Dinorwic (locomotive)
Dinorwic, also spelled Dinorwig, is the anglicised form of the Welsh name ''Dinorwig'', a village in Wales. It may also refer to: * Dinorwic quarry, a former slate quarry near Dinorwig, Wales * Dinorwic, Ontario, a community in Canada * Dinorwic (crater), a crater on Mars, named after the Canadian settlement See also * Dinorwig Power Station The Dinorwig Power Station (; ), known locally as Electric Mountain, or Mynydd Gwefru, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, Llanberis in Snowdonia national park in Gwynedd, north Wales. The scheme can supply a maximum power ...

Welsh (language)
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Both the Welsh and English languages are ''de jure'' official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. According to the 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 17.8% (538,300 people) and nearly three quarters of the population in Wales said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 29.7% (899,500) of people aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in June 2022. Almost half of all Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent Welsh speakers and 21 per cent are able to speak a fair amount of Welsh. The Welsh gov ...
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Dinorwig
Dinorwig sometimes spelled Dinorwic ( ; ; ), is a village located high above Llyn Padarn, near Llanberis, in Wales. The name is shared with the fort of Dinas Dinorwig, also within the community of Llanddeiniolen, on a foothill from Dinorwig village and from the Menai Strait and also with Port Dinorwic, the anglicised name of Y Felinheli. Etymology It is thought that the village was part of the territory of the pre-Roman Ordovices tribe. From mediaeval times it has been part of the township, now the community, of Llanddeiniolen. The element ''-orwig'', ''-orweg'' has been thought to derive from the tribal name ''Ordovices''; this idea was rejected by linguist Melville Richards for lack of a sufficiently early record of a form ''*Orddwig.''.Some Welsh place-names containing elements which are found in Continental Celtic. In Études celtiques Année 1972 13-1 pp. 364–410 p. 377 Actes du quatrième congrès international d'études celtiques (Rennes 18-25 juillet 1971) Volume ...
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Dinorwic, Ontario
Dinorwic is an unincorporated settlement in northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is situated at the northern head of the lake with the same name, along the Canadian Pacific Railway and Highway 17 (the Trans-Canada Highway) at the junction of Highway 72. The nearest major community is Dryden, where hospital service is provided. Dinorwic is named after Dinorwic Quarry, a slate quarry in Wales, UK. History Dinorwic was founded when the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was built through the area, and was originally known as Wabigon or Wabigoon. Circa 1881 or 1882, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) established a fur-trade post along the CPR at the mouth of the Wabigoon River. Around the same time, the Eagle Lake Post was relocated nearby. But since the Wabigon Post was situated along the railway, it became more prominent, and until 1884, the clerk at Wabigon was in charge of both posts. Around 1896, the name Wabigoon was transferred to a new community growing on Wabigoon Lake Wabigoo ...
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Dinorwic (crater)
Dinorwic is a Martian impact crater, approximately 51 kilometers in diameter. It is named after the town in Ontario, Canada. Its name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1991.''NASA World Wind'' 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007. According to a surface age map of Mars based on US Geological Survey data, the area around Dinorwic is from the Noachian epoch, which places the area's age at 3.8 to 3.5 billion years ago. At the crater's rim, it is about 7,600 meters above zero altitude, and it is about 5,950 meters above zero altitude at its floor, giving it a depth of 1.6 kilometers. It is located northeast of the crater Virrat Virrat (; sv, Virdois) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, and it is located north of Tampere and west of Jyväskylä. The distance between Virrat and Helsinki is . The town has a population of () and c ... and north of the crater Tugaske. To the northeast of Dinorwic is the crater Caxias, ...
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere (less than 1% that of Earth's), and has a crust primarily composed of elements similar to Earth's crust, as well as a core made of iron and nickel. Mars has surface features such as impact craters, valleys, dunes and polar ice caps. It has two small and irregularly shaped moons, Phobos (moon), Phobos and Deimos (moon), Deimos. Some of the most notable surface features on Mars include Olympus Mons, the largest volcano and List of tallest mountains in the Solar System, highest known mountain in the Solar System and Valles Marineris, one of the largest canyons in the Solar System. The North Polar Basin (Mars), Borealis basin in the Northern Hemisphere covers approximately 40% of the planet and may be a la ...
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