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The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit. ' Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography '), also known as the Yonaguni (Island) Submarine Ruins (与那国（島）海底遺跡, Yonaguni(-jima) Kaitei Iseki), is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.
Already in this first underwater effort, the team has explored a stone monument originally discovered in 1933 and also investigated, for the first time, two recently found shipwrecks dated to the ...
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Closely associated with the 'underwater museum' of the fifty-three shipwrecks which surround Chuuk, the museum is a significant location for the underwater cultural heritage of the Federated States of Micronesia. [8] The museum has partnered on several publications exploring the history of Second World in Chuuk, as well as diving history there. [9]
The city design involves underwater roads leading to a central feature with benches and statuary. The place was chosen at 3.25 miles (5.2 km) off the coast of Key Biscayne , Florida . It is a type of burial at sea and the first phase is estimated to be able to accommodate 850 remains, [ 3 ] with an eventual goal of more than 125,000 remains. [ 4 ]
The city of Pavlopetri is part of the underwater cultural heritage as defined by the UNESCO in the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. All traces of human existence underwater which are one hundred years old or more are protected by the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage.
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Huron's Thunder Bay, within the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It protects an estimated 116 historically significant shipwrecks ranging from nineteenth-century wooden side-wheeler paddle steamers to twentieth ...
There is a reproduction of the Barcelona monument (statue only) in mahogany wood, on top of building Les Amériques. [172] Madrid. Monument to Columbus, 1881–1885; Monumento al Descubrimiento de América, Jardines del Descubrimiento (1977) (Monument for the Discovery of America, Discovery Gardens) Maspalomas, Gran Canaria