Gorge
Gorge is a French and English toponym for a narrow valley and also a place name. Naturally, it is also widely used as a component in the names of bridges and dams or lakes, as well as in those of nature reserves and traffic routes (which can also be found in the list given here).
Name customer
Gorge stands for German gorge , gorge , but also Tobel and other Engtalformen. In British English , it also stands for American canyon , which in geological usage is reserved for a specific notch valley shape. In French, it is usually found in the plural form Gorges in the sense of “ rapids ”, “bottleneck”, “gorge system”.
The second main meaning, however, is “ throat ”.
It can already be found in Middle English , as a loan word from Old French , and comes from the Latin gurga , which is also the basis for the German words "Gurgel" and "gurgeln" (cf. Italian gorgo " Strudel ", " Wirbel "; gorgoliare " gargle "," boil "," bubble "). The root form is probably Latin gurges "water vortex" (English whirlpool ), "throat" (English abyss ). German stands for “Schlund” as a Germanic equivalent in these two meanings: pharynx , throat (anatomy) and throat (geology) .
distribution
Gorge (s) is common in France and Switzerland, in England, the USA and other English-speaking countries.
List of narrow valleys
France
- Gorges de l'Ardèche on the Ardèche in the Ardèche department
- Gorges d'Arly
- Gorges de l'Arondine
- Gorges de l'Aveyron et de la Grésigne
- Gorges de la Baume , a tributary of the Ardèche
- Gorges de la Bourne on the Bourne and in the Vercors Regional Natural Park of the Isère department
- Gorges de la Cèze on the Cèze in the Languedoc-Roussillon department
- Gorges du Chambon
- Gorges du Cians
- Gorges de Daluis
- Gorges d'Engins in the Vercors
- Gorges du Fier
- Gorges de la Fou
- Gorges de Galamus on the Agly between the Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales departments
- Gorges des Gats in the Vercors
- Gorges du Guiers Mort in the Vercors
- Gorges de l'Hérault on the Hérault in the Hérault department
- Gorges d'Héric , waterfalls near Mons in the Hérault department
- Gorges de l'Infernet
- Gorges de la Jonte on the Jonte in the Lozère department
- Gorges du Loup on the Loup in the Alpes-Maritimes department
- Gorges du Meaudret in Vercors
- Gorges du Nan in the Vercors
- Gorges de la Nesque on the Nesque in the Vaucluse department
- Gorges de l'Oignin
- Gorges du Pont du Diable
- Gorges du Tarn on the Tarn in the Lozère department
- Gorges du Verdon on the Verdon in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department
- Gorges de la Vis on the Vis in the Gard department
such as:
- Gorges de la Riviere Noire in the Black River Gorges National Park in Mauritius
Switzerland
- Gorges de l'Areuse et le Val-de-Travers
- Gorges du Chauderon
- Gorges de Douanne
- Gorges du Durnand
- Gorges de Moutier
- Gorges de l'Orbe
- Gorges du Pichoux
- Gorges du Taubenloch
- Gorges du Trento
England
- Cheddar Gorge , near the village of Cheddar in the Mendip Hills in Somerset
- Lydford Gorge in Devon
New Zealand
- Mangapurua Gorge near the Bridge to Nowhere , North Island
- Karangahake Gorge on the North Island
- Manawatu Gorge runs between the Ruahine Range and the Tararua Range on the North Island
- Taieri Gorge with the Taieri Gorge Railway , a museum railway starting from Dunedin on the South Island
Australia
- Dales Gorge, Hammersley Gorge, Kalamina Gorge, Yampire Gorge, Hancock Gorge, Joffre Gorge, Weano Gorge, Knox Gorge and Red Gorge in Karijini National Park
- Charles Knife Gorge and Shothole Gorge in Cape Range National Park
- Windjana Gorge in Windjana Gorge National Park
- Wittenoom Gorge
- Finke Gorge in Finke Gorge National Park
- Katherine Gorge in Nitmiluk National Park
- Ellery Gorge, Glen Helen Gorge, Redback Gorge, Ormiston Gorge in West MacDonnell National Park
- Barron River Gorge near Cairns
- Mossman Gorge in Daintree National Park
United States
- Columbia River Gorge , the vast canyon of the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington
- Flaming Gorge, with the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in the US state of Wyoming and Utah
- New River Gorge of the New River in West Virginia, with the New River Gorge Bridge
- Red River Gorge on the Red River in Kentucky
- Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River in the US state of Colorado, with the Royal Gorge Bridge , the tallest bridge in the world
Other states
- Stieglers Gorge in the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania (East Africa)
Well-known exonyms
Known foreign language names:
- Three Gorges Dam Project for Chinese 三峽 大壩 / 三峡 大坝 , Pinyin Sānxiá Dàbà , German " Three Gorges Dam " on the Yangtze River in the People's Republic of China