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In article <1993Jan23.081551.27737@cunews.carleton.ca>, fenton@scs.carleton.ca (Trevor Fenton) writes:
> In article <C1AJ1x.CK9@news.ucs.mun.ca> cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh ) writes:
> >>>Well, i was perusing the latest Europe map sent out
> >>>by National Geographic. There's a town about 60km
> >>>south of Minsk in Belarus called.....Slutsk!
> >>
> >> How about Dildo, Newfoundland.
> >> Colon, Panama.
> >
> >Actually, just go to a library and start looking up some of the place
> >names in Newfoundland. Dildo is perhaps the most infamous one, but there
> >are plenty of other ones. How about Upper Gullies for a start?
> >
> >_craig
> >
> >
>
> How about Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Not many English-speaking visitors ever realise what this means. Apparently the Teton range was discovered by French explorers many a moon ago and they noticed a vague resemblance
> between the mountains of the area and human breasts, so they named at least one
> mountain "Grand Teton"... or 'Big Tit.'
>
> trev
In Scotland too there are some rounded mountains like this on the Island
of Jura. Their called the "Paps of Jura", paps being ancient Scottish
