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Old Sow is the largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere, located off the southwestern shore of Deer Island, New Brunswick, Canada, and off the northeast shore of Moose Island, the principal island of Eastport, Maine.
Origin
The whirlpool is caused by local bathymetry and a 20-foot (6.1 m) tidal range[1] where waters exchange between Passamaquoddy Bay and the Bay of Fundy, combined with the topography of the location's sea floor at the confluence of the numerous local currents through channels and over small sea mounts.[2]
The whirlpools form in an area with a diameter of approximately 250 feet (76 m), as determined by the president of the Old Sow Whirlpool Survivors' Association in 1997 by way of an aerial photograph
Check out this Smithsonian link. This baby is not be messed with!
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Origin
The whirlpool is caused by local bathymetry and a 20-foot (6.1 m) tidal range[1] where waters exchange between Passamaquoddy Bay and the Bay of Fundy, combined with the topography of the location's sea floor at the confluence of the numerous local currents through channels and over small sea mounts.[2]
The whirlpools form in an area with a diameter of approximately 250 feet (76 m), as determined by the president of the Old Sow Whirlpool Survivors' Association in 1997 by way of an aerial photograph
Check out this Smithsonian link. This baby is not be messed with!
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Took this in 2011. The Million Dollar Highway in Colorado:
Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey (Manche, Normandy)
The Cuernos del Paine in Chile are part of the Andes Mountain range.
Was in Santiago, Chile in 2008, but was unable to go further south at the time. Still, the Andes are right there and the city sits at the foot of them. They’re gigantic.
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Lake Titicaca is a large freshwater lakein the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. By both volume of water and by surface area, it is the largest lake in South America.
I know I’m preaching to East, Midwest and Canadian choirs, but this is really needed out here in Sierra Nevada Mountains and ski resorts. Recent photos. Our California and western Nevada
water supply
Photo taken from Long Beach, California. Our local mountain communities received over 10-11 feet of snow from the recent storm. Here in SoCal, we are not set up with an infrastructure to handle this much snow and people in the mountain communities have been stranded without food and medical supplies for as long as 10 days. The National Guard has now been called up to assist with the dig out. That said, it makes for some awesome photos from down here at sea level.
