Portman bay, Murcia, Spain.
Tons of toxic substances from a mine were spilled from the middle of 2oth century to 1988 over a mediterranean bay of a great natural value. The mine had been there from ancient Rome and the balance with nature remained inalterable. This video filmed by the spanish architect Carlos Asensio-Wandosell shows the damged ecosystem, where in the future will be a golf club and a residential comlex, much typical of the spoilt spanish coast.
North Sentinel Island
North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island.[8] It is home to the Sentinelese, a people who have rejected, often violently, any contact with the outside world. They are among the last uncontacted peoples to remain virtually untouched by modern civilisation.[9][10]
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Act of 1956[11] prohibits travel to the island and any approach closer than five nautical miles (9.26 km) in order to prevent the resident tribespeople from contracting diseases to which they have no immunity. The area is patrolled by the Indian navy.[12]
Nominally, the island belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.[13] In practice, Indian authorities recognise the islanders' desire to be left alone and restrict their role to remote monitoring; they do not prosecute them for killing non-Sentinelese people.[14][15] The island is in effect a sovereign area under Indian protection.[citation needed] In 2018, the Government of India excluded 29 islands – including North Sentinel – from the Restricted Area Permit (RAP) regime, until 31 December 2022, in a major effort to boost tourism.[16] In November 2018, however, the government's Home ministry stated that the relaxation of the prohibition was intended only to allow researchers and anthropologists, with pre-approved clearance, to visit the Sentinel islands.[17]
The Sentinelese have repeatedly attacked approaching vessels. This resulted in the deaths of two fishermen in 2006 and an American missionary, John Allen Chau, in 2018.[18][19][20]
Contents
1 Geography
2 History
2.1 British visits
2.2 Post independence
3 Demographics
4 Political status
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Geography
North Sentinel lies 36 kilometres (22 mi) west of the town of Wandoor in South Andaman Island,[2] 50 km (31 mi) west of Port Blair, and 59.6 kilometres (37.0 mi) north of its counterpart South Sentinel Island. It has an area of about 59.67 km2 (23.04 sq mi) and a roughly square outline.[21]
North Sentinel is surrounded by coral reefs, and lacks natural harbours. The entire island, other than the shore, is forested.[22] There is a narrow, white-sand beach encircling the island, behind which the ground rises 20 m (66 ft), and then gradually to between 46 m (150 ft)[23]:257 and 122 m (400 ft)[1] near the centre. Reefs extend around the island to between 0.93 and 1.5 kilometres (0.5–0.8 nmi) from the shore.[1] A forested islet, Constance Island, also Constance Islet,[1] is located about 600 metres (2,000 ft) off the southeast coastline, at the edge of the reef.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake tilted the tectonic plate under the island, lifting it by 1 to 2 metres (3 to 7 ft). Large tracts of the surrounding coral reefs were exposed and became permanently dry land or shallow lagoons, extending all the island's boundaries—by as much as 1 kilometre (3,300 ft) on the west and south sides—and uniting Constance Islet with the main island.[24]:347[25]
History
See also: Sentinelese § Contact
The Onge, one of the other indigenous peoples of the Andamans, were aware of North Sentinel Island's existence; their traditional name for the island is Chia daaKwokweyeh.[2][24]:362–363 They also have strong cultural similarities with what little has been remotely observed amongst the Sentinelese. However, Onge, who were brought there by the British during the 19th century, could not understand the Sentinelese language, so a significant period of separation is likely.[2][24]:362–363
British visits
British surveyor John Ritchie, observed a multitude of lights from an East India Company hydrographic survey vessel, the Diligent, as it passed by the island in 1771.[2][24]:362–363[26] Homfray, an administrator, travelled to the island in March 1867.[27]:288
Toward the end of the same year's summer monsoon season, Nineveh, an Indian merchant ship, was wrecked on a reef near the island. The 106 surviving passengers and crewmen landed on the beach in the ship's boat and fended off attacks by the Sentinelese. They were eventually found by a Royal Navy rescue party.[24]:362–363
An expedition led by Maurice Vidal Portman, a government administrator who hoped to research the natives and their customs, accomplished a successful landing on North Sentinel Island in January 1880. The group found a network of pathways
Radisson Blu Hotel in Madrid (www.inmadrid.org).
One of the best 4 star hotels in Madrid city center more sophisticated, Radisson Blu Hotel, next to the main attractions in Madrid and the popular Golden Triangle of Art. Charming hotel in Madrid for spending a weekend in Madrid lovely and perfect.
LONDON WALK on Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street from Grosvenor Square incl. Madame Tussauds | England
A first-person perspective London walk tour starting from Grosvenor Square, then travelling right up to the end of Baker Street, home of Sherlock Holmes. With the tour passing Oxford Street, Portman Square and Madame Tussauds on Marylebone Road.
FILMED: June 2018 (weekday)
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00:00 Grosvenor Square
06:48 North Audley Street
09:35 Oxford Street
10:01 Orchard Street
11:54 Wigmore Street
12:12 Portman Square
14:16 Baker Street (junction with: George Street 15:40, Blandford Street 16:53, Dorset Street 18:44, Paddington Street 19:52)
22:36 Marylebone Road
31:50 Baker Street
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00:45 Grosvenor Square Gardens
02:01 Eagle Squadrons Memorial
02:58 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Statue
03:22 Water-fountains
05:24 Old police telephone
05:44 U.S. Department of Agriculture building
05:50 General Eisenhower Statue
08:18 One Mayfair - upmarket 1820s event space in landmark former church
08:58 Park House building
09:47 Selfridges department store
13:08 Portman Square Fountain
13:23 Portman Square Gardens (private)
17:33 55 Baker Street building
20:07 Everyman cinema
20:42 Sherlock's Grill, London
23:18 Baker Street Station
24:01 Sherlock Holmes Statue
25:35 Madame Tussauds London
30:15 Plaque marking the world’s first underground passenger railway in 1863
31:35 185 Baker Street building
33:31 London Beatles Store
33:51 221b Baker Street - fictional home of Sherlock Holmes
33:55 The Sherlock Holmes Museum
34:48 The Volunteer - pub
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Westin Palace Hotel Suite tour 303, Madrid Spain
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