Ancient petroglyph carvings can be found at Sproat Lake.

Sproat Lake was named after Gilbert Sproat and Stamp Falls and Stamp River were named after Edward Stamp.

The world's largest aerial firefighting flying boats, the Martin Mars Water Bombers, make their home on nearby Sproat Lake.

6 km ( 4 mi ) west of the Somass River crossing, Highway 4 reaches the shore of Sproat Lake, following the lake shore west for 24 km ( 15 mi ).

A picture that I took of the Philippine Mars water bomber moored at its current base on Sproat Lake, Port Alberni, BC

Sproat Lake and Sproat Lake Provincial Park on Vancouver Island are named in his honour by Robert Brown.

The other end of the inlet is located on Barkley Sound, which includes the Broken Group Islands, considered to be one of the best areas for kayaking in the world. Sproat lake is located 10 km west of the city, and the valley is guarded by the snow-covered peaks of Mount Arrowsmith and Mount Klitsa, and surrounded by mountains on all sides.

Dewar lost his seat to Iain Sproat at the Conservative victory at the 1970 general election by just over 1, 000 votes.

Gilbert Sproat and Edward Stamp transported men and machinery to Alberni.

The latest Total System Life Cycle Cost presented to Congress on July 15, 2008 by Director Sproat is $ 90 billion.

In a 2004 article, Farmer, Sproat, and Witzel presented a number of arguments in support of their thesis that the Indus script is nonlinguistic, principal among them being the extreme brevity of the inscriptions, the existence of too many rare signs increasing over the 700-year period of the Mature Harappan civilization, and the lack of random-looking sign repetition typical for representations of actual spoken language ( whether syllabic-based or letter-based ), as seen, for example, in Egyptian cartouches.

In a 2004 article, Farmer, Sproat, and Witzel presented a number of arguments in support of their thesis that the Indus script is nonlinguistic, principal among them being the extreme brevity of the inscriptions, the existence of too many rare signs increasing over the 700-year period of the Mature Harappan civilization, and the lack of random-looking sign repetition typical for representations of actual spoken language ( whether syllabic-based or letter-based ), as seen, for example, in Egyptian cartouches.

Previous Hopwood winners include Brett Ellen Block, Max Apple, Lorna Beers, Sven Birkerts, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Ciardi, Tom Clark, Lyn Coffin, Cid Corman, Christopher Paul Curtis, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Garrett Hongo, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Laura Kasischke, Elizabeth Kostova, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Davi Napoleon, Frank O ' Hara, Marge Piercy, William Craig Rice, Ari Roth, Davy Rothbart, Betty Smith, Ron Sproat, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmund White, Nancy Willard, Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and Maritta Wolff.

* 1932 – Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright ( d. 2009 )

John Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio, to John Glenn, Sr. and Teresa ( née Sproat ).

On September 8, 2006 Ward ( Edward ) Sproat, a nuclear industry executive formerly of PECO energy in Pennsylvania, was nominated by President Bush to lead the Yucca Mountain Project.

Ebenezer Sproat was the first sheriff, Paul Fearing became the first attorney to practice in the territory, and Colonel William Stacy was foreman of the first grand jury.

Henry Hastings Sibley was born in Detroit, Michigan, where his parents, Solomon Sibley ( 1769 – 1846 ), a native of Sutton, Massachusetts, and Sarah Whipple ( Sproat ) Sibley had moved in 1797.

The two primary spawning lakes, Great Central and Sproat, saw over 800, 000 Sockeye return.

* Sproat, John G. ( 1968 ).

Slap ( 2006 ) redeems the reputation of the Liberal Republicans from allegations of opportunism ( as presented by Ari Hoogenboom ), of elitism ( as presented by John G. Sproat ), and racism as presented by the Neoabolitionists.

Sibley married Sarah Whipple Sproat Sibley ( 1782 – 1851 ), the only daughter of Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.

Fly hook shapes include Sproat, Sneck, Limerick, Kendal, Viking, Captain Hamilton, Barleet, Swimming Nymph, Bend Back, Model Perfect, Keel, and Kink-shank.

This claim has been criticized by linguists Mark Liberman and Richard Sproat on the grounds that the non-uniform distribution of symbols-taken to be evidence of writing-is little different from non-linguistic non-uniform distributions ( such as die rolls ), and that the Exeter team are using a definition of writing broader than that used by linguists.

No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been, for example, they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma, located between Texas and Oklahoma, which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River.

Björkö is located in Lake Mälaren, 30 kilometers west of contemporary Stockholm, in the municipality of Ekerö.

* Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana

* Watson Lake Cone, a cinder cone in southern Yukon, Canada, located near the British Columbia-Yukon border

Lake Chad, located in the southwestern part of the basin at an altitude of 282 meters, surprisingly does not mark the basin's lowest point ; instead, this is found in the Bodele and Djourab regions in the north-central and northeastern parts of the country, respectively.

The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.

Dominant features are the large, almost centrally located, Tonle Sap ( Great Lake ) and the Mekong River, which traverses the country from north to south and is the 12th longest river in the world.

The city of Ithaca, New York, site of Ithaca College and Cornell University, is located at the southern end of Cayuga Lake.

Cayuga Lake is located at ; above sea level.

The commercial center of the city is located on the eastern edge of Lake Cadillac.

The stadium is located next to Lake Michigan, and was recently remodeled in a modernization intended to update stadium amenities while preserving a historic Chicago structure.

They are also known as " The North Siders " because Wrigley Field, their home park since 1916, is located in Chicago's north side Lake View community at 1060 West Addison Street.

Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan.

* Lake Coleridge, a lake located in Canterbury, New Zealand

* Lake Edward: located within national parks, settlements are small, water transport is conducted principally in small craft, commercial water transport is absent.

One of the largest springs, Boiling Lake, is located in the national park.

During the Middle Ages, the Old Prussian settlement of Truso was located at Lake Drużno near the current site of Elbląg in historical Pogesania ; the settlement burned down in the 10th century.

The Old City () is located on the river Elbląg connecting Lake Drużno to the Vistula Lagoon, about 10 km from the lagoon and 60 km from Gdańsk.

Cazenovia Lake to the east, although smaller, is sometimes called " the twelfth Finger Lake ," because it is similar in shape, located in Appalachian hill terrain, with a historic village linked to other Finger Lakes by US 20.

Onondaga Lake, though located just north of the Finger Lakes region, is not considered one of the Finger Lakes.

The muckland of a valley located in Potter, New York, which is part of Torrey Farms, was almost a twelfth Finger Lake, as the waterline is just below the surface.

" Of the five lakes, Lake Michigan is the only one that is located entirely within the United States ; the others form a water border between the United States and Canada.

Geneva is located at 46 ° 12 ' North, 6 ° 09 ' East, at the south-western end of Lake Geneva, where the lake flows back into the Rhône River.

Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, located in the southeastern portion of the Chicago metropolitan area.