This kofun-type Imperial tomb is characterized by a keyhole-shaped island located within a wide, water-filled moat.

A wide, annular depression or moat about deep surrounds the base of Olympus Mons and is thought to be due to the volcano's immense weight pressing down on the Martian crust.

The aspects that stay the same, however, are that Id is in the middle of nowhere, home to a large castle surrounded by a moat.

" However, he is occasionally shown to have a quirky softer side, and it is mentioned his only friends are the moat monsters.

* January 7 – The moat at the Tower of London, previously drained in 1843 ( and planted with grass ), is completely refilled by a tidal wave.

It is surrounded by a dry moat which is bridged at the gatehouse.

The city of Corfu stands on the broad part of a peninsula, whose termination in the Venetian citadel () is cut off from it by an artificial fosse formed in a natural gully, with a seawater moat at the bottom, that now serves as a marina and is called the Contrafossa.

The Venetian built moat is on the left and the Doric style St. George's Church built by the British can be seen in the background on the right.

The most iconic building of the town is the imponent Castello Estense: sited in the very centre of the town, it's a brick building surrounded by a moat, with four massive bastions.

This is known as the Gaussian moat problem ; it was posed in 1962 by Basil Gordon and remains unsolved.

The city is picturesque, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal piazze, and many bridges crossing the various branches of the Bacchiglione, which once surrounded the ancient walls like a moat.

Dwarf honey bees use propolis to defend against ants by coating the branch from which their nest is suspended to create a sticky moat.

This is the only archaeological find with an inscription mentioning the name " Pontius Pilatus "; a double aqueduct that brought water from springs at the foot of Mount Carmel ; a boundary wall ; and a 200 ft ( 60 m ) wide moat protecting the harbour to the south and west.

The minor towers are attached while the principal one is coupled to the complex by a high bridge over the surrounding moat.

A moat is found surrounding the castle and its donjon.

Between the train station and the central city there is a complex moat system that now serves road traffic.

It is believed the manor house at the centre of the moat was " Pynchester ", a building owned by the Hastings family in the 16th century.

The moat is a point of interest on the Celandine Route, a walk along the River Pinn from Pinner to the Grand Union Canal at Cowley.

Super Mario 64 is set in Princess Peach's Castle, which consists of three floors, a basement, a moat, and a courtyard.

With a moat, this is the only scrap of masonry that remains of Sleaford Castle.

Remains of old castles include part of the walls of Bungay, the ancient stronghold of the Bigods ; the picturesque ruins of Mettingham, built by John de Norwich in the reign of Edward III ; Wingfield, surrounded by a deep moat, with the turret walls and the drawbridge still existing ; the splendid ruin of Framlingham, with high and massive walls, originally founded in the 6th century, but restored in the 12th ; the outlines of the extensive fortress of Clare Castle, anciently the baronial residence of the earls of Clare ; and the fine Norman keep of Orford Castle, on an eminence overlooking the sea.

In 1516, after a failed Navarrese-French attempt to expel the Spanish invaders from the kingdom, an attempt in which Francis ' brothers had taken part, the Spanish Castilian kingdom's Governor, Cardinal Cisneros, ordered family lands to be confiscated, the demolition of the outer wall, the gates and two towers of the family castle, the moat was filled, and the height of the keep was reduced in half.

She was captured and confined to the castle, but escaped by leaping from a window into the moat below.

During the uprising, Heyerdahl claimed, the " Long Ears " ignited their moat and retreated behind it, but the " Short Ears " found a way around it, came up from behind, and pushed all but two of the " Long Ears " into the fire.

Beyond the wall, a moat, artificially diverted from tributaries which flow through the precincts, completely or partially encircled the wall.

Subsequent eruptions from the Long Valley magma chamber were confined within the caldera with extrusions of relatively hot ( crystal-free ) rhyolite 700, 000 to 600, 000 years ago as the caldera floor was upwarped to form the resurgent dome followed by extrusions of cooler, crystal-rich moat rhyolite at 200, 000-year intervals ( 500, 000, 300, 000, and 100, 000 years ago ) in clockwise succession around the resurgent dome.

The deep moat around the fort could be swept by intensive gunfire from five wall casemates (" coffres ") each holding an anti-personnel revolving 37mm Hotchkiss gun.

In 1508 – 1516, the Italian architect Aloisio the New arranged for the construction of a moat in front of the Eastern wall, which would connect the Moskva and Neglinnaya and be filled in with water from Neglinnaya.

They cover a large promontory where a wall and a moat separate it from the mainland.

In accordance with this cosmic symbolism, Yasovarman built his central temple on a low hill known as Phnom Bakheng, surrounding it with a moat fed from the baray.

A symmetrical moat some distance from the curtain walls surrounded the entire castle and safeguarded it.

