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Fishpond
Fishpond is a scheduled medieval pond monument in Lillington, Dorset, England (NHLE 1005578, scheduled 15 September 1975); an artificially created pool for cultivating, breeding, and storing fish, a monument class that peaked in 12th-century England.
Fisternae
Fisternae (Fisternas on the Tabula Peutingeriana) was a Roman road station in Sabine country between Interocrium and Amiternum, near modern Vigliano, known only from the Peutinger map.
Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve
Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve, Western Australia's only UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve, designated 1978, renominated 2017; 1.53 million hectares around Fitzgerald River National Park, a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot with about 2,500 plant species.
Fitzgerald River National Park
Fitzgerald River National Park: large national park on Western Australia's south coast, 420 km southeast of Perth, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (1978) and National Heritage place (2016) with about 1,748 plant species including 75 endemics.
Five Islands, Nova Scotia
Five Islands, Nova Scotia: community and provincial park on the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy, 24 km east of Parrsboro, with 90 m sea cliffs, the world's highest tides, Triassic-Jurassic geology, and about 92 campsites.
Flag Fen
Flag Fen, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: a Bronze Age timber post alignment and platform, about 1 km long, built c. 1300–900 BC between Fengate and Northey, discovered 1982 by Francis Pryor, a scheduled monument with waterlogged preservation and ritual metalwork deposition.
Flămînda
Flămînda (Flămânda, La Culă), a Roman auxiliary fort at Traian, Teleorman County, Romania: first fort of the Transalutanus limes on the Danube; wood-and-earth, 350×390 m, legio XIII Gemina stamp, excavated by Bogdan Cătăniciu.
Flaminio Obelisk (Rome)
Flaminio Obelisk (Obelisco Flaminio), ancient Egyptian red granite obelisk from Heliopolis by Seti I and Ramesses II, in Rome's Piazza del Popolo; brought by Augustus in 10 BC to the Circus Maximus, re-erected 1589 under Sixtus V.
Flandrau State Park
Flandrau State Park is a Minnesota state park on the Cottonwood River adjacent to New Ulm, established in 1936, known for its chlorinated sand-bottom swim pond and campgrounds.
Flaviac
Flaviac, an ancient lead-mining site in Ardèche, France, recorded in the Barrington Atlas (map 17 D4) and Pleiades gazetteer; no ancient name attested, dated 30 BC to AD 640.
Flavian Amphitheater at Puteoli
Flavian Amphitheater at Puteoli (Anfiteatro Flavio di Pozzuoli), Roman arena in Pozzuoli, Italy, built 1st century CE by the colony at its own expense; third largest in Italy after the Colosseum and Capua, 149x116 m, 40,000 seats, with an exceptionally preserved two-level hypogeum.
Flaviana
Flaviana, also Flaviana Castra, a Roman fort and fleet station in Scythia Minor (Dobrudja, Romania), usually identified with Rasova-Pescărie; Trajanic Classis Flavia Moesica statio of 106 AD, rebuilt under Constantine, garrisoned by milites nauclarii per Notitia Dignitatum.
Flemish Béguinages
Flemish Béguinages (Vlaamse begijnhoven), 13 UNESCO World Heritage sites in Belgium inscribed in 1998, enclosed communities of lay religious women called béguines, founded from the 13th century, distinctive for combining religious and domestic life.
Flight 93 National Memorial
Flight 93 National Memorial, a National Park Service unit near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, commemorates the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93; designed by Paul Murdoch Architects after a 1,100-entry competition, built 2009-2020.
Flinders Chase National Park
Flinders Chase National Park, a wilderness park at the west end of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, reserved in 1919; home to Remarkable Rocks, Admirals Arch, long-nosed fur seals, and 96% burnt in the 2019–20 bushfires.
Flinders Ranges
The Flinders Ranges is a mountain range in South Australia, north of Adelaide, whose exposed rocks record 350 million years of Earth history, including the first large complex animal life.
