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Le Point Sublime est l'un des points de vue les plus beaux sur les Gorges du Verdon. Ce point de vue se trouve sur la rive droite, en dessous du village de Rougon, situé dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence et la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
444 W Lake Street Chicago IL
River Point, previously known as 200 North Riverside Plaza, is a 52 story 730 ft. tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, located at 444 West Lake Street. The 52-story building has 1,000,000 sq ft of floor space. It sits on air rights above active railroad tracks and as well the subway portion of the CTA Blue Line, which affected the angle of some support columns, which in turn produced the parabolic arch in the base of the building.
Sunset over Point Reyes Beach South. Taken from near the Point Reyes Lighthouse as the crowds of tourists headed home for the night.
The lighthouse is shining in the fog, even in the middle of the day. I could see its flash from 2 miles away. Its full range is 18 nautical miles.
The original lighthouse, built in 1855, was positioned too high at 306 feet above sea level and could not be seen through the dense high San Francisco fog, so it was moved to its current location at 124 feet above sea level in 1877. To access the new site, a 118-foot long tunnel was hand carved through hard rock. It is the only lighthouse in the U.S. that can only be reached by a suspension bridge.
… I’m assuming as this is alongside the Helford river in Cornwall that the ‘Point’ is reference to Sailing and not the points on the gate!! BTW, they are both Holiday Lets (Point & Pointside - at a price too I guess). Either way I was attracted to the nicely hand painted sign on the gate. Alan:-)
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My first morning in Utah last week, I went exploring on my own to Dead Horse Point State Park. The view was spectacular and enjoyed greeting the day there.
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Zabriskie Point is a part of Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park, California. This erosional landscape is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up five million years ago, long before Death Valley came into existence.
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Toward Point is the southern extremity of the Cowal Peninsula, near the village of Toward and six miles south of Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. There has been a lighthouse here since 1812. The location is the south-west extreme point of the Highland Boundary Fault as it crosses the Scottish mainland. Toward Point Lighthouse was completed in 1812. It was built by Robert Stevenson (1772–1850) for the Cumbrae Lighthouse Trust. Two lighthouse keepers' houses were added in the later 1800s. A white building on the foreshore housed the foghorn mechanism, originally a steam engine and then diesel engines. The foghorn was taken out of operation in the 1990s. Today the buildings are a private home and not open to the public.
Swanage, Dorset UK.
The Wellington clock tower is a structure that stands on the seafront at Swanage in Dorset, England. It was originally built by the Commissioners for Lighting the West Division of Southwark at the southern end of London Bridge in 1854. It was intended as a memorial to the recently deceased Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, though funds proved insufficient to provide a statue of the man at the top of the tower, as had been originally intended. It housed a clock with four faces that were illuminated from within and a small telegraph office. Within 10 years the structure was overshadowed by the construction of nearby railway structures and became an obstruction to traffic using the bridge. It was disassembled in 1867.
The structure was saved by the Swanage-based contractor George Burt and shipped back to his hometown, without the clock mechanism. He gifted it to fellow contractor Thomas Docwra who erected it in the grounds of his house at Peveril Point. Later owners removed the spire in 1904, though the structure remains a prominent landmark in the town and was granted grade II protection as a listed building in 1952.
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Spiral staircase inside Race Point Lighthouse, Provincetown, Cape Cod - taken with my iPhone
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These guys are just perched on the cotton tails and the wind was wild....they were just swaying away....it was quite a lovely sight.......
Neist Point is a viewpoint on the most westerly point of Skye. Neist Point Lighthouse has been located there since 1909.
Neist Point is the most westerly point on the Duirinish peninsula on the Isle of Skye. It projects into The Minch and provides a walk and viewpoint.
Basalt at Neist Point is very similar to that at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. A steep path leads down from the road. Whales, dolphins, porpoises and basking shark can be seen from the point. Common seabirds include gannets, black guillemots, razorbills and European shags. Several rare plants, including saxifrages are found on the point.
The land and the trees all point upwards here towards the sky. A pretty location there in Yellowstone National Park.
Per the U.S. National Park Service, "Point Reyes is the windiest place on the Pacific Coast and the second foggiest place on the North American continent." The lighthouse was built in 1870 and taken out of service in 1975. It is now part of the National Park Service. Reaching the lighthouse requires a vigorous, hilly walk and then down 308 steps. Despite this, it is an extremely popular destination for locals and visitors.
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Le lac Saint-Point, connu anciennement sous le nom de lac de Dampvauthier, fait partie des plus grands lacs naturels de France par sa superficie. Il se situe dans le département du Doubs, au sein du massif du Jura, à une quinzaine de kilomètres de la ville de Pontarlier.
We made our way down to Carnsore Point Sunday to capture the night skies around the ruin of St Vogues Church. It was nice to see the skies clearing to reveal a view Comet Neowise and a shot here at 3.45am