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    5km 3miles Whaleback Fire    The Whaleback Fire was a wildfire that burned on Whaleback Mountain in Spaulding, approximately 20 miles northwest of Susanville...
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    which runs on wood waste from the nearby Lassen National Forest. The Whaleback Fire caused a significant outage in 2018. Susanville (county seat) Bieber...
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    2018). "Cal Fire renames River and Ranch fires the Mendocino Complex Fire". Ukiah Daily Journal. Retrieved July 28, 2018. "Whaleback Fire". National Wildfire...
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    345617°W / 43.227167; -86.345617 SS Henry Cort was a 320-foot (98 m) long whaleback freighter. It sank four times during its career; finally running aground...
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    The Thomas Wilson was a whaleback freighter built in 1892 and used to haul bulk freight on the Great Lakes. The ship sank in Lake Superior just outside...
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    monitor vessel, containing elements of traditional lake freighters and the whaleback ships designed by Alexander McDougall. Choctaw was built in 1892 by the...
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  • on the west side of Eagle Lake, 2.1 miles (3.4 km) east-northeast of Whaleback Mountain and 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Eagle Lodge, at an elevation...
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    into the early 1900s. An early variation on the lake freighter was the whaleback boat, designed by Alexander McDougall. These had cigar-shaped bodies that...
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    South African Railways A form peculiar to oil-burning engines was the "whaleback" tender (also sometimes called a "turtle-back" or "loaf" tender). This...
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    transient features were observed, such as a lava spine nicknamed the "whaleback", which comprised long shafts of solidified magma being extruded by the...
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    Alexander McDougall who founded it so he could produce his new whaleback ship, this was Whaleback Barge 101. In 1900 McDougall sold his firm to the American...
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    management in Australia#Pre-European settlement West Berkeley Shellmound Whaleback Shell Midden Yachats, Oregon Also known as a kitchen midden or shell heap...
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    town to support the development of iron ore deposits at nearby Mount Whaleback. The town takes its name from nearby Mount Newman, named in honour of...
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    Carruthers". McDougall's Whaleback. Retrieved 4 February 2018. "Collingwood Shipbuilding and the Howard M. Hanna Jr". McDougall's Whaleback. Retrieved 4 February...
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    that sometimes swim from the mainland to the island from Manchester. Whaleback Rocks Islands portal Pacific Northwest portal "Blake Island". Geographic...
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    three-year peak of the economic depression, but work on Alexander McDougall's Whaleback was finished with the launch of SS City of Everett in October 1894, the...
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    granite being forced to the surface; it has eroded to produce smooth "whaleback dwalas" and broken kopjes, strewn with boulders and interspersed with...
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    and its Families. Published 1903. Full image at books.google History of Whaleback Light Archived October 4, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Seacoast Forts...
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    Named the Whaleback Pack, the female is related to Oregon's Rogue Pack. In September 2021, CDFW wolf specialist Kent Laudon confirmed the Whaleback Pack had...
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    lines on Normandie. Also similar to Normandie, France was equipped with a whaleback on her bow. Deckhouses on France's superstructure were built of aluminium...
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    River Fire was a destructive 2021 wildfire that burned 2,619 acres (1,060 ha) near Colfax in Nevada County and Placer County, California. The fire broke...
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  • (usually known as the 'whaleback'), which is where the Anglo-Saxon settlement was located. The River Glen cuts through the whaleback, creating a relatively...
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    national park. Other residential California wolves are the Beckwourth and Whaleback packs. The Shasta pack, which formerly was in the forest near this park...
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    are swimming beaches and views of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor, Whaleback Light, Portsmouth Harbor Light and Fort Constitution. 10-inch disappearing...
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    McRae Shale beneath the martite-microplaty hematite ore deposit at Mount Whaleback, Western Australia". Mineralium Deposita. 39 (5–6): 632–645. Bibcode:2004MinDe...
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    the other. The wreck of the Thomas Wilson, a classic early-20th-century whaleback ore boat, lies underwater less than 1 mile (1.6 km) outside the Duluth...
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    husband, Martin Lewis, in 1967. On display are a 1901 Baldwin Locomotive, a whaleback Southern Pacific tender, a 1910 Union Pacific caboose, and a 1949 Santa...
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  • Notch (temporarily closed) Waterville Valley Resort – Waterville Valley Whaleback – Enfield Wildcat Mountain – Pinkham Notch Yawgoo Valley Yawgoo Valley...
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    Southern Pacific No. 18, also known as the "Slim Princess", is an oil-fired 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" type narrow-gauge steam locomotive built by the Baldwin...
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    County, Maine. It includes eleven middens in all, including the well-known Whaleback Shell Midden and the Glidden Midden, which is the largest shell midden...
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