The Floating Forest, Australia The SS Ayrfield was built in 1911 and retired in 1972 in the Homebush Bay, which is west of Sydney and basically a ship graveyard. But it's unique to the other abandoned vessels, because it's since sprouted majestic mangrove trees and greenery. ...
SS Ayrfield, Australia Resting in the calm waters of Wentworth Point in Sydney is a peculiar yet beautiful sight: a forest flourishing on the wreck of an abandoned ship. Built in Greenock, Scotland, and originally launched as the SS Corrimal in 19119, the SS Ayrfield served both as a cargo...
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The SS Ayrfield is a vessel lying in the quiet waters of Homebush Bay on the south bank of the River Parramatta, close to Sydney, Australia. More than just a retired cargo ship, it is a testament to how nature imposes itself on artificial structures. The abandoned ship is unique because...
during the crop production cycle. For example, wheat production in Western Australia was estimated to incur a life cycle emission of 308 kgCO2e t-1during prefarm, on-farm, and postfarm stages115. However, we did not include life cycle emission of recultivation in our analysis mainly because...
all imply that this branch was active and operational during the construction phase of these pyramids. This waterway would have connected important locations in ancient Egypt, including cities and towns, and therefore, played an important role in the cultural landscape of the region. The eastward mi...
Endicott police were called to a recently-condemned property in the village after a neighbor spotted a couple of dogs tied up to the house. Mayor Nick Burlingame said code enforcement officials determined people had been residing in the home at 108 Cleveland Avenue although there was no water or...
Following themeltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plantafter the 2011 Japanese Tsunami, a 30km exclusion zone was established around the facility, in order to safeguard people from being exposed to any potential fallout from the reactor.Tomiokawas one of several towns, villages, and cities to...
The Challenge of Change: Australian Cities and Urban Planning in the New Millennium This paper reviews recent research on the changing spatial structure of Australia's major cities from the early 1990s, concentrating on (a) the location of......
completed in 1938 and abandoned in 1974. Its spacious, window-lined solariums are typical of earlier Sea View wards, flanked on either side by open-air porches which were occupied by recovering patients 24 hours a day during the height of the epidemic. In an otherwise clinicalLandmarks Preser...