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Post by ncbucki on Mar 13, 2014 13:36:10 GMT
I have always liked stamp issues depicting natural features such as national parks, prominent natural formations, and the like. It seems, though, that there are some natural features which are featured over and over.
This got me to thinking - are there natural features that have an aspect of uniqueness that would make them a good candidate for a postage stamp?
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Post by ncbucki on Mar 13, 2014 13:38:06 GMT
Candidate for Natural Feature Stamp: KEUKA LAKE - One of the Finger Lakes in New York
When I was young (like elementary school young), my parents would pack us four kids into the '49 Rambler (yep - some people actually bought them) and we would travel from central Ohio to visit our grandparents in Coopers Plains, New York (just west of Corning). My mother's parents had a cottage on Keuka Lake, the third largest of the Finger Lakes which is shaped like a "Y" with the leg pointed south. The fun part was meeting 5 or 6 cousins there.
"From the Iroquois name meaning "Canoe Landing," Keuka Lake has some unique qualities separating it from the other Finger Lakes. Before glaciers carved the region's river valleys into deep chasms which are now the Finger Lakes, Keuka's western and southern branches were a single, north-to-south flowing watershed. What is now the current
east branch of Keuka was then a major tributary to the main river. Glacial actions gouged that tributary, which created both the east branch and a reversed flow of drainage, south-to-north. Its western branch continued to flow in the opposite direction."
What is unique? "Today, Keuka Lake is the only lake in the country and one of few lakes in the world that flows both north and south. It is also the only Finger Lake to drain into another, with its eastern branch reaching Seneca Lake."
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Mar 14, 2014 1:55:24 GMT
Did you mean Cayuga lake?? My maternal grandfather was a mayor of small town near there.Not sure of spelling but remember it as Skin e atlas.
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Post by firstfrog2013 on Mar 14, 2014 2:39:29 GMT
Man,I'm losing it you are of course correct.Guess elementary school was some time ago.Thanks google.
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Post by Jen B on Mar 14, 2014 4:05:10 GMT
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Post by ncbucki on Mar 14, 2014 11:03:17 GMT
firstfrog - there is a Finger lake named Cayuga. The town of Skaneateles is on Skaneateles lake
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Post by Ryan on Mar 15, 2014 13:38:08 GMT
How about serious desolation, areas largely unfit for human life? Death Valley (CA), Craters of the Moon / Hell's Half Acre Lava Fields (ID), Bonneville Salt Flats (UT), any number of dry lakes in Nevada, glaciers in Alaska, huge swamps in the middle of Florida, etc. There's a beauty in areas which resist human colonization, I think - nature doesn't always have to lose (Burning Man and hotrodders on the salt notwithstanding). And speaking of hotrodders on the salt, I'll use this to drive a bit of traffic to my Dad's current project, an attempt to be the first to break the 500 mph speed barrier with a wheel-driven car. Ryan |
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Post by Philatarium on Mar 15, 2014 16:06:20 GMT
Thanks for the link, Ryan! (I don't know if you were part of the group that came to Pomona, but I'm about 10 miles from there. Let me know the next time you're though here, although I imagine your schedule is pretty full when you're on the road.)
-- Dave
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