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Gros Ventre Range
The Gros Ventre Range ( ) is part of the Central Rocky Mountains and is located west of the Continental Divide in U.S. state of Wyoming. The highest summit in the range is Doubletop Peak at . The Gros Ventre Range is mostly within the Gros Ventre Wilderness of Bridger–Teton National Forest. To the northwest of the range lies the valley known as Jackson Hole. Snow King ski resort is in the range adjacent to the town of Jackson, Wyoming. Also in the Gros Ventre Range is the Gros Ventre landslide, which in 1925 slid down the north slope of Sheep Mountain. Tallest peaks in the range *1. Doubletop Peak *2. Black Peak *3. Darwin Peak *4. Antoinette Peak *5. Tosi Peak *6. Sheep Mountain *7. Gros Peak *8. Pinnacle Peak *9. Jackson Peak Jackson Peak is a peak, 1,255 m, standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Sumrall Peak in the Cordiner Peaks, Pensacola Mountains in Antarctica. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheep Mountain (Teton County, Wyoming)
Sheep Mountain () is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Sheep Mountain forms a long ridge in the Gros Ventre Range and is easily seen from Jackson Hole. The town of Jackson is southwest of the peak. The southern end of Sheep Mountain is above the tree line and consists of rocky cliffs that are referred to as the "Sleeping Indian" due to their appearance as viewed from Jackson Hole. Sheep Mountain is in the Gros Ventre Wilderness of Bridger–Teton National Forest. At the northern end of Sheep Mountain is the location of the Gros Ventre landslide. In 1996, a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane carrying an automobile and equipment outbound from Jackson Hole crashed into Sheep Mountain, killing a U.S. Secret Service agent and eight Air Force personnel. The cargo plane was transporting equipment to another destination after U.S. President Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Peak (Wyoming) , Black Peak in Romansh, a mountain of the Albula Alps in Switzerland
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Black Peak may refer to the following mountains: * Black Peak (Vitosha), in the Vitosha Massif, Bulgaria * Black Peak (Šar Mountains), in the Šar Mountains, Kosovo * Black Peak (Pohorje), in the Pohorje mountains, Slovenia * Black Peak (Alaska), a volcano in Alaska, US * Black Peak (Chigmit Mountains), in Alaska, US * Black Peak (Washington), in the Cascade Range, Washington State, US * Kalanag, also known as Black Peak, in the Himalayas * Piz Nair Piz Nair () is a mountain of the Albula Alps in Switzerland, overlooking St. Moritz in the canton of Graubünden. The peak is easily accessible from the village with a funicular and a cable car; the upper station unloads below the summit. Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of Teton County, Wyoming
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Leidy
Mount Leidy is a summit in Teton County, Wyoming, in the United States. With an elevation of , Mount Leidy is the 424th highest summit in the state of Wyoming. The mountain was named for Joseph Leidy Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist. Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore ..., an American paleontologist. References Leidy Leidy {{Wyoming-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Peak (Wyoming)
Jackson Peak is a peak, 1,255 m, standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Sumrall Peak in the Cordiner Peaks, Pensacola Mountains in Antarctica. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1956–66. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Allen M. Jackson, aviation electronics technician, Ellsworth Station Ellsworth Scientific Station ( es, Estación Científica Ellsworth, or simply ''Estación Ellsworth'' or ''Base Ellsworth'') was a permanent, all year-round originally American, then Argentine Antarctic scientific research station named after Ame ... winter party, 1957. Mountains of Queen Elizabeth Land Pensacola Mountains {{QueenElizabethLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinnacle Peak (Wyoming)
Pinnacle Peak may refer to: Mountains United States * Pinnacle Peak (Arizona), in Scottsdale * Pinnacle Peak (Montana), a mountain in Powell County * Pinnacle Peak (King County, Washington), in the Cascade Range * Pinnacle Peak (Lewis County, Washington), in Mount Rainier National Park * Pinnacle Peak (Whatcom County, Washington), in North Cascades National Park Other countries * Pinnacle Peak (Yukon), in the Saint Elias Mountains, Canada * Pinnacle Peak (Ladakh), in Jammu and Kashmir, India Other uses * Pinnacle Peak Pictures Pinnacle Peak Pictures (formerly Pure Flix Entertainment) is an American evangelical Christian film industry, Christian film production company, production and distribution company, distribution studio founded by David A. R. White and Russell Wo ..., an American evangelical Christian film studio See also * Pinnacle (other) * The Pinnacles (other) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gros Peak
