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The Moreton Bay Marine Park was established in 1993 to protect ecologically significant habitats in Moreton Bay. [2] The marine park extends from Caloundra south to the southern tip of South Stradbroke Island. [3] The marine park's border extends up to the highest tidal mark and covers a total of 3,400 km2. [4]
Kiptopeke State Park is a state park located in the southern end of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Delmarva Peninsula in Northampton County, near Cape Charles.The park offers recreational access to the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay with its shoreline, beach, boat ramps and piers, as well as unique migratory bird habitat along the East Coast flyway.
South Stradbroke Island (Indigenous: Minjerribah [2]), colloquially South Straddie, [3] is an island that lies within Moreton Bay in the Australian state of Queensland, south of Brisbane and forms the northern end of Gold Coast. The island is a locality within the City of Gold Coast. [4] In 2021 census, South Stradbroke Island had a population ...
The Visitor Contact Center is accessed via Sandpiper Road from the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach, which is the southernmost area of development on the Atlantic Coast of Virginia. Most of the 9,062.45-acre (36.6744 km 2 ) [ 1 ] freshwater refuge is on the Currituck Banks Peninsula , which borders the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Back ...
Princess Anne was designed by Raymond Loewy in 1933 [2] for the Virginia Ferry Company, a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad for whom Loewy had done a great deal of design work. [3] Using the hull of an older ferry from within the VFC's fleet as a basis, [ 3 ] he created a streamlined superstructure that Christopher Innes has described as ...
North Stradbroke Island is the larger of the two, about 38 km long and up to 11 km wide. South Stradbroke Island is about 22 km long and at most 2 km wide. North Stradbroke is the more developed of the two islands, with the three small townships of Dunwich, Amity Point and Point Lookout offering vacation rentals, shops and a range of eateries ...
Blue Lake National Park is now a part of the Naree Budjong Djara National Park. [2] Access was provided by road 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) west of Dunwich. [citation needed] In 1980, the national park was described as follows: [3] Blue Lake is a watertable lake in the coastal sandmass of North Stradbroke Island. The National Park is included in the ...
King Neptune is a large bronze statue located in Virginia Beach, Virginia designed by Paul DiPasquale. It stands at the entrance of Neptune Park on the Virginia Beach Boardwalk at 31st Street, and depicts the mythological god Neptune. [1] The sculpture weighs 12.5 tons [2] and is 34 feet (10 m) [1] [2] tall.