Near the town of Monroe's largest statue of Christ in the United States. He has been sculpted from the chest and shoulders andhis head tilted toward the sky.
The statue is made of wood and Styrofoam, which were mounted on a steel structure. The whole is covered with fiberglass andresin.
Stonehenge is in the English county of Wiltshire, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury. It is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and is one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world. Archaeologists think that the standing stones were erected around 3200 BC and the surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC.
The bridge connects the two peninsulas on the two banks of the San Francisco Bay. It was built by Joseph Strauss Baermanna. It has a length of 2800 meters and the distance between the pylons is 1280 meters. Pylon height is 227 meters, and can flow under the bridge even ocean-going vessels, since bridge is located at an altitude of 66-72 meters above the water surface.
Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world and ranked among the completion of the largest steel suspension bridges. The construction is located on the East River and connects New York districts Brooklyn and Manhattan.
At the beginning of the bridge served only horse and tram traffic, now has six lanes for cars and sidewalks for pedestrians and cyclists.
Andros is the largest island of the Bahamas. At its eastern coast is a belt of deep water, called the tongue of the Ocean. Along this stretch belt shoals and coral reefs, and with them spread out the dark depths. These are the inputs to some of the most amazing underwater caves and corridors in the world.
One of the most famous, most important and best preserved structures created by the Romans on the Iberian Peninsula. It is the symbol of Segovia, with Alcazar and the cathedral are the main attraction of the city.
In fact, the creation of the aqueduct dates back to the half-century or early second century during the reign of Emperor Vespasianand Nerva. It was used to transport water from a distance of about 17 km Fuenfría source.
Higher tier are drugs with a width of 5.10 m clearance, supported on columns narrower and lower than those of the lower floors. In the upper part of the structure is U-shaped channel with dimensions of 55 cm to 46 cm. Lower tier, cassing uneven ground, are drugs with a width of 4.50 m clearance columns supported on tapering.
In the fifteenth century, when Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile was the first major reconstruction of the aqueduct. Don Pedro has a rebuilt Mesa consisting of 36 anxiety episode destroyed by the Moors in 1072. The work was performed with great care so as not to make any changes to the original draft and keep the original style.
Piped water is the most important architectural monument of Segovia. On the spaces of the century aqueduct was operated andmaintained in perfect condition. However, due to pollution and erosion of the aqueduct ruin. In order to guarantee the survival of the pipeline began in 1997, maintenance work, which are overseen by the architect Francisco Jurado. Since 1985, the aqueductis a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Erebus volcano is the southernmost active volcano on earth. It is situated on the Isle of Ross in the Antarctic Ross Sea. It has aheight of about 3795 m above sea level, and up to 2000 m above sea level slopes are covered with snow.
Erebus volcano is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. Pacific Ring of Fire is a zone offrequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. It covers almost continuous belt of ocean trenchesand volcanic mountain chains. It is estimated that in his area there is 81% larger earthquakes and is 90% of all active volcanoes.
November 28, 1979 plane crash took place. During the very poor visibility of the volcano crashed plane carrying tourists from New Zealand. Killed 257 people on board the aircraft, which belonged to the airline Air New Zealand. Flight 901 was a regularpassenger connection from the airport in Auckland in New Zealand to Antarctica, the crash stopped further flight.
In the 50 Nineteenth century in Sydney was not the building where concerts could be held or opera. Architectural competition was announced on the Opera House, which received 222 projects from 32 countries worldwide. Winner was in 1957, Danish architectJorn Utzon.
The building originally was to cost $ 7 million, but the total cost amounted to 102 million dollars. It was built 16 years or 11 years longer than originally intended.
Easter Island lies on the Pacific Ocean 3,600 km west from the coast of Chile. From the nearest inhabited land, which is the island of Pitcairn, it is divided over 2000 kilometers of ocean. It is known primarily from the 887 stone statues called moai.
The statues were made from rocks of volcanic origin with tools from basalt. The figures are carved from one stone. Some weighover 20 tons, and their height exceeds 6 feet. The largest of the moai - Paro was about 10 feet tall and weighed 75 tons. The island is also unfinished statue 21 meters high and weighing 270 tons. Some of the figures has a huge stone on their heads hats -pukao, which are made of scorii - red volcanic rock.
There are many concepts talking about who carved the moai. The most popular of them said that they did Polynesian settlersaround 1000-1100 year. Another contends that the inhabitants of Easter Island arrived from South America and from therebrought the skills of stone. Work on the statues was interrupted suddenly, testifies to the many unfinished statues. The probablereason was overpopulation of the island, famine and the outbreak of intertribal fighting. Until now, we do not know the purpose for which the statues were made, many theories say about the conception of statues of deities, or ancestors.
In the mid-nineteenth century, most of the moai were overturned, it is believed that this was due to fighting between the clans on the island. Currently, about 50 moai have been deposited back to their old places, and on the island was Rapa Nui National Park, which encompasses nearly half of its surface. In 1996, the moai statues were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland is the largest, most diverse and beautiful coral reef in the world. It is also one of the youngest reefs - some of its sections now account for only 500 thousand. years. Stretches for more than two thousand. km from the city of Brisbane to the Gulf of Papau.
Great Barrier Reef is famous for its corals, although they constitute only 1 / 10 surviving organisms here. On the reef there are at least 350 species of various shapes, sizes and colors. They require the right environment. Reefs are formed only in the saline andwarm waters (temperature maintaining not less than 22 ° C). The water must contain enough oxygen, so it can not be waterstanding and must be sufficiently clear that the sludge did not block the digestive system of coral.
