A whaleback was a type of cargo steamship of unusual design, with a hull that continuously curved above the waterline from vertical to horizontal. When...
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A whaleback is a type of steamship. Whaleback may also refer to: Whaleback (California), a mountain ridge in Kings Canyon National Park Whaleback (ski...
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Whaleback is a remote 11,717-foot-elevation (3,571-meter) three-mile-long ridge located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern...
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Whaleback Mountain is a 2,627-metre (8,619-foot) summit in British Columbia, Canada. Whaleback Mountain is located in Yoho National Park, in the Waputik...
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Whaleback Light is a historic lighthouse marking the mouth of the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine. It is located on a rocky outcrop offshore southwest...
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Whaleback is a ski area located in Enfield, New Hampshire, United States. In 2013, after several bankruptcies over previous decades, it was bought by...
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The Mount Whaleback mine, officially the Newman West operation, is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, six kilometres...
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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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SS Christopher Columbus (redirect from Christopher Columbus (whaleback))
only whaleback ship ever built for passenger service. The ship was designed by Alexander McDougall, the developer and promoter of the whaleback design...
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company acquired Whaleback Managed Services, a provider of cloud-based phone services for medium-sized businesses, re-launching Whaleback's brand name to...
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Whaleback Shell Midden is a shell midden, or dump, consisting primarily of oyster shells located on the east side of the Damariscotta River in Maine,...
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Thomas Wilson (shipwreck) (redirect from Thomas Wilson (whaleback))
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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infrared capabilities. Included in the new dome was a feature dubbed the "Whaleback" (named such because of its close resemblance to the back of a whale)...
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Sagamore (barge) (redirect from Sagamore (whaleback))
Sagamore is reported to be the best example of a whaleback barge among Great Lakes shipwrecks. Only 44 whalebacks were ever built, and out of the 26 that sank...
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Bone Bay (Antarctica) (redirect from Whaleback Rocks)
Bone Bay (63°38′S 59°4′W / 63.633°S 59.067°W / -63.633; -59.067 (Bone Bay)) is a rectangular bay along the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica...
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101 (barge) (redirect from Whaleback Barge 101)
American whaleback barge that was usually towed by a steam driven freighter or a tugboat. She was significant as she was the first whaleback freighter...
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Duluth Freezers (redirect from Duluth Whalebacks)
league championship in 1886. For a partial season in 1891, the Duluth "Whalebacks" played as members of the Western Association. In 1887, a three Duluth...
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The Whaleback Snow-Survey Cabin, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Prospect in the Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest in southwest Oregon, is a log cabin...
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Tender (rail) (section Whaleback)
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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ground-attack aircraft Soviet submarine K-129 129 (barge), an American whaleback barge 129 Antigone, a main-belt asteroid List of highways numbered 129...
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SS Choctaw (redirect from Choctaw (semi whaleback ship))
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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Stibaera thyatiroides (redirect from Whaleback moth)
Stibaera thyatiroides, the whaleback moth, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae (the owlets). It was first described by William Barnes and Foster...
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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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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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granite being forced to the surface, then being eroded to produce smooth "whaleback dwalas" and broken kopjes, strewn with boulders and interspersed with...
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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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a unit in the UK Territorial Army 115 (New Jersey bus) 115 (barge), a whaleback barge 115 km, rural locality in Russia The homeless emergency telephone...
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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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delivered in 1937. Later designs included the 1941 Type Two 63 ft HSL "Whaleback", an adaptation of a motor anti-submarine boat, the first HSL to include...
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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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