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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:57, 30 March 2008: 2,134 × 1,200 (222 KB): MrSparkle17: This widescreen wallpaper of the Appalachian Mountains was taken from the Frazier Discovery Trail at Shenandoah National Park.
Mount Mitchell (Attakulla in Cherokee) [3] is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland North America east of the Mississippi River.It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles (31 km) northeast of Asheville.
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The mountain top removal method of coal mining, in which entire mountain tops are removed, is currently threatening vast areas and ecosystems of the Appalachian Mountain region. [31] The surface coal mining that started in the 1940s has significantly impacted the central Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky , Tennessee , Virginia and West Virginia.
Appalachia (locally / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ə /, also /-l eɪ tʃ ə,-l eɪ ʃ ə / [4]) is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.
The Appalachian Mountains runs along the eastern United States, extending from Mississippi to New York. The Appalachian region, as defined by Congress, includes all of West Virginia and parts of ...
Blue Mountain in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania Bald Eagle State Forest in Union County, Pennsylvania. In its northern section, the Great Valley includes the Champlain Valley around Lake Champlain and the upper Richelieu River that drains it into the Saint Lawrence, the Hudson River Valley, Newburgh Valley, and Wallkill Valley, and the Kittatinny Valley, Upper Delaware River ...
Name Sub-range Type Administrative location Highest point Elevation (meter) Coordinate location Adams Mountain: Blue Ridge Mountains: mountain: Caldwell County, North Carolina