monadnock

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• The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, the state's oldest nonprofit conservation organization, began acquiring property on Mount Monadnock early last century.

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• Mount Monadnock is an isolated hill that rises dramatically from the flat landscape around it.

• Mount Monadnock has long been a popular attraction.

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• Mount Monadnock is also designated a National Natural Landmark.

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• The western view has Mt. Monadnock in the distance.

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• The term, used primarily by American geologists, is based on a particular mountain that fits that description: Mount Monadnock, in southern New Hampshire.

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• The arctic-alpine species on Mount Monadnock grow in open, rocky, or sandy areas; they do not occur under a forest canopy.

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• Although Monadnock is only 3,165 feet high, the forest dwindles out some 300 feet from its top, and the summit is bare of trees.

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• Mountain sandwort is one of several arctic-alpine species that grow on New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock (top photograph).

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• It holds more than 3,500 acres and leases much of that land to be operated as part of the 5,000-acre Monadnock State Park.

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Synonyms

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hill

vsmonadnock

∞ 1.0

A raised area of land that is not as high as a mountain

is an isolated formation that rises abruptly from a flat plain

How Prominent

peak

368 2.1

mountain

∞ 1.0

monadnock

• Specialized

1 9.9

hill

∞ 1.0

knoll

20 7.2

bump

118 2.5

Surface Forms

Etymology