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The Heptastadion was created to link Pharos Island to the mainland coast and given a name based on its length (Heptastadion is Greek for "seven stadia"— hepta meaning seven, and a stadion being a Greek unit of length measuring approximately 180 m (590 ft)). [3] Overall it was more than three-quarters of a mile long.
Pharos (/ ˈ f ɛər ɒ s / FAIR-oss) is the largest known impact crater on Neptune's moon Proteus.It is named after the island of Pharos, making it the only named surface feature on Proteus as of 2024.
Pharos was a small island located on the western edge of the Nile Delta.In 332 BC, Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria on an isthmus opposite Pharos. . Alexandria and Pharos were later connected by a mole [6] spanning more than 1,200 metres (0.75 miles), which was called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia"—a stadion was a Greek unit of length measuring approximate
Pharos is the only named surface feature on this moon. In Greek mythology, it refers to the island where Proteus reigned. [19] In addition to Pharos, there are several craters 50–100 km in diameter and many more with diameters less than 50 km. [4] Other landforms on Proteus include linear features such as scarps, valleys, and grooves. The ...
Notable in antiquity was the Heptastadion, a giant mole [2] built in the 3rd century BC in the city of Alexandria, Egypt [3] to join the city to Pharos Island where the Pharos lighthouse stood. [4] The causeway formed a barrier separating Alexandria's oceanfront into two distinct harbours, [ 5 ] an arrangement which had the advantage of ...
A well-preserved ancient tomb is thought to be a scaled-down model of the Alexandria Pharos. Known colloquially under various names — the Pharos of Abusir, the Abusir funerary monument and Burg al-Arab (Arab's Tower) — it consists of a 3-storey tower, approximately 20 metres (66 ft) in height, with a square base, a hexagonal midsection and cylindrical upper section, like the building upon ...
This map shows the tracks of all tropical cyclones which formed worldwide from 1985 to 2005. The map was created with the WPTC track map generator by Nilfanion.. The track map generator program generates a track map from the NHC HURDAT data, [A 1] or from Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF) B-deck data files (commonly referred to as "best track" files).
Google Map Maker was a map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. [2] In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by