Red River of the North

The Ice Age The ice age has covered most of north America and has carved out numerous lakes. The glacier was a 100-foot high flow of ice and snow. Remnants of these large sheets of ice can still be seen today in the form of numerous lakes and the most brilliant of them are the Great Lakes. Other, larger ones, such as Lake Winnipeg, Reindeer, Athabaska, Great Slave, and Great Bear in Canada, existed at one time but have since drained off and have disappeared. Glaciers reached as far south

loggers passed a number of empty logging camps. Before long they realizing that the river was shaped like a donut and that they had passed only one camp, their own! It was 1914 before a Tall Tale again appeared in print in two different publications. The first Tale was a revision of the Detroit News - Tribune story co-authored by James MacGillivray and Douglas Malloch. The revised tale now titled, " The Round River Drive" was written in poetic verse and appeared in the lumber trade journal "The American

city of Adelaide and the Adelaide Plains. Tarntanya was a name for the heart of the Kaurna country and stands for red kangaroo place, until 1836 Tarntanya was an open grassy plain which had patches of trees and shrubs all around. Karrawirra Pari which stands for Red Gum Forest River was the name that the Kaurna people used for the river that we now call the River Torrens, this river was an area that was used to provide water, fish and other foods to the Kaurna people. The Kaurna people are estimated

long winding section of land on the eastern side of the Indochinese peninsula. Including its island area, it has just over 128,000 miles of land, or slightly more space than the state of New Mexico. Vietnam has three borders countries: China (to the north), Laos (to the central-west) and Cambodia (to the southwest). On a map, the country looks like an elongated-S just over 1,000 miles in length and only 31 miles in width at its maximum. Three main bodies of water also border Vietnam. The water boundaries

has only one cub named Mara. The cubs were raised by the lionesses, and protected by the ruler named Fang. North of the river, lived a cheetah named Sita. She gave birth to five cubs, and leaves them alone with nobody around everytime she goes hunting. In the movie, filmers show a scene where Sita hunts down a red buck in a fast chase. The river was occupied by crocodiles. When the River Pride was feeding on the dead hippo that washed

The red wolf is a medium sized wolf, found in the coastal marshlands of southern parts of eastern North America. By the 1970s the pure red wolf was thought to be extinct in the wild, but a population has since been reintroduced in North Carolina that is said to now be up to 100 red wolf. The red wolf was roamed across the south-eastern united states from Texas, to Florida, to New York. The red wolf’s historical habitat included areas of forest and coastal prairies where it would of been one of the

or about 4 1/2% of the size of the U.S.A. The German flag has black, red, and gold, horizontal stripes without any symbols on it. In 1950 when Germany was divided, West Germany's flag was black, red, and dark gold, with no symbols. East Germany's flag was black, red and, yellow with a coat of arms symbol in

INTRODUCTION According to tree ring scientists from the University of Arizona in Tuscon, the Colorado River went through a six decade long drought during the mid-1100s. This drought was longer than any other drought know to the region. The Colorado River is essential to the American Southwest, draining into about 242,000 square miles of land to include seven U.S. states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. “The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted

Freshwater Fishes of North America North of Mexico, the Central Stoneroller resides in various regions of Wisconsin, but it is not found throughout the state. It occurs in the southern end of the state ranging from the Mississippi River, the lower Wisconsin River, the Rock River, and over in the Little Fox River, to only name a few. It also occurs in the Mississippi River on the western side of the state, a few of its tributaries such as the Chippewa River and the Red Cedar River, and its floodplains

Southwestern Canadian Shield. The drainage basin is 1,000,000 km2. More than 7 million people call Lake Winnipeg home. It has the last remains of the glacial Lake Agassiz. Red, Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan rivers all flow into Lake Winnipeg which makes up 60% of the water flowing into the lake. The only river flowing out of the lake is the Nelson River; the outflow is used for hydro-electricity power since 1976 making Lake Winnipeg the third largest hydro reservoir in the world. Water moves