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Clues: 2. Cretaceous seas left behind the sandstone that makes up these cliffs, which are now part of a national park. The same sandstone was used to build a famous gate located in this country's current capital city. 3. The bombing of a nearby city inspired a 1969 novel that was turned into a movie in 1972.
Name the park and the region. Scroll down for the answer |
| Answer: Both the park and the region are known as Saxon Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz), which is located in Germany just southeast of Dresden (the firebombing of which in February 1945 killed over 130,000 people and was the subject of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5) on the border with the Czech Republic. The gate built of the Elbe sandstone is the Brandenburger Tor, symbol of German reunification in 1989. |
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Clues: 1. Located in a World Heritage Site, this location is part of the largest protected area in the world, straddling the border between two nations. 2. It is believed to be the site of the largest Neoglacial ice-dammed lake in the world. The ice-dammed lake filled and emptied numerous times; the most recent significant lake formed in the 1800s and, when the ice dam burst, drained 40 cubic kilometers of water in a two-day period. 3. The glacier was named for the president of an academic institution that is the oldest on its continent. Name the glacier. Scroll down for the answer |
| Answer: Alsek River, Lowell Glacier. Clues and photo submitted by Paul Butler, Olympia, Wash. |
December Winners
1. John Atkinson (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
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