Keywords: thru-hikers
Item 148315
Aaron de Long, Cap Gaspé, Québec, Canada, 2000
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2000 Media: Photographic print
Item 148306
Kelly’s Bridge, border of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, 2016
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2016 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Building the International Appalachian Trail
Wildlife biologist Richard Anderson first proposed the International Appalachian Trail (IAT) in 1993. The IAT is a long-distance hiking trail along the modern-day Appalachian, Caledonian, and Atlas Mountain ranges, geological descendants of the ancient Central Pangean Mountains. Today, the IAT stretches from the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine, through portions of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Europe, and into northern Africa.
