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Bergen, Queensland. / -27.24; 151.9208 ( Bergen (centre of locality)) Bergen is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census, Bergen had a population of 85 people. [1] Neuve is a neighbourhood in the south-west of the locality. [3]
Crows Nest is a rural town and locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. [2][3] The town is located in the Darling Downs on the New England Highway, 158 kilometres (98 mi) from the state capital, Brisbane and 43 kilometres (27 mi) from the nearby city of Toowoomba. In the 2021 census, the locality of Crows Nest had a population ...
A caboose with a crow's nest (aka angel seat) In classic railroad trains, the box-like structure above the caboose, the cupola, was also called the crow's nest. It served for observation of the whole train when in motion. [6] In hunting, a crow's nest is a blind-like structure where a hunter or a pair of hunters commit themselves to stalking game.
The Crowsnest Pass is the richest archaeological zone in the Canadian Rockies. The oldest relics are stone tools found on a rock ridge outside Frank, Alberta, from the Clovis culture, 11,000 years before present. Other sites include chert quarries on the Livingstone ridge dating back to 1000 BC.
David Blair (or Davy) (11 November 1874 – 10 January 1955) was a British merchant seaman with the White Star Line, which had reassigned him from the RMS Titanic just before its maiden voyage. Due to his hasty departure, he accidentally kept a key to a storage locker believed to contain the binoculars intended for use by the crow's nest lookout.
Few Crow’s Nest regulars were there as regularly as Gary Hipp, president of the Hackensack Rotary, whose organization met has there weekly for about a year and a half and who has eaten there at ...
Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (uncle) Benjamin Day (grandfather) Clarence Shepard Day Jr. (November 18, 1874 – December 28, 1935) was an American author and cartoonist, best known for his 1935 work Life with Father.
A train heads west into the Crowsnest Pass from Coleman, Alberta. The Crow Rate, or Crowsnest Freight Rate, was a rail transportation subsidy benefiting farmers on the Canadian Prairies and manufacturers in Central Canada by rate requirements imposed on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) by the Government of Canada in exchange for financing and other benefits.