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To the northwest is the crater Scott, a formation of similar dimensions that is named for another Antarctic explorer.
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Dubbed the Canyon Diablo crater – from Canyon Diablo, Arizona, the closest community to the crater in the late 19th century, northwest of the crater, but now a ghost town – it had initially been ascribed to the actions of a volcano.
The natural harbour is the hollow of the principal crater, which, with a depth diminishing from 70 to 30 fathoms ( 130 – 55 m ), strikes in from the northwest so as to separate the island into two fairly equal portions ( see photo ), with an isthmus not more than broad.
The crater Picard is located just to the east of Yerkes, and northwest of Picard is the crater Peirce.
To the northwest of the mare is the Montes Riphaeus mountain range, part of the rim of the buried crater or basin containing the mare.
The eastern edge terminates with the Promontorium Archerusla, to the northwest of the crater Plinius.
Where the mountain range curves up to the northwest, the cup-shaped crater Sulpicius Gallus lies nearby on the lunar mare.
Just to the northwest of this crater, and paralleling the mountains, are the Rimae Sulpicius Gallus.
Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about northwest of Yaoundé.
The crater overlaps a smaller crater formation to the northwest, and Amundsen A is attached to the northern rim.
Some of the ejecta appears to extend as far as the crater Boss, over 300 km to the northwest.
The first eruption was recorded at 1. 05 p. m. when part of the northwest wall of the crater fell apart.
This time a landslide ( avalanche ) took place, too, as a part of the crater wall fell apart on the northwest side.
Anaximander is a lunar crater that is located near the northwest limb of the Moon.
To the northwest a low rise in the surface is all that separated Anaximander from the much larger satellite crater Anaximander B.
The old and heavily eroded crater H. G. Wells is located to the northwest.
Aristarchus is a prominent lunar impact crater that lies in the northwest part of the Moon's near side.
Popular tourist and hiking destinations in the volcanic field include the Kendrick Mountain Wilderness, 20 miles northwest of Flagstaff ; and Sunset Crater, which is particularly popular because it is easily accessible and has interesting horizontal lava flows at the base of the crater.
The crater is located in Natrona County, about 48 miles northwest of Casper, near the center of a geological feature known as the Casper Arch.
Originally called Tindouf, the 3. 5-kilometer wide crater has been heavily eroded since its formation ; however, its circular morphology is highlighted by exposures of older sedimentary rock layers that form roughly northwest to southeast-trending ridgelines.
Naonobu is a small lunar impact crater located on the eastern Mare Fecunditatis, to the northwest of the prominent crater Langrenus.
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* Scott County ( northwest )
* Scott County, Virginia ( northwest )
* Scott County ( northwest )
To the northwest of Dillsboro, Scotts Creek, which flows from Scott Creek Township through Sylva Township into Dillsboro Township, empties into the Tuckasegee River.
* Scott County ( northwest )
Long Grove gets its name from the long, narrow strip of timber, which stretched from Walnut Grove ( northeast of where Scott County Park now lies ) to Allens Grove, several miles to the northwest.
The Town of Scott is on the north border of Cortland County and is northwest of the City of Cortland.
Upper St. Clair Township is bordered by South Fayette Township to the west, Bridgeville to the northwest, Scott Township and Mt.
Winfield Scott Hancock and his identical twin brother Hilary Baker Hancock were born on February 14, 1824, in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, a hamlet just northwest of Philadelphia in present-day Montgomery Township.
Volcanic eruptions apparently ceased on Scott sometime before the end of the Pleistocene ; one remaining large cirque on Scott's northwest side was left unmodified by post-ice age volcanism.
This confluence occurs approximately northwest of the U. S. Highway 27 bridge over the New River, in Scott County, Tennessee.
Scott lies between the similar-sized crater Amundsen to the southeast and Schomberger to the northwest.
There are several crater formations attached to the west and northwest outer rim, the most well-formed of which is the satellite crater Scott E. There is also small crater along the southeast inner wall, and several tiny craterlets across the inner floor.
It flows northwest between the Lyttelton Range and Dunedin Range, turning east on rounding the latter range to enter the sea south of Cape Scott.
It was named by Walter Scott Houston in honor of Father Lucian J. Kemble ( 1922 – 1999 ), a Franciscan Friar and amateur astronomer who wrote a letter to Houston about the asterism, describing it as " a beautiful cascade of faint stars tumbling from the northwest down to the open cluster NGC 1502 " that he had discovered while sweeping the sky with a pair of 7x35 binoculars.
Price then headed northwest with 6, 000 poorly trained and under-equipped guardsmen to capture Fort Scott, Kansas.
The Columbia Bar is part of a set of major marine coastal hazards along the Pacific Northwest coast, including Cape Flattery at the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula and Cape Scott, which is at the north tip of Vancouver Island.
Continuing northwest, Massachusetts enters an underpass below Thomas Circle at 14th and M Streets NW, before curving around Scott Circle at 16th and N Streets NW ; this is considered the starting point of Embassy Row.
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