Mount Katahdin is both the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, which extends southerly to Springer Mountain, Georgia, and the southern terminus of the new International Appalachian Trail which, when complete, will run to Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador.

In August 1846, Thoreau briefly left Walden to make a trip to Mount Katahdin in Maine, a journey later recorded in " Ktaadn ," the first part of The Maine Woods.

The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply the AT, is a marked hiking trail in the eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine.

The highest natural point in the county and the state of Maine is Mount Katahdin at 5, 271 feet ( 1, 606 meters ), while the geographic center is Greeley Landing in the Town of Dover-Foxcroft.

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Destinations for fall trips include hiking trips at Acadia National Park, Mount Katahdin, and other locations around Maine ; canoe trips on the Kennebec and Moose Rivers, along with other trips around the state.

* Baxter State Park, a wilderness park in Maine and home to Mount Katahdin

Mount Katahdin ( USGS name ) is the highest mountain in Maine at.

Mount Katahdin from Millinocket Camp, by Frederic Edwin Church, 1895

Katahdin is referred to 60 years after Field ’ s climb of Agiokochuk ( Mount Washington ) in the writings of John Gyles, a teenage colonist who was captured near Portland, Maine in 1689 by the Abenaki.

Because " Katahdin " means " Greatest Mountain ", " Mount Katahdin " means " Mount Greatest Mountain ", which local people maintain is incorrect, however the official name is Mount Katahdin as decided by the US Board on Geographic Names in 1893.

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Baxter's history is intertwined with Baxter State Park, which bears his name, and with Mount Katahdin, Maine's highest point ( the highest knob on Katahdin is called Baxter Peak ).

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

And on the summit of Mount Washington, where thirty-five degrees below zero is commonplace and the wind velocity has registered higher than anywhere else in the world, there is a kind of wisdom to be found that other men often seek in the Himalayas `` because it is there ''.

Aquarius is also sometimes identified with Ganymede, a youth in Greek mythology who was taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus to act as cup-carrier to the gods.

Mount Ararat, at the highest point in Turkey, is located in the Anti-Taurus.

* 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

The largest of these, Mount Aragats, high, is also the highest point in Armenia.

Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city.

The usual Eastern arrangement is exemplified in the plan of the convent of the Great Lavra, Mount Athos.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

In the text, he is credited with winning the battle of Mount Badon.

At no great distance east of this rift-valley is Mount Kilimanjaro-with its two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi, the latter being, and the culminating point of the whole continent — and Mount Kenya, which is.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

The larger scheme of Canberra's layout is based on the three peaks surrounding the city, Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, and Red Hill.

The main symmetrical axis of the city is along ANZAC Parade and roughly on the line between Mount Ainslie and Bimberi Peak.

The precise alignment of ANZAC parade is between Mount Ainslie and Capital Hill ( formally Kurrajong Hill ).

Its highest rise is the conical Mount Oros ( 531 m ) in the south, and the Panhellenian ridge stretches northward with narrow fertile valleys on either side.

When the Olympian shakes the aegis, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls and men are struck down with fear.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

Capp is buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

Located in the Mount Baker Wilderness, it is visible from much of Greater Victoria, Greater Vancouver, and, to the south, from Seattle ( and on clear days Tacoma ) in Washington.

The principal symbol of Yerevan is Mount Ararat, which is visible from any area in the capital.

Mount Hood, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Adams are all visible from Clark County, and cold winter winds through the Columbia River Gorge often bring freezing rain and a coating of glaze ice or clear ice known locally as a " silver thaw ," especially in southeastern areas of the county closest to the gorge.

Other features of the Jamison Valley visible from Echo Point include Mount Solitary and the rock formation known as the Ruined Castle.

Composite satellite image looking west across Ruapehu, with the older eroded volcano Hauhungatahi visible behind it, and the cone of Mount Ngauruhoe | Ngauruhoe visible to the right.

The Temple Mount Faithful was the first significant group to advocate the Jewish takeover of the Temple Mount and during the 1970s and 1980s it remained the most visible group with that position.

Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range is visible from much of Utah County.

Herod expanded the small quasi-natural plateau on which the First and Second Temples stood into the wide expanse of the Temple Mount visible today.

Her father was the ruler of a city called either under his name, as " Tantalis " or " the city of Tantalus ", or as " Sipylus ", in reference to Mount Sipylus at the foot of which his city was located and whose ruins were reported to be still visible in the beginning of the 1st century AD, although few traces remain today.

Patterned ground typical of tundra is still visible at Mount Davis, although it is somewhat obscured by vegetation.

View from Mount Grace fire tower ; Mount Monadnock visible in the distance

Eroded remnants of ancient stratovolcanoes, once the size of Mount Hood are nearby ; these include Black Butte and White Butte, visible from town.

Overlooking the city on Mount Penn is Reading's symbol, a Japanese-style pagoda visible from almost everywhere in town and referred to locally as " The Pagoda ".

During the Antarctic summer, snow melt on the flanks of Mount Erebus continually brings debris from the crash to the surface of the snow ; it is plainly visible from the air.

Near the visible promontory of Mount Nemo that rises some 200 m ( 650 ft ) above the lake level, a " vertical forest " of white cedar clinging to the Escarpment face includes many small trees that are more than a thousand years old.

The one exception is Mount Leinster, visible from a large portion of the county, which is frequently covered with snow during the winter months.

* Mount Constance-largest peak visible from Seattle

Later terminology was influenced by the Survey of India, whose surveyor Thomas Montgomerie in the 1850s gave the labels K1 to K6 ( K for Karakoram ) to six high mountains visible from his station at Mount Haramukh in Kashmir.

Mount Bagana in the north central part of Bougainville is conspicuously active, spewing out smoke that is visible many kilometres distant.