Mount Rushmore
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- * Pentru formaţia rock din anii 1960, vedeţi articolul Mount Rushmore (formaţie)
Mount Rushmore National Memorial | |
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IUCN Categoria V (Zone protejate de uscat/marine) | |
Location: | South Dakota, SUA |
Nearest city: | Keystone, SD |
Coordinates: | |
Area: | 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km²) |
Established: | March 3, 1925 |
Visitation: | 2,031,517 (in 2004) |
Governing body: | National Park Service |
Mount Rushmore National Memorial, deseori doar Mount Rushmore, de lângă oraşul Keystone, South Dakota, este un monument memorial (în engleză, United States Presidential Memorial) care reprezintă sintetic primii 150 de ani din istoria Statelor Unite ale Americii prin reprezentarea capetelor a patru dintre primii preşedinţi ai ţării, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt şi Abraham Lincoln prin sculptare. Sculpturile monumentale de circa 18 m înălţime au fost executate direct pe faţa sudică a muntelui cunoscut de către nativi nord-americani ca Şase Bunici (conform Six Grandfathers din engleză)[1]
Întreaga zonă a monumentului memorial acoperă 1,278 acres (5.17 km²),[2] şi se găseşte la 1.745 m (sau 5,725 picioare) deasupra nivelului mării.[3] Monumentul este îngrijit de National Park Service, un birou al Departament de Interne al Statelor Unite. Circa 2 milioane de turişti îl vizitează anual.[4]
The mountain known to the Lakota Sioux as Six Grandathers was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer, in 1885.[5] The project of carving Mount Rushmore originally started with the purpose of increasing tourism in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. After long negotiations involving a Congressional delegation and President Calvin Coolidge, the project received Congressional approval. The carving started in 1927 and ended in 1941, and though there were a few injuries, no deaths occurred.[4]
[modifică] Alte surse de informaţii
- The National Parks: Index 2001-2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.
[modifică] Legături externe (toate în limba engleză)
- Official Site
- The Making of Mount Rushmore
- Climate
- A Monumental Achievement
- Google Map Link
- Matthew Buckingham, The Six Grandfathers, Paha Sapa, in the Year 502,002 C.E.
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