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Vancouver Island Mountain Centre opens with a bang

After years of planning and construction through snowy weather, which included last season’s record breaking snowfall, the new non-profit Vancouver Island Mountain Centre (VIMC) at Mount Washington is set to open its doors on Dec. 8 [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Vancouver Island ski resort trucks snow off mountain

If only Cypress had this problem during the Olympics. Vancouver Island's Mount Washington is having to deal with an unprecedented amount of snow. "Unbelievable. We've never seen this much snow in such a short period of [...]

Posted On : Dec, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

A submerged mountain range called Cyclades Islands

One of the many prefectures or ‘junior’ administrative units of Greece, Cyclades are a group of some 220 islands in the Aegean Sea. The islands are usually peaks of a submerged mountain range, with only two of these islands ar [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Reunion Island (Africa): The Mountain in the Sea

One of France’s ‘Overseas Departements’ or overseas territory, Reunion Island is one of its 26 regions of France. Located in the Indian Ocean, east of the island of Madagascar, it is located south of the island nation of [...]