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Gros may refer to: People *Gros (surname) * Gross (surname), the German variant of Gros * Le Gros, the Norman variant of Gros Other uses * Gros (coinage), a type of 13th-century silver coinage of France * Gros (grape), another name for Elbling, a variety of white grape * Groș, a village of the city of Hunedoara, Transylvania, Romania * General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) See also * Gros Morne (other) * * Gross (other) * Grosz (other) Grosz may refer to: * Grosz, a coin valued as a hundredth of a Polish złoty * Kraków grosz, 14th-century coins of Kraków * Grosz (surname) See also * Gros (other) * Gross (other) Gross may refer to: Finance *Gross Cash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tosi Peak
Tosi may refer to: * Tosi (Nepal) People * Adelaide Tosi (c. 1800–1859), Italian operatic soprano * Alessandro Tosi (born 2001), Sammarinese footballer * Anahi Tosi (born 1998), Argentine female volleyball player * Arturo Tosi (1871–1956), Italian painter * Christina Tosi (born 1981), chef and co-owner of Momofuku Milk Bar * Eugenio Tosi (1864–1929), Italian Cardinal, archbishop of Milan * Fausto Tosi (born 1962), Italian weightlifter * Flavio Tosi (born 1969), Italian politician * Flavio Tosi (American football) (1912–1994), American football end * Franco Tosi (1850–1898), Italian engineer * Giuseppe Felice Tosi (1619–c. 1693), Italian composer and organist * Giuseppe Tosi (1916–1981), Italian athlete * John Tosi (1913–2002), American football offensive lineman * Laurence Tosi (born 1968), Founder/Managing Partner WestCap Group, former CFO Blackstone, Airbnb * Luca Tosi (born 1992), San Marino international footballer * Luigi Tosi (1915-2001), Italian a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoinette Peak
Antoinette is a given name, that is a diminutive feminine form of Antoine and Antonia (from Latin ''Antonius''). People with the name include: Nobles * Antoinette de Maignelais, Baroness of Villequier by marriage (1434–1474), mistress of Charles VII of France and later of Francis II, Duke of Brittany * Antoinette de Bourbon (1493–1583) * Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1696–1762) * Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1779–1824) * Antoinette de Mérode (1828–1864), Princess of Monaco * Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg (1838–1908) * Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy (1920–2011) Artists and entertainers * Antoinette de Beaucaire (1840–1865), Occitan language poet * Antoinette Beumer (born 1962), Dutch film director * Antoinette Bower (born 1932), German-born British actress * Antoinette Cellier (1913–1981), English actress * Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières (1638–1694), French poet * Antoinette Halloran, Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin Peak
Darwin may refer to: Common meanings * Charles Darwin (1809–1882), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection * Darwin, Northern Territory, a territorial capital city in Australia Arts and entertainment * ''Darwin'' (1920 film), a German silent film * ''Darwin'' (2011 film), a documentary * ''Darwin'' (2015 film), a science fiction film by Alain Desrochers * Darwin (''seaQuest DSV''), a dolphin in the TV series ''seaQuest DSV'' * ''Darwin!'', a 1972 album by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso * '' Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist'', a 1991 biography of Charles Darwin * Darwin (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe associated with the X-Men * Darwin Watterson, a character from the 2011 TV series ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' Astronomy * 1991 Darwin, a main-belt asteroid * Darwin (lunar crater) * Darwin (Martian crater) * Darwin (spacecraft), a European Space Agen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gros Ventre Landslide
The Gros Ventre landslide ( ) is in the Gros Ventre Wilderness of Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, United States. The Gros Ventre landslide is east of Jackson Hole valley and Grand Teton National Park. The landslide occurred on June 23, 1925, following melt from a heavy snowpack, several weeks of heavy rain, and earthquake tremors in the area. Approximately of primarily sedimentary rock slid down the north face of Sheep Mountain, crossed over the Gros Ventre River and rode up the opposite mountainside a distance of . The landslide created a large dam over high and wide across the Gros Ventre River, backing up the water and forming Lower Slide Lake. On May 18, 1927, part of the landslide dam failed, resulting in a massive flood that was deep for at least downstream. The small town of Kelly, downstream, was wiped out, killing six people. It is one of the world's largest known examples of recent mass wasting events aside from volcanic eruptions. Slide Lake is now m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in the southwestern United States. Depending on differing definitions between Canada and the U.S., its northern terminus is located either in northern British Columbia's Terminal Range south of the Liard River and east of the Trench, or in the northeastern foothills of the Brooks Range/ British Mountains that face the Beaufort Sea coasts between the Canning River and the Firth River across the Alaska-Yukon border. Its southernmost point is near the Albuquerque area adjacent to the Rio Grande rift and north of the Sandia–Manzano Mountain Range. Being the easternmost portion of the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are distinct from the tectonically younger Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada, which both lie farther to its we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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