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1 (The tallest mountain in a territory claimed by the UK) Mount Hope: 3,239 metres (10,627 ft) British Antarctic Territory: 2: Mount Jackson: 3,184 metres (10,446 ft) British Antarctic Territory: 3: Mount Stephenson: 2,987 metres (9,800 ft) British Antarctic Territory: 4: Mount Paget: 2,937 metres (9,636 ft) South Georgia and the South Sandwich ...
An ice-free cirque at the northwest end of the Herbert Mountains, Shackleton Range. Photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy, 1967, and surveyed by BAS, 1968–71. In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, named by the UK-APC in 1971 after Percy Fry Kendall (1856–1936), English glacial geologist; sometime ...
The highest point of the hills is the Worcestershire Beacon at 425 m (1,394 ft) above sea level (OS Grid reference SO768452). The Cotswolds extend over 90 miles (140 km), and over six counties ( Oxfordshire , Gloucestershire , Wiltshire , Somerset , Warwickshire and Worcestershire ), but centred on Gloucestershire.
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Turning is a term used when referring to moving the level to take an elevation shot from a different location. To "turn" the level, one must first take a reading and record the elevation of the point the rod is located on. While the rod is being kept in exactly the same location, the level is moved to a new location where the rod is still visible.
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The plow has a vertical wedge to push the snow horizontally away from the track. The vertical wedge may be less acute than the horizontal wedge, but often included a cast or sheet metal cutting edge on wooden plows. Pushing snow horizontally off the track may create an unbalanced horizontal force where asymmetrical snow accumulation is encountered.
An earlier description gives more detail: On the right and left the steep sides of the mount are covered with a thick forest of oaks: The crown of the mount consists of a level area or plain, forty paces wide on the summit of the scar, in the front or north east side, one hundred and sixty paces long on the left-hand side, and one hundred and seventy paces on the right.