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Schönbrunn Palace
Schönbrunn Palace is a 1,441 room complex that sits upon 435 acres of spectacular gardens in Vienna, Austria. It was here that Mozart gave his first concert to the royal family when he was only six years old.
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Rotonda West
Rotonda West is an unincorporated community in Florida, USA that is shaped like an incomplete wagon wheel. A freshwater canal system surrounds the outside of the wheel and travels inside each of the pie-shaped wedges to form the subdivisions of the development. The wheel was not fully completed because the undeveloped area is a wetland is a habitat for a number of animals such as alligators, bald eagles, and great blue herons.
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Brazilian Mine Disaster Juxtapose
On 5 November 2015, two dams collapsed at an iron ore mine in southeastern Brazil. News outlets estimated that approximately 62 million cubic metres (81 million cubic yards) of toxic waste water (similar to the red mud on previous page) was unleashed. As seen in this Juxtapose, the immediate release of sludge wiped out the village of Bento Rodrigues, resulting in the death of 17 people. Because of this pollution, more than half a million people did not have access to clean drinking water or water to irrigate crops for an extended period of time. Furthermore, within two weeks of the dam rupture, the contaminated waters had spread across a 644-kilometre (400-mile) stretch of the Doce River and entered into the Atlantic Ocean, killing significant amounts of plant and animal life along the way. Officials are concerned that the toxins will continue to threaten the Comboios Nature Reserve, a protected area for the endangered leatherback turtle.
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Marabe Al Dhafra
The villas of Marabe Al Dhafra in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates are home to approximately 2,000 people. The yearly average temperature in Abu Dhabi is slightly greater than 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34.5 degrees Celsius).
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Cranberry Bogs
If you put cranberries on your Thanksgiving turkey today, there’s a chance they came from these bogs in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Cranberries are a Native American wetland fruit that are grown on low-lying vines, floating in beds of water layered with sand, peat, gravel, and clay. Coincidentally, the town of Plymouth is also the site of the colony founded by the Pilgrims in 1620 and was the home to the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. Happy Thanksgiving from Daily Overview!
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Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW)
Detroit Metropolitan Airport covers more than 11 square miles in Romulus, Michigan. Concourse A at McNamara Terminal, seen here at left, is the world's second-longest airport terminal building, extending a length of one mile (Kansai Airport in Japan has a 1.7 mile long terminal). Detroit Metro is the 16th busiest facility in the United States, serving more than 32 million passengers each year.
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Tarawa
Kiribati is a low-lying island nation in the Central Pacific Ocean. The 102,000 residents of Kiribati may be forced to relocate as increased ice melt causes the Pacific Ocean to rise and submerges its islands. Fiji has boldly offered to take in the people of Kiribati if that occurs. Tarawa, an atoll that serves as the capital of the country and is home to half of it’s population, is seen here.
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Vail Ski Resort
Vail Ski Resort is located in Eagle County, Colorado, USA. Spanning 5,289 acres, Vail is the third largest single mountain ski resort in the United States and has the fourth largest skiable terrain in North America. This particular Overview was luckily captured in October as the foliage on the mountain was changing colors.
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Vondelpark
The Vondelpark is a public urban park in Amsterdam, Netherlands that attracts more than 10 million visitors each year. The park opened in 1865 and is named after the 17th-century author Joost van den Vondel. In addition to its ample green spaces and ponds, the Vondelpark contains an open-air theatre, sculptures, athletic facilities, and numerous playgrounds.
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Circuit
Circuit Paul Ricard is a motorsport track at Le Castellet, near Marseille, France. The track is known for its distinctive black and blue runoff areas called the Blue Zone. Additional deeper run-off areas known as the Red Zone use a more abrasive surface designed to maximize tire grip and minimize braking distance.
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Center-pivot irrigation
Center pivot irrigation is used throughout the Wadi As-Sirhan Basin of Saudi Arabia. Water is mined from depths as great as one kilometer (~3,000 ft), pumped to the surface, and evenly distributed by sprinklers that rotate 360 degrees. Spurred by a government effort to strengthen its agriculture sector, cultivated land in Saudi Arabia grew from 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than 8 million acres by 1993. For a sense of scale, the total area shown in this Overview is approximately fifty square miles (32,000 acres).
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Salt Ponds
A recent figure estimates that 80% of the San Francisco Bay wetlands area - approximately 16,500 acres - have been developed for salt mining. The ponds get their particular, vibrant colors from the micro-algae that live there and the species' tolerance to salinity. Areas that have a bright red hue are caused by the algae Dunaliella, which thrives in water with extremely high salt content. For a sense of scale, this Overview shows approximately one half of a square mile.
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Deforestation
Deforestation of the rainforest is visible in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Deforestation in the country has primarily been driven by the expansion of mechanized agriculture and cattle ranching. This Overview highlights the country’s struggle to expand food production in order to meet the needs of its growing population, and the sacrificial destruction of its forests that has taken place to do so. Deforestation rates have been stable though relatively high, at about 200,000 hectares a year.
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Potash evaporation ponds
Blue evaporation ponds are visible at the Intrepid Potash Mine in Moab, Utah, USA. The mine produces muriate of potash, a potassium-containing salt used widely by farmers in fertilizer. The salt is pumped to the surface from underground brines and dried in massive solar ponds that vibrantly extend across the landscape. As the water evaporates over the course of 300 days, the salts crystallize out. So why are you seeing such vibrant colors? The water is dyed bright blue to reduce the amount of time it takes for the potash to crystallize; darker water absorbs more sunlight and heat.
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San Alfonso del Mar
The swimming pool at the San Alfonso del Mar Resort in Algarrobo, Chile is the largest in the world. The pool is more than one thousand meters long (3,323 ft) and contains approximately 250 million liters (66 million gallons) of water! The resort pays $4 million dollars each year to maintain the pool.
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TAPO Bus Terminal
To continue my selection of favorite Overviews from 2015, I’m excited to repost this one of the Terminal de Autobuses de Pasajeros de Oriente - a major bus terminal in Mexico City, Mexico. Commonly known as TAPO, the dome-covered structure accommodates more than 10,000 passengers per day traveling to fourteen states throughout the country.
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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
The largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world is located at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. The facility - run by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group - contains more than 4,400 retired American military and government aircraft.
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Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls is a waterfall located on the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, it is classified as the largest with a width of 1,708 meters (5,604 ft) and height of 108 meters (354 ft). Accordingly the falls contains the world's largest sheet of falling water with a flow of approximately 1088 cubic meters per second.
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Cadiz Ranch
Cadiz Ranch in Essex, California is located in the middle of the Mojave Desert. The organic farm grows lemons, table grapes (dried and turned into raisins) and squash on more than 300 acres of irrigated desert. This is made possible by seven wells that pump 2,000 gallons of water per minute at all times from an underground aquifer - a layer of water-bearing permeable rock from which water can be extracted.
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Kansai International Airport (KIX)
Kansai International Airport is located on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, Japan. To create the island, a 30 meter (98-foot) layer of earth was created on top of the seafloor with 21 million cubic meters of landfill. The material was excavated from three separate mountains. As of 2008, the total cost of Kansai Airport was $20 billion USD, including land reclamation that has been necessary to prevent its continued sinkage (7.1 centimeters per year as of 2008) into the bay.
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