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Mount Murray (other)
Mount Murray is a hill on the Isle of Man. Mount Murray may also refer to: *Mount Murray (Alberta), a summit in the Canadian Rockies * Mount Murray (Antarctica), a granite peak in Victoria Land * Mount Murray (British Columbia), in the Murray Range of Hart Ranges, Canada * Mount Murray (New South Wales), a mountain near Robertson, Australia ** Mount Murray railway station, a heritage building on the Unanderra–Moss Vale railway line See also * Murray Mount, a spectator area at the Wimbledon tennis championships *Murray Hill (other) Murray Hill may refer to: Communities and locations * Murray Hill, Kentucky, a small city in Kentucky * Murray Hill, Manhattan, a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City * Murray Hill, Queens, a neighborhood in the borough of Quee ... * Mount George Murray, a mountain in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Murray
Mount Murray is a hill above sea level on the Isle of Man located at the northern end of Santon, near the boundaries with Marown and Braddan parishes. It is named after Lord Henry Murray, 4th Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. Often referred to simply as The Mount and formerly as Cronk Glass ''(green hill),'' Mount Murray is home to the Chibbanagh Plantation and nine of the eighteen holes of the Mount Murray Golf Club. History The hill was originally known as ''Ais Hólt'', meaning Holt's Hill, and giving rise to derivations of the name: ''Ash hole'' (1703), ''Ashold'' (1734) and ''Ashole'' (1739). Several families of the latter name lived in the Castletown area in the 16th century. It was a Norse surname and is still found in Kildare and Wicklow, Ireland. Mount Murray Estate In the early part of the 18th Century the hill and surrounding area was acquired by a Dublin merchant, Richard McGwire, who applied to enclose an area of common land. The estate was subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Murray (Alberta)
Mount Murray is a mountain summit in the Spray Mountains range of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, Canada. The mountain is situated in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park of Kananaskis Country. Its nearest higher peak is Mount French (Alberta), Mount French, to the south-southwest. Mount Murray can be seen from Alberta Highway 742, the Smith-Dorrien/Spray Trail. __NOTOC__ History The mountain was named in 1918 for Archibald Murray, General Sir A. J. Murray, (1860-1945). Murray was a British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War as Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from 1916 to 1917. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1928 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada. Geology Mount Murray is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Climate Based on the Köppe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Murray (Antarctica)
Mount Murray () is a sharp granite peak, high, standing west of Bruce Point on the north side of Mawson Glacier in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mount Murray was first charted by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09 (BrAE) which named it for James Murray, biologist with the expedition. Location Mount Murray is just north of the Mawson Glacier near its mouth on the Ross Sea, to the east. It is northeast of the Walker Rocks, east of Mount Brocklehurst and south of Mount Smith. It is in the Prince Albert Mountains, north of the Kirkwood Range. Nearby features Walker Rocks . A group of high rocks, about in extent, lying southwest of Mount Murray near the mouth of Mawson Glacier. Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1964 for Carson B. Walker, utility man at South Pole Station, 1961. Mount Brocklehurst . Dome-shaped mountain, high, standing north of Mawson Glacier and west of Mount Murray. First charted by the BrAE (1907-0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Murray (British Columbia)
Mount Murray, is a 1,802-metre (5,912-feet) in the Murray Range of Hart Ranges The Hart Ranges are a major subrange of the Canadian Rockies located in northeastern British Columbia and western Alberta. The mountains constitute the southernmost portion of the Northern Rocky Mountains. The Hart Ranges were named in honour ... of Northern British Columbia. The mountain is within the Pine-Lemoray Provincial Park. Named after N.F. Murray, who in 1915 with G.V. Copley, had conducted the first detailed survey and timber reconnaissance in the area for the British Columbia Forest Service. Murray enlisted with the CEF in 1916 and was killed at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917. There is a 8.2 kilometre hiking trail to the summit from Highway 97. References Murray Range Northern Interior of British Columbia One-thousanders of British Columbia Peace River Land District {{BritishColumbiaInterior-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Murray (New South Wales)
Mount Murray is a mountain in New South Wales, Australia with an elevation of above sea level. It is located outside Robertson, New South Wales, Robertson. The mountain is named after George Murray (British Army officer), Sir George Murray. Mount Murray is also the name of a location at the top of the Macquarie Pass on the Illawarra Highway. According to the , it had a population of 54. At the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census, there were 53 residents at Mount Murray. Heritage listings Mount Murray has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Moss Vale–Unanderra railway: Mount Murray railway station References Illawarra escarpment Towns of the Southern Highlands (New South Wales) Wingecarribee Shire {{Australia-geology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Murray Railway Station
Mount Murray is a heritage-listed former railway station in Mount Murray on the Unanderra to Moss Vale railway line in New South Wales, Australia. The station is listed on local and NSW State Heritage Registers as a rare surviving example of small station infrastructure. The platform is located on a passing loop, which is still in use today. History The station was opened with the line on 20 August 1932, as part of the war effort for a long crossing loop for heavy World War II traffic. The platform was constructed from pre-cast concrete and the single small station building was of timber. The crossing loop was reopened and extended to following the installation of CTC in the 1980s. Since September 2008, signalling functions for the crossing loop through the station and the adjoining main line have been managed by ARTC's network control centre in Junee. Description The station precinct consists of a timber wayside station building of a type 13 design with a platform fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Mount
Aorangi Terrace, commonly known as "Henman Hill", alongside a series of other nicknames, is a mostly grassed banked area in the grounds of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club where, during the annual Wimbledon tennis championships, crowds of people without show court tickets can watch the tennis matches live on a giant television screen at the side of No. 1 Court. During television broadcasts of matches, cameras often sweep over the area, and sports journalists frequently conduct vox pops and interviews with members of the crowd. The terrace is also the main site for spectators to eat picnics. Aorangi Terrace's nickname of ''Henman Hill'' emerged in the late 1990s when British supporters would congregate to watch the matches of Tim Henman at the site. The hill is frequently given other alliterative nicknames relating to British players competing at Wimbledon (''Rusedski Ridge'', ''Murray Mound'',' ''Heather Hill'', ''Robson Green'', ''Konta Contour'', ''Raducanu Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Hill (other)
Murray Hill may refer to: Communities and locations * Murray Hill, Kentucky, a small city in Kentucky * Murray Hill, Manhattan, a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City * Murray Hill, Queens, a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City * Murray Hill, New Jersey, an unincorporated area within New Providence, New Jersey and Berkeley Heights, New Jersey * Murray Hill, Christmas Island, the highest point on Christmas Island * Murray Hill (Jacksonville), a neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida * Murray Hill (Loudoun County, Virginia), a historic estate * Murray Hill, a East Side (Milwaukee)#Murray Hill, neighborhood on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Murray Hill, a road that forms the apex of Cleveland's University Circle#Little Italy, Little Italy neighborhood, which is also used eponymously by locals for the neighborhood itself Transportation *Murray Hill station (LIRR), in Murray Hill, Queens, New York *Murray Hill station (NJ Transit) in Murray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
