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Montes Harbinger is an isolated cluster of lunar mountains at the western edge of the Mare Imbrium basin. [ 1 ] The mountains consist of four primary ridges plus several smaller hills, each forming a small rise surrounded by the lunar mare .
For mounts with more than three tops, the number of tops is blazoned as coupeaux, e.g. German Sechsberg would be a mount of six coupeaux, and German Zehnberg as a mount of ten coupeaux. [3] A mount with more than six tops can also be blazoned as Schroffen in German heraldry. In medieval German heraldry, mounts could have more than ten peaks. [4]
American historian George H. Kerr claims that King Shō Toku adopted the mitsudomoe as the crest of the royal house after his successful invasion of Kikai Island in 1465.(Kerr 2011, p. 101) The Second Shō dynasty, who ruled the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1470 to 1879, adopted the mitsudomoe as its family crest. Since it was the royal family crest ...
Mount Brandon is at the centre of a long high ridge called the Brandon Group range of mountains in the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. The ridge contains seven other major peaks (i.e. above 2,000 ft in height); one is the similarly named Brandon Peak (840 metres).
In this satellite image of the Alps, the snow limit picks out the individual mountain chains A view of the Balkan Mountains chain. The chain-like arrangement of summits and the formation of long, jagged mountain crests – known in Spanish as sierras ("saws") – is a consequence of their collective formation by mountain building forces.
Lozenge of Finwë, High King of the Noldor, with sixteen points touching the rim Lozenge of Feanor, his son. Its 4 points that reach the outer rim indicate that he was a prince.
Crest: On a wreath of the colours, On a mount vert an oak tree proper, fructed Or, between two garbs resting against the trunk gold. Motto: Sapientia Urbs Conditur (A city is built on wisdom) [ 39 ] The Latin text on the book (of knowledge) Quaerenti Ostium means 'an entrance for the seeker'.
During a 60 million year period, Ireland was the site of a major basin, known as the Munster basin, and Cork and Kerry were effectively a large alluvial floodplain. [ 6 ] The rocks in the Dinge Peninsula have an earlier, Silurian , shallow marine facies and a later, Devonian , continental red-bed facies.