Front Fifth

The Rock Islands Southern Lagoon consists of numerous large and small forested limestone islands, scattered within a marine lagoon protected by a barrier reef. The property lies within Koror State, immediately to the south of Palau's main volcanic island Babeldaob in the western Pacific Ocean. The living paradise Palau rock islands inscribed as world heritage this year. Rock Islands Southern Lagoon covers 100,200 ha and includes 445 uninhabited limestone islands of volcanic origin. Many of them display unique mushroom-like shapes in turquoise lagoons surrounded by coral reefs.

The Historic City

This is for side heading

Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama is a magnificent examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture, these Panamanian forts on the Caribbean coast form part of the defense system built by the Spanish Crown to protect transatlantic trade. The group of 17th- and 18th-century fortifications, the historic sites of Portobelo and San Lorenzo, are outstanding examples of Spanish colonial military architecture of this period. These fortifications, imbued with history, are a magnificent example of Spanish military architecture, located in a natural setting of great beauty.

Niokolo Koba National Park Entrance Village

Read More... Browse Gallery

Continent: Asia
Country: Israel (Palestine)
Category: Danger List Site
Criterion: (IV)(VI)
Date of Inscription: 2012

This is for side heading

Continent: Asia
Country: Israel (Palestine)
Category: Danger List Site
Criterion: (IV)(VI)
Date of Inscription: 2012
Continent: Asia
Country: Israel (Palestine)
Category: Danger List Site
Criterion: (IV)(VI)
Date of Inscription: 2012

This is for side heading

Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama is a magnificent examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture, these Panamanian forts on the Caribbean coast form part of the defense system built by the Spanish Crown to protect transatlantic trade. The group of 17th- and 18th-century fortifications, the historic sites of Reportorial and San Lorenzo, are outstanding examples of Spanish colonial military architecture of this period.

These fortifications, imbued with history, are a magnificent example of Spanish military architecture, located in a natural setting of great beauty. Antonelli's Spanish military architecture characterizes the first construction period (1596-99) and the neoclassical style of Salas and Hernandez (1753-60) dominated afterwards.

This is for side heading

Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama is a magnificent examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture, these Panamanian forts on the Caribbean coast form part of the defense system built by the Spanish Crown to protect transatlantic trade. The group of 17th- and 18th-century fortifications, the historic sites of Reportorial and San Lorenzo, are outstanding examples of Spanish colonial military architecture of this period.

These fortifications, imbued with history, are a magnificent example of Spanish military architecture, located in a natural setting of great beauty. Antonelli's Spanish military architecture characterizes the first construction period (1596-99) and the neoclassical style of Salas and Hernandez (1753-60) dominated afterwards.

Palau Southern Lagoon Islands

Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama is a magnificent.

Golden Words of the Article

You have to believe in yourself, that is the secret. Even when I was in an orphanage, when I was roaming the street, Trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel, the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in myself. Without it, you go down to defeat.

Charlie Chaplin

You have read this article Turkey Heritage / United Kingdom / Venezuela / Wonders of the New World / Yemen with the title United Kingdom. You can bookmark this page URL https://tiffanyeatworld.blogspot.com/2012/08/front-fifth.html. Thanks!

Lovely Modern British Waterfront Cottage with Amazing Sea Sight in Dorset

Another amazing gateway with wonderful sea sight is located on Burton Bradstock, Dorset, UK. This modern coastal vacation home is capable to accommodate up to eight people so you could bring your entire family and some friends there. These pictures should speak all, the all glass claddings for this three-level coastal cottage home are sure to give your entire company fun. The sea sights miles away, the skyline and the landscape, could be enjoyed from almost entire room in this vacation house.

Sure, in beautiful days when the weather is friendly, stepping out from the master bedroom which is clad with glass to the balcony or laying yourself in the soft, large sofa on the terrace would be very relaxing. And, you could even use the trails right to the waterfront. It is about the sun, breeze, and the sight. Unique Homestays.

You have read this article Dorset / Fun Categories Homes with Beautiful Views / United Kingdom / Villas with the title United Kingdom. You can bookmark this page URL https://tiffanyeatworld.blogspot.com/2012/03/lovely-modern-british-waterfront.html. Thanks!

Henderson Island

Henderson Island, which lies in the eastern South Pacific, is one of the few atolls in the world whose ecology has been practically untouched by a human presence. Its isolated location provides the ideal context for studying the dynamics of insular evolution and natural selection. It is particularly notable for the 10 plants and four land birds that are endemic to the island.

Henderson Island

Henderson Island is a raised coral atoll which together with Pitcairn, Ducie and Oeno forms part of the Pitcairn Island Group, a Dependent Territory of the United Kingdom in the South Pacific. This is one of the remotest groups of islands in the South Pacific, with no major landmass within a 5,000 km radius. Henderson is an elevated coralline limestone (makatea ) island which rises as an isolated conical mound from a depth of about 3.5 km, and is presumably a reef-capped volcano. The surface of the island is in large part reef-rubble interspersed with areas of dissected limestone, surrounded by steep limestone cliffs undercut on all sides except to the north.

