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Particularly the buildings of the Ise Grand Shrine, which contrast with the pit-houses typical of the Neolithic Yayoi period. They propose significant Neolithic contact between the people of southern Japan and Austronesians or pre-Austronesians that occurred prior to the spread of Han Chinese cultural influence to the islands. [ 8 ]
The huts included a magnetograph hut, used to measure variations in the south magnetic pole; an absolute magnetic hut, which was used as a reference point for studies in the magnetograph hut; and the transit hut, an astronomical observatory. [1] The most important building at the site is the winter living quarters, known as "Mawson's Hut".
A group of explorers from Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, 1907–1909, in the Antarctic hut at Cape Royds. When Shackleton went into McMurdo Sound in 1908, having failed to land on King Edward VII Land, he decided to build a hut at Cape Royds, a small promontory twenty-three miles north of Hut Point where Scott had stayed during the Discovery Expedition.
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey established a base on Winter Island in 1947, Base F (Argentine Islands). [1] The main hut, built on the site of the old BGLE hut, was named "Wordie House" after Sir James Wordie, a member of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition who visited during its construction. [2]
This durable building style has allowed some silt dwellings to surpass 100 years in age. [13] Whilst fleeing the barbarians pillaging the Italian Peninsula in the 6th Century, [14] Roman farmers built elevated huts on wooden stilts on and surrounding the islands in the Venetian Lagoon. Over time as Venetian power and the local population grew ...
The Ocean Forest Hotel had over 200 rooms, the constructed golf house had 60, while the main house was planned to have 350. Developers wanted the Arcady to be a year-round family destination.
Mathias, Tova, and their son Ivar live in a 160-square-foot cabin in the wilderness of northern Sweden. The family moved into their home, which has no electricity or water, eight years ago.
A 1961 extension at the east end of the hut provided living quarters for 15 people. Major alterations in 1980 updated the living and working accommodation. A two-storey extension provides sleeping accommodation for 24 people, a clothing store, boiler room and reverse osmosis plant on the ground floor.