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Mount Adam (other)
Mount Adam may refer to: * Mount Adam, Sri Lanka * Mount Adam (Antarctica) * Mount Adam (British Columbia) * Mount Adam, Falkland Islands See also *Mount Adams (other) Mount Adams most often refers to: * Mount Adams (Washington) (3,743 m), a volcano in the Cascades and second highest mountain in the Washington state Other mountains * Mount Adams (New Hampshire) (1,760 m) in the White Mountains near Mount Washingt ...
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Mount Adam, Sri Lanka
Adam's Peak is a conical Sacred mountains, sacred mountain located in central Sri Lanka.Capper, Daniel (2022), ''Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World,'' Cornell University Press. It is well known for the ''Sri Pada'' (; ), a rock formation near the summit whose name is also Pars pro toto, used for the mountain itself. In Buddhism, Buddhist tradition the print is held to be the footprint of the Buddha, in Sri Lankan Hinduism, Hindu tradition that of Hanuman or Shiva (its Tamil name, , ''Sivanolipaathamalai'', means 'Mountain of Shiva's Light'), and in some Islamic and Christianity, Christian traditions that of Adam or St Thomas the Apostle. The mountain is also known as Mount Malaya in Buddhist sources, particularly the Mahayana Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, ''Lankavatara Sutra'', which states that the Buddha preached this ''sutra'' on top of the mountain. According to this ''sutra'', the mountain was the abode of Ravana, overlord of the Rakshasas and ruler of ...
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Mount Adam (Antarctica)
Mount Minto () is a lofty, mostly ice-free mountain rising to , located east of Mount Adam in the central portion of the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Discovery and name Mount Minto was discovered in January 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, who named it for Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, then First Lord of the Admiralty. Location Mount Minto is at the head of the Ironside Glacier, which flows southeast, and to the east of the head of the Man-o-War Glacier, which flows west and then south. The Dugdale Glacier receives ice from its north face. Nearby features to the south include Mount Achilles, Wylie Ridge, and Meier Peak. Features to the west include Mount Black Prince, Mount Ajax, Mount Royalist and Mount Adam. Features to the north include Mount Faget and Mount Gilruth. Nearby features Mount Achilles . A prominent pyramidal mountain high rising from the divide between Fitch Glacier and Man-o-War Glacier. Named by N ...
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Mount Adam (British Columbia)
Mount Adam is a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located east of Woss and south of Mount Schoen. in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia See also *List of mountains of Canada Most mountain peaks of Canada lie in the west, specifically in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon. Mountains can be found all over British Columbia while those in Alberta are mainly situated on the eastern side of the Canadian Rockies. The ... References External links * Adam, Mount One-thousanders of British Columbia Rupert Land District {{BritishColumbiaCoast-mountain-stub ...
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Mount Adam, Falkland Islands
Mount Adam (Spanish language, Spanish: "Monte Independencia/Monte Beaufort") is a mountain on West Falkland, part of the Hill Cove Mountains range. It is the highest mountain on West Falkland and is the second highest in the islands. It has the remains of glacial cirques on it, and is only lower than Mount Usborne, the highest peak of the Falkland Islands on East Falkland. Its summit is at . It is south west of Mount Edgeworth. The closest settlements are Hill Cove to the North, and Chartres, Falkland Islands, Chartres to the South. As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced some glaciation. The handful of mountains over have: :''"pronounced Cirque, corries with small glacial lakes at their bases, moraine, morainic ridges deposited below the corries suggest that the glaciers and ice domes were confined to areas of maximum elevation with other parts of the islands experiencing a periglacial climate''"Strange, Ian (1983) ''The Falkland Islands'' Reference ...
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