Great Basin watersheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, Humboldt River, and Great Salt Lake.

After continued difficulties and persecution in Illinois, Young left Nauvoo in 1846 and led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, to the Great Salt Lake Valley.

In this respect the Dead Sea is similar to the Great Salt Lake in Utah in the United States.

* Great Salt Lake

Halophiles can be found anywhere with a concentration of salt five times greater than the salt concentration of the ocean, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Owens Lake in California, the Dead Sea, and in evaporation ponds.

They traveled along the Great Salt Lake into Oregon.

Salt water provides for greater organic activity than freshwater, and in particular, the shipworm, terredo navalis, lives only in salt water, so some of the best preservation in the absence of sediments has been found in the cold, dark waters of the Great Lakes in North America and in the ( low salinity ) Baltic Sea ( where the Vasa was preserved ).

Brigham Young named a tributary of the Great Salt Lake the " Jordan River ".

* Antelope Island, Utah, becomes a peninsula when waters are low, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake

* Promentory Peninsula, on the north eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake

* Stansbury Peninsula, becomes an island when waters are high, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake

When the Mormons arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, the Great Basin was still a part of Mexico and had no secular government.

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** Many Mormons begin their migration west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake, led by Brigham Young.

The route did not pass through the two biggest cities in the Great American Desert — Denver, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

Between Echo, Utah and Wells, Nevada, Interstate 80 passes through the larger Salt Lake City and passes along the south shore of the Great Salt Lake.

The Railroad had blasted and tunneled its way down the Weber River canyon to Ogden and around the north shore of the Great Salt Lake ( roughly paralleling modern Interstate 84 and State Route 30 ).

In 1904, the Lucin Cutoff, a causeway across the center of the Great Salt Lake, shortened the route by approximately, traversing Promontory Point instead of Promontory Summit.

Mono Lake has the second largest nesting population of California gulls, Larus californicus, second only to the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

In 1848, the Salt Lake Cutoff was established by Sam Hensley, and returning members of the Mormon Battalion providing a path north of the Great Salt Lake from Salt Lake City back to the California and Oregon Trails.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

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.

Large marine vessels may also enter Bras d ' Or Lake through the Great Bras d ' Or channel whereas small craft have the additional use of the Little Bras d ' Or channel or St. Peters Canal.

In 1797, Thompson was sent south by his employers to survey part of Canada-U. S. boundary along the water routes from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods to satisfy unresolved questions of territory arising from the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States.

The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York that runs about from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Silver Lake, west of Conesus Lake, would seem to qualify because it is in the Great Lakes watershed, but Waneta and Lamoka lakes are part of the Susquehanna River watershed as they drain into a tributary of the Chemung River.

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.

The most visible damage has been to the Aral Sea, which as recently as the 1970s was larger than any of the Great Lakes of North America save Lake Superior.

" Nearly all railroads were using Krupp rails, the New York Central, Illinois Central, Delaware and Hudson, Maine Central, Lake Shore and Michigin Southern, Bangor and Aarostook, Great Northern, Boston and Albany, Florida and East Coast, Texas and Pacific, Southern pacific, and Mexican National.

Lake Erie (; ) is the fourth largest lake ( by surface area ) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally.

Lake Erie has a lake retention time of 2. 6 years, the shortest of all the Great Lakes.

Lake Erie's water level fluctuates with the seasons as in the other Great Lakes.

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes because the ice was so thin and lacked erosion power when it reached that far south.

Lake Erie was the last of the Great Lakes to be explored by Europeans, since the Iroquois who occupied the Niagara River area were in conflict with the French, and they did not allow explorers or traders to pass through.

There is no direct historical or archaeological evidence to suggest how and when Arapaho bands entered the Great Plains.

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 affirmed the Cheyenne and Arapaho territory on the Great Plains between the North Platte River and the Arkansas.

The Arapaho, Blackfoot and Cheyenne are indigenous to the Great Plains.

The Arapaho are a tribe of Native Americans from the western Great Plains, in the area of eastern Colorado and Wyoming.

The Cheyenne and Arapaho, a pair of closely related Algonquian-speaking tribes who migrated westward from the Great Lakes area in the 18th century, were regarded as not as interested in conflict with the whites.

In an agreement reached with the Cheyenne, " The Great Peace of 1840 ", they agreed to stay south of the Arkansas River and the Cheyenne and Arapaho north of it.

These and other changes serve to give Arapaho a phonological system very divergent from that of Proto-Algonquian and other Algonquian languages, and even from languages spoken in the adjacent Great Basin.