Floraland (国色天乡 · 童话世界)
Floraland (国色天乡·童话世界) is a fairy-tale theme park in Wenjiang, Chengdu, opened 2007 after the 2005 Flower Expo park; free entry, pay-per-ride, four-phase Guosetianxiang resort, over 20 million early visitors.
Floraland (国色天乡 · 陆地乐园)
Floraland (国色天乡·陆地乐园), Guosetianxiang Land Park, is Phase III of the Guosetianxiang resort in Wanchun Town, Wenjiang District, Chengdu: a 275-mu family and challenge theme park with five themed zones and nearly 30 rides.
Florencia Beach
Florencia Beach, also called Florencia Bay or Wreck Beach, is a 5 km surf beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, Canada, with A-frame beach-break waves, northeast offshore winds, cold water, and access via the Willowbrae and Nuu-chah-nulth trails.
Florenti(ol)a
Florenti(ol)a, also Florentia [2] and Florentiola, a Roman road station on the Via Aemilia in Regio VIII between Placentia and Fidentia, 15 Roman miles from Placentia, modern Fiorenzuola d'Arda, distinct from Florentia (Florence).
Flörsheim
Flörsheim am Main is a town in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse, on the right bank of the lower Main. Merovingian origins, Mainz rule until 1803, 1484–1548 town walls, Mainturm, protected old town, Pleiades 108986.
Flower Land Pattaya
Flower Land Pattaya (ฟลาวเวอร์แลนด์ พัทยา) is a 40-acre flower park near Mabprachan Lake, east of Pattaya, Thailand, opened December 2018, with Himmapan, Eden, and Inthanon domes and a 360-degree saltwater aquarium; currently listed as temporarily closed.
Flower Park
Flower Park, or Riverfront Flower Park, is a 6.19-hectare themed flower garden on the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, completed January 2017 by SRFDCL; the name also refers to parks in Shahapur, Karnataka, and Singur, West Bengal.
Flower Theatre
Flower Theatre (Bloementheater, Théâtre des fleurs) is a display garden at Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium, a peony-centred garden opened from 2007 with 738 taxa; also the name of cinemas in Ottawa and Silver Spring, Maryland.
Flower's Barrow
Flower's Barrow (Flowers Barrow) is an Iron Age multivallate hillfort on Rings Hill above Worbarrow Bay, Dorset, a Scheduled Monument losing its southern third to coastal erosion, with 1939 and 2022 excavations and a possible Roman occupation.
Flowers Garden
Flowers Garden (Bagh-e Golha, باغ گلها) is a 67,000 m² municipal flower garden in Isfahan, Iran, at Bozorgmehr Square by the Zayandeh River, with about 400 plant species, a Persian carpet flower design, and a tropical greenhouse dome.
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is an 898-acre municipal park in Queens, New York City, built on an ash dump and hosting the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, the UN General Assembly (1946–1950), the Unisphere, Queens Museum, US Open tennis center, and Citi Field.
Flusslandschaft Elbe Biosphere Reserve
Flusslandschaft Elbe (Elbe River Landscape) Biosphere Reserve, Germany's largest inland UNESCO biosphere reserve, ~282,250 ha along the Elbe across five federal states; recognized 1979 (Middle Elbe) and 1997 (transregional), floodplain forests, beavers, storks.
Fluy
Fluy, a village in the Somme, France, is the site of a vast Gallo-Roman rural sanctuary of the Ambiani in Gallia Belgica, where aerial photography revealed a temple with arcaded enclosure and a theatre known only from the air.
Flying Cow Ranch
Flying Cow Ranch (飛牛牧場) is a leisure farm in Tongxiao, Miaoli County, Taiwan, founded in 1975 as the Central Youth Dairy Farm, opened to the public in 1995, covering about 50 hectares with dairy cows, butterflies, DIY activities, and Muslim-friendly dining.