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Mountains

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Placename note about 'An Cuillioinn', 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/25
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Place-name note collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Lochaline [Loch Àlainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] which reads 'An Cuillionn Rumach the Cuillionn of Rum. An Cuillionn Sgitheanach = the Cuillion of Skye' [An Cuiltheann Rùmach, Ruma/Rum and An Cuiltheann/Cuillin Hills, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. Amendments have been made in ink to the spelling of 'Cuillionn'.

Dates: 7 August 1886

Placename note for hills in Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris, August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/64
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Placename note which reads 'Langa and [-] and the Isean between these two hills in Harris.' [Mullach an Langa, An Cliseam/The Clisham, Na Hearadh]

Dates: August 1886

Reversing Station and Duke's Nose, Poona Ghat, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1115
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Photograph of the [Mumbai-Pune] railway's reversing station, the Duke's Nose, and Poona [Pune] ghat in Pune, India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Royal Institution of Great Britain: Syllabus of a Course of Three Lectures on the Origin of Land-Surfaces by Archibald Geikie, FRS, 1867-1868

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Identifier: Coll-74/8/2
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Syllabus for a series of 3 lectures Sir Archibald Geikie gave to The Royal Insitution of Great Britain in 1869, broadly focusing on valleys, hills and mountains, erosion, geological structure and related subjects.

Dates: 1867-1868

Tap[p]'s Nose, Kasul, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/214
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Photograph of Tap[p]'s Nose in Kasul, [India]. A handwritten note on the slide states, 'Tap[p]'s Nose is the highest peak of the Kasauli ridge and overlooks Kalka.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Great Tasman Glacier - Southern Alps of New Zealand, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3268
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Photograph of the Great Tasman glacier in the southern Alps of New Zealand in 1895.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

View in Melsetter District, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/979
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Photograph of the view in the mountainous Melsetter District in Eastern Zimbabwe in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

[Wild Goats], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3457
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Illustration of three wild goats in the mountains.

Dates: 1870s-1930s