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Beveridge Reef
Beveridge Reef ( Niuean: ''Nukutulueatama'') is a mostly submerged, unpopulated atoll located in the Exclusive Economic Zone of Niue. It has been the cause of several fishing boats running aground or sinking. Characteristics The Beveridge Reef is a coral atoll that is approximately 147 miles (237 km) from Niue and 520 miles (840 km) from the Cook Islands. The reef A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes— deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock o ... is normally submerged, with a small part visible at low tide. Wrecks The reef is the site of frequent shipwrecks: *in 1918, the schooner James H. Bruce, *the ''Nicky Lou'' of Seattle, a fiberglass hulled fishing vessel that ran aground on the reef, can be seen on the reef. *in 2017, the catamaran Avanti. See also * Niue Nukutuluea References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclusion Zone
An exclusion zone is a territorial division established for various, case-specific purposes. Per the United States Department of Defense, an exclusion zone is a territory where an authority prohibits specific activities in a specific geographic area (see military exclusion zone). These temporary or permanent zones are created for control of populations for safety, crowd control, or military purposes, or as a border zone. Nuclear disaster exclusion zones Large-scale geographic exclusion zones have been established after major disasters in which radioactive particles were released into the environment: * Kyshtym disaster (1957) ** East Ural Nature Reserve – Russia, established 1968. *Chernobyl disaster (1986) ** Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – Ukraine, established 1986. **Polesie State Radioecological Reserve – Belarus, established 1988. *Fukushima nuclear disaster (2011) ** Fukushima Exclusion Zone – Japan, established 2011. Ordnance exclusion zones * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
