The Blue Hole
Castalia, Ohio, USA
Closed 1990
Chacaltaya Glacier
El Alto, Bolivia Melted 2009 I picked the glacier in Bolivia out of pure vicarious pleasure — my dearest lovely twin boys traveled there to 5000 metres above sea level to the place where the glacier had melted away to see the disused ski lift – they were sending back pictures for me to learn […]
Croton Distributing Reservoir
New York, New York, USA
Demolished 1899
Derwent
Derwent, Derbyshire, England, UK
Flooded 1944
Great Barrier Reef
Australia
Destruction ongoing
Icebergs
The Ocean
Melting
Lido
Margate, Kent, England, UK
Closed 1978
Maltepe Süreyya Beach
Instanbul, Turkey Filled-in 1980s This was a meeting point for young people’s summer joy and dreams . . . but today the sea is not there anymore! Ediz T. This was a beloved beach outside of Istanbul. The city approved plans to fill in the beach in 1976 and since the 1980s the little pavilion […]
Old Waterloo Bridge
London, England, UK
Demolished 1934
Titanic
North Atlantic
Sank 1912
Venice of America
Los Angeles, California, USA
Filled in 1929