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Taken along Astoria Riverwalk, a public park and hiking trail following the Columbia River and follows the historic path of the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad and traveling the length of Astoria's waterfront.

Abandoned broken shipwreck sticking out of the sea.

K'gari, formerly known as Fraser Island is 123 kilometres long and is the largest sand island in the world.

Australian Navy ship in the port, background with copy space, full frame horizontal composition

$This well-preserved Hellcat aircraft wreck stands out as one of the Solomon Islands' most easily reachable airplane wrecks. Resting upright and complete, it lies in a mere 9 meters of crystal-clear water. The Grumman F6F Hellcat, designed as a carrier-based fighter to supplant the earlier F4F Wildcat, rose to prominence as the Navy's dominant fighter in the latter stages of World War II, a status it never relinquished.\n\nRenowned for its robust and efficient carrier-based design, the Hellcat effectively countered the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, playing a pivotal role in securing air superiority over the Pacific. Its straightforward, highly effective design remained relatively unaltered throughout the war, with over 12,200 units produced in just over two years.\n\nThe wreck rests upon a bed of fragmented coral, surrounded by delicate branching coral formations, ensuring minimal silt disturbance and excellent underwater visibility. Undoubtedly, it ranks among the most easily accessible airplane wrecks in the Solomon Islands.$

$An old cargo transport aircraft, the moss, staining, and streaks of dirt down its hull made some very interesting patterns. \n\nThe aircraft obviously had some military usage in its history, whether it carried troops, supplies, vehicles, or a combination of everything I don't know. The proboscis on the nose of the aircraft is for refuelling midflight, so it could fly extreme distances so long as tanker aircraft were available to refuel from.\n\nIt is a monolithic piece of engineering, and only standing on the floor under its wingspan do you get a real impression of how big these cargo planes now are, they're a feat of design and engineering, even when obsolete and left abandoned outdoors.$

The Battleship USS Missouri at anchor in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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Sunken fisher boat in the harbour of Bari

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Looking down at the front turrets of an American destroyer from the Bridge.

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Old rusty ship at sea. Obsolescence of ships concept. Old ships pollute the environment.

The cockpit and nose of a marine reconnaissance aircraft. Designed in 1954 and in service from 1957 to 1981 this plane was the largest aircraft built in Canada when it was introduced.

Several retired Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers sit at anchor at the NAVSEA Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

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A scale model of the iconic B-17 Flying Fortress sitting on a scale model airfield. The B-17 was an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps and made by Boeing.

The wreck of the Iona ship in the red sea offshore from Yanbu, Saudi Arabia

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