National Geographic 1958 - Utah Valley and the Holy Land

A few years ago, in Brother Greiner's Institute class he shared with us a National Geographic article that was very interesting.  The article shows the similarities between the Utah Valley/Salt Lake Area and the Holy Land/Jerusalem Area.  There was a nonLDS photographer who originally was just taking landscape pictures in those two areas and when he looked at his photographs he was surprised to see that the lakes, mountains, rivers, and land around them looked pretty similar.  He started to make many interesting parallels that turned into an article in the National Geographic in 1958 called "Geographical Twins Worlds Apart."

You can find more similar pictures between the two areas here:
http://ldsinformation.net/2011/01/20/geological-twins-worlds-apart/
The pdf of the entire National Geographic Article that is a very interesting read is:
http://ldsinformation.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/GeographicalTwinsWorldsApart.pdf

The handout that Brother Greiner handed us in class contained this:
 
Comparison between Utah and the Holy Land
There are 17 cities in Utah with Old Testament names
Utah Lake and Sea of Galilee - both fresh water - are 8 miles wide
Distance of:
Provo to Utah Lake = Tiberias to Sea of Galilee
Mt. Nebo to Utah Lake = Mt. Hermon to Sea of Galilee (both rise 7,371 feet in elevation)
Utah Lake to Utah County line = Sea of Galilee to Lebanon border (25 miles)
Point of Mountain (Utah State Prison) to Utah Lake = Mt Tabor (Heb: "Broken", led astray) to Sea of Galilee
Jordan River connects bodies of water : 60 miles in Utah - 65 miles in Israel
SLC to Salt Lake = Jerusalem to Dead Sea (15 miles)
(capitol cities, temple, religious center, home of prophets, state universities)
Two large cities in population, Hebron & Ogden, are 5 miles from Dead Sea &7 Salt Lake
Both regions are desert and have mountain ranges running lengthwise
Both lands are 125 miles in length
(David S. Boyer, "Geographical Twins a World Apart", The National Geographic Magazine, December 1958, p.848.)