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Celilo, flooded by Lake Celilo. Champoeg, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862. Copper, under Applegate Reservoir. Detroit, inundated by Detroit Lake and relocated. Dorena, flooded by Dorena Reservoir and relocated. Homestead, possibly under the Hells Canyon Reservoir. Linn City, destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862. Orleans, destroyed by the ...
St. Thomas, Nevada. St. Thomas, Nevada is a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, near where the Muddy River flows into the Colorado River. St. Thomas was purchased by the US Federal Government and abandoned as the waters of Lake Mead submerged the town in the 1930s. However, as the level of Lake Mead dropped in the 2000s, the ...
Pavlopetri. Coordinates: 22°59′16″E. Position of Pavlopetri. The city of Pavlopetri ( Greek: Παυλοπέτρι ), in Vatika Bay underwater off the coast of southern Laconia in Peloponnese, Greece, is about 5,000 years old, making it the oldest submerged city known in the world. Pavlopetri is unique in having an almost complete town plan ...
Dodge the shark. This gorgeous photo was taken in the Maldives and it shows a baby black-tipped reef shark swimming through a veritable buffet of fish. The composition of the pic is mesmerizing ...
The Yonaguni Monument ( Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit. "Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography"), also known as "Yonaguni (Island) Submarine Ruins" (与那国（島）海底遺跡, Yonaguni (-jima) Kaitei Iseki), is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu ...
The Cuban underwater formation is a site thought to be a submerged granite structural complex off the coast of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba. [1] [2] [3] Overview [ edit ]
DeGray Lake is a reservoir on the Caddo River constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Arkansas, 8 miles (13 km) from Arkadelphia. Arkansas Scenic Byway 7 is located on the eastern shore of the lake, and provides views of the lake, and also places to stay. DeGray Lake Resort State Park was opened in 1974 to encourage tourism ...
Pantabangan Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Pampanga River located in Pantabangan in Nueva Ecija province of the Philippines. The multi-purpose dam provides water for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation while its reservoir, Pantabangan Lake, affords flood control. The reservoir is considered one of the largest in Southeast ...