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Viewed from the air, the feature has been said to resemble a human head wearing a full Indigenous type of headdress, facing directly westward.An additional road (Township Road 123A) and an oil well have been said to resemble a pair of earphones worn by the figure, [2] [3] which were installed in the early 2000s [4] and are expected to disappear once the oil well is abandoned.
The island is unique among its floating counterparts as its shape is almost perfectly circular. [2] [3] As the island is constantly rotating on its own axis due to the flow of the river beneath it, shearing occurs around its outer edge, eroding the island into its circular shape, similar to ice disks.
Residents of Dulce claim to have seen UFOs, strange moving lights, and other unexplained sightings in the area. [10] Jicarilla Apache Legislative Council president Ty Vicenti "has embraced the notion of a Dulce Base, partly in a push to stimulate tourism", and in 2016, the town hosted the Dulce Base UFO Conference at the local casino hotel.
The Mariana Trench is named after the nearby Mariana Islands, which are named Las Marianas in honor of Spanish Queen Mariana of Austria.The islands are part of the island arc that is formed on an over-riding plate, called the Mariana Plate (also named for the islands), on the western side of the trench.
The following year, both Dudley and Oxford, which then adjoined the lake, filed maps listing the lake by its eight-syllable form, as "Chargoggagoggmanchoggagogg". [4] Anthropologist Ives Goddard considers that 1831 name to be a cartographer's creation that corrupted the actual name while confusing this lake with nearby Manchaug Pond.
The island was displayed on the Google Maps Internet mapping service until 26 November 2012, [14] [17] when it was removed. On Google Earth 's default view, the island area is covered by black pixels, but the program's historical imagery feature displays a satellite image of the southern portion taken by DigitalGlobe on 3 March 2009, showing a ...
Google Earth is getting a few more hits lately. An image has many suspecting that a giant sea creature is lurking in New Zealand waters. An engineer reportedly spotted the being in the Oke Bay ...
The Chiesa di Santa Maria del Giglio is a church in Venice, Italy.. Statue of Carolus Barbaro. The church, whose name translates into St. Mary of the Lily referring to the flower classically depicted as being presented by the Angel Gabriel during the Annunciation), is more commonly known as Santa Maria Zobenigo after the Jubanico family who founded it in the 9th century.