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Jeddah Corniche at night. The Jeddah Corniche, also known as the Jeddah Waterfront (JW), is a 30 km coastal resort area of the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Located along the Red Sea, the corniche features a coastal road, recreation areas, pavilions and large-scale civic sculptures as well as King Fahd's Fountain, the highest fountain in the world.
Taman Sari Water Castle, also known as Taman Sari (Javanese: ꦠꦩꦤ꧀ ꦱꦫꦶ), is the site of a former royal garden of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta.It is located about 2 km south within the grounds of the Kraton, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Short video about the Dead Sea from the Israeli News Company. The Dead Sea (Arabic: اَلْبَحْر الْمَيِّت, romanized: al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or اَلْبَحْر الْمَيْت, al-Baḥr al-Mayt; Hebrew: יַם הַמֶּלַח, romanized: Yam hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east, the Israeli-occupied West Bank to ...
Tawau residents and their community chief with Alexander Rankin Dunlop (sitting right) in the Cowie Harbour of Tawau, circa 1885.. Like most of this part of Borneo, this area was once under the control of the Bruneian Empire [4] in the 15th century before being ceded to the Sultanate of Sulu between the 17th [5] and 18th centuries [6] as a gift for helping the Bruneian forces during a civil ...
Profile illustrating the shelf, slope and rise. A continental margin is the outer edge of continental crust abutting oceanic crust under coastal waters.It is one of the three major zones of the ocean floor, the other two being deep-ocean basins and mid-ocean ridges.
Pangkor Island has a land area of 18 km 2 (6.9 sq mi) [2] and is 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) from Peninsular Malaysia.The interior of the island is forested and is home to 65 reptile species, 17 amphibian species, and 82 total herpetofaunal species. [2]
The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean.All floors of the ocean are known as 'seabeds'. The structure of the seabed of the global ocean is governed by plate tectonics.
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