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1978 Australian Grand Prix

Then with only 3 laps left, Alan Hamilton badly crashed his Lola T430 into the old Dunlop Bridge coming through the high speed causeway onto the main straight.

A4018 road

The final part of the A4018 is Cribbs Causeway, off which is the unusually-named locale of Catbrain.

Acton, Australian Capital Territory

A low bridge and causeway was erected in 1911, at the site of the original river ford in an area subsequently inundated by Lake Burley Griffin.

Aeroparque Jorge Newbery

In 1938, plans were submitted for an island airport connected via causeway to Avenida General Paz (then under construction).

Ánir

The road through Ánir continues to Strond and then crosses the causeway to the island of Kunoy to continue to the villages of Haraldssund and Kunoy.

Antelope Island bison herd

Bison may occur almost anywhere on the island, including the northern end near the causeway, but most of them tend to congregate on the east side near the Fielding Garr Ranch.

Battle of Otumba

After being beleaguered on the causeway leading out of the city, the surviving Spanish forces arrived at the plain of Otumba Valley (Otompan), where they encountered a vast Aztec army numbering between 20,000-40,000 men.

Battle of Stirling Bridge

The site of the fighting was along either side of an earthen causeway leading from the Abbey Craig, atop which the Wallace Monument is now located, to the northern end of the bridge.

Better Bathrooms

Warrington - The Warrington showroom was the second Better Bathrooms showroom to be opened and is located on Wilderspool Causeway in Stockton Heath.

Boca Grande Causeway

The Causeway was built parallel to the now abandoned Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway.

Canso

Canso Causeway, a rock-fill causeway connecting Cape Breton Island to mainland Nova Scotia, Canada

Causeway Bay North Station

KCR has also proposed adding Causeway Bay North Station as part of Shatin to Central Link, to be situated between Exhibition Station and Hung Hom Station.

Cawayan, Masbate

The P42.95-million Cawayan Port Improvement Project in Barangay Mahayahay included the construction of rock causeway, back-up area, RC platform, RoRo ramp and breasting dolphin, as well as port lighting system, and mooring and fendering system.

Cinderford Town A.F.C.

The Causeway Ground has been floodlit since 1991 when the club took on Birmingham City in a friendly to inaugurate the lights.

Cityflyer

R11: Disneyland > North Point (via Mong Kok, Yau Ma Tei, Wan Chai, Causeway Bay)

Courtney W. Campbell

In 1948, the Davis Causeway across Tampa Bay was renamed the Courtney Campbell Causeway in honor of Campbell who spearheaded efforts to ensure needed repairs and beautification of the causeway were completed.

Cribbs Causeway

The Cribbs Causeway area has become the home to many car dealerships in recent years these include, Audi, BMW, Ford, Honda, Mercedes-Benz/Smart, Mini, Peugeot and Porsche.

Dee Valley Water

In 1838 the City of Chester Waterworks company was established inheriting an intake at the causeway - now called Chester Weir and elsewhere in the city.

DFS Galleria

At the same time, DFS opens a new downtown store in the heart of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, and secures three core concessions at Hong Kong International Airport.

Dietmar Feichtinger

He designed the Simone-de-Beauvoir footbridge in Paris, exceptional 190 m free-span in innovating the new combined structure, won the European competition for the Mont Saint-Michel pedestrian causeway bridge and the Three Countries Bridge the longest arch footbridge in the world linking France and Germany over the Rhine(inaugurated 30 June 2007).

Emperor Group

In Hong Kong, the group has become the second largest landlord of ground-floor shop spaces on Russell Street in Causeway Bay where retail rents have risen to become the second highest in the world, ranking only below that of Fifth Avenue in New York.

Freshwater, Yarmouth and Newport Railway

A level crossing at Freshwater Causeway(operated by a residential crossing keeper)

Hammersmith railway station

The location of the terminus allows passengers to cross the causeway over Butterley Reservoir.

Huxter

Huxter Fort is located in the vicinity, reached by foot along a causeway.

Imhotep Museum

The Museum has five large halls in which one may admire masterpieces from Saqqara such as a Greco-Roman mummy discovered by Zahi Hawass during excavation at Teti's pyramid complex, and the magnificent pair of statues of High Priest of Mut Amenemhotep and his wife, from the 19th Dynasty, found near the causeway of the Unas complex.

