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Diamantina National Park
Diamantina National Park, a 507,000-hectare former cattle station gazetted in 1992 in Queensland's Channel Country, protects Diamantina River wetlands, Maiawali homelands, and threatened bilbies, kowaris, and night parrots.
Diana Tifatina (temple)
Temple of Diana Tifatina, ancient Italic sanctuary of Diana on Monte Tifata near Capua, Campania; cult from the 6th century BC, podium under the Basilica of Sant'Angelo in Formis, patronized by Sulla in 83 BC.
Dicle Tüneli
Dicle Tüneli (Tigris Tunnel, Birkleyn Caves): natural cave system in Lice, Diyarbakır, Turkey, where the Dibni Stream, a Tigris headwater, flows underground; five caves with Assyrian royal cuneiform inscriptions and reliefs of Tiglath-pileser and Shalmaneser III.
Didyma (Δίδυμα)
Didyma (Branchidai), Apollo's oracle sanctuary south of Miletus in Ionia; priestly Branchidae, destroyed by Darius I in 494 BC, refounded under Alexander, with the giant unfinished Hellenistic temple later converted to a Christian basilica.
Didymoi (Egypt)
Didymoi (Khashm al-Minayh), Roman praesidium on the Coptos–Berenice road in Egypt's Eastern Desert; founded 76/77 CE by prefect Iulius Ursus, rebuilt 176/177, abandoned mid-3rd century; rich ostraca record.
Diktynnaion
Diktynnaion (Δικτυνναῖον), main sanctuary of the Cretan goddess Diktynna at Menies bay on the Rodopou peninsula, western Crete. Founded per Herodotus by Samians c. 524-519 BCE, rebuilt under Hadrian, excavated 1942.
Dilis
Dilis, ancient place name in Gallia on the coast between Massilia (Marseille) and Fossae Marianae; tentatively identified ("Dilis?") with Port des Laurons near the Roman villa of Semenes, Provence, France; Pleiades 148068.
Dimini
Dimini (Διμήνι), near Volos, Thessaly: a Neolithic hill settlement with six concentric stone enclosures and a Mycenaean town on the plain below, identified by its excavator with ancient Iolkos and featuring Megaron A and B, Linear B, and tholos tombs.
Dimonika Biosphere Reserve
Dimonika Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de la Biosphère de Dimonika) is a UNESCO MAB site in the Mayombe mountains of the Republic of the Congo, designated 1 March 1988, covering 136,000 ha of Guineo-Congolese rainforest and savanna.
Dino Park Kalemegdan – Jura Avantura
Dino Park Kalemegdan – Jura Avantura (Дино парк Калемегдан – Јура авантура) is an outdoor dinosaur attraction at Mali Kalemegdan in Belgrade Fortress, with 35+ life-size replicas, playground, zip line and café, open daily 10:00–20:00 weather permitting; distinct from Dino Park Zlatibor.
Dino Water Park
Dino Water Park, better known as Dino Beach, was a seasonal outdoor water park in Minhang District, Shanghai. Opened in 2004, it operated only in summer and suspended operations in 2023.
Dinogetia
Dinogetia, also Bisericuța-Garvăn, a Roman and Byzantine fortress on a former Danube island near Garvăn, Tulcea County, Romania; rebuilt under Diocletian with 14 towers, burnt by the Kotrigurs in 559, refortified after 971.
Dinosaur National Monument
Dinosaur National Monument is an NPS unit on the Utah-Colorado border, established 1915 around the Carnegie Quarry and expanded 1938 to 210,000+ acres of Green and Yampa river canyons, site of the 1,500-bone fossil wall and the Echo Park Dam controversy.
Dinosaur Park "dino park"
Dinosaur park (dino park): a family tourist attraction with life-size, often animatronic dinosaur models on outdoor trails, fossil digs, and paleontology education; examples include Dino Parque Lourinhã, Dino Parc Râșnov, and the DinoPark network.
