Image:Aruba landbridge.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Summary

Natural landbridge in Aruba, formed by the strong waves of the Atlantic Ocean over time. Picture taken by myself during a cruise in August 2005.

    • Updated on 5/20/2006 by Bobby Scott

Due to immense pressure from waves that originally formed it, the Natural Bridge collapsed on February 9, 2006.

Here is a picture of the bridge after the collapse. Collapsed Natural Bridge

Natural Bridge Collapse Date Mix-up

GFDL

I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
Subject to disclaimers.

Apparently there was a mix-up in the interpretation of the date. I just returned from Aruba and the operator of the store near the Natural Bridge told us that the bridge collapsed on September 2, 2005 between 3:00am and 6:00am. The caption on this page says February 9, 2006. This USA Today article supports the September date . The mix-up is likely a misreading of the date in US and non-US formats (i.e. 9/2/2005). TJP.

File history

Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
Click on date to download the file or see the image uploaded on that date.

  • (del) (cur) 15:48, 17 May 2006 . . Mtmelendez ( Talk | contribs) . . 2304×1728 (1,007,844 bytes) (Natural landbridge in Aruba, formed by the strong waves of the Atlantic Ocean over time. Picture taken by myself during a cruise in August 2005.)

  • Edit this file using an external application

    See the setup instructions for more information.

The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
  • User:Mtmelendez/Photo gallery
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Aruba_landbridge.jpg"