The Turcek Water Reservoir is situated on river Turiec – a tributary of river Vah upstream of Turcek municipality. It is the main objective of the reservoir to provide for service of drinking water to the districts of Ziar nad Hronom (river Hron basin) and Prievidza (river Nitra basin). Since the reservoir is situated in the river Vah basin, under this arrangement water is transferred to two ot...
This will supposedly show live position data during Tour de France 2008 famous road bike competition, starting in a few days. It is supposedly produced by many volunteers, Orange and 3DTracking. I am not affiliated with any.
Mod Note: The 95th Tour de France is from Saturday July 5th to Sunday July 27th 2008.
Amazon river, Río Amazonas - Worlds largest river! Try this extensive tour of more than 6400 kilometers (3977 miles) with more than 400 placemarks (an average of more than one placemark every 16 kilometers, 10 miles) taking you on a flight over the landscape in Peru and Brazil from the Amazon river spring as a glacial stream on a snowcapped 5597 meter (18363 feet) peak called Nevado Mismi in th...
Here's a look at the strangest airport I've ever seen. The airport is built on a small peninsula going perpendicular so it is built out over the water. In order to get past the airport, cars have to drive over the main strip of the runway. There looks to be railroad crossing style drop-down gates at each end of the crossing road.
You can see more close-ups of the road/runway at h...
During the afternoon of the 14th, the "hot information" on the big push came down through channels. "H" Hour of "D" Day was to be the break of dawn the morning of 15 August. The invasion was to be aimed at the southern coast of France. Missions of the Fifteenth Air Force in the support of the invasion were four in number: (1) To cause...
Victoria Road Prison is a former prison, located on Victoria Road in Douglas, capital of the Isle of Man. Victoria Road Prison was the first purpose-built prison to be constructed on the Isle of Man, and held prisoners from April 1891 to August 2008 when the new Isle of Man Prison opened.
Fort Peck is one of six multipurpose main stem dams which operate as part of a system on the upper Missouri River. Part of the famed Pick-Sloan Plan, the system is managed for flood control, hydroelectric power generation, navigation, fish and wildlife conservation, recreation, irrigation, public water supply and improvement of water quality.
A massive storage reservoir, Lake Argyle formed where the Ord River enters the Carr-Boyd Ranges 160 kilometres southeast of Wyndham. Lake Argyle is now the largest fresh water storage in mainland Australia. Its storage capacity is 10,760 million cubic metres of water or about 9 times the water volume of Sydney Harbour.
The Farakka Barrage, constructed by India in 1974, only a few miles from Bangladesh border, is a water resource development project. The Farakka barrage is a low height dam, constructed mainly to divert water from the main channel of Ganges-Padma river that flows through Bangladesh into the Hoogly-Bhagirathi channel for irrigation services and the resuscitation of the Hoogly port in Kolkata.
The Bow River, in the Flood of '05. This river swelled to enormous sizes during early Summer near and in Calgary due to immense rains. It does, however, make for some cool water effects in all the rushing nature. It practically made the Bow River a lake in some areas behind the Beaver Dam.
The county borders of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire meet in the middle of the River Trent here, with the Trent heading West to Manchester and East to Nottingham, the Erewash Canal North into Derbyshire and the River Soar South into Leicestershire. As there is no bridge or ferry at Trent Lock, this is the only break in what would otherwise be a continuous footpath from London t...
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