The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America.The Rocky Mountains stretch 3,000 mi (4,800 km) in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico in the southwestern United States.Depending on differing definitions between Canada and the United States, its …

Die Rocky Mountains [ˌɹɒkiˈmaʊntənz], umgangssprachlich Rockies genannt, sind ein ausgedehntes Faltengebirge im westlichen Nordamerika.Die Gebirgskette erstreckt sich, je nach Definition, über 3100 km (bis zum Liard River – übliche Grenze) bis zu 5100 km (über die Mackenzie Mountains bis zum Westende der Brookskette in Alaska – von Geologen und US …

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt.It is based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels with Frederick W. Lander's Honey Road Survey Party in 1859. The painting shows Lander's Peak in the Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains, with an encampment of Native Americans in …

The Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) is an extinct species of grasshopper that ranged through the western half of the United States and some western portions of Canada with large numbers seen until the end of the 19th century. Sightings often placed their swarms in numbers far larger than any other locust species, with one famous sighting in 1875 estimated …

The Front Range is a mountain range of the Southern Rocky Mountains of North America located in the central portion of the U.S. State of Colorado, and southeastern portion of the U.S. State of Wyoming. It is the first mountain range encountered as one goes westbound along the 40th parallel north across the Great Plains of North America.. The Front Range runs north …

The original Rocky Top in Tennessee is a peak on the border of North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, at 35.5642 degrees north latitude, 83.7138 degrees west longitude. It is 14 miles from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where the song "Rocky Top" was written in Room 388 of The Gatlinburg Inn in 1967 by Boudleaux and Felice Bryant ...

Mount Abu (pronunciation (help · info)) is a hill station in the Aravalli Range in Sirohi district of the state of Rajasthan in western India.The mountain forms a rocky plateau 22 km long by 9 km wide.The highest peak on the mountain is Guru Shikhar at 1,722 m (5,650 ft) above sea level. It is referred to as 'an oasis in the desert' as its heights are home to rivers, lakes, waterfalls and ...

ロッキー山脈（ロッキーさんみゃく、英: Rocky Mountains 、 Rockies 、仏: Montagnes Rocheuses [mɔ̃ntaɲ ʁɔʃøz] 、 Rocheuses ）は、北アメリカ大陸西部を北西から南東に走る山脈である。 ロッキー山脈は北へ行くほど険しい岩山となり、広大な針葉樹の森にはエメラルド色の湖が数多く存在する。

The Anti-Lebanon Mountains (Arabic: جبال لبنان الشرقية, romanized: Jibāl Lubnān ash-Sharqiyyah, lit. 'Eastern Mountains of Lebanon'; Lebanese Arabic: جبال الشرقية, Jbel esh-Shar'iyyeh, "Eastern Mountains") are a southwest–northeast-trending mountain range that forms most of the border between Syria and Lebanon.The border is largely defined along the crest of the ...

Les montagnes Rocheuses, ou simplement les Rocheuses (en anglais : Rocky Mountains ou Rockies), sont une grande chaîne de montagnes dans l'Ouest de l'Amérique du Nord, sur les territoires des États-Unis et du Canada.. Elles ont représenté un obstacle pour les immigrants américains et canadiens blancs dans l'extension de leur emprise sur le territoire nord …