White Mountains

Lefka Ori
... Lefka Ori (Greek Λευκά Όρη, meaning "White Mountains") or Madares (Μαδάρες from the Cretan Greek μαδαρός meaning "without coverage, bald, bare of any vegetation for high mountain areas ... The White Mountains or Lefka Ori occupy a good part of the centre of West Crete and are the main feature of the region ... The "White Mountains" have got their name from the perpetual white or off white color of their peaks as the off white of limestone during the summer and fall interchanges with the snow that covers the peaks ...

Culture Of New Hampshire - Geography
... See List of counties in New Hampshire, mountains, lakes, and rivers New Hampshire is part of the New England region ... regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area ... New Hampshire was home to the rock formation called the Old Man of the Mountain, a face-like profile in Franconia Notch, until the formation fell apart in May 2003 ...

White Mountain Art - Early Artists
... Cole’s 1839 work, A View of the Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains, is perhaps the best and finest examples of early 19th-century White Mountain art ... her reference New Hampshire Scenery, stated, "The Notch of the White Mountains magistral work, one of the undisputed masterpieces of White Mountain painting." Two other early ... Fisher's turbulent view also emphasizes the power of the mountains and the fragility of human enterprise." These paintings helped to promote the region at a time when the White Mountains were an unknown ...

Cormallen - Literature - Geography - Natural Features
... but colonies of the Drúedain were believed to have survived in the mountains of the cape since the First Age, and the northern parts of the peninsula were known as Drúwaith Iaur ... Pinnath Gelin Hills in the west of the kingdom, between the White Mountains and Anfalas the name means "green ridges" ... Mornan A deep cleft on the southern side of the White Mountains, from which sprang the Morthond ...