Half Dome, Yosemite, a classic granite dome and popular rock climbing destination

Half Dome, a granite monolith in Yosemite National Park and part of the Sierra Nevada batholith.

A well-known result of this process is Half Dome, located in Yosemite Valley.

The valley is about long and up to a mile deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines.

Between them both, at the eastern end of the valley, is Half Dome, the most famous and most recognizable natural feature in the Sierra Nevada.

Above and to the northeast of Half Dome is Cloud's Rest ; at 9926 feet ( 3025 m ), the highest point around Yosemite Valley.

Tenaya Creek flows southwest from Tenaya Lake and down Tenaya Canyon, finally flowing between Half Dome and North Dome before joining the Merced River.

Yosemite Falls and Half Dome in the winter

The youngest Yosemite Valley pluton is the 87 million year old Half Dome granodiorite, which makes up most of the rock at Glacier Point, the Royal Arches, and its namesake, Half Dome.

Half Dome from Glacier Point

Their glaciers were huge and covered nearly all the landmarks around Yosemite Valley except Half Dome, Eagle Peak, Sentinel Dome, and the top of El Capitan.

The parallel Tenaya Canyon and Little Yosemite Canyon glaciers were, at their largest, 2, 000 feet ( 600 m ) deep where they flowed into the Yosemite Valley near the base of Half Dome.

They also formed Cloud's Rest behind Half Dome as an arête.

Half Dome figures prominently on the reverse side of the California state quarter.

Half Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, located in northeastern Mariposa County, California, at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley — possibly Yosemite's most familiar rock formation.

Half Dome is nearly as whole as it ever was.

From Washburn Point, Half Dome can be seen as a thin ridge of rock oriented northeast-southwest, with its southeast side almost as steep as its northwest side except for the very top.

Half Dome was originally called " Tis-sa-ack ," meaning Cleft Rock in the language of the local Native Americans.

The face seen in Half Dome is supposed to be hers.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

Half of the Members of the Bundestag are elected directly from 299 constituencies ( first-past-the-post system ), the other half are elected from the parties ’ Land lists in such a way as to achieve proportional representation for the total Bundestag ( if possible ).

Half of the annual global tropical timber acquisition comes from Borneo.

A Full Figure of 8 returns the dancer to original position ; a Half Figure of 8 leaves the dancer on the opposite side of the set from original position.

Half of the increase was from higher summer melting, with the rest caused by velocities of some glaciers exceeding those needed to balance upstream snow accumulation ( Krabill et al., L24402, GRL 2004 ).

Half a million residents of the annexed Polish territories, as well as from Slovenia, Alsace, Lorraine, and Luxembourg were deported to the General Government or sent to Germany as slave labour.

Half of these Irish Americans were descended from Ulster people, and half were descended from the people of Connaught, Leinster and Munster.

On October 19, 1991, Glover bought a samosa from Catherine Martinez at the Farmers ' Market with Half HOUR # 751 — the first use of an HOUR.

Half of the respondents, aged from 16 to 19, agreed Stalin was a wise leader.

The Half Kaddish is used to punctuate divisions within the service: for example, before Barekhu, between the Shema and the Amidah and following readings from the Torah.

Half of the ten members are from Macau, the others from mainland China.

" (" Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward ," from " The Charge of the Light Brigade ")

His Sidney Balmoral James from Hancock's Half Hour also appeared in his own Citizen James series.

The first British sitcom was Pinwright's Progress, broadcast by the BBC from 1946 to 1947, but the form didn't really take off until the transfer of Hancock's Half Hour from BBC radio in 1956.

Alternatively, over a dozen rock climbing routes lead from the valley up Half Dome's vertical northwest face.

The Half Dome Cables Route hike runs from the valley floor to the top of the dome in ( via the Mist Trail ), with of elevation gain.

Formally known as the " Six and A Half Point Pole " form, this is the second to last form of the system.

# Six and a Half Point Pole or Long Pole.

The building also featured in recent movies such as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Sharon Stone's Basic Instinct 2 and Woody Allen's Match Point and, rechristened the Spirit of London, became the spaceship centrepiece of Keith Mansfield's 2008 novel Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London.

The site of the village was occupied as " Half Moon Point " in the 17th Century.

The first settlement took place at the site of the current Waterford village, then called " Half Moon Point ".

Sea Link provides passenger, car and freight services between Half Moon Bay in East Auckland and Kennedy Point.

The 2008 Seafair Half Marathon and Seafair Marathon began at Husky Stadium, crossed the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, and ended at Bellevue, Washington's Bellevue Downtown Park.

It is located approximately 2 miles ( 3. 2 km ) from shore in Pillar Point Harbor just north of Half Moon Bay at the village of Princeton-By-The-Sea.

Jeff Clark, having grown up in Half Moon Bay, watched Maverick's from an early age from the campus of Half Moon Bay High School and on the rugged coastal shores of Pillar Point.

The view from Glacier Point, left to right: Tenaya Canyon, Half Dome, Liberty Cap ( California ) | Liberty Cap, Little Yosemite Valley, Nevada Fall

Memorial to Mark Foo at Mavericks Point on the Northern California CoastOn December 23, 1994, Foo died in a surfing accident at Mavericks, a big wave surf location in Half Moon Bay, Northern California.

See also Sandown, Sandon Point, New South Wales, Sandonbank and Sandon Half Tide Dock.