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Clues: 1. This glacial lake is surrounded by two shrinking glaciers, one that shares the name of the lake and one that sounds like something that would appear in a house, rather than in nature. 2. In the mid-1800s, a British surveyor named a dominating volcanic mountain peak in the park after a famous 19th century Italian soldier; the park now shares the name with the peak. 3. The main hiking trail leading up to this lake ascends 1,200 meters (almost 4,000 feet) over 7 kilometers (about 4.4 miles), and passes a 300-meter-high (nearly 1,000-foot-high) waterfall along the way. Legend has it that loggers and fishermen created the trail hundreds of years ago.
Name the lake and park. Scroll down for the answer |
| Answer: Check back next month for the answer to and winners of the April Where on Earth? in Geotimes. |
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Clues: 1. This waterfall is the most popular attraction in the second oldest national park in the host country. The national park used to be a manor farm, and the estate was later owned by a church and then royalty. Ruins of a farmhouse still remain in the park. 2. The river and waterfall cut through broad columns of basalt, which can be seen surrounding the falls in the shape of an ampitheater. It is from the basalt that the waterfall gets its name, not the color of the water. 3. An overlook on the main trail to the waterfall offers broad views of an outwash plain that has evidence of many glacial floods caused by volcanic activity.
Name the waterfall and its location. Scroll down for the answer |
| Answer: Svartifoss Falls, also known as “black waterfall” for the large columns of basalt behind and flanking the falls, is located in Skaftafell National Park in southern Iceland. Skaftafell was a manor farm and local assembly site in the Middle Ages, and the farmhouse still remains. Photo by Peter Gill. |
March 2005
Winners
Karen Berry (Wheat Ridge, Colo.)
Christine Bevc (Boulder, Colo.)
Peter Forman (Altamont, N.Y.)
Julian Gray (Marietta, Ga.)
Paul Hoskin (Ellensburg, Wash.)
Eloise Kendy (Helena, Mont.)
Joshua Rosenfeld (Granbury, Texas)
Scott Salentine (Wauwatosa, Wis.)
Richie Williams (West Falmouth, Mass.)
James Zambito (Buffalo, N.Y.)
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