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The mountain is also home to several Hindu temples, including the Adhar Devi Temple ( also known as Arbuda Devi Temple ), carved out of solid rock ; the Shri Raghunathji Temple ; and a shrine and temple to Dattatreya built atop the Guru Shikhar peak and a number of Jain temples including Dilwara Temples, a complex of temples carved of white marble that was built between the 11th and 13th centuries AD.
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Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.
The only natural World Heritage Sites is the Tassili n ' Ajjer, a mountain range.
The western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans ) in California is largely aquatic and depends heavily on two species of frog that are diminishing in numbers, the Yosemite toad ( Bufo canorus ) and the mountain yellow-legged frog ( Rana muscosa ), putting the snake's future at risk.
The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.
The principal feature of the bathymetry ( bottom topography ) is a submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The group is named after the Altai Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia.
Access inland from the coast is limited to a few narrow valleys because mountain ridges.
Eastern Anatolia, where the Pontus and Taurus mountain ranges converge, is rugged country with higher elevations, a more severe climate, and greater precipitation than are found on the Anatolian Plateau.
A central massif composed of uplifted blocks and downfolded troughs, covered by recent deposits and giving the appearance of a plateau with rough terrain, is wedged between two folded mountain ranges that converge in the east.
Mont Blanc spans the French – Italian border, and at is the highest mountain in the Alps.
An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.
Much of the Alpine culture is unchanged since the medieval period when skills that guaranteed survival in the mountain valleys and in the highest villages became mainstays, leading to strong traditions of carpentry, woodcarving, baking and pastry-making, and cheesemaking.
Haymaking is an important farming activity in mountain villages which has become somewhat mechanized recent years, although the slopes are so steep that usually scythes are necessary to cut the grass.
If one looks at the fields around the Deserted Village and right up the mountain, one can see the tracks in the fields of ' lazy beds ', which is the way crops like potatoes were grown.
The plateau is masked by intermediate mountain ranges and extinct volcanoes.
landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range
The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a wooden natural horn of conical bore, having a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and elsewhere.
On the border of Sweden is a mountain range running from northeast to southwest.
* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.
Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.
In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.
It is located in the western part of the Nova Scotia peninsula, formed by a trough between two parallel mountain ranges along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.
A common theme is a mountain which blocked the Sun, but on the right day would allow the tiniest fraction to re-emerge on the other side for a ' double sunset '.
In cases where the density of the air is significantly different from the calibration value ( as on a high mountain, or with an exceptionally low barometer ) an allowance must be made.
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Boolying was also carried out in other areas of Achill, including Annagh on Croaghaun mountain and in Curraun.
Through analysis of various strontium isotopes, archaeologists have realized that much of the timber that composes Chacoan construction came from a number of distant mountain ranges, indicative also of the Chaco Road's economic significance.
Adiabatic heating also occurs in the Earth's atmosphere when an air mass descends, for example, in a katabatic wind or Foehn or chinook wind flowing downhill over a mountain range.
Forests also occur on the humid slopes of mountain ranges up to a certain elevation.
* Sorbus aucuparia, also known as European mountain ash
Anoa, also known as midget buffalo and sapiutan, are a subgenus of Bubalus comprising two species native to Indonesia: the mountain anoa ( Bubalus quarlesi ) and the lowland anoa ( Bubalus depressicornis ).
Owing to the complete absence of mountain building and glaciation since the Permian ( in many areas since the Cambrian ) ages, the outback is extremely rich in iron, aluminium, manganese and uranium ores, and also contains major deposits of gold, nickel, iron, lead and zinc ores.
Linear-pull brake, also known by the Shimano trademark: V-Brake, on rear wheel of a mountain bike
Bicycle suspensions are used primarily on mountain bicycles, but are also common on hybrid bicycles, and can even be found on some road bicycles, as they can help deal with problematic vibration.
While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Spain, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, * bar and * cin ( the latter of which is also seen in the name of Mont Cenis ).
* The Remarkables, New Zealand – mountain range containing a peak also called Ben Nevis.
Fonni is also the gateway to the Gennargentu mountain system
Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.
The most modern, and at the same time the longest Croatian tunnel, is also along the A1: the Mala Kapela Tunnel ( length 5, 780 m ), which passes through the Mala Kapela mountain range.
In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.
* The Cobbler, a mountain located near the head of Loch Long in Scotland, also known as " Ben Arthur "
11 of the Act also provided that the issuance of bonds " shall be treble the number per mile " ( to $ 48, 000 ) for tracked grade completed over and within the two mountain ranges ( but limited to a total of at this rate ), and " doubled " ( to $ 32, 000 ) per mile of completed grade laid between the two mountain ranges.
Domitian is also credited on the easternmost Roman evidence known, the rock inscription near Boyukdash mountain, in present-day Azerbaijan.
* Appalachian dulcimer, a fretted, plucked musical instrument which is also referred to as a " mountain dulcimer ", " lap dulcimer ", " fretted dulcimer ", or " hog fiddle "
Item, take note that this office calls for excellency of life, so that just as the preacher speaks from a raised position, so he may also preach the Gospel from the mountain of an excellent life "
Fascism, sitting on the right, could also have sat on the mountain of the center ...
It is also known for its nearby downhill mountain bike track.
In " Gridlock ", the Doctor also mentions vast mountain ranges situated on Gallifrey, " with fields of deep red grass, capped with snow ".
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