Dinosaur Park + Garden Glow
Dinosaur Park + Garden Glow refers to the two headline zones of Dubai Garden Glow, a seasonal light-art attraction in Zabeel Park, Dubai, featuring 100 life-size animatronic dinosaurs.
Dinosaur Park Skopje
Dinosaur Park Skopje (Дино Парк) is a dinosaur-themed attraction with 41 replicas from the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods, opened in May 2021 next to the Skopje Zoo in North Macedonia's capital.
Dinosaur Provincial Park
Dinosaur Provincial Park: UNESCO World Heritage site (1979) in Alberta's badlands, 48 km northeast of Brooks, preserving Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils of the Dinosaur Park Formation, 75-77 million years old.
Dinoteriy Bird Park
Динотерий (Динотерій, Dinoteriy Bird Park) is a small zoo and bird park at the exit from Koktebel, Crimea, near Kara Dag Mountain, featuring pigeon feeding, peacocks, and replica Deinotherium and dinosaur skeletons.
Dinwoody Petroglyphs
The Dinwoody Petroglyphs are Native American rock art at the head of Dinwoody Lake in western Wyoming, the type site of the Dinwoody Tradition, known for near-life-size surreal human figures pecked over more than 6,000 years.
Diogeneion
Diogeneion (Διογένειον), ancient Athenian gymnasium or palaestra named for the Macedonian commander Diogenes, liberator of Athens in 229 BC; headquarters of ephebic education from the Hellenistic era until the Herulian sack of AD 267, probably in Plaka near St. Demetrios Katiphori.
Diolkos
Diolkos: paved portage trackway across the Isthmus of Corinth, built probably under Periander in the 6th century BC, with 1.5 m gauge grooves, hauling ships and cargoes between the Saronic and Corinthian gulfs; used into the Byzantine era.
Diomedes Botanical Garden
The Diomedes Botanical Garden is the largest botanical garden in Greece, located in Chaidari on the western edge of Athens and holding over 2,500 plant species.
Dion (Greece)
Dion (Greek: Δίον), meaning "the place of Zeus," is an archaeological site in Pieria, Greece, at the foot of Mount Olympus that served as the sacred city of the ancient Macedonian kingdom.
Dionysos Bresagenes, T.
Dionysos Bresagenes, T. (Διόνυσος Βρησαγένης): sanctuary of Dionysos under this epithet at Cape Agios Phokas, Lesbos, near Vrisa; small 1st-century BC Doric temple, attributed by Androtion to Makar, occupied from the Early Bronze Age to Byzantine times.
Dipriz Animal Park
Dipriz Animal Park (Парк животных «Диприз», Парк жывёл «Дыпрыз») is a private 344-hectare zoo-landscape park near Baranovichi, Belarus, founded in 2011 by furniture firm Dipriz LLC, officially opened 2020, with about 100 species and two pedestrian zones.
Dipterocarp Collection
Dipterocarp Collection: living ex situ collections of Dipterocarpaceae trees at FRIM (1929, 120 species), XTBG (1981, 34 species in 7 genera), Singapore's OCBC Arboretum, and Bogor, for research and conservation.
Director of the National Park Service
The Director of the National Park Service heads the federal agency that manages US national parks and monuments, an office created by the 1916 Organic Act.
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves
Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves (Reservas de Mata Atlântica da Costa do Descobrimento): serial natural World Heritage site, Bahia and Espírito Santo, Brazil, inscribed 1999; eight protected areas, 111,930 ha of Atlantic Forest, criteria (ix)(x).
Discovery Land theme park
Discovery Land theme park (大连发现王国), or Dalian Haichang Discoveryland / Discovery Kingdom, is a 467,000-square-metre amusement park opened in 2006 in Jinshitan, Dalian, China, operated by the Haichang group.
Discovery UNESCO Global Geopark
Discovery UNESCO Global Geopark, Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; designated 2020; one of five Canadian geoparks; named for the Discovery Trail and John Cabot's 1497 landfall; fossils of early complex life.