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(Encyclopedia) great white shark: see white shark. ...

(Encyclopedia) Peter the Great: see Peter I.

(Encyclopedia) Great Appalachian Valley: see under Appalachian Mountains. ...

(Encyclopedia) Great Indian Desert, S Asia: see Thar Desert. ...

(Encyclopedia) Great Saint Bernard, pass: see Saint Bernard. ...

(Encyclopedia) Great Sandy Island, Australia: see Fraser Island. ...

(Encyclopedia) Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft (4,301 m) high, central Colo., in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.; discovered by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806. There are many higher peaks in the Rockies, but this is the...

(Encyclopedia) chinook, warm, dry air mass that descends the eastern slopes of the U.S. and Canadian Rocky Mts. after having lost moisture by condensation over the western slopes. Chinooks occur mainly in winter. Th...

(Encyclopedia) Wood Buffalo National Park, 17,577 sq mi (45,525 sq km), in NE Alta., Canada, extending into the Northwest Territories; est. 1922 to protect the only remaining herd of wood bison. It lies between Lake...

(Encyclopedia) travois trăvoiˈ [key], device used by Native North Americans of the Great Plains for transporting their tepees and household goods. It consisted of two poles, lashed one on either side of a dog or, ...