Great Blue Hill
The Great Blue Hill
The Great Blue Hill, whose Indian name is Massachusett, together with 183 meters the highest point in Norfolk County in the state of Massachusetts in the United States and is located about 10 mi (16 km) southwest of Boston within the protected area Blue Hills Reservation. Its present name from the mountain of the early European settlers who noticed along the coast and sailed a bluish tinge to the protruding granite surfaces. It was found that the blue appearance is caused by Riebeckite contained in the rock. The eastern flank of the mountain faces the Atlantic and is already in Quincy. There was formerly called " Blue Granite " degraded.
The name of the Massachusett Indian tribe, language and all other word formations ( Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts Bay Colony, etc. ) is derived from the term from which the Indians had given the mountain: " massa - adchu -es- et ". " Massa " means big, " adchu " the hill, "it" is a diminutives suffix meaning small and " et " is a Lokatives suffix that identifies a location.
Geography
The northern and western side of the Great Blue Hill drained by the Neponset River in the Boston Harbor, while the southern and eastern side initially dewatered in the Blue Hill River, the way to Boston Harbor on the Farm River, Monatiquot River and finally the Weymouth Fore River place.
The summit of the hill is also the highest peak in the entire Norfolk County, and within 10 mi ( 16.09 km ) along the Atlantic coast south of central Maine. Therefore, it was chosen as the site for an observatory of the Great Blue Hill by the U.S. meteorologist Abbott Lawrence Rotch, which became known after its completion in 1885 as Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. Rotch had numerous years, fundamental studies of the Earth's atmosphere, and even today there is a weather station of the National Weather Service. From Eliot Tower at the highest point of the hill the city of Boston and many of the lower hills around the towns of Milton and Canton are seen.
The hill is just like the protection area in which it is located, a popular destination for hikers who appreciate the well-developed infrastructure coupled with the natural surroundings and close proximity to the metropolitan area of Greater Boston. In the Blue Hills Ski Area and the skiing can be trained in the winter months - 8 runs, cross-country trails and several ski lifts support the winter sports.
The well-known Boston TV and radio station WGBH derives its acronym from the initial letters of the hill ( Great Blue Hill ), where their FM and TV transmitting antennas were. Today, the station only transmits radio signals from the Great Blue Hill, while the TV signals are sent from a higher tower since the 1960s.
Gallery
The weather station on the hill
The Eliot Memorial Bridge with Tower