Kapitsa was the first to suggest the existence of a subglacial lake in the region, and the subsequent research confirmed his hypothesis.

While the lake was well known by local Native Americans, it entered the annals of written history through the records of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, who learned of its existence from the Timpanogos Utes in 1776.

The existence of the lake is disputed by creek geologists Janet Sowers and Christopher Richard, who propose the legend to be a result of misunderstanding of the 1776 writings of Juan Bautista de Anza.

It was here that true death came into existence via Coyote tossing a stone into a lake and declaring that if it sank then the dead would go back to the previous world.

The continued research by Russian and British scientists led by 1993 to the final confirmation of the existence of the lake by J. P. Ridley using ERS-1 laser altimetry.

The community then fell into a long, comfortable and quiet existence as an area of senic home sites around a lake known for trout & bass fishing.

The lake remains the focal point of the greater Lake Stevens community for recreation and as " a symbol of our need to provide for a sustainable existence that will protect our natural environment ".

Florenceville-Bristol are also extensively terraced with sands and gravels from both the workings of the Saint John River and its tributaries and also from the existence of a huge post-glacial lake that existed in the area for some time after the last Ice Age.

Millions of years prior to the actual sinking and widening of Death Valley and the existence of Lake Manly ( see Geology of the Death Valley area ), another lake covered a large portion of Death Valley including the area around Zabriskie Point.

A lake monster or loch monster is a purported form of fresh-water-dwelling megafauna appearing in mythology, rumor, or local folklore, but whose existence lacks scientific support.

* 2009: In Season 3 of the TV series Monster Quest, a search was conducted for evidence of the existence of an Ogopogo, revealing sink holes in the floor of the lake, cold streaks across the lakes surface ( possibly indicating a large, cold-blooded creature surfacing for food ), and what was at first thought to be a baby Ogopogo corpse, but was in fact an unrecognizable decomposed fish ( salmon ) body.

This city on the lake was marked on English and other maps until its existence was disproved by Alexander von Humboldt during his Latin-America expedition ( 1799 – 1804 ).

This city on the lake was marked on English and other maps until its existence was disproved by Alexander von Humboldt during his Latin-America expedition ( 1799 – 1804 ).

Archaeological evidence along the shore indicates the existence of the lake coincided roughly with the first appearance of humans in the region.

While Māori had long known of its existence, the first European to reach the lake is thought to have been Nathaniel Chalmers in 1853.

This concept of " proto-lake Kivu " was challenged by lack of consistent geological evidence, although the cichlid's molecular clock suggests the existence of a lake much older than the commonly cited 15, 000 years.

Twelve years later, field research conducted under State Geologist John C. Smock began to uncover wave-cut terraces and other shoreline features that more conclusively established the lake ’ s existence.

A 2010 game, Alan Wake, features a writer going on vacation, only to find out that the lake he lives near has the power to turn everything he writes into existence.

The Onondaga Nation's " Vision for a Clean Onondaga Lake " states that the waters, plants, fish, shore birds, and animals of the lake are an intrinsic part of the people's existence.

According to local folklore, there were settlements here while the lake was still in existence, this area being used as pastureland in summer.

The lake is still in existence as part of the Bentley Priory Nature Reserve but can no longer be seen from the Priory due to the growth of surrounding trees.

However, the existence of the Haarlemmermeer ( a great lake ) nearby made it difficult for the enemy to cut off the transportation of food into the city completely.

Their existence depends on the adaptation of the species for low light conditions, combined with the dynamic interaction of wind-induced currents, light regime, lake morphology, bottom substrate and sedimentation.

:“ The village of Lagoa, called this owing to the existence of a " lake in front " of the doors to the Church ( a reef ) and its port where was large enough for ships to battle, where in the past there were large catches of fish, since the ocean would enter it, and the livestock would drink from its waters and others would pass time swimming in its waters ..."

Indeed, the Vostok ice core was drilled before the Greenland cores, and the existence of Dansgaard – Oeschger events was not widely recognised until the Greenland ( GRIP / GISP2 ) cores were done ; after which there was some reexamination of the Vostok core to see if these events had somehow been " missed ".

A significant effect discovered during the study is the existence of Prandtl numbers reaching values of more than unity in the nitrogen dissociation region.

From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

" Coolidge praised the achievement of widespread prosperity in 1928, saying: " The requirements of existence have passed beyond the standard of necessity into the region of luxury.

East Pakistan (; Purbo Pakistan, ; Mashriqī Pākistān ) was a provincial state of Pakistan that existed in Bengal region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent from 1955 until 1971, following the One Unit programme which laid the existence of East Pakistan.

The establishment of an autonomous Ukrainian region in Czecho-Slovakia in October 1938 had promoted a major Soviet media campaign against its existence on the grounds that this was part of a Western plot to support separatism in the Soviet Ukraine.

The earliest well-documented state in the region was the Turkic Kaganate, or Gokturk, Köktürk state, established by the Ashina clan, which came into existence in the 6th century AD.

That suggests the existence of an effective source mechanism, continually supplying this region with fresh plasma.

The third event was land colonization, which resulted from the availability of land, the existence of economic opportunity, the increased price of crops, and the newly gained accessibility of the eastern border region.

To do this, we take for granted that is meromorphic in the half-plane, and is analytic there except for a simple pole at, and that there is a product formula for This product formula follows from the existence of unique prime factorization of integers, and shows that is never zero in this region, so that its logarithm is defined there and Write ; then

Unlike large limestone areas such as Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, or the Bahamas, which is a small island group composed of coral and sand, St. Lucia is a typical Windward Island formation of volcanic rock that came into existence long after much of the region had already been formed.

It is certain that the region has been inhabited since prehistoric times, although evidence of the existence of a community on Mount Titano dates back only to the Middle Ages.

The oldest known mention of their existence in the region by the exonym Siamese is in a 12th century A. D. inscription at the Khmer temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, which refers to syam, or " dark brown " people.

The bhavacakra ( Sanskrit ; Pali: bhavacakka ; Tibetan: srid pa ' i ' khor lo ) is a symbolic representation of samsara ( or cyclic existence ) found on the outside walls of Tibetan Buddhist temples and monasteries in the Indo-Tibet region.

Myers speculated on the existence of a deep region of the unconscious ( collective unconscious ) or what he termed the “ subliminal self ” which he believed could account for paranormal events.

The existence ( there is little archeological evidence pertaining to the issue ) and the role of Gija in Korean history ( whether Gija replaced the central government of an existing state, founded the first Korean state, or was ensconced in a peripheral region ) became controversial in the 20th century.

Since the name Marakanda was already in existence 2300 years ago and long before anyone had heard of Turks in that region of Transoxiana, this version is likely a folk etymology.

The main political and military events during the first decades of the kingdom's existence took place in this region.

Aside from laments about loves lost, interpersonal tensions and unwanted changes to the region ( e. g., the visible effects of mountaintop coal mining ), bluegrass vocals frequently reference the hard-scrabble existence of living in Appalachia and other rural areas with modest financial resources.

However, even if such a region existed, it could still not be referred to as " nothing ", since it has properties and a measurable existence as part of the quantum-mechanical vacuum.

Had the imperial armies dominated this region, France's very existence would have been endangered, as it would have been encircled by Habsburg territories.

Although the level of the Aral Sea has fluctuated over its existence, the most recent level drop was caused by the former Soviet Union building massive irrigation projects in the region.

Even so, it is only a couple of metres above the surrounding region, which consists of some of the oldest polders in existence.