FRESH KILLS. NEW YORK.
Deixa un comentariWrong aswers include the Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of Cina and (for clever-dicks) Mubarak al-Kabir Tower, Kuwait.
Our answer is Fresh Kills, the rubbish dump on Staten Island, New York, though we quite like Jimmy Carr’s alternative suggestion -Holland.
Opened in 1948, the Fresh Kills landfill site (named after the Dutch word KIL meaning ‘small river’) soon became one of the largest projects in human history, eventually trumping (by volume)the Great Wall of China as the world’s large man-made structure.
The site is 12 square km (4.6 square miles) in area and, whwn operational, twenty barges, each carrying 650 tons of rubbish, were shipped every day. Had Fresh Kills continued to stay open as planned, it would have grown to be the highest point on the Eastern Seaboard. At thios peak the dump was already 25 M (over 80 feet) highier than the Statue of Liberty.
Under local pressure, the landfill closed in March 2001, only to be oponed again to cope with the enormous amount of debris by the destrution of World Trade Center.
It is now completely shut down, and new restrictions mean it can’t reopen no lanfill is allowed within NYC limits). The site is currently being flattened and lanscaped into parkland and a wildlife facility. Nice.
Arguably, there are structures which are spread across more space -the US road network, perhaps?
The internet? The GPS satellite network? – but the Fresh Kills landfill is the largest single cohesive structure.
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