Salem Peace Pole/Eco-Earth
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Bandmaster
N 44° 56.316 W 123° 02.656
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A Peace Pole written in several different languages dwarfed by a huge globe in the background created of tile icons made by local artists and students that reflect the world's diversity on land and water. This waymark is located in Riverfront Park.
Waymark Code: WM203A
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 08/12/2007
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The Eco Earth was once an asphalt-covered stainless steel "Acid Ball" used by Boise Cascade Corp. decades ago, at this exact site, as a pressure vessel used in the processing of wood pulp into paper. It was through community effort that the idea of the Eco-Earth proceded forward with generous local donations and countless hours of volunteer labor going into its creation. The final outcome was Eco-Earth, a vibrant symbol of our world's struggle for peace, culture, diversity, and ecological awareness. Eco-Earth geographer Jule Youngran counted 86,155 two inch tiles cemented on the ball. Of those 2,810 were located in the icons and 716 on the pillars designed, painted and glazed by artists.
The map scale used on Eco-earth is 1:1,600,000; at this scale, Africa is more than 17 feet across from Guinea to Somalia. The scale of most globes in classrooms is around 1:42,000,000. So, if you stacked 1,600,000 "acid balls" on top of each other, you'd have the size of our planet.
Because Eco-Earth is made of stainless steel, engineers installed expansion joints to allow the ball to expand and contract without the tiles popping off the surface.
The Peace Pole appears to point to and introduces the Eco-Earth structure. Both the Peace Pole and Eco-Earth have the same theme running through both. "World Peace"
Languages: English, French, Japanese, French, Chinese, Arabic, German, and animal footprints.
Made of: Metal
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