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The Sleeping Woman, sometimes also The Dead Woman, is a name or nickname for certain mountain formations located in different places in the world that are said to look like a reclining woman in the local tradition. ==Ranges by the name of "The Sleeping Lady"== *Western United States (in both cases, the nickname is associated with an apocryphal Native American legend of "The Sleeping Lady"): * *Mount Tamalpais, near San Francisco, California * *Mount Susitna, near Anchorage, Alaska. *Algeria: Mount Chenoua, according to local tradition the mountain range looks like a reclining pregnant woman.〔''Algérie, les guides bleus'', Hachette, Paris, 1974, p. 197〕 *Cambodia: Phnom Kong Rei.〔(Kong Rei Mountain )〕 *China: * *Sleeping Beauty Range (睡美人山) near Kunming.〔(Western Mountain Forest Reserve. )〕 * *Sleeping Beauty, Danxia near Shaoguan city.〔(Danxia Range - Sleeping Maiden )〕 *Mexico: Iztaccíhuatl *Norway: Den Sovende Dronning (The Sleeping Queen), also known as ''Skjomtind'', a mountain range near Narvik, Norway. *Peru: Pumarinri (Quechua for "cougar ear") or ''La Bella Durmiente'' (Soanish for Sleeping Beauty) a limestone mountain range in the shape of a woman in Tingo Maria National Park, José Crespo Y Castillo District. *Philippines: Sleeping Beauty, mountain in Kalinga province, northern Philippines. *Thailand: Doi Nang Non in the Daen Lao Range. *Pakistan: Kohat valley mountain. A Mountain called 'Sleeping Beauty' is also located in Quetta, Pakistan. *Panama, ''La India Dormida'' (The Sleeping Indian Woman) in El Valle de Anton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of mountains named The Sleeping Lady」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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