Thank you Yuri for this card that has just arrived ..A swap card from Postcards United.. Thank you.. The card shows what I thought is a site called "Devils Tower"...as there is no information on the card. So I have gone to Wikipedia. for whatever information I need.:
Posted 24 November : Arrived Sydney : 10 January. Traveled 47 days...slow journey !!
The Devils Tower : (Also known as Bear Lodge Butte ) is a laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock in The Bear Lodge Mountains, part of the Black Hills.,near Hullet and Sundance in Crook County in northeatern Wyoming, Located,just above the Belle Fourche River, it rises 1,267 feet ( 386 meters ) above the Belle Fourche River standing 867 feet (265 meters ) from summit to base.
The summit is 5,112 feet ( 1559 meters ) above sea level. Devils Tower was the first United States National Monument established on 24th September 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monuments boundary encloses an area of 1347 acres (545 Hectares.) In recent years about 1% of the monuments 400,000 visitors climbed Devils Tower using traditional climbing techniques..
( information courtesy of Wikipedia.)
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