Now, however, due to the precession of the equinoxes, the feet of the Great Bear constellation do sink below the horizon from Rome and especially from Athens – so Ursa Major gets to cool her feet and legs in the sea, in spite of Ovid ; however, Ursa Minor ( Arcas ) does remain completely above the horizon, even from latitudes as far south as Honolulu and Hong Kong.

* Hyginus, attrib., Poeticon astronomicon, II. 1: the Great Bear.

In 1825, Sir John Franklin wrote that " The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport " while on Great Bear Lake during one of his Arctic expeditions.

An alternative theory, which has gained only limited acceptance among professional scholars, derives the name Arthur from Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, near Ursa Major or the Great Bear.

Geographical features include Great Bear Lake, the largest lake entirely within Canada, and Great Slave Lake, the deepest body of water in Canada at, as well as the Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni National Park Reserve, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.

* Leith Peninsula, Northwest Territories ( in Great Bear Lake )

Ursa Major ( Latin: " Larger Bear "), also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation visible throughout the year in most of the northern hemisphere.

The Iroquois Native Americans interpreted Alioth, Mizar, and Alkaid as three hunters pursuing the Great Bear.

In theosophy, it is believed the Seven Stars of the Pleiades focus the spiritual energy of the Seven Rays from the Galactic Logos to the Seven Stars of the Great Bear, then to Sirius, then to the Sun, then to the god of Earth ( Sanat Kumara ), and finally through the seven Masters of the Seven Rays to the human race.

Like the Great Bear, the tail of the Little Bear may also be seen as the handle of a ladle, hence the name Little Dipper.

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Another important source of pitchblende is at Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada, where it is found in large quantities associated with silver.

Just west of Soda Springs the Bear River turns southwest as it heads for The Great Salt Lake, and the main trail turns northwest to follow the Portneuf River valley to Fort Hall, Idaho.

Their historical range roughly comprised a triangle between the Great Bear Lake in Canada's far northwest, south to the Mexican states of Durango and Nuevo León, and east along the western boundary of the Appalachian Mountains.

Wetland / wildlife management areas include the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge ; Gillmor Sanctuary ; Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve ; Salt Creek, Public Shooting Grounds, Harold Crane, Locomotive Springs, Ogden Bay, Timpie Springs, and Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Areas.

Because of the Great Salt Lake's high salinity, it has few fish, but they do occur in Bear River Bay and Farmington Bay when spring runoff brings fresh water into the lake.

The largest caught on a rod and reel was, caught in Great Bear Lake.

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The largest, Great Bear Mound, measures 42 meters from head to tail and rises over a meter above the original ground level.

The Peace and Athabasca Rivers along with Great Bear and Great Slave Lake ( respectively the largest and second largest lakes wholly enclosed within Canada ), are significant elements of the Arctic watershed.

At Roanoke Gap, another branch of the Great Wagon Road, the Wilderness Road, continued southwest to Tennessee.

Big Cypress Swamp and the Ten Thousand Islands: Eastern America's Last Great Wilderness, University of South Carolina Press.

Salem became a small settlement serving travelers on the Great Wilderness Road ( roughly the same path followed by US-11 and later Interstate 81 today ) and was officially founded in 1802, receiving its charter in 1806.

* Great Sand Dunes Wilderness

Also on the grounds of The Great Passion Play is the Christ of the Ozarks statue ( the largest Christ statue in the North America ), the New Holy Land Tour, a full-scale re-creation of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, a section of the Berlin Wall, a Museum of Earth History, and Bible Museum.

Adjacent to Great Basin National Park lies the Highland Ridge Wilderness.

The Wilderness Road branched off from the Great Wagon Road at present-day Roanoke, Virginia, crossed the Cumberland Gap and led to Kentucky and Tennessee, especially the fertile Bluegrass region and Nashville Basin.

* Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness Harbour Publishing, 2005.

The story of the first European settlement in 1833 in the Great Black Swamp at Lauber Hill is told in " Out of the Wilderness, History of the Central Mennonite Church ," 1835-1960.

Outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, other areas with known remaining virgin stands as confirmed by the Eastern Native Tree Society include Algonquin Provincial Park, Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario ; Algoma Highlands, Ontario ; Huron Mountains, Estivant Pines, Porcupine Mountains State Park, and the Sylvania Wilderness Area in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ; Hartwick Pines State Park in Michigan's Lower Peninsula ; Menominee Indian Reservation, northeastern Wisconsin ; Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota ; the Lost 40 Scientific and Natural Area ( SNA ) near Blackduck, Minnesota ; and White Pines State Park, Illinois, Cook Forest State Park, Hearts Content Natural Area, and Anders Run, all in Pennsylvania ; Linville Gorge, North Carolina.

The Great Park Plan focuses on the public of the property and includes a canyon, a lake, botanical gardens, a cultural terrace, lawns, performing arts venues, a sports park, and a wildlife corridor connecting the Cleveland National Forest to the Laguna Coast Wilderness.

3rd century BCE-1st century CE ) Shanhaijing 山海經 " Classic of Mountains and Seas " records variant Yinglong myths in two chapters of " The Classic of the Great Wilderness " section.

" The Classic of the Great Wilderness: The East " ( 14, 大荒東經 ) mentions Yinglong killing both Chi You " Jest Much " and Kua Fu " Boast Father ", and describes using Yinglong images in sympathetic magic for rainmaking.

At the northeast corner of the Great Wilderness there is a mountain.

" The Classic of the Great Wilderness: The North " ( 17, 大荒北經 ) mentions Yinglong in two myths about killing Kua Fu " Boast Father ".

In the middle of the Great Wilderness there is a mountain.

* Antarctica: The Last Great Wilderness ( 1985, Weidenfeld & N ) ISBN 0-297-78676-8

Their most recent release is the soundtrack to David Mackenzie's The Last Great Wilderness ( Geographic, 2003 ), which, made for film or not, is one of the most completely realised Pastels albums.

* The Last Great Wilderness ( 2003 )

The Wilderness Lives Again: Carl Akeley and the Great Adventure, Dodd, Mead, 1940

Six designated Federal Wilderness Areas exist within the Forest: the Presidential Range / Dry River Wilderness, the Great Gulf Wilderness, the Pemigewasset Wilderness, the Sandwich Range Wilderness, the Caribou / Speckled Mountain Wilderness, and the Wild River Wilderness.