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Iconic landmarks and their
surroundings Year 8 Geography
Inspired by and some images taken from: http://www.boredpanda.com/famous-landmarks-zoomed-out/
What do to do… • First, look at the image of the landmark. Study it closely and then ask yourself:
– What is it? – Where is it? – Is it natural or constructed? – How was it formed? – Why was it formed? – What impacts has the landscape and its forces had on the landmark? – Has it changed? – Will it change? How? – What would you expect its surroundings to look like?
• Then, move on the next slide to answer some of your questions
• Pinpoint the location on handout maps and number them as you go.
• Keep track of the locations by keeping a numbered list of the landmarks and their
locations that correspond to the numbers on the map
• Note: I have made sure to include a number of sites that I have travelled to so that I can discuss these in more detail with my students and share some personal experiences/ stories with them
The Great Pyramids
The Great Pyramids of Giza, Al Ahram Giza Governorate, Egypt
Stonehenge
Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom SP4 7DE
Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh 282001, India
The Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz 10117, Berlin, Germany
La Sagrada Familia, Carrer de Mallorca, 401 08013, Barcelona, Spain
Niagara Falls, NY 14303, United States of America
Acropolis of Athens, Athens 105 58, Greece
Mount Rushmore • The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore
(Lakota Sioux name: Six Grandfathers) near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km2) and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.
• South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into the Black Hills region of South Dakota in order to promote tourism in the region. Robinson's initial idea was to sculpt the Needles; however, Gutzon Borglum rejected the Needles site because of the poor quality of the granite and strong opposition from Native American groups. They settled on the Mount Rushmore location, which also has the advantage of facing southeast for maximum sun exposure. Robinson wanted it to feature western heroes like Lewis and Clark, Red Cloud, and Buffalo Bill Cody, but Borglum decided the sculpture should have a more national focus and chose the four presidents whose likenesses would be carved into the mountain. After securing federal funding through the enthusiastic sponsorship of "Mount Rushmore's great political patron", U.S. Senator Peter Norbeck, construction on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took over construction. Although the initial concept called for each president to be depicted from head to waist, lack of funding forced construction to end in late October 1941.
• Mount Rushmore has become an iconic symbol of presidential greatness and has appeared in works of fiction, and has been discussed or depicted in other popular works. It attracts over two million people annually.
Mt Rushmore, Black Hills National Forest, Mt Rushmore, SD 57751 USA
The Forbidden City • The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the
end of the Qing dynasty. It is located in the centre of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. It served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political centre of Chinese government for almost 500 years.
• Built in 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 buildings and covers 72 ha (180 acres). The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture, and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987, and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.
• Since 1925, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose extensive collection of artwork and artefacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Part of the museum's former collection is now located in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Both museums descend from the same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War.
4 Jing Shan Qian Jie, Dongcheng, Beijing, China
Central Park • Central Park is an urban park in the central part of the borough of Manhattan, New
York City. • It was initially opened in 1857, on 778 acres (315 ha) of city-owned land, later
expanding to its current size of 843 acres (341 ha). • In 1858, soon-to-be famed national landscapers and architects, Frederick Law
Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the "Greensward Plan".
• Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War further south, and was completed in 1873.
• It was designated a National Historic Landmark (listed by the U.S. Department of the Interior and administered by the National Park Service) in 1962.
• The Park was managed for decades by the New York City Department of Recreation and Parks and is currently managed by the Central Park Conservancy under contract with the municipal government in a public-private partnership.
• The Conservancy is a non-profit organization that contributes 75% of Central Park's $57 million annual budget and employs 80.7% of the Park's maintenance staff.
• Today, Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States as well as one of the most filmed locations in the world.
Central Park, New York, NY, USA
