It's hard to think of city and wilderness in the same breath but I guess the question was legitimate. I just looked at the wikipedia site myself. Interesting.
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It's hard to think of city and wilderness in the same breath but I guess the question was legitimate. I just looked at the wikipedia site myself. Interesting.
AT one point the city of Timmins in Northern Ontario was one of those freakish large cities (largest in the world it was thought until the Alaska examples came along) where it was a city surrounded by tons of bush and a few gold mines that came under the cities' jurisdiction.
Anyhow...I will give up my answer since people have to keep moving on and I am going to be back on the road after a short break home here. My answer for my question was the Little Conemaugh River, which was the one dammed up until May 31 in 1899 when it bust out and caused the great Johnstown flood. The story and the events of that day are interesting in that no one seemed to understand the dam let loose and a HOUR later it hit town, where no one seemed to grasp it happened, while there was all sorts of attempts to warn people....
The physics of the damage make you wonder how only 2000 died.....a 60 foot high wall of water and debris coming down a channel for over 12 miles wiping out two small villages on the way down.
Anyhow..someone toss up a question.....
OK I will toss out one more and then let others have a go for a while.
What is generally considered the largest mountain in the world and where is it located? Not the highest but the largest by mass and probably footprint.
Easy stuff easy there is a debate between denali and mount mauna loa
if it is measured above sea level, then denali...if sea level and below are included then loa
hawaii and alaska
although somwhere i read fi you are going from the very bottom of the oceans, there may be some other 'mountains' who are totally submerged who are larger
so i toss it to Caroline if she is not to busy being dannyboy's computer or got banned through him
Wrong. It is mass or footprint.
Isint it one thats under the ocean?
Is it Brokeback mountain?
Oh no, sorry, you said "mass", not "load of old gay tosh"
I went back and checked out my sources and I screwed up with the question.
Markabilly is right on mass,
I should have stuck to footprint and then the answer is different.
Can anyone give the answer on footprint.
I do concur that Caroline should get the next question.
Sorry everyone. :o
Mt McKinley?
Denali is also mt mckinleyQuote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
as to largest footprint, it could be a sister to loa, and that would be mauna kea that is the tallest, but I am not sure.
Problem is that some islands like Hawaii might be considered a mountain in their own right, except hawaii was built by several volcanoes, not just one.
If I ever win a 100 million doallars, I will move there---can not understand old farts like max and benniee, all that money and all they do with it, is go to england (well Max does do somethings in the basement with his money)