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The original Sarlacc in Return of the Jedi (1983). The Sarlacc [1] (plural Sarlacci) is a fictional creature in George Lucas's sci-fi action saga Star Wars.It first appeared in the film Return of the Jedi (1983) as a multi-tentacled alien beast whose immense, gaping maw is lined with several rows of sharp teeth, inhabiting the Great Pit of Carkoon, a hollow in the sand of the desert planet ...
Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
Sand pit along the Mississippi River, United States Artificial lake with frac sand dredger. Sand mining is the extraction of sand, mainly through an open pit (or sand pit) [1] [failed verification] [2] but sometimes mined from beaches and inland dunes or dredged from ocean and river beds. [3]
Dungeness Spit is a sand spit jutting out approximately 5 miles (8 km) [1] from the northern edge of the Olympic Peninsula in northeastern Clallam County, Washington into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. It is the longest natural sand spit in the United States. [2] [3] The spit is growing in length by about 15 feet (4.6 m) per year.
The spring consists of a deep basin (hence the name “fosse” [transl. pit]). It opens into a submerged chamber with a 2.5 metre high entrance that is visible from the surface. The flooded cave has been explored by divers despite the difficulties created by narrow passages and a succession of deep siphons requiring frequent decompression stops.
Sand skiing (occasionally sand-skiing) is a sport and form of skiing in which the skier rides down a sand dune or strides across a beach on skis. It is practised in many sandy areas, including Sossusvlei , Namibia and Peru , [ 1 ] along with other boardsports such as sandboarding .
The fourteen narrow gauge railways of the Nemours sand pits (French: Réseau des Sablières de Nemours), with a total length of about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) and three different gauges of 500 mm (19 + 3 ⁄ 4 in), 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) and 800 mm (2 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), ran from several sand pits and underground mines to a depot in Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours and from there to the Canal du ...
Khamisiyah (Arabic: الخميسية Khamisiyah) is an area in southern Iraq located approximately 350 km (217 mi) south-east of Baghdad, 200 km (124 mi) north-west of Kuwait City and 270 km (168 mi) north of Al Qaysumah.