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Natural PlacesSite Name: Bimini Road Alternative Name: Bimini WallCountry: Caribbean Islands
NOTE: This site is 738.962 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Nassau Nearest Village: Barley Town
Latitude: 25.765000N Longitude: 79.28W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Not Known (by us) in the Bahamas.An underwater rock formation, the Bimini Road is made of large, roughly rectangular stones of a limestone conglomerate known as "beachrock". The .5 mile long feature is generally straight for most of its length and then turns sharply at one end. The pieces of beachrock are generally eroded, with rounded edges and corners.
The feature is described variously:
- as a natural pavement which has become broken into pieces in place due to natural forces, or,
- as a man made structure, built either during an ice age when the shoreline of the Bahamas would have extended much farther out into the sea, or more exotically, prior to sudden and cataclysmic events that plunged it beneath the waves.
Much of the argument, for and against each basic hypothesis, involves whether or not there is more than one course of stones laid in place, the nature of smaller stones seen beneath the main layer, and exactly where bedrock lies in the area. Examination of the structure, by its very nature, is a difficult effort. Proponents of a natural origin find the "published" records of expeditions mounted by the backers of a man made origin lacking enough evidence to disprove the more mundane explanation.
Note: Diver's hired by Physic's foundation to Search for Atlantis. See Comment.
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