'It's heartbreaking': Maltese mourn collapse of Azure Window arch
Source: The Guardian
As arches go, the Azure Window had celebrity status, featuring in films such as Clash of the Titans and The Count of Monte Cristo and serving as the backdrop to the Dothraki wedding scene in the television version of Game of Thrones.
But now, the limestone arch, one of Maltas most famous landmarks, is no more, having collapsed into the sea after a heavy storm.
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Maltas prime minister, Joseph Muscat, said the news was heartbreaking. Reports commissioned over the years indicated that this landmark would be hard hit by unavoidable natural corrosion. That sad day arrived, he said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/azure-window-malta-collapse-game-of-thrones
Nadia Khomami
Wednesday 8 March 2017 15.59 GMT
raging moderate
(4,308 posts)Never mind, Malta, you are still beautiful!
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(68,868 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)Apparently, a group of German tourists was on the structure, London Bridge, one of a series of rocks sculptured by the sea, also known as The Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road.
Here's the before...
and here's the after...
Fortunately, none of the tourists were on the section that collapsed, but some were trapped on the section no longer connected to the mainland. They had to be helicoptered off.
Absolutely beautiful area, if you're thinking of visiting.
maxsolomon
(33,360 posts)All things must pass away
Mendocino
(7,504 posts)Some day Niagara Falls will be miles of fierce rapids. A new Hawaiian island will appear. California west of the San Andreas Fault will have traveled to the Aleutian Trench, be subducted and then disappear.
But Keith Richards will still be alive.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)calimary
(81,421 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)EarthFirst
(2,901 posts)msongs
(67,433 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,870 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)it wasn't some hooligan or corporation. The earth just keeps designing and rearranging. It was beautiful.
briv1016
(1,570 posts)Edit: Consolation prize, it now has a face.
Mendocino
(7,504 posts)rubes out there who believe the Grand Canyon is 2500 years old.
ManiacJoe
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alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Than to mourn that it is gone.