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The grey iron castings were made in Birmingham entirely from locally produced iron. The completed weight of the god Vulcan's figure alone is 100,000 pounds (45,359 kg). When Vulcan's anvil , block, hammer, and spearpoint are added, the statue weighs a total of 120,000 pounds (54,431 kg) and it stands on a 123-foot tall (37 m) pedestal.
A natural monument is a natural or cultural feature of outstanding or unique value because of its inherent rarity, representative of aesthetic qualities, or cultural significance. [1] They can be natural geological and geographical features such as waterfalls, cliffs, craters, fossil, sand dunes, rock forms, valleys and coral reefs.
The Utah monolith was a metal pillar that stood in a red sandstone slot canyon in northern San Juan County, Utah, United States. The pillar was 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and made of metal sheets riveted into a triangular prism. It was unlawfully placed on public land between July and October 2016; it stood unnoticed for over four years until its ...
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The Enchanted Highway is a collection of the world's largest scrap metal sculptures. Vulcan statue , (17m) in Birmingham, Alabama , US, is the largest cast iron statue. Other organizational lists
The Spire of Dublin, alternatively titled the Millennium Spire or the Monument of Light [3] (Irish: An Túr Solais), [4] is a large, stainless steel, pin-like monument 120 metres (390 ft) in height, [5] located on the site of the former Nelson's Pillar (and prior to that a statue of William Blakeney) on O'Connell Street, the main thoroughfare of Dublin, Ireland.
Protected areas listed as IUCN Category III (Natural Monument) by the World Conservation Union / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Articles tagged as "III" in the Protected Area Infobox are automatically added to this Wikipedia category.
The iron pillar of Delhi is a structure 7.21 metres (23 feet 8 inches) high with a 41-centimetre (16 in) diameter that was constructed by Chandragupta II (reigned c. 375–415 CE), and now stands in the Qutb complex at Mehrauli in Delhi, India.