Cardiff Bay Barrage - Lucky Seven - Wales, Great Britain.
N 51° 26.860 W 003° 09.934
30U E 488494 N 5699622
The anchor for this Lucky 7 is the Cardiff Bay Barrage. All 7 core group waymarks are within 0.1 miles giving a tally of 14. The Barrage lies across the mouth of Cardiff Bay, between Queen Alexandra Dock and Penarth Head, in South Wales.
Waymark Code: WMPCEJ
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/08/2015
Views: 2
Three massive sea locks, with three large bascule bridges, known as the Barrage, forms the entrance to Cardiff Bay, a man made Harbour, with over 10 miles of new coastline.
The lock Walls are over 60 feet deep, as the average tidal rise & fall averages over 40 feet, one of the largest tides in the World.
An interesting feature of the satellite view is the large yellow patch on the most Northerly Lock Island. This is part of an artwork known as Anamorphous Street Art and is called 'Three Ellipses' you see only fragmented lines and colours, until viewed from just one location, then the title becomes apparent.
" 'Three Ellipses' designed by the artist Felice Varini who is a Swiss and was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize, known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings of rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques. According to mathematics professor and art critic Joël Koskas, "A work of Varini is an anti-Mona Lisa.
Felice paints anamorphous Street art on architectural and urban spaces, such as buildings, walls and streets, or in this case lock gates. The paintings are characterized by one vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting (usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line), while from other view points the viewer will see ‘broken’ fragmented shapes. Varini argues that the work exists as a whole - with its complete shape as well as the fragments. “My concern,” he says “is what happens outside the vantage point of view.” Text source: (
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"Historically a city of castles and coal, Wales’s capital is emerging as a modern sports-entertainment destination. Summer action centers on Cardiff Bay, once the world’s largest coal-exporting port, now a 500-acre freshwater lake with eight miles of waterfront. Surrounding diversions, part of Europe’s largest waterfront development, include shopping and dining at Mermaid Quay." (
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1-Animals
2-Buildings
3-Business
4-Culture > Anamorphous Street Art > WME81B : Three Ellipses - Cardiff Bay Barrage
5-Entertainment > Official Local Tourism Attractions > WMG9FC : Cardiff Bay Barrage - Visitor Attraction - Wales.
6-History
7-Measurment Standards
8-Monuments
9-Nature
10-Oddities > Satellite Imagery Oddities > WMMQYV : Cardiff Bay Barrage - Wales.
11-Recreation
12-Signs > Flora and Fauna Information Signs > WMPC7Q : Salt Versus Fresh - Flora & Fauna - Cardiff Bay.
13-Structures > Bridges > Moving Bridges > WME938 : Three Moving Bridges - Cardiff Bay.
14-Technology > Wikipedia Entries > WMF6F5 : Cardiff Bay Barrage - Cardiff Capitol of Wales.
15-Waymarking Multifarious > News Article Locations > WMPCEM : Barrage Circles - News Location - Cardiff Bay.
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