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Aluaiy Pulidan (Aluiay Kaumakan)
Tavadran tribe, Paiwan people
Taiwan
‘Find a settlement’ 2021
Wool, ramie, cotton, copper and silk
GoMA/ APT10
and a fence of sorts too. Happy Fence Friday/ HFF
'Settlement' is a collection of polished stainless steel figures and geometric shapes temporarily installed on a headland overlooking Morecambe Bay. They are physically substantial objects but their reflectivity and the gentle swaying of the figures in the breeze lends them an ephemeral quality even close up. They are present yet elusive at the same time.
Their other great quality is one they share with lots of art made for an informal, landscape setting. People people interact with the art and each other much more freely than in galleries and museums. The way the art comes alive and people connect through it can be beautiful.
What looks like a still of an exploding firework is actually taken from an ESA simulation of humankind’s expansion across the stars, produced for an international competition. Each dot is a habitable star system, with the coloured stripes representing interstellar expeditions between them.
ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team think tank came third in the latest Global Trajectory Optimization Competition – known as the ‘America’s Cup of Rocket Science’. Instead of navigating the high seas, it challenges the world’s best aerospace engineers and mathematicians to direct spacecraft through space as part of an incredibly complex problem.
This year’s challenge, set by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the previous winners, looked forward to a distant future when humankind has the capability and will to settle our entire Milky Way galaxy. Teams were challenged to settle as many of the one hundred thousand star systems suitable for settlement in as uniform a distribution as possible, using as little propulsive velocity change as possible.
The winning team was made up of representatives from a quartet of Chinese research organisations: College of Aerospace Science and Engineering; National University of Defense Technology, Changsha; State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics and Xi'an Satellite Control Center, Xi'an.
Last week ESA’s ACT hosted a two-day workshop on interstellar exploration, during which this video was shown. Topics under discussion included designing ‘worldships’ to sustain generations of inhabitants during the trip between stars, laser-based propulsion, self-healing materials and the likely social structure of such worldships, even down to how their language might evolve.
Credits: ESA ACT
I can't believe this site isn't more widely known. It's a 3rd or 4th century (latter part of the Roman period in the UK) settlement of round and rectangular huts enclosed by a thick wall. It's been on my list of places to visit for a while and it came as suprise how much of the walls were visible.
Dark Souls 3: Ashes of Ariandel - Lanczos2 dowsampled 30MP photostitch | ReShade Framework 1.1.0 /w custom palettes | jim2point0's and Hattiwatti's cinematic tools.
I actually captured a far larger bit of the settlement in this photostitch. In the end, I do think the original shot I lined up in native resolution, here presented as a crop from the stitch, works best.
What an area though.
Neolithic settlement and hill fort (c. 2500 - 2200 BC) and a celtic sacrifice site (c. 550 - 450 BC) on the Hochberg near Mittelburg, Franconia
Neolithische Siedlung mit Ringwall-Anlagen (ca. 2500 - 2200 v.Chr.) und ein keltischer Opferplatz (ca. 550 - 450 v.Chr.) auf dem Hochberg bei Mittelburg, Franken.
Luftbild von positiven Bewuchsmerkmalen einer befestigten Siedlung aus dem Neolithikum, die durch die Baustelle für Windkrafträder angeschnitten wurde
Single Exposure: Topaz Adjust, Nik Collection HDR tone mapped and Photoshop final touches.
Archive photo from 2019
The cliff dwellers of these settlements grew crops on the land above their dwellings.
Fence surrounding a barn in the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Alberta - Canada [25 minutes east of Edmonton on Hwy. 16]. The Village is an open-air museum with costumed historical interpreters to recreate pioneer settlements in east central Alberta, Canada.
Belgium, Ghent on the Ghent originated from Celtic settlements in the area of the confluence of the Scheldt and the Leie.
In the Middle Ages, flourishing cloth trade made it one of the most important cities in Europe.
The right to stack grain also contributed considerably to the prosperity of the city.
After a brief Calvinist period, the city declined visibly until it flourished again towards the end of the 18th century, when Ghent became one of the first industrialized cities on the European mainland.
Doncaster is a large market town in South Yorkshire, England. Together with its surrounding suburbs and settlements, the town forms part of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, which had a mid-2014 est. population of 304,185. The town itself has a population of 109,805. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Doncaster is about 20 miles (30 km) from Sheffield, with which it is served jointly by an international airport, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield in Finningley. The Doncaster Urban Area had a population of 158,141 in 2011 and includes Doncaster and the neighbouring small town of Bentley as well as some other villages.
