Now I am guessing....It has to be on the coast....Ketchikan?
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Now I am guessing....It has to be on the coast....Ketchikan?
I know the answer but let Ms Carolina get it....besides all my questions are too estoeric for the cars nuts around here
Good grief. Taz and I have given enough hints.
One last hint. When Alaska was part of Russia this place was the capital of Alaska.
Sitka....I remember seeing that once...
:up: Give that man a cigar :s mokin: Your up dude :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
and so how few people live there, taz?
Finally. And it took a Cdn.
What was that about Sarah Palin and lack of knowledge.
One of Louis L'Amour's longer historical fiction books involved the Alaska purchase and the title was Sitka.
but the swamp? i think not notQuote:
Originally Posted by Easy Drifter
Ok....let me think...
Name the river that in 1889 killed over 2000 people?
AS for it taking a Canadian, I had read a book on Captain Cook and all the places he went to and there was a chapter on the Russians beating him to Alaska and Sitka was mentioned as their capital. Drifter's clue twigged the memory.
"Monongahela"
I have no Idea but I really enjoy saying that word :crazy:
Nope...no clues yet either...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tazio
I suspect the Johnstown flood. I also think Johnstown was/is in Pa. but darned if I can name the river.
I know the Susquehanna is prone to flooding but I don't remember Johnstown as being on it and I have been along most of it.
My wild guess was actually pretty close
The event is Johnstown but there are about 100 creeks in Western Penn they call "Rivers"
That is going to be a tough one.
BTW not a high point in American History
Kind of like Katrina :down:
it was a lake and a dam that broke that caused the flood;
Me and Sarah P can not remember the name of the river that was dammed
Difference between Katrina and the flood was a hurricane did contribute to the former, the latter was all man made and the result of stupidity and/or greed when it came to the dam and its maintenance
But speaking of lawyers, of course they swooped in but found the pickings difficult based on then prevalent american law, but it did provide the incentive to modify american law on matters, where due to the nature of the item, a higher standard could be imposed, for example with elevators, animals known to be vicous, dams and so forth.....leading to the current laws on product liability
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Originally Posted by Tazio
I disagree Taz. Although the rich guys who owned the dammed lake didn't always shower themselves with glory, the story of the rescue efforts and the way the town rebuilt better is a good story.
Still no one has named the river.
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Originally Posted by markabilly
The Dam tho was built in a time when science wasn't perfect, and naivety in operating things such as this dam was commonplace. The 19th century wasn't a good place to expect justice...
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Originally Posted by Tazio
You know the town, you know the catastrophe...figure out the actual river now....
Sorry, I was curiouis to Tazio's las Q so I just had to Google. It was quite misleading. Sitka, similar to other Alaskan cities is considered a consolidated city-county:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...cities_by_area
"The list is headed by consolidated city-counties, where a city comprises the whole area of a county (or equivalent), and so may include significant portions of rural areas or even wilderness. When these cities are removed from consideration, the largest cities are Oklahoma City, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Antonio - all western cities that have had few or no geographical constraints to their expansion..."
even more interesting to me is Sikta is smaller than the Juneau population of 30k-----Sitka has a whole total of about 8,000 people spread over a very large distance......Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
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)
Interesting, I did not know the hasidic followers were old gay guys who hung out on ole brokeback...but they do dress a bit strangeQuote:
Originally Posted by tamburello
Inspires a song, that I hereby dedicate to a real total geo-nut, to the tune of ole smokey....
on top of ole brokeback,
all covered in pink
easy lost his true lover,
for courting too slow....
oh where oh where
can that donKey be
No correct answer yet, if my research is correct.
Schmenke isn't too far away as distance goes.
mount hunter might well be a candidate as it has a number of ridges that extend a great distance, but the problem with that is when does a ridge become part of a mountain and when it is just a ridge?
The everest area is actually one very long, massive mountain ridge that has a number of peaks, such as everest....but for whatever reason, those have been labelled as seperate mountains
Denali has several smaller areas are peaks that appear on its slopes towards the base area, yet they are treated as seperate mountains.
But I still beleive that mouna loa is the winner.
the name means something like gentle slope and if one wanted to count ridges and peaks that may be part of the base as well as a big chunk of the entire island, Loa must still be number one for base and size, esp. given its very gentle slope that makes it a fairly easy climb, notwitstanding your sources unless you are measuring above sea level only..
No point in squabbling over a definition, or our sources.
The mountain I was referring to is Mt. Logan in the Yukon and it is described as having the largest base circumferance of any mountain. It is the 2nd highest in North America and has 11 peaks over 5,000 metres. Apparently it is still growing higher!
Do we agree it is Caroline's turn? :confused:
yep
Don't feel I have earned a question, but here goes. I have a much belated question. :)
Name the only country/nation that does not have a designated official capital city.
Oi! Don't go asking questions in the geography thread which are actually geography related!Quote:
Originally Posted by Caroline
My first guess was something like Liechtenstein, but 'she who must be obeyed' said that Liechtenstein had a capital and it is Vaduz, (she always beats me in capital city questions!).
Sooo, purely having a guess I suggest it may be an island nation in the Pacific like Palau?
My 'she must who must be obeyed' said it's not PalauQuote:
Originally Posted by Camelopard
Then how about Niue?