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5 days ago · The Rocky Mountains of North America, or the Rockies, stretch from northern Alberta and British Columbia in Canada southward to New Mexico in the United States, a distance of some 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometres). In places the system is 300 or more miles wide.
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Rocky Mountains, mountain range forming the cordilleran...
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Montana, constituent state of the United States of...
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The human presence in the Rocky Mountains has been dated to...
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Rocky Mountain Trench, geological depression extending...
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5 days ago · Lookout Mountain, narrow southwestern ridge of the Cumberland Plateau and a segment of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S., extending south-southwestward for 75 miles (120 km), from Moccasin Bend, Tennessee, on the Tennessee River across northwestern Georgia to Gadsden, Alabama.
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3 days ago · Andes Mountains, South American mountain system that contains the highest peaks in the Western Hemisphere. One of Earth’s great natural features, the Andes form an unbroken rampart over some 5,500 miles—from the southern tip of South America to the continent’s northernmost coast on the Caribbean.
2 days ago · Denali ( Mount McKinley) PB, highest summit of the Alaska Range, the State of Alaska, the United States of America, and all of North America. Devils Paw PB. Devils Prongs. Dike Mountain. Dillingham High Point PB. Dillon Mountain. Divide Mountain. Donoho Peak. Double Mountain.
4 days ago · Locust: The Opera tells the story of the Rocky Mountain locust ( Melanoplus spretus ), which formed a swarm covering nearly 200,000 square miles in 1875, was ripe for transformation into a commensurately grand form. Perhaps even more remarkable than the breathtaking scale of its outbreaks was its sudden disappearance, with the last living ...
3 days ago · This, despite the fact one of the most momentous historical events as it pertains to the ground we’re standing on happened 176 years ago, on May 30, 1848, when the countries of Mexico and the United States ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In the treaty, which followed two years of war, Mexico ceded to America what is known as the ...
4 days ago · Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...
