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Housing Units (2000): 1044
Land area (2000): 1.142335 sq. miles (2.958634 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.142335 sq. miles (2.958634 sq. km)
FIPS code: 06050
Located within: Connecticut (CT), FIPS 09
Location: 41.811406 N, 72.695418 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Blue Hills
Wikipedia
Blue Hills may refer to:
- Blue Hills (radio serial)
Places named Blue Hills:
- Blue Hills, Gauteng a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Blue Hills, Turks and Caicos Islands the highest point of the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Blue Hills, Massachusetts, United States including
- Blue Hills Reservation
- Blue Hills Ski Area
- Great Blue Hill
- Blue Hills, Estonia
- Blue Hills, Connecticut
- Blue Hills (Washington)
- Blue Hills (Wisconsin), also known as Barron Hills
- Blue Hills, a neighborhood of Saratoga, California
Blue Hills, written by Gwen Meredith, was an Australian radio serial about the lives of families in a typical Australian country town called Tanimbla. The title "Blue Hills" itself derives from the residence of the town's doctor.
Blue Hills was broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for 27 years, from 28 February 1949 to 30 September 1976. It ran for a total of 5,795 episodes, and was at one time the world's longest-running radio serial. Each episode lasted 15 minutes. It succeeded another Gwen Meredith serial The Lawsons with many of the same themes and characters, and which ran for 1,299 episodes.
The Blue Hills just west of Bremerton, Washington, also called the Bremerton Hills, Bald Hills, and Wildcat Hills, consist of Gold Mountain, Green Mountain, and several informally named hills. Reaching an elevation of 1761 feet (537 meters), a thousand feet above the glacial till that fills the Puget Lowland, they form a prominent landmark visible around the region. They are formed of uplifted blocks of marine basalts, the steep-walled canyons between the various summits being the fissures between the blocks (particularly prominent at Gold Creek and Union River). In addition to Gold Mountain and Green Mountain (the named members of the Blue Hills) are several other prominent peaks unofficially named according to their elevation (in feet):
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Kitsap Lookout, el. 1,360 feet
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(also known as Peak 1320),
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Peak 1291.
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Peak 730.
(For a fuller list of hills see List of mountains and hills of Kitsap County, Washington.) The name "Blue Hills" is said to come from the green trees appearing blue at a distance due to atmospheric optics. Image:BlueHillsWA-BowenVP.jpg|center|thumb|720px|View from Betty Bowen viewpoint ( Queen Anne Hill, Seattle) west-southwest across Puget Sound and Bainbridge Island to the Blue Hills. Prominent summits from left to right are: Kitsap Lookout, Gold Mountain, Green Mountain, and Peak 1291. Behind these peaks of the Olympic Mountains trend to the south. From the right: Mt. Ellinor, Mt. Washington (elevation 6,250'), and Mt. Pershing. Barely overlooking Green Mountain: Lightning Peak and Dry Mountain. In the gap next to Gold Mountain the twin summits of Chapel Peak (~4,000') peek over Prospect Ridge (overlooks Lake Cushman). Visible to the left of Kitsap Lookout are several unnamed peaks in the vicinity of Vance Creek. Mouse-over for labels. See for more details.
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- Peaks of the Olympics:
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Usage examples of "blue hills".
There was nothing to see but distance, nothing but an infinity of far blue hills and nameless mysterious canyons.
No longer they sailed past steep cliffs with blue hills marching behind them.
They were keeping well clear of the camps that they had built with so much loving labour, but both of them stared longingly upstream to where the dreaming blue hills studded the line of the horizon.
In the direction from which we had come we could see the high blue hills beyond the Nascaupee, very dim in the far distance.
Beyond the tiled rooftops, a gleam of water, fields gold with stubble and low blue hills wavered in the heated air, insubstantial as a dream.
Suddenly, far ahead among the low blue hills and caught by the last rays of a sun setting behind him, he saw a finger of smoke rise.
Calvene, at seventeen, was the oldest of the new boys followed by Endi of Blue Hills, Roos, Aris, and little Shutz, who at fourteen was now the youngest in the unit.
As the sun set over dull-blue hills, the clouds made strange streak patterns, a characteristic of the start of the monsoon season.
But they were the small waves of a good sailing breeze and beyond them he could see the blue hills of the Turiguañ.