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Terrible Mountain (other)
Terrible Mountain or Mount Terrible may refer to: * Terrible Mountain (Colorado) * Terrible Mountain (Vermont) * Mount Terrible (New South Wales), a mountain within the Great Dividing Range, in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia * Mount Terrible (Victoria), a mountain within the Great Dividing Range, Victoria, Australia See also * Mont Terri, Switzerland, known as Mont Terrible during Napoleonic times * Mont-Terrible Mont-Terrible was a department of the First French Republic, with its seat at Porrentruy. The Mont Terrible for which the department was named is now known as , a peak of 804 metres near Courgenay (now in the canton of Jura, Switzerland). The ...
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Terrible Mountain (Colorado)
Terrible Mountain is a summit in Gunnison County, Colorado, in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori .... With an elevation of , Terrible Mountain is the 1,337th highest summit in the state of Colorado. References Mountains of Gunnison County, Colorado Mountains of Colorado {{Colorado-geo-stub ...
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Terrible Mountain (Vermont)
Terrible Mountain is a summit in Windsor County, Vermont, in the United States. With an elevation of , Terrible Mountain is the 214th highest summit in the state of Vermont. Terrible Mountain was likely so named by early settlers due to its terrain. Accident On March 19, 1968, a Beechcroft G18S crashed into Terrible Mountain, killing all 7 people on board, 2 pilots and 5 passengers. The passengers were executives from the Jones and Lamson Company based in Springfield, VT and were flying on a private flight from Bridgeport, CT Bridgeport is the most populous city and a major port in the U.S. state of Connecticut. With a population of 148,654 in 2020, it is also the fifth-most populous in New England. Located in eastern Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnock ... to Springfield, VT. The pilot had knowingly attempted to fly through foggy conditions with faulty instrumentation. The wreckage of the plane was never cleared, and still sits on top of the mountain. There is ...
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Mount Terrible (New South Wales)
Terrible Mountain or Mount Terrible may refer to: * Terrible Mountain (Colorado) * Terrible Mountain (Vermont) * Mount Terrible (New South Wales), a mountain within the Great Dividing Range, in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia * Mount Terrible (Victoria), a mountain within the Great Dividing Range, Victoria, Australia See also * Mont Terri, Switzerland, known as Mont Terrible during Napoleonic times * Mont-Terrible Mont-Terrible was a department of the First French Republic, with its seat at Porrentruy. The Mont Terrible for which the department was named is now known as , a peak of 804 metres near Courgenay (now in the canton of Jura, Switzerland). The ...
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Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills, that runs roughly parallel to the east coast of Australia and forms the fifth-longest land-based mountain chain in the world, and the longest entirely within a single country. It is mainland Australia's most substantial topographic feature and serves as the definitive watershed for the river systems in eastern Australia, hence the name. The Great Dividing Range stretches more than from Dauan Island in the Torres Strait off the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through Queensland and New South Wales, then turning west across Victoria before finally fading into the Wimmera plains as rolling hills west of the Grampians region. The width of the Range varies from about to over .Shaw, John H., ''Col ...
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Mount Terrible (Victoria)
Mount Terrible (Taungurung: ''Warrambat'') is a mountain within the Great Dividing Range, located to the south-west of Kevington in Victoria, Australia. The mountain is located within the Mount Terrible Natural Features and Scenic Reserve. Location and features Its peak is and affords excellent views. A fire lookout tower was installed in 1962 to replace the Jamieson Lookout. The hut next to the lookout tower burnt down during the night of 8–9 December 2012. Its reconstruction was approved in 2016. It is a steel structure measuring high and has a cabin on top. The tower is utilised for communications by Telstra, Ambulance Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victorian State Emergency Service, LSE Technology and the Upper Goulburn Repeater Association (UHF CB). Access to the summit is via a 4 wheel drive track. The track is rocky, and may be covered by snow in the winter.
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Mont Terri
Mont Terri (804 m) is one of the mountains of the Jura Mountains range. It is located south of Cornol in the Canton of Jura. The mountain can be located 140 km west of Zurich. A prehistoric site, Mont-Terri Castle, is located on the summit. Geological structure The Mont Terri has an anticline structure and is the northernmost anticline of the folded Jura. The sedimentary rock layers of Jurassic age dip 42° into the direction of SSE. The Mont Terri anticline hosts different tunnel infrastructures. A limestone underground quarry was first exploited by room and pillar mining for the "Fabrique de chaux" of Saint Ursanne until the 1980s. The Mont Terri tunnel (4 068 m length) was excavated and constructed between 1988 and 1998 for the Transjuranne A16 motorway. It consists of one single main tube hosting two circulation ways in opposite direction and one security gallery for emergency interventions and escape route in case of fire. The security gallery of smaller diameter ...
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