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The sculptures in the park have become popular among water sports enthusiasts, particularly in nearby Flamingo Bay, which is the most visited snorkeling destination on the island. [3] In the park, over sixty-five concrete individual sculptures cover an area of over 800 square meters [4] and in total weigh around 15 tonnes in dry cement. [5]
One of the main goals of the four-fold expansion of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument was to promote the conservation of marine biodiversity in the U.S. EEZ. Scientific studies have shown that underwater mountains, or seamounts, are rich in biodiversity as they provide a structure for animals to live on. [7]
The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is located within the New England and mid-Atlantic regions, 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod. [1] It comprises a total area of 4,913 square miles, [1] and protects four underwater seamounts (Bear, Mytilus, Physalia, and Retriever Seamounts) and three submarine canyons in the edge of the continental shelf (Oceanographer, Lydonia, and ...
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Ocean County, New Jersey. Latitude and longitude coordinates of the sites listed on this page may be displayed in an online map.
A Historic Site or Monument (HSM) is a protected location of historic interest on the continent of Antarctica, or on its adjacent islands. The list of historic sites was first drawn up in 1972, [ 1 ] and has since expanded to cover 95 sites, with the most recent listed in 2021. [ 2 ]
The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit. ' Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography '), also known as the Yonaguni (Island) Submarine Ruins (与那国（島）海底遺跡, Yonaguni(-jima) Kaitei Iseki), is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.
[4] See also adaptive reuse. Restoration "focuses on the retention of materials from the most significant time in a property's history, while permitting the removal of materials from other periods." [4] Reconstruction, "establishes limited opportunities to re-create a non-surviving site, landscape, building, structure, or object in all new ...
Of the monuments, 13 are Buddhist temples, three are Shinto shrines, and one is a castle. The properties include 38 buildings designated by the Japanese government as National Treasures , 160 properties designated as Important Cultural Properties , eight gardens designated as Special Places of Scenic Beauty , and four designated as Places of ...