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unusual facts about Jetty


Jetty

Solid jetties, moreover, lined with quay walls, are sometimes carried out into a wide dock,at right angles to the line of quays at the side, to enlarge the accommodation; and they also serve, when extended on a large scale from the coast of a tideless sea under shelter of an outlying breakwater, to form the basins in which vessels lie when discharging and taking in cargoes in such a port as Marseille.


Bedford Magazine Explosion

Not long after VE-Day, on the evening of Wednesday, July 18, a fire broke out on the jetty of the Bedford Magazine, now CFAD Bedford (Magazine Hill) on the Bedford Basin, north of Dartmouth.

Cliffe, Richmondshire

At the end of June to the beginning of July 2009, Time Team investigated the Roman remains of Piercebridge Roman Fort and the supposed Roman bridge, and it is now suspected that the remains on the south bank are not a bridge at all, but the footings of a jetty, and that the location of the Roman bridge is unknown.

Dunaden

The foal was purchased by Dutch owner/breeder Jetty van der Hulst and grew up at her stud in Nederweert (The Netherlands).

Fraser Commando School

The FCS was located on Fraser Island in Southeast Queensland, near to the McKenzies Jetty, just south of what is now the Kingfisher Bay Resort.

Karuk people

Jetty Rae, musician whose grandmother, Jetty Rae Thom, was a full-blooded Karuk.

Labrador Nature Reserve

A Caltex oil refinery was set up in the area, and a long oil jetty with a pipeline was built.

Lang Tengah Island

Tanjung Merang is a small fishing village 45 minutes north of Kuala Terengganu and the jetty is a few minutes outside of the village.

Lindsay Booth

In 1935 at the age of 17 Lindsay met his sweetheart Gwen, who was 15, at Brighton jetty.

Marina

Boats are moored on buoys, on fixed or floating walkways tied to an anchoring piling by a roller or ring mechanism (floating docks, pontoons).

MOSE Project

Floods effects are further worsened due to greater erosion by the sea caused by human interventions to facilitate port activities (e.g. jetties, artificial canals); establishment of the industrial Porto Marghera area; and increased wash from motorized boats, which aggravate erosion of morphological structures and the foundations of quaysides and buildings.

Mumbai Harbour

The Gateway of India with its jetty for Elephanta is the most important tourist destination, followed by the INS Vikrant maritime Museum.

Nelly Bay, Queensland

It is however known that Robert Hayles, a local entrepreneur, did start tourist ventures in the bay around 1911 and in 1917 correspondence between the Townsville Harbour Board and the Queensland Marine Department notes the existence of a jetty in the bay.

Perth Central Area Transit

The Blue CAT is between Perth and Northbridge areas, including Barrack Street Jetty and Esplanade Busport.

Picnic Bay, Queensland

Having purchased the Butler family's huts in Picnic Bay in 1898 Robert Hayles, an entrepreneur formerly a pastoral worker in western Queensland, erected a two storey hotel, dance hall and a temporary jetty at the western end of the bay to establish a larger tourist operation in the bay.

Port Eads, Louisiana

Starting in 1876, James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887) solved the problem with a wooden jetty system that narrowed the main outlet of the river.

Port Giles, South Australia

Port Giles is not a town, but simply a large jetty equipped for bulk handling of grain, operated by Flinders Ports, and a similarly large grain storage facility operated by ABB Grain.

Raichak

Those who are more adventurous can make also use the Raichak jetty or the nearby Nurpur jetty and take a ferry across the river to go to Kukrahati in East Midnapore district or Gadiara in Howrah district.

Royal Jozini

The Estate will also include a number of private lodges, a waterfront area including a boating marina, jetty and slipway, a casino, hotel and 18 hole golf course designed by Hugh Baiocchi.

Tacita Dean

In 1997, Dean made an audio work based on her futile effort to find the submerged artwork Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake of Utah.

West Thurrock Power Station

After demolition part of the site was redeveloped as a works making industrial chemicals for the adjacent Procter & Gamble works and utilising the former coaling jetty.


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