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Museum Of Underwater Art, Australia
The Museum of Underwater Art (MOUA) is a series of underwater art installations near Townsville, Australia. It is the only underwater art museum in the Southern Hemisphere and consists of three sculptures created by British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor. The museum opened in 2020. Operation The MOUA is managed by MOUA Ltd. The Chairman of the MOUA Board is Paul Victory and the Deputy Chair is Dr. Adam Smith. Funding for MOUA has been provided by the Queensland and Australian government and local businesses. MOUA has several permits for facilities and moorings. The annual monitoring plan includes surveys of infrastructure, marine life, social, coral propagation, and marine debris. Reef Ecologic and MOUA initiated a citizen science iNaturalist project of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists taking photos and sharing observations of biodiversity of marine species at John Brewer Reef. As of April 2024 participants in this project have recorded 4572 observations of 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brewer Reef
John Brewer Reef is located offshore from Townsville, Queensland, Australia, and measures . The origin of the reef's name is from the troop ships ''John Brewer'', ''Kelso'' and ''Arab'' which sailed from Sydney for India on 16 June 1842. On board were 26 officers and 700 men of the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot (The Slashers). On 30 June 1842, all ships grounded on reefs north-east of Palm Island, Queensland, Palm Island. The reef where the ''John Brewer'' struck is known as Slashers Reefs after then 28th Regiment's nickname. John Brewer Reef is notable as the site of the world's first floating hotel, now the Hotel Haegumgang, and of ''The Coral Greenhouse'', which is one of the sculptures created by Jason deCaires Taylor for the Museum of Underwater Art (MOUA) and at and is the world's largest underwater art structure. John Brewer Reef is within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. In March 2022 reef-wide cover of Scleractinia, hard corals was 21.8 %, with som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |