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Encyclopedia > Devil's Tower

Devil's Tower or "Devils Tower" may refer to one of the following:

  • Devil's Tower (Tasmania), island in northern Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia,
  • Devils Tower National Monument, in northeast Wyoming, prominent in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
  • a 12th-century watch tower in Yelabuga, Tatarstan, commanding the steep bank of the Kama River
  • a place in Gibraltar where fossil remains of Neanderthals were discovered,
  • Devil's Tower (German: Teufelsturm) is the nickname of the main antenna mast of Bodenseesender, resulting from the fact that it transmits on 666 kHz, 666 being regarded as the number of the Devil,
  • Devil's Tower (oil platform), a deep-water oil and gas production SPAR located in the Gulf of Mexico and named after Devil's Tower National Monument.
Devils Tower is a monolith (more technically, an igneous intrusion) or volcanic neck located near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. ... This article is about the film; for the definition of the UFO related phenomenon, see Close encounter. ... Yelabuga (also spelled Alabuga, Elabuga; Tatar: Alabuğa/Алабуга, Russian: ) is a town in Tatarstan. ... The facility of Bodenseesender in September 2005. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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Devils Tower :: (457 words)
Devils Tower is a steep body of igneous rock, which originated from the erosional remains of a volcanic neck.
Devils tower is roughly 40 million years old, and was first proclaimed as a national monument in 1906 by president Theodore Roosevelt.
The name Devils Tower was first given to the Tower in 1875 by a scientific group lead by Colonel Richard I. People were sent to this area to look for gold, even though their presence was a violation of Indian treaty rights.
NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Devils Tower (1244 words)
Devils Tower is a geological feature located in eastern Wyoming that was established as the first United States National Monument in 1906.
Devils Tower is a tremendous column of rock standing alone among the pine covered hills of North Eastern Wyoming.
Devils Tower was seen in the finale of the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as the site of the alien mothership's landing.
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