BMW Isetta 1962
The Isetta is an Italian-designed microcar built under license in a number of different countries, including Spain, Belgium, France, Brazil, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Because of its egg shape and bubble-like windows, it became known as a bubble car, a name later given to other similar vehicles.
In 1955, the BMW Isetta became the world's first mass-production car to achieve a fuel consumption of 3 L/100 km (94 mpg-imp; 78 mpg-US). It was the top-selling single-cylinder car in the world, with 161,728 units sold.
Initially manufactured by the Italian firm Iso SpA, the name Isetta is the Italian diminutive form of ISO, meaning little ISO
Then and now.
These ruins are near the place where I had most of my teen years. Haven't seen them for more than a decade, now they are inside a forest of concrete giants.
Foreign Settlements
Tatooine
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: "4K" Road Trip in Tunisia - Visiting Tunisia "2019"
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
Slowenien / Steiner Alpen - Ojstrica
seen on the way back from Ledinski vrh
gesehen auf dem Rückweg vom Ledinski vrh
The Kamnik–Savinja Alps (Slovene: Kamniško-Savinjske Alpe) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps. They lie in northern Slovenia, except for the northernmost part, which lies in Austria.
The western part of the range was named the Kamnik Alps (German: Steiner Alpen) in 1778 by the scientists Belsazar Hacquet and Franz Xaver von Wulfen, after the town of Kamnik (Stein) in the valley of the Kamnik Bistrica River. Its eastern part was named the Savinja Alps (Sanntaler Alpen) or Solčava Alps (Sulzbacher Alpen) by the mountaineer Johannes von Frischauf in 1875, after the settlement of Solčava (Sulzbach) and the main river, the upper Savinja (Sann).
Geography
The Kamnik–Savinja Alps are located south of the Karawanks range at the border of Austria and Slovenia, stretching from the Sava River in the west to the Savinja in the east, where the adjacent Slovenian Prealps with the Pohorje range, the Celje Hills at the Dravinja River, as well as the Sava Hills are located. In the northwest, the valley of Vellach Creek (at 46°22′21″N 14°33′55″E) leading to Bad Vellach is the southernmost point of both the Austrian state of Carinthia and Austria as a whole.
The entire main chain is today part of Slovenia. Historically it formed the border between the Inner Austrian duchies of Carinthia, Styria, and Carniola. The tripoint was located at the Carinthia Mount Rinka (Slovene: Koroška Rinka).
There is also a small glacier below Mount Skuta, which is the easternmost glacier in the Southern Alps.
Mountains and passes
The most important peaks are:
Grintovec – 2,558 m (8,392 ft)
Kočna – 2,540 m (8,333 ft)
Skuta – 2,532 m (8,307 ft)
Carinthia Mount Rinka – 2,433 m (7,982 ft)
Planjava – 2,394 m (7,854 ft)
Ojstrica – 2,350 m (7,710 ft)
Brana – 2,253 m (7,392 ft)
Kalce Ridge – 2,224 m (7,297 ft)
Cold Mountain – 2,203 m (7,228 ft)
Storžič – 2,132 m (6,995 ft)
Krofička – 2,083 m (6,834 ft)
In total, 28 peaks surpass 2,000 m. The total area of the Slovene part is about 900 km2. About three-quarters of the area is covered with forest, and many of the higher peaks are bleak and rocky.
The most important passes are the Seebergsattel (Slovene: Jezersko sedlo) between Austrian Carinthia and Slovenia's Municipality of Jezersko, as well as the Pavlič Pass. On the Slovenian side, there is a skiing area, whereas tourism in the Vellach Valley focuses on health spas.
(Wikipedia)
Ojstrica (2,350 meters or 7,710 feet) is a mountain in the eastern part of the Kamnik Alps with a pyramid-shaped top that is visible from far away. The name Ojstrica derives from the Slovene word oster 'sharp'. There is a 600-meter (2,000 ft) high wall on its northern side to the bottom of the Logar Valley. The eastern side, down to the Roban Cirque (Slovene: Robanov kot), also has a high wall. There are several climbing routes.
