in diameter, produced by Martin Behaim from 1490 to 1492. The Erdapfel is the oldest surviving terrestrial globe.
the explorations of the Caribbean and South America by Columbus (1492–93, 1493–94, 1498, 1502–04) visits to the Caribbean and South America by Vespucci (1499, 1501–02) Although there had been maps created after these voyages, such as Juan de la Cosa 's map of the world in 1500 (based on Columbus' second voyage) and the Cantino world map ...