Last Mountain Lake

Last Mountain Lake, also known as Long Lake, is a prairie lake formed from glaciation 11,000 years ago. It is located in south central Saskatchewan, Canada, about 40 km (25 mi) northwest of the city of Regina. It flows into the Qu'Appelle River via Last Mountain Creek which flows past Craven. It is approximately 93 km long, and only 3 km wide at its widest point.

It is the largest naturally occurring body of water in southern Saskatchewan, although Lake Diefenbaker (created by damming) is larger. The lake was named for a Plains Cree legend about the Great Spirit shovelling dirt from the valley the lake now occupies and forming Last Mountain Hills east of Duval. The lake is a popular resort area for residents of southeastern Saskatchewan.

History

Access to the area was opened up by the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railroad and Steamboat Company who also operated steamships on the lake.

Last Mountain House

"Last Mountain House" was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post from 1869 to 1871. It was a branch of Fort Qu'Appelle 75 km east and was about 85 km southwest of Touchwood Hills Post. It was founded in part to compete with the increasing number of independent traders in the area and because the buffalo had moved south from Touchwood Hills. Unlike most HBC posts it had no stockade. The first season was successful, producing around 1,000 buffalo robes. In the second year of operation the buffalo had moved further south and there was a serious shortage of pemmican. Some time after the second season the post was completely destroyed by fire and was not rebuilt. It was located on the east side of Last Mountain Lake about a mile north of the lake's outlet 7 km northwest of Craven, Saskatchewan and about 40 km northwest of Regina.

Last Mountain

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Currahee Mountain

Currahee Mountain is a mountain located in Stephens County, Georgia, near Toccoa. The name appears to be derived from the Cherokee word (quu-wa-hi) meaning "stand alone." Technically a part of the Georgia Piedmont or "foothill" province, Currahee Mountain rises abruptly about 800 vertical feet (240 m) above the local topography and is the highest peak in Stephens County. Part of the mountain is in the Chattahoochee National Forest. On clear days, the peak's 1,735-foot (529 m) summit is visible for many miles and is a prominent landmark to the southeast of Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountain crest.

The mountain was made famous internationally by Tom Hanks' and Steven Spielberg's television miniseries Band of Brothers, in which it was featured as a training site of the American Paratroopers at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, where they ran up and down Currahee. The name of the mountain became the motto for these paratroopers including the famous quote: "3 Miles up, 3 Miles down". The nickname of the 506th Infantry Regiment, of which Easy Company was a part, is "Currahee".

Last Mountain (provincial electoral district)

Last Mountain is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Centered on the town of Strasbourg, it included the northern half of Last Mountain Lake.

This constituency was created for the 2nd Saskatchewan general election in 1908. It was dissolved and combined with the Touchwood district (as Last Mountain-Touchwood) before the 18th Saskatchewan general election in 1975.

A federal electoral district in the same area existed from 1914 to 1935.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

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Coordinates: 51°12′N 105°10′W / 51.200°N 105.167°W / 51.200; -105.167

Mountain Lake

Mountain Lake may refer to a location in North America:

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Mountain Lake (Virginia)

Mountain Lake is a freshwater lake located in Giles County near Newport, Virginia, in the United States. Along with Lake Drummond in the Great Dismal Swamp, it is one of only two natural lakes in Virginia. It was originally known as Salt Pond, as it was where cattle were given salt.

The Lake

Mountain Lake typically covers about 50 acres (200,000 m²), and its level was largely constant at an elevation of 3,875 feet (1,181m) during the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2002 it has been subject to dry-season level drops of as much as 15 feet (5 m). The last such level fluctuations occurred between 1751 and 1804 as historical accounts give widely different accounts of the lake size.

The first known written evidence of the lake was by Christopher Gist of the Ohio Land Surveying Company, in 1751. It subsequently became known as Salt Pond.

Natural lakes are common well to the north, where the Appalachian Range was subject to geologically recent glacial activity. But the basis on which this lake—the only natural one in the southern Appalachians—exists has been the source of much speculation. Recent scientific studies indicate that an unusual combination of natural processes created the lake, which is maintained by a fissure at the bottom that provides an outlet for both sediment and water and prevents the lake from otherwise simply becoming a bog. Replenishment of the water lost depends on rain levels, and apparent washing-out of sediment from the fissured bedrock bottom is causing the unstable lake levels.

Mountain Lake (Cook County, Minnesota)

Mountain Lake is a lake in Cook County, Minnesota, in the United States.

Mountain Lake lies between Moose Mountain and Mount Reunion, hence the name.

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Coordinates: 48°6′13″N 90°14′0″W / 48.10361°N 90.23333°W / 48.10361; -90.23333