Yonkers Raceway founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and New York state-approved slots racino located at the intersection of […]
List of articles in "Place" category - Page 4670
Whakaari / White Island
Whakaari/White Island is an active andesite stratovolcano situated 48 km (30 mi) from the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand in the Bay of Plenty. It is […]
Great St Bernard Pass
Great St. Bernard Pass (Fr. Col du Grand-Saint-Bernard It. Colle del Gran San Bernardo) (el. 2469 m.) is the third highest road pass in Switzerland. It connects Martigny in the […]
Chiltern Hills
The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England. They are known locally as the Chilterns. A large portion of the hills was designated officially as an Area […]
Haeinsa
Haeinsa (해인사 海印寺: Temple of the Ocean Mudra) is a head temple of the Jogye Order (대한불교조계종 大韓佛敎 曹溪宗) of Korean Buddhism in the Gaya Mountains (가야산 伽倻山) South Gyeongsang […]
Nevado del Ruiz
The Nevado del Ruiz (Spanish pronunciation: [neβaðo ðel ˈrwis]) also known as La Mesa de Herveo (English: Table of Herveo) or Kumanday in the language of the local pre-Columbian indigenous […]
Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a 1001-acre public park that borders the downtown of Vancouver Canada and is almost entirely surrounded by waters of the Pacific Ocean.The park has a long history […]
Rheinwiesenlager
The Rheinwiesenlager (English: Rhine meadow camps) were a group of 19 camps built in the allied-occupied part of Germany by the U.S. Army to hold captured German soldiers at the […]
Mount Bachelor
Mount Bachelor formerly named Bachelor Butte is a stratovolcano atop a shield volcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range of central Oregon.The Mount Bachelor ski area has […]
Mount Nemrut
Turkey also has a volcano named NemrutNemrut or Nemrud (Turkish: Nemrut Dağı ; Armenian: Նեմրութ լեռ) is a 2134 m (7001 ft) high mountain in southeastern Turkey notable for the […]