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jetty and is
On the west side of Hawkcraig Point there is a short concrete jetty that was used as part of the development of radio controlled torpedoes during World War One.
He later travels back in time and is killed at the same airport jetty, and realizes that, as a child, he had seen his future self being killed.
The European rock is usually identified with an islet, about 20m wide and 200m long, which stands about 100m off the shore of a village called Rumeli Feneri (' Lighthouse of Rumeli ), and is connected to it by a modern concrete jetty.
Catch a train on the Frankston railway line to Frankston station ; change trains to catch a sprinter service on the Stony Point railway line to Stony Point, where it is a short walk along the jetty to catch the passenger ferry to Tankerton jetty on French Island.
It runs almost all the way down to the jetty before there is a small gap where the boats come in.
The Inner is at the tip of Lynde Point, Fenwick's peninsula, and the Outer is a quarter mile off shore, connected by a rough jetty.
The town's southern shore is known for its beaches, from the west jetty of the Bass River to Great Island, on the east and south sides of Hyannis Harbor.
The jetty area is the subject of current planning by Council and consultants to develop a cultural precinct and rejuvenated residential area.
The channel is now 16-20 feet deep with all the dredge tailings making a spectacular beach on the north side of the jetty.
Fremantle is renowned for its well-preserved architectural heritage, including convict-built colonial-era buildings, an old jetty and port, and prisons ; presenting a variety and unity of historic buildings and streetscapes.
His most famous work is Spiral Jetty ( 1970 ), a long spiral-shaped jetty extending into the Great Salt Lake in Utah constructed from rocks, earth, and salt.
A causeway or jetty also stood on the riverside during the early Iron Age, although its exact use is uncertain.
Its non – standard form of Brigg is due to influence from Old Norse bryggja, which although usually describes a jetty or quay here refers to a bridge.
The jetty is now used by Anglesey County Council to dock cruise ships visiting from all over the world.
The jetty is wide enough for coaches to travel down to collect and deliver passengers to the town and on local tours.
The length of the north pier should be 1500 m to 2500 m and the south jetty of about 3000 m. This is to prevent the silting of the entrance channel and to ensure that vessels entering suffer less from the prevailing south-west and north-south flow along the coast.
* " The Doctor " is a 23 km surfski and paddle race from the Army jetty to Scarborough Beach.
Although no ships dock there now, there is still a jetty, which was used by Lake Victoria ferries.
The entrance to the Center is located near the jetty.
The old jetty at the Fort George Point is the location of the Dolphin Research Centre, with leading marine biologist Prof. Greame Taylor working part time studying hunting and breeding habits and part time working with the Community Council giving tours and teaching the ways of the dolphin.
A concrete wall that surrounds and protects a portion of the coastline in the bay area, was built close to the north end of Bridge La Laguna, this wall is known as El Malecón, the Spanish word for ' jetty ' or ' pier '.
The approach from the ferry jetty is decorated with Tibetan flags and stupas.

jetty and upper
The upper floors of Tudor houses were often larger than the ground floors, which would create an overhang ( or jetty ).
Tudor chimney-pieces were made large and elaborate to draw attention to the owner's adoption of this new technology, and the jetty appeared, as a way to show off the modernity of having a complete, full-length upper floor.

jetty and floor
* the jetty beams or joists which conform to the greater dimensions of the floor above but rest at right angles on the jetty-plates that conform to the shorter dimensions of the floor below.

jetty and on
In 2002 a dig for the Channel 4 series Time Team unearthed a series of timbers driven vertically into the ground on the south bank of the Thames next to the SIS Building in Vauxhall which suggests the presence of a bridge or jetty 3, 000 years ago.
These operations ceased in 1960, and the only reminder are the remains of the purpose-built jetty on Akaiami.
Most visitors remain on the sheltered western side of the island, where the jetty, resort and best snorkeling can be found.
While there have been many strong storms since 1962, extensive rock jetty construction on Townsends Inlet ( as recent as Summer 2006 ) has mostly succeeded in protecting the inlet-side homes.
Additionally, the same slag was used to build an entire jetty on the northern end of Morgan Bridge in Morgan.
In 1884, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers began construction on the jetty.
The project was finished by 1911 while this was still going on, and after several private and government endeavors couldn't to get a deep-water pass between Mustang and St. Joseph islands, the United States Army Corps of Engineers took over the project in 1907, and was granted the right to build a new south " Nelson " jetty and to unite the " Haupt jetty " to St. Joseph Island that same year.
The original " pier " at Wigan was a coal loading staithe, probably a wooden jetty, where wagons of coal from a nearby colliery were unloaded into waiting barges on the canal.
At one time, on one of the muddy little canals that run round the town, there used to be a tumble-down wooden jetty ; and by way of a joke some nicknamed this Wigan Pier.
One of the most distinctive landmarks left from the operation are the ruins of the jetty used to load the shingle on to boats so it could be transported across the country.
The length of the quayside was to be with a long timber jetty on the east side.
A large jetty in the harbour received ships from Jamaica and Australia, and their cargoes of bauxite and aluminium ores were transported on a cable belt rope driven conveyor belt that runs underneath the town to the plant.
A light railway was built from the jetty at Kingstown Barracks on Thomson Bay, to transport materiel and munitions to the guns.
Competitors start on the east side of the Army Jetty in Thomson Bay, swim to the natural jetty and then return to the Army jetty.

jetty and cantilever
They are the main constituents of the cantilever system and they determine how far the jetty projects

jetty and system
The site had its own extensive railway system connected to the main railway line near Charlton, and a large jetty used to unload coal and load coke.
Eads solved the problem with a wooden jetty system that narrowed the main outlet of the river, causing the river to speed up and cut its channel deeper, allowing year-round navigation.
The jetty system was installed in 1876 and the channel was cleared in February 1877.
A jetty system would prevent the floods by deepening the main channel.
However, there were concerns about the ability of water moving through a jetty system to cut out the rock and clay on the river bottom.
Top officials of the Army Corps of Engineers lobbied Congress for levees and flood walls of their own design, which exacerbated these disasters, and against Eads ' jetty system, which would have reduced these disasters.

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