Danau Tahoe: Perbedaan antara revisi

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'''Danau Tahoe''' adalah sebuah [[danau]] [[air tawar]] di pegunungan [[Sierra Nevada (AS)|Sierra Nevada]], yang terletak di perbatasan antara negara bagian [[California]] dan [[Nevada]] di Amerika Serikat, dekat [[Carson City, Nevada|Carson City]]. Sekitar dua pertiga garis pantainya berada di California. Di daerah ini, yang dirujuk sebagai '''Tahoe''', terdapat sejumlah tempat bermain [[resort ski|ski]] dan rekreasi tempat terbuka di musim panas.

 

== Geografi ==

Danau Tahoe adalah salah satu danau terdalam (501 m), terluas (497 km²)¹, dan tertinggi (1898 m) di Amerika Serikat. Hanya [[Danau Crater]] di Oregon yang lebih dalam (588 m).

 

 

==History==

 

The area around Lake Tahoe was originally inhabited by the [[Washoe (tribe)|Washoe]] tribe of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]. Lake Tahoe was the center and heart of Washoe Indian territory, including the upper valleys of the Walker, Carson, and Truckee Rivers. They called this area "Da ow a ga", which means "edge of lake". When early pioneers came they mispronounced this word, saying "Da ow", it later evolved into what we call it today, Lake "Tahoe".. Lt. [[John C. Frémont]] and [[Kit Carson]] were the first non-indigenous people to see Lake Tahoe. It was Fremont's 2nd exploratory expedition. On February 14, [[1844]], while searching for the Bonaventura river he first sighted the lake from Red Lake Peak in what is now the Carson Pass. After arriving at Sutter's Fort he designated it Lake Bonpland, in honor of the French explorer and botanist [[Aimé Bonpland|Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland]]. [[John Calhoun Johnson]], Sierra explorer and founder of "Johnson's Cutoff" (now Hwy 50), was the first white-man to see Meeks Bay and from a peak above the lake he named "[[Fallen Leaf Lake, California]]" after his Indian guide. His first employment in the west was in the government service, carrying the mail on snowshoes from Placerville to Nevada City, during which time he gave the name of Lake Bigler to that beautiful body of water now known as Lake Tahoe in honor of California’s governor [[John Bigler]]. In 1853 William Eddy, the surveyor general of California, identified Tahoe as Lake Bigler. In 1862 the [[U.S. Department of the Interior]] first introduced the name Tahoe which continued a debate about naming the lake, in which both names were used until well into the next decade. It wasn’t until 1945 that it was finally and officially named Lake Tahoe. The compromise to partition Tahoe with 2/3 to California and 1/3 to Nevada was reached when California became a state. Putting the state line right through the middle of the lake and then at 39 degrees north latitude, the stateline obliques southeasterly towards the Colorado River. Upon discovery of [[gold]] in the South Fork of the [[American River]] in [[1848]], thousands of west-bound gold seekers passed near the basin on their way to the gold fields. European civilization first made its mark in the Lake Tahoe basin with the [[1858]] discovery of the [[Comstock Lode]], a silver deposit just 15 miles (24 km) to the east in [[Virginia City, Nevada]]. From [[1858]] until about [[1890]], logging in the basin supplied large timbers to shore up the underground workings of the Comstock mines. The logging was so extensive that almost all of the native forest was cut. In [[1864]], Tahoe City was founded as a resort community for Virginia City, the first recognition of the basin’s potential as a destination resort area.

*Kejuaraan Vans Tahoe diadakan di [[Northstar-at-Tahoe]].

 

 

== Puncak dan gunung-gunung (dalam kaki) ==

*[[Danau Fallen Leaf, California]]

 

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