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  • Thumbnail for Sloop
    A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement...
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    A kame, or knob, is a glacial landform, an irregularly shaped hill or mound composed of sand, gravel and till that accumulates in a depression on a retreating...
    6 KB (623 words) - 21:28, 26 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Glacial Kame culture
    The Glacial Kame culture was a culture of Archaic people in North America that occupied southern Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana from around 8000...
    4 KB (469 words) - 21:02, 12 December 2022
  • A kame delta (or ice-contact delta, morainic delta) is a glacial landform formed by a stream of melt water flowing through or around a glacier and depositing...
    5 KB (487 words) - 19:12, 5 February 2024
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    Mirny (Russian: Ми́рный, literally "Peaceful") was a 20-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the second ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition...
    6 KB (443 words) - 20:11, 8 February 2024
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    Vostok was a 28-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819–1821, during which Fabian...
    7 KB (559 words) - 18:09, 18 March 2023
  • The Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture (Lime Hollow) is a nature preserve project in Cortland County, New York. It was founded in 1993 as the...
    7 KB (754 words) - 05:01, 29 December 2020
  • Thumbnail for Kettle Moraine State Forest
    The Kettle Moraine State Forest is a state forest in southeastern Wisconsin. The chief feature of the reserve is the Kettle Moraine, a highly glaciated...
    7 KB (598 words) - 03:49, 1 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Inspiration Peak
    Inspiration Peak is a glacial feature of the Leaf Hills Moraines and of Otter Tail County in the U.S. State of Minnesota and is the second highest peak...
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  • Thumbnail for Mansfield Hollow State Park
    Mansfield Hollow State Park is a public recreation area occupying 251 acres (102 ha) of leased lands on the western shore of 500-acre (200 ha) Mansfield...
    4 KB (258 words) - 05:55, 2 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bonheur River Kame Provincial Park
    Bonheur River Kame Provincial Park is an 800-hectare (2,000-acre) provincial nature reserve in Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi)...
    3 KB (228 words) - 23:32, 16 January 2023
  • Minnitaki Kames Provincial Park is a 4,422-hectare (10,930-acre) nature reserve in Ontario, Canada, designated to protect several distinguishing features...
    3 KB (191 words) - 05:34, 8 November 2022
  • The Bennet Lake Esker Kame Complex Conservation Reserve is a Canadian conservation reserve in the townships of Boyle and Guilfoyle, in Cochrane District...
    2 KB (172 words) - 09:27, 13 January 2022
  • Thumbnail for Brown's Lake Bog
    Brown's Lake Bog is a dedicated Ohio state nature preserve owned by The Nature Conservancy. It is one of the few remaining kettle peatlands in the U.S...
    2 KB (102 words) - 19:38, 28 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Kiser Lake Wetlands State Nature Preserve
    Kiser Lake Wetlands State Nature Preserve, or simply Kiser Lake Wetlands, is a 51 acres (21 ha) nature reserve located in Johnson Township, Champaign County...
    6 KB (651 words) - 11:52, 20 February 2022
  • Jackson Bog, or Jackson Bog State Nature Preserve, is a 58 acres (23 ha) State Nature Preserve in northern Stark County, Jackson Township, near the city...
    3 KB (211 words) - 21:02, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tree River
    The Tree River (Kogluktualuk) is a river in Nunavut, Canada. It flows into Coronation Gulf, an arm of the Arctic Ocean. Glacial landforms, such as a kame...
    3 KB (178 words) - 18:41, 28 January 2023
  • Kingfisher was a sloop engaged in merchant trading out of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to First Nations peoples around Vancouver Island and adjoining...
    3 KB (176 words) - 07:07, 30 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Spanish sloop Jorge Juan
    Jorge Juan was a Jorge Juan-class sloop of the Spanish Navy which was sunk off Cuba during the Spanish–American War. Jorge Juan was built at La Seyne in...
    5 KB (276 words) - 11:45, 21 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Texan sloop-of-war Austin
    The Texan sloop-of-war Austin was the flagship of the Second Texas Navy from 1840 to 1846. Commanded by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore, she led a flotilla...
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