Starting points
Kamnik, Kamniška Bistrica (601 meters or 1,972 feet)
Solčava, Logar Valley (761 meters or 2,497 feet)
Solčava, Roban Cirque (c. 700 meters or 2,300 feet)
Routes
1½h: from Kocbek Lodge at Korošica (1,808 meters or 5,932 feet), on the southern side
1½h: from Kocbek Lodge at Korošica (1,808 meters or 5,932 feet), on the eastern side
4h: from Kamnik Saddle Lodge (1,864 meters or 6,115 feet), below Planjava via Škarje
3½h: from Klemenšek Cave Lodge at Ojstrica (1,208 meters or 3,963 feet), via Škarje
3h: from Klemenšek Cave Lodge at Ojstrica (1,208 meters or 3,963 feet), via Škrbina
(Wikipedia)
Die Steiner Alpen bzw. Kamniker Alpen (slowenisch Kamniške Alpe, auch Sanntaler oder Sulzbacher Alpen, slow.: Savinjske Alpe, bzw. zusammenfassend: Kamniško-Savinjske Alpe) sind eine Gebirgsgruppe in den Südlichen Kalkalpen. Sie sind den Karawanken zwischen den Flüssen Save und Savinja südlich vorgelagert. Benannt sind sie nach der Stadt Kamnik (dt. Stein in Oberkrain), die im Tal der Kamniška Bistrica (dt. Feistritz) liegt.
Über die Steiner Alpen führt die österreichisch-slowenische Grenze, der größere Teil ist slowenisches Territorium.
Auf dem Ursulaberg (Uršlja Gora) verliefen die historischen Grenzen zwischen den ehemaligen Herzogtümern Kärnten, Krain und Steiermark.
Geografische Einteilung
Die Steiner Alpen sind grob dreigeteilt:
Storžič-Gruppe im Westen (mit den Gipfeln Storžič, 2132 m und Tolsti Vrh, 1715 m)
Grintovec-Gruppe in der Mitte: Der Hauptkamm der Steiner Alpen erstreckt sich von Westen nach Osten und liegt vollständig in Slowenien. Im Westen beim Tal der Kokra beginnend, wird rasch mit der Jezerska Kočna eine Höhe von 2540 m erreicht. Der nächste Gipfel ist bereits der Grintovec, mit 2558 m höchster Punkt der Steiner Alpen. Weiter östlich liegende Gipfel sind die Skuta (2532 m), die Krainer und Kärntner Rinka (Kranjska Rinka, 2453 m, und Koroška Rinka, 2433 m), Turska Gora (2251 m) und die Brana (2253 m). Östlich des Steiner Sattels (Kamniško sedlo, 1903 m) liegen noch die Planjava (2394 m) und die Ojstrica (2350 m), mit denen die Reihe markanter Kalkgipfel ihren Abschluss findet.
die Karst-Hochebenen im Osten: Velika Planina, Dleskovška Planota, Menina Planina, Dobroveljska Planota und Golte (mit den Gipfeln Veliki Rogatec (1557 m), Kranjska Reber (1435 m), Velika Raduha (2062 m))
Flüsse in den Steiner Alpen sind die Tržiška Bistrica, die Kokra, die Kamniška Bistrica (alle drei sind Nebenflüsse der Save) sowie die oberhalb des Logartals entspringende Savinja und die Dreta, ein Nebenfluss der Savinja. Der Fluss Kokra trennt die Grintovec-Gruppe von der Storžič-Gruppe.
SOIUSA-Klassifikation der Steiner Alpen
Eine feinere Unterteilung der Steiner Alpen nach der SOIUSA-Klassifikation der Alpen sieht folgendermaßen aus:
(A) Storžič-Kette
(A.1) Storžič-Kette
(B) Mrzla-Gora-Grintovec-Ojstrica-Kette
(B.2) Mrzla-Gora-Gruppe
(B.2.a) Babe-Untergruppe
(B.2.b) Mrzla-Gora-Untergruppe
(B.3) Grintovec-Gruppe
(B.4) Krvavec-Gruppe
(B.5) Planjava-Ojstrica-Gruppe
(B.6) Krofiča-Gruppe
(B.7) Velika-Planina-Dleskovška-Planota-Gruppe
(B.7.a) Dleskovška-Planota-Untergruppe, Fläche 25 km², höchster Punkt Veliki vrh, 2110 m)
(B.7.b) Velika-Planina-Untergruppe, Fläche 5,8 km², Höhe um 1500 m, höchster Punkt Gradišče 1666 m)
(C) Raduha-Golte-Rogatec-Menina-Kette
(C.8) Raduha-Smrekovec-Golte-Gruppe
(C.8.a) Raduha-Smrekovec-Untergruppe
(C.8.b) Golte-Untergruppe
(C.9) Rogatec-Gruppe
(C.10) Menina-Dobrovlje-Gruppe
(C.10.a) Menina-Untergruppe
(C.10.b) Dobrovlje-Untergruppe
Östlich der Steiner Alpen liegt das Bergland von Celje (dt. Cilli), von der Dravinja (dt. Drann) durchschnitten und reich an Mineralquellen. Nach Nordwesten bildet das Vellachtal die Grenze zu den Karawanken und Karawankenvorbergen.
