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Nantucket Island

World tourism will discuss on Nantucket Island. Nantucket Island is an island located 30 miles or 48 miles south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Nantucket is a tourist destination and summer colony. Population on the island will be increased from 10,000 to 50,000 people during the summer progresses, as many tourists and summer residents residing on the island.

Coatue
Coatue is a long barrier beach that is located in Nantucket Island, Coatue is split between the sound of Nantucket Harbor Nantucket. He had six points. The gap between Coatue and Pocomo called Wauwinet Straits.

Pond mound
Pond mound is a large pond in the southern coast of the island of Nantucket. Created at the Pond mound last ice age by melting ice and used to be much larger.

Miacomet Pond
Miacomet Pond is a pond, slim narrow in the south coast of the island of Nantucket. These ponds have rivers, but the sea rose to make Nantucket an island in the last ice age.

Hills Popsquatchet
The Hills Popsquatchet are many peaks that are in Nantucket Island. Rarely reach 100 feet or about 30 m, they can be gaps of Nantucket. Chicken Hill is a hill located in the northeast. On the east side of Chicken Hill, there is a very deep valley known as the Valley of the Dead Horse. On the north side of the hill, is Colt Valley.

In the winter time, the Valley of the Dead Horse is the best sledding area on the island. Chicken Hill's name to an old chicken farm run by William G. Egan.

Squam Swamp
Squam Swamp, a large swamp on the east side of Nantucket Island, located between Wauwinet Road, Squam Road, and Quidnet Road, just located in the northwest and northeast of Quidnet Polpis Harbor.

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Serpentine Pavilion

Serpentine Pavilion is a nuanced art gallery building sophisticated and minimalist, but still a very popular modern located in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, London. The place was designed by architect Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond engineer was built as a reference architecture in the future, so have a building that is very different from most other buildings. The building has walls, floors, ceilings, interior and exterior as if fused.

The building was founded in 1970 and housed in a classical tea pavilion 1934, and named after the nearby Serpentine Lake.
In 2006, Serpentine Gallery inaugural exhibition of the contemporary Chinese art, entitled China Power Station. And besides that, there are many other famous artists who ever existed, among them Man Ray, Henry Moore, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Allan McCollum, Anish Kapoor, Christian Boltanski, Philippe Parreno, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons.

So where can we categorize this as one of the best places in the world.



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The Millennium Dome

The Millennium Dome is an a large dome-shaped building, which was originally used to house the Millennium Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. And now this huge tent the size of Titanic is still one of the buildings are very good and impressive views of the design and dimensions. The building is located on the Greenwich Peninsula in East London, England, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership and Buro Happold engineers, with a diameter of 365 meters and the peak reaches 100 meters.

Dome located at the top of the building is the largest of its kind in the world, and simultaneously represents the role played by Greenwich Mean Time, with twelve 100 m high yellow support towers, one for each month of the year, or every hour clock face.



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