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Dodge Island is an artificial island near downtown Miami, Florida, United States. The Port of Miami is located on, what was, Dodge, Lummus and Sam Islands, and has berths for both cruise and cargo ships. The original and much smaller Dodge Island was created during the dredging of Government Cut in the early 1900s. [1]
Hibiscus Island (Miami Beach) (1922) San Pablo Island (name not official) (Jacksonville Beaches) (1912) Palm Island (Miami Beach) Peanut Island (Riviera Beach) (1918) Star Island (Miami Beach) Venetian Islands (Miami Beach) - Includes Belle Isle, Biscayne Island, Di Lido Island and Flagler Monument Island. Fisher Island ; Watson Island
Spiral Island was a floating artificial island built in Mexico by British artist Richart "Reishee" Sowa. It was destroyed by Hurricane Emily in 2005. A replacement, Joyxee Island, had been open for tours since 2008, but closed after it was damaged by storms and the local authority ordered its removal. [1]
The bone-white, sugary sand whistles underneath my bare feet as I walk along Bean Point, a secluded broad beach dotted with dunes and tucked away on the northern tip of Anna Maria Island.
It is located in Biscayne Bay in the La Gorce neighborhood, in the area of the city referred to as North Beach. [1] The island and surrounding La Gorce neighborhood were named after Miami Beach developer Carl Fisher's close friend, John Oliver La Gorce , a renowned explorer, author, and president of the National Geographic Society . [ 2 ]
Floating island La Rota in Posta Fibreno lake, Italy. Natural floating islands are composed of vegetation growing on a buoyant mat of plant roots or other organic detritus. In aquatic regions of Northwestern Europe, several hundred hectares or a couple thousand acres of floating meadows (German Schwingrasen, Dutch trilveen) have been preserved, which are partly used as agricultural land ...
Two years ago, developers promised to build a beach and a man-made lagoon somewhere in Columbia. Now, the plans are moving forward. A six-acre planned housing community is being built north of ...
In 2011, French designers NOCC, with entrepreneur Julien Sylvain, created the Leaf Bed, a cardboard bed designed to be used by people in refugee camps. With a simple design of pre-cut panels that ...