There are three main beaches, to the north, north-west and north-east. Tidal range at spring tides is probably about 1 m, and tides are semidiurnal. The central depression is considered to be an uplifted lagoon. The island is arid with only one fresh water spring known. It has a very rugged topography, with limestone pinnacles and steep-sided pits, beneath the dense tangled vegetation. The coastline is one of steep cliffs with fringing reefs on the north and north-west sides.

The vegetation of the island has not been modified to any significant extent, and most of the surface of the island is densely vegetated with tangled scrub and scrub forest 5-10 m tall. The central part of the depression is more sparsely covered. The island has a high degree of endemicity for its size, out of a total of 51 native flowering plant taxa, 10 are endemic. There are no native species of land mammal. All four of the island's land birds are endemic, flightless Henderson rail, Stephen's lorikeet (R),Henderson fruit dove and Henderson warbler. Very little information is available on either the ecology or the status of these four birds. 15 seabirds have been recorded, at least nine of which are thought to breed on the island. The island's invertebrate fauna is also little known but about one-third of the insects and gastropods so far collected are endemic.

Henderson was colonized by Polynesians between the 12th and 15th centuries, but this period of settlement had little ecological impact and the island has remained uninhabited in modern times.

As a near pristine island ecosystem, it is of immense value for science. The inhospitable nature of the island, together with its remoteness and inaccessibility, has so far effectively ensured its conservation. Henderson Island is the world's only forested atoll with its ecology virtually intact, with ongoing geological and biological processes.

Text source:- Wikipedia. Images are copyrighted by their owners. Found any copyright issue, contact the administrator immediately. Report it now!

You have read this article Europe / Heritage / Heritage Europe / Heritage Natural / Heritage United Kingdom / Islands / North America / North America Heritage / United Kingdom with the title United Kingdom. You can bookmark this page URL https://tiffanyeatworld.blogspot.com/2012/01/henderson-island.html. Thanks!

Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey

A striking landscape was created around the ruins of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey and Fountains Hall Castle, in Yorkshire. The 18th-century landscaping, gardens and canal, the 19th-century plantations and vistas, and the neo-Gothic castle of Studley Royal Park, make this an outstanding site. Studley Royal Park, including the ruins of Fountains Abbey, combines into one harmonious whole buildings, gardens and landscapes constructed over a period of 800 years. All, important in their own right, have been integrated into a continuous landscape of exceptional merit and beauty.

Ruins of Fountains Abbey

Studley Royal: one of the few great 18th Century ‘green gardens’ to survive substantially in its original form: arguably the most spectacular water garden in England. The landscape garden is an outstanding example of the development of the ‘English’ garden style throughout the 18th century, which influenced the rest of Europe. The garden contains canals and ponds, cascades, lawns and hedges, with elegant temples and statues used as eye-catchers. The layout of the gardens is determined by the form of the natural landscape, rather than a design that is imposed upon it. The Aislabies’ design survives substantially in its original form.

Fountains Abbey ruins: a key element in the garden scheme, providing the spectacular culmination to the principal vista, but also of outstanding importance in its own right. It is one of the few Cistercian houses surviving from the 12th Century and provides an unrivalled picture of a great religious house in all its parts. Fountains Abbey, founded in 1132, soon became one of the largest and richest Cistercian abbeys in Britain, before being closed by Henry VIII in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was partially demolished soon after.

Jacobean Fountains Hall: an outstanding example of a building of its period and partially built with stone from the Abbey. It has a distinctive Elizabethan facade and is enhanced by a formal garden with shaped hedges. The interior of the Hall has been adapted for successive uses, including a courthouse.

St. Mary’s Church: an outstanding example of High Victorian Gothic architecture by one of its leading exponents, William Burges, in 1871, and considered to be one of his finest works. A building of importance in its own right, it has also been successfully integrated into the landscape of the Park. The church is one of a pair: its twin is Christ the Consoler at Skelton-on-Ure. They were both designed by Burges and built using the same craftsmen.

Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains Abbey owes its originality and striking beauty to the fact that a humanised landscape was created around the largest medieval ruins in the United Kingdom. The use of these features, combined with the planning of the water garden itself, is a true masterpiece of human creative genius.

Combining the remains of the richest abbey in England, the Jacobean Fountains Hall, and Burgess’s miniature neo-Gothic masterpiece of St Mary’s, with the water gardens and deer park into one harmonious whole, Studley Royal Park including the ruins of Fountains Abbey illustrates the power of medieval monasticism, and the taste and wealth of the European upper classes in the 18th century.

Text source:- Wikipedia. Images are copyrighted by their owners. Found any copyright issue, contact the administrator immediately. Report it now!

You have read this article Europe / Heritage / Heritage Cultural / Heritage Europe / Heritage United Kingdom / United Kingdom with the title United Kingdom. You can bookmark this page URL https://tiffanyeatworld.blogspot.com/2012/01/studley-royal-park-including-ruins-of.html. Thanks!