Tourismus und Verkehr
Neben den Bergen mit zahlreichen meist anspruchsvollen Wanderwegen und einigen Klettersteigen ist auch der ca. 90 Meter hohe Rinka-Wasserfall im Landschaftspark Logar-Tal (Logarska dolina) ein beliebtes Ausflugsziel. Im Süden der Steiner Alpen befindet sich das Schigebiet Krvavec.
Auf Kärntner Seite wird im Vellachtal Kurtourismus betrieben; hier liegt das Naturschutzgebiet Vellacher Kotschna.
Einen Übergang zwischen Kärnten und Oberkrain bildet der Jezerski Vrh (dt. Seebergsattel), einen weiteren Übergang zwischen Kärnten und der slowenischen Region Štajerska der Pavličevo Sedlo (dt. Paulitschsattel).
Ein starker touristischer Anziehungspunkt ist die Velika Planina.
(Wikipedia)
Der Berg Ojstrica (2350 Meter) – von slowenisch oster = scharf, spitz – liegt im östlichen Teil der Steiner Alpen in Slowenien. Bergtouren starten üblicherweise im Bergsteigerdorf Luče.
Mit charakteristischem Pyramidengipfel ist er weithin sichtbar.
Seine Nordwand, die 600 Meter tief zum Logar-Tal abfällt, bietet zahlreiche Kletterrouten.
Der Osthang fällt steil zum Gletschertal Robanov kot. Der Bergrücken selbst ist mit dem Berg Škrbina und weiter Richtung Nordosten dem Berg Krofička (2083 m) verbunden.
Der südliche Hang fällt bis zum Dleskovec-Plateau ab. Der südwestliche Hang ist über Škarij und Lučka Baba (2244 m) mit dem Planjava-Massiv (2394 m) verbunden.
(Wikipedia)
Dubmill is a settlement in the civil parish of Holme St. Cuthbert in Cumbria, United Kingdom.
Dubmill lends its name to both Dubmill Point and Dubmill Scar. Dubmill Point is the name for the headland at the northernmost tip of Allonby Bay, and Dubmill Scar is the name for the rocky beach off Dubmill Point.
The name of Dubmill comes from the Old English dub-myln meaning "a mill at the pool". Historical variant spellings include Dubmil, Dubmilne, Dubhime, Dub-horn, and Dubmill. A beck called the Black Dub runs near to Dubmill, and may be related to the name.
The area around Dubmill has been settled since before the Roman occupation, as a Bronze Age sword believed to date back to 1100BC was discovered on nearby Salta Moss. Dubmill, and the surrounding coastline from Carlisle as far south-west as Maryport, was fortified by the Romans. A series of milefortlets were placed along the coast beyond the western end of Hadrian's Wall to guard against coastal raids from across the Solway Firth. Milefortlet 17 was located at Dubmill, and would have been constructed from turf and timber. Its location has been discovered, though all that remains is a slight depression in the ground where one of the fort's ditches would have been.
A mill was present at Dubmill in the medieval period, and during the reign of Henry VIII in 1538 it was valued at £5.18s. Farmers from as far afield as Wolsty, four miles to the north-west, would have had to trek to Dubmill to grind their crops. They were also bound to assist in repairs to the mill and its associated dam as required by the miller. This continued through to at least the 17th century, and probably the 18th century before improvements in milling brought on by the industrial revolution would have rendered the mill at Dubmill obsolete. In its day, the mill would have been a substantial tower built from local sandstone, sturdy enough to withstand the force of the sea, which to this day sometimes crashes over Dubmill during a severe storm.
Dubmill is located on a stretch of coastline which was subject to raids across the Solway by the Scots even as late as the Tudor period. In 1592, a man named William Osmotherly, who lived at Dubmill, had his home broken in to and was kidnapped for ransom by Scottish raiders. His losses were estimated at £200.
(Taken from Wikipedia)