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/ August 16, 2026
Junction Oval sits at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Lakeside Drive in St Kilda, a few minutes from Melbourne’s bayside beaches, and it has been in use as a sports ground since 1856. For most of the 20th century it was better known for
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/ August 16, 2026
Wellington’s Basin Reserve is the rarest thing in world sport: a playing field that is also a legally protected historic place. It is the only cricket ground with listed status from Heritage New Zealand, granted in recognition of it being the oldest first-class cricket ground
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/ August 16, 2026
The Sydney Cricket