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Snake Valley (Great Basin))
Snake Valley may refer to: * Snake Valley, Victoria, Australia * Snake Valley, Alberta, Canada * Snake Valley (band) * Snake Valley (Great Basin) Snake Valley is a north-south trending valley that straddles the Nevada–Utah border in the central Great Basin. It is bound by the Snake Range and the Deep Creek Mountains to the west and the Confusion Range to the east. The valley is the gatewa ..., a valley partially in Nevada and Utah, United States * Snake Valley, South Africa {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake Valley, Victoria
Snake Valley is a town in central Western Victoria, Australia, oLinton-Carngham Road west of Ballarat and west of Melbourne, in the Shire of Pyrenees. A post office was opened on 1 March 1859. At the 2016 Census, Snake Valley had a population of 743, up from 329 in 2006. Aboriginal Snake Valley Aborigines inhabited Snake Valley for tens of thousands of years before Europeans arrived. The Carringum balug clan of the Wathaurong are the traditional owners of the land surrounding Snake Valley/Carngham district. The nearby town of Carngham therefore appears to be the name of the Aboriginal clan that originally lived in the area. They called Snake Valley itself ''Nimbuck'' or ''Nimluck'' Religion Snake Valley has churches of five Christian denominations, although not all of them are being used as places of worship. The Anglican Church of Holy Trinity is located on Linton-Carngham Rd and is a part of the Woady Yaloak Mission District, Anglican Diocese of Ballarat. The Catholic St B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake Valley, Alberta
Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads ( cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs about twenty-five times independently via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake Valley (band)
Snake Valley were an Australian music group from Ballarat who took their name from the regional Victorian Victorian or Victorians may refer to: 19th century * Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign ** Victorian architecture ** Victorian house ** Victorian decorative arts ** Victorian fashion ** Victorian literature ... town Snake Valley. History Snake Valley were formed in 2018 in Ballarat, Victoria. According to Matthew Martin, their name was chosen based on the town Snake Valley just outside their hometown In Ballarat with Martin saying "It comes from the name of a little town just outside Ballarat where we are from. We were driving past it one day when I was going to work and our guitarist Lachie pointed it out as a sick name, we brought it to the table and it just stuck." After relocating to Melbourne, the band released their first full studio album, Giddy Up! was released in September 2020 under the Red Cave Records label digitally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake Valley (Great Basin)
Snake Valley is a north-south trending valley that straddles the Nevada–Utah border in the central Great Basin. It is bound by the Snake Range and the Deep Creek Mountains to the west and the Confusion Range to the east. The valley is the gateway to Great Basin National Park and Lehman Caves, which are located in the western part of the valley and on the southern Snake Range. People Though it is relatively isolated from civilization today, the human presence in Snake Valley goes back 12,000 years. The oldest accessible evidence of this is the Baker Archeological Site, a Fremont culture habitat maintained by the BLM. Current communities in the valley include Baker in Nevada and Garrison, Burbank, Eskdale, Callao, Partoun, Trout Creek, Gandy, and Border in Utah. Today, the main industries in the valley are farming and ranching, especially sheep ranching. Water Snake Valley is noted for a water project involving the Las Vegas Valley, that would target the underlying Basin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