The rectangular fort had a dry moat around the perimeter with 32-pound field pieces located on each corner of the fort to cover any attack on Rolla from the south.

Part of the 18th century moat and defence works, however, were demolished in the 19th century, to make way for a commercial canal which crosses Walcheren from Vlissingen to Veere.

The bridge over the moat on the north side leads from the avant-cour to an ample forecourt, flanked by raised terraces on either side, a layout evoking the cour d ' honneur of older aristocratic houses, in which the entrance court was enclosed by anterior wings, typically housing kitchens and domestic quarters.

Around 1370 bailiff Willem van Naaldwijk ordered the construction of defensive walls and a moat to fortify the city, in order to shield Holland from renewed hostilities with Utrecht.

Another pleasure garden was built in the Bailey, and a second bridge built across the moat to allow access to it directly from the Inner Court.

The word was adapted in Middle English from the French motte " mound, hillock " and was first applied to the central mound on which a fortification was erected ( see Motte and bailey ), and then came to be applied to the excavated ring, a " dry moat ".

Even in modern times, the moat system of the Tokyo Imperial Palace comprises a very active body of water, hosting everything from rental boats and fishing ponds to restaurants.

Designed to prevent everything from passenger cars to military tanks from getting too close to the reactor, the moat is part of a post-Sept 11, 2001 security upgrade "

The explosive growth of industry in the region and the subsequent housing needs of workers called for radical changes in administration, as the City of Eindhoven was still confined to its medieval moat city limits.

A moat was a common addition to medieval fortifications, and the principal purpose ( just as in antiquity ) to make the walls harder to assail and increasing their effective height.

During medieval times, the wall and moat were repaired and the promontory houses a wealth of structures.

Only one unusual nine-sided tower survives, together with the moat walls and medieval bridge.

Approximately north from Woolsthorpe is the deserted medieval village of Stenwith, defined by moat, ditch, enclosure, hollow way and croft ( homestead with land ) earthworks.

In medieval times from the 13th to the 15th century the Manor House was a building on the south western side of the Church surrounded by an earthen rampart and a moat, most of the site being now occupied by the Mount car park ( the area was formerly known as the Mount ).

There is a medieval moat sited at Little Pednor Farm which is recorded by English Heritage as associted with the lands transferred from the Abbey and was later succeeded as the predominant residence within the estate by Pednor House.

* Castle: A giant Dragon carries a captive into a majestic, towering medieval castle surrounded by a deep moat.

Hough End Hall was built by Sir Nicholas Mosley in 1596 as the new Withington manor house — the original medieval manor house was situated south-east of the modern junction of Mauldeth Road West and Princess Road, which was surrounded by a moat.

In medieval military engineering, a berm ( or berme ) was a level space between a parapet or defensive wall and an adjacent steep-walled ditch or moat.

In a medieval castle or other building, a garderobe was usually a simple hole discharging to the outside into a cesspit or the moat, depending on the structure of the building.

Ightham Mote ( pronounced " item moat ") is a medieval moated manor house close to the village of Ightham, near Sevenoaks in Kent ().

The château retained its medieval aspect of a fortress, with its moat and towers and cramped, dark living apartments.

Many examples of medieval and post-medieval pottery shards were recovered from the site of the Eresby Manor ’ s moat by archeologist E. H. Rudkin in 1966.

The Kromme Rijn splits off the Nederrijn-Lek main artery at the old town of Wijk bij Duurstede ( called Dorestad before medieval times ), after which it twists and turns through the province of Utrecht, past the towns of Cothen, Werkhoven, Odijk and Bunnik, and ends in the moat of the city of Utrecht.

The moat is also part of a set of linked medieval fishponds fed from an artificial stream which flowed into the south pond.

A contemplative way over Wallstrasse, the high street and by the moat open to the expert viewer still today the look in the medieval fabric of the town.

Within the parish there is a medieval moat, extant in 1963 but now only visible as cropmarks.

It has retained some traces of its medieval appearance, especially the main gateway, beneath a watch tower, and reached by a bridge over the old moat. About half an hour distant to the north-east, on the hillside, is the site of the famous battle of Sempach ( 9 July 1386 ), in which the Swiss defeated the Austrians, whose leader, Duke Leopold, lost his life.

The Christian population which lived within the moat of the medieval Belgrade's Kalemegdan fortress, overpopulated the city.

* Drimnagh is home to Drimnagh Castle, famous for being the only castle in Ireland which still has a moat encircling it, and is Dublin's only authentic medieval castle.

The site of the medieval manor house survives as a moat and fish ponds south of the village.

Until he moved to Vero Beach in 1995, his primary residence was a $ 10 million turreted mansion complete with moat near Miami decorated with firearms and medieval suits of armor.