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    Tarn (French pronunciation: [taʁn] or [ta:ʁ]; Occitan pronunciation: [taɾ]) is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. Named after the...
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    District, England, containing Little Langdale Tarn and a hamlet also called Little Langdale. A second tarn, Blea Tarn, is in a hanging valley between Little...
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    grassland, woodland and species-rich fen, acid peat pools and stony hill streams. Malham Tarn itself is one of only eight upland alkaline lakes in Europe...
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    Fairfield. North-west of Fairfield is Grisedale Tarn at around 1,770 ft (540 m). This sizeable tarn has a depth of over 100 ft (30 m) and holds brown...
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    27083 Stony Tarn Mackenzie District North of Lake Alexandrina 43°52′28″S 170°26′45″E / 43.87444°S 170.44583°E / -43.87444; 170.44583 Sunday Tarn Mackenzie...
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  • Fell Steel Knotts Steeple Stone Arthur Stybarrow Dodd Swirl How Tarn Crag (Easedale) Tarn Crag (Far Eastern Fells) Thornthwaite Crag Thunacar Knott Top...
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    started at the hamlet of Boot. It takes the path which passes Eel Tarn and Stony Tarn before crossing bouldery ground to climb the broad ridge to the summit...
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    The only other known tarn in the Durham area is the artificially created Kyo Tarn near Oxhill. One possibility is the use of tarn might have been carried...
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    an immense mountain, with an imposing north face rising above Sprinkling Tarn (lake). This is a popular location for wild camping, and the north face attracts...
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    ridge makes the stony three-tiered climb to the white-rocked summit of Esk Pike. Southward of Bowfell the ridge falls steeply to Three Tarns, the col separating...
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    Breast. To the north is Red Tarn, a feeder via Oxendale of Great Langdale Beck. Red Tarn is an elongated pool whose stony bed can be seen through clear...
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    has a claim to the highest standing water body in England in Broad Crag Tarn, which (confusingly) is on Scafell Pike proper, rather than on Broad Crag...
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    trusted in this locality. North of the gap is Angle Tarn, a feeder of the Langstrath. This round tarn occupies a corrie beneath Hanging Knotts, small trout...
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    eventually built and the tarn now supplies drinking water for Coniston village. The eastern arm of Swirl How leads down the stony slope of Prison Band to...
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    Garonne (category Rivers of Tarn-et-Garonne)
    derives from Garumna, a Latinized version of the Aquitanian name meaning "stony river" ("kar" relating to "stone" and "-ona" relating to "river"). The Garonne's...
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    scrambling up to the summit by way of Foxes Tarn. A gentler return can be made across moorland, by way of the Burnmoor Tarn. Also starting in Eskdale, the Terrace...
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    Stony Cove Pike (alternatively known as Caudale Moor /kʊərdeɪl mʊər/ or John Bell's Banner) is a fell in the Far Eastern part of the English Lake District...
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    District near the village of Patterdale. Its most notable feature is Angle Tarn from which it derives its name. Angletarn Pikes stands on the western arm...
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    of Ullswater with Gowbarrow Fell and Hallin Fell overlooking it. The only tarn in the valley is Brothers Water, one of the first places in the Lake District...
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    [citation needed] It is found on the stony or sandy bottoms of clear, usually slightly acidic ponds, typically in mountain tarns, growing at 5–460 cm depth of...
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    originally applied specifically to the eastern face which looks down upon the tarn of Goat's Water, the fell itself having no need for a name before the inception...
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    Cock Cove before a long slope falls to Grisedale Tarn at around 1,770 feet (540 m). This sizeable tarn has a depth of around 110 feet (34 m) and holds...
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    of crag. The southern perimeter is formed by Seathwaite Tarn and its attendant streams. The tarn was originally a much smaller waterbody, but was raised...
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    7529039727615 SH817150] Ma,Sim,Hew,N 686 742 England 36 45 Baugh Fell - Tarn Rigg Hill 678 265 2,224 869 35A 98 54.319315315354;-2.4012041276881 SD740916]...
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    Duddon, while to the north is Red Tarn, a feeder of Great Langdale Beck. Red Tarn is an elongated pool whose stony bed can be seen through clear shallow...
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  • Observatory in Bulgaria during 1986–2009. The minor planet 3936 Elst, a stony Vestian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, roughly 6...
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    glacial lakes are Lake Albina, Lake Cootapatamba, Club Lake and Headley Tarn. During the last ice age, which peaked about 20,000 years ago in the Pleistocene...
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    surface erosion has occurred (notably the stony track by the side of Scale Force and the path from Bleaberry Tarn to the summit) and the red colouring of...
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    Little Mell Fell Place Fell Red Screes St Sunday Crag Seat Sandal Stony Cove Pike Tarn Crag Wansfell Whitbarrow 6. North Pennines and Durham Burnhope Seat...
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    (2,283 ft) Loadpot Hill, 671 m (2,201 ft) Wether Hill, 670 m (2,198 ft) Tarn Crag, 664 m (2,178 ft) Place Fell, 657 m (2,156 ft) Selside Pike, 655 m (2...
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