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Tour Barberousse. The Tour Barberousse (in English, Redbeard Tower) is in the coastal village of Gruissan in the Aude département of France. [ 1 ] The tower is all that remains of a castle built at the end of the 10th century to observe the approaches to the harbour at Narbonne and to guard against seaborne invasions of the city.
Gruissan. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Gruissan (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɥisɑ̃] ⓘ; Occitan: Grussan) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. The historian Émile Raunié (1854–1911) was born in Gruissan.
Beaufort scale. A ship in a force 12 (" hurricane -force") storm at sea, the highest rated on the Beaufort scale. The Beaufort scale / ˈboʊfərt / is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale.
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Wind farm near Mosonszolnok. The installed capacity of wind power in Hungary was 329 MW as of April 2011. [ 1] Most of wind farms are in the Kisalföld region. As of 1 April 2011, there were 39 operational wind farms in Hungary, with 172 turbines and 329 MW of installed capacity. In 2016 Hungary banned the building of wind turbines within 12km ...
Floating wind turbine. The world's first full-scale floating wind turbine, the 2.3 MW Hywind, being assembled in the Åmøy Fjord near Stavanger, Norway in 2009, before deployment in the North Sea. A floating wind turbine is an offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths ...
Weather. A whirlwind is a phenomenon in which a vortex of wind (a vertically oriented rotating column of air) forms due to instabilities and turbulence created by heating and flow (current) gradients. Whirlwinds can vary in size and last from a couple minutes to a couple hours. [1][2]
The shipwreck of the RMS Titanic was found on Sept. 1, 1985. The first phase of the mission began on July 1, 1985. It consisted of the French team aboard the French research vessel Le Suroit. Le ...