Hells Gate
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Hells Gate refers to several locations:
- In the USA (ordered by state):
- Hells Gate, gap in Cochise County, Arizona
- Hells Gate, gap in Gila County, Arizona
- Hells Gate, gap in Santa Cruz County, Arizona
- Hells Gate, cliff in Eagle County, Colorado
- Hells Gate, channel in Collier County, Florida near Marco Island
- Hells Gate, channel in Camden County, Georgia
- Hells Gate State Park, just outside of Lewiston, Idaho
- Hells Gate, gap in Esmeralda County, Nevada
- Hell Gate, narrow tidal channel in the East River in New York City, United States. It separates Wards Island and Astoria, Queens.
- Hells Gate, gap in Curry County, Oregon
- Hells Gate, channel in Curry County, Oregon
- Hells Gate, channel in Palo Pinto County, Texas
- Hells Gate, a channel of the Columbia River at the mouth of Hells Gate Canyon, in Klickitat County, Washington[1][2]
- Hell Gate, a gorge and former rapids of the Columbia River, located at the mouth of Hell Gate Canyon, 23 miles (37 km) upriver of Grand Coulee Dam; 47°56′13″N 118°36′14″W / 47.93694°N 118.60389°W.[3] Associated with Hellgate Island.[4] Submerged in 1942 under Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, the reservoir of Grand Coulee Dam.
- Rest of the Americas:
- Hell's Gate, British Columbia is the name of a narrow gorge on the Fraser River and also of the associated locality and of a highway tunnel at the same location
- Hell Gate canyon and Hell Gate Rapids on the Liard River in far northern British Columbia
- Hell's Gate, Saba, a village on the Caribbean island of Saba, a special municipality of the Netherlands
- Africa:
- Asia:
- Hell's Gate - also known as The Door to Hell, a region near Derweze(around 40°15′08″N 58°26′23″E / 40.252333°N 58.439750°E) in Turkmenistan where a large cavern has been burning for 35 years
- Hell's Gate or Gates of Hell can also refer to a stretch of road passing through the Himalayas between Nyalam and Zhangmu in Tibet, on the Lhasa - Kathmandu Highway. This stretch of road is known for its hazadous driving conditions and the frequent dangerous rock falls closing it.
- Hell Gate, a place in Nampong on the infamous Ledo Road
- Europe:
- Hell's Gate, a name in local folklore for the Walkington Wold barrow complex in East Yorkshire.
- Oceania:
- Hell's Gate, area of geothermal activity in Rotorua, New Zealand
- Hell's Gates, channel at the mouth of Macquarie Harbour, Western Tasmania, Australia
- Books
- Hell's Gate is a book written by Douglas Hensley, based on the hauntings of Bobby Mackey's Music World.
- Entertainment
- The nickname given to professional wrestler The Undertaker's finisher, which is a form of the Gogoplata
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hells Gate
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hells Gate Canyon
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hell Gate Canyon
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hellgate Island
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