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Tropical Islands Resort is an artificial tropical resort in Brandenburg, Germany. It is said to be the world's largest tropical indoor pool which can accommodate up to 7,000 visitors a day. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (869x575, 94 KB) CargoLifter hangar, located at Briesen-Brand (Halbe in Brandenburg, Germany) Photo taken by de:Stefan Kühn Jun 29th, 2001. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (869x575, 94 KB) CargoLifter hangar, located at Briesen-Brand (Halbe in Brandenburg, Germany) Photo taken by de:Stefan Kühn Jun 29th, 2001. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 593 KB) GFDL, Fotografin: Frauke Hinrichsen File links The following pages link to this file: Tropical Islands Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 593 KB) GFDL, Fotografin: Frauke Hinrichsen File links The following pages link to this file: Tropical Islands Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ...
Surrounding but excluding the national capital Berlin, Brandenburg is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ...
The resort is located in Briesen (Mark), Oder-Spree, Brandenburg, Germany, about 60 km (36 miles) southeast of Berlin, off the "Staakow" exit of the A13 Autobahn. Briesen is a place in the Oder-Spree district, Brandenburg, Germany. ...
Oder-Spree is a Kreis (district) in the eastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. ...
Surrounding but excluding the national capital Berlin, Brandenburg is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ...
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The German and Austrian autobahn sign The Swiss autobahn sign Autobahn (pronounced in IPA) is the German word for a major high-speed road confined to motor vehicles and having full control of access, similar to a motorway or freeway in English-speaking countries. ...
It resides inside a disused hangar 360 meters long, 210 meters wide and 107 meters high. At 5.5 million m³ (194 million ft³), it stands as one of the largest buildings on Earth by volume, and is the world's largest single hall without supporting pillars inside. The hangar cost 78 million € and was originally commissioned by Cargolifter AG as an airship hangar named Aerium, but the airship it was intended to house – the CL160 – was never built. // By Space (usable volume, in m³) Boeing claims that its Boeing Everett plant at Everett, Washington, United States, is the largest building in the world by volume at 13. ...
The enterprise Cargolifter AG was created on 1 September 1996 in Wiesbaden. ...
USS Akron (ZRS-4) in flight, 2 November 1931 An airship is a buoyant aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air. ...
The Malaysian Tanjong company bought the hangar and the surrounding real estate for 17.5 million € and turned it into a resort with a man-made tropical habitat. It opened on December 19, 2004. Tanjong public limited company was initially founded as Tanjong Tin Dredging Limited on 2 January 1926 in England. ...
December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Visitors find an exotic environment with rain forest, beach, artificial sun, palm trees, orchids, and bird soundtrack. The air is warm (25 °C). Tropical Islands is open all around the clock, every day of the year. A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. ...
Themes Different ranges of theme parks were furnished: - Tropical Flower World
- Tropical Food Village
- Tropical Rainforest Hill (rain forest with a mangrove swamp and a 1 km long path)
- Tropical Sea (c. 4.400 m² tropical pool, water depth 1.40 m, a 8 m wide beach and 850 canvas chair)
- Bali lagoon (with 1.200 m² pool, water depth less than 1 m; water attraction – fountains, flow channel, neck showers, whirlpool and two chutes)
Some visitors criticize the water depth in the Tropical Sea and the Bali lagoon as insufficient. Topography Map showing Bali within Indonesia Sunset at Jimbaran Beach, Bali Young Balinese Dancers Rice terraces at entrance to Gunung Kawi Temple The Bali Starling lives only in Bali, as few as six may exist on the island Statue of Dewi Sri â Ubud, Bali Bali is an Indonesian island. ...
This mid bay barrier in Narrabeen, a suburb of Sydney (Australia), has blocked what used to be a bay to form a lagoon. ...
View from the rain forest to the Bali lagoon Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 617 KB) GFDL, Fotografin: Frauke Hinrichsen File links The following pages link to this file: Tropical Islands Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ...
| Tropical sea with beach and stage Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 579 KB) GFDL, Fotografin: Frauke Hinrichsen File links The following pages link to this file: Tropical Islands Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ...
| Rain forest, Bali lagoon, and stage Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 567 KB) GFDL, Fotografin: Frauke Hinrichsen File links The following pages link to this file: Tropical Islands Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ...
| External links - Tropical Islands Resort English Homepage
- Structurae: Tropical Islands Dome
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