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Rock climbing routes are found on Mt. Scott, the refuge's second highest summit, as well as areas such as the Narrows and the Charon's Garden Wilderness Area. [31] Hikers in Charon's Garden. The Charon's Garden Wilderness Area is dominated by rugged granite mountains, oak forests, and mixed grass prairies, covers 5,723 acres (23.16 km 2) in the ...
The Wichita Mountains are located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. [1] It is the principal relief system in the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen, being the result of a failed continental rift. The mountains are a northwest-southeast trending series of rocky promontories, many capped by 500 million-year old granite.
Geology of Charon. The geology of Charon encompasses the characteristics of the surface, crust, and interior of Pluto 's moon Charon. Like the geology of Pluto, almost nothing was known of Charon's geology until the New Horizons of the Pluto system on 14 July 2015. Charon's diameter is 1,208 km (751 mi)—just over half that of Pluto. [1]
These wilderness areas cover about 4.5% of the United States' land area, an area larger than the state of California. About 52% of the wilderness area is in Alaska, with 57,425,569 acres (89,727.452 sq mi; 232,393.03 km 2) of wilderness. They are located in 44 states (excepting Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, and Rhode Island ...
Naming. Unofficial. Eponym. Land of Mordor, from Tolkien mythology. Mordor Macula / ˈmɔːrdɔːr ˈmækjʊlə / is the informal name for a large dark area about 475 km in diameter near the north pole of Charon, Pluto 's largest moon. [2] It is named after the black land called Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
Annotated map of Charon, with IAU-approved names for features as of 2018. The geological features of Charon, the largest moon of Pluto, are being mapped by scientists using data from the New Horizons spacecraft. The team has given provisional names to the most prominent. As of April 2020, only some of the names have been officially recognized ...
Hoffman Notch Wilderness Area - 36,231 acres (146.62 km 2) Jay Mountain Wilderness Area - 7,100 acres (28.73 km 2) McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area - 37,616 acres (152.23 km 2) Pepperbox Wilderness Area - 22,560 acres (91.300 km 2) Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area - 45,883 acres (185.68 km 2)
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Protected areas listed as IUCN Category Ib (Wilderness Area) by the World Conservation Union / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Articles tagged as "Ib" in the Protected Area Infobox are automatically added to this Wikipedia category.