Loch of Huxter

Huxter Fort is located on an islet to the southeast of the loch, connected by a causeway.

Lodge Causeway

The Causeway led to Kingswood Lodge at the top of Lodge Hill, recorded in use since Saxon times when kings used the forest for hunting whilst resident at the palace at Pucklechurch, where King Edmund was murdered by an outlaw in 946.

Makupa Causeway

The causeway dissects Tudor Creek to the east and Port Reitz Creek to the west.

Melide causeway

The Melide causeway, sometimes called the Melide bridge or Melide dam, is a causeway and bridge across Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino.

Narrow Neck, New Zealand

Until the mid-19th century, Devonport was connected with the rest of the North Shore by a causeway between Ngataringa Bay and the Hauraki Gulf.

New Fire ceremony

At sunset on the last day of the year, a procession of priests from the fire cult of Huehueteotl walked from the ceremonial center of Tenochtitlan across the eastbound causeway towards a mountain called Huixachtlan on the eastern bank of Lake Texcoco close to Colhuacan.

Osea Island

Both the 1989 television adaptation of Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black and the 2012 film adaptation of the same used the island's causeway as the location for the fictional Nine Lives Causeway.

Outer barrier

The Ocean Parkway connects all three causeways and runs the length of the island, while The Fire Island Inlet Bridge continues on the Robert Moses Causeway finding its way to the New York's Fire Island on the Atlantic Ocean.

Ponte Conde de Linhares

The Ponte Conde de Linhares (English: Count of Linhares Bridge), often shortened to Ponte de Linhares is a 3 km long causeway connecting Ribandar to the main city of Panjim in Goa.

Qatar Bahrain Causeway

On 15 November 2008, the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway Foundation awarded a contract to KBR, an engineering company headquartered in Houston, "to provide design, project and construction management services for the Qatar-Bahrain road and rail marine crossing".

Sitra Causeway

The 2.7 km embankment (or causeway) that connects the north bridge to the south bridge, and passes by the island of Nabih Saleh through Tubli bay.

St Patrick's Isle

It is connected to the town of Peel on the Isle of Man by a causeway over Fenella Beach, named after the character in Sir Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak.

Suarbol

Suarbol also owns other monuments like the Roman Causeway of Suarbol, a path linking the gold mines of Ibias in Asturias to other gold mines in the region of El Bierzo in the Roman times.

Texas State Highway 100

It reaches the eastern terminus at the Queen Isabella Causeway, which continues across the laguna Madre to South Padre Island

Transport in Bristol

When St Philip's Causeway was built by Bristol Development Corporation in the 1980s, connecting the M32 in St Pauls to the A4 at Arno's Vale, it was originally intended to be part of a larger road scheme.

Truman Reservoir

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, however, did relocate its main line between La Due and Clinton; the project included five miles of new track and a causeway/bridge combination over the lake.

University of Ulster at Coleraine

The Causeway Coast is an area of outstanding beauty, which boasts the Giant's Causeway (UNESCO World Heritage site), the oldest whiskey distillery in the world (Old Bushmills Distillery), blue flag beaches and championship golf courses.

Upper Harbour Bridge

The bridge project, together with the causeway widening, has received a Silver Award from the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand.

William Guarnere

In the early morning hours of June 6, he joined up with Lieutenant Richard Winters and a few other men trying to reach their objective, to secure the small village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont and the exit of causeway number 2 leading up from the beach.

Wittemoor timber trackway

The Wittemoor timber trackway is a log causeway or corduroy road across a bog at Neuenhuntdorf, part of the Berne in the district of Wesermarsch in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Ynys Gaint

Ynys Gaint is a small island in the Menai Strait connected to the town of Menai Bridge on Anglesey by a causeway (which still exists today) and also a concrete bridge erected by Sir William Fison (a previous owner of the island) in the 1930s.

Yolo Causeway

The Causeway Classic College football game between the University of California, Davis and California State University, Sacramento and the Causeway Carriage trophy awarded to the winner of that game are both named after the Yolo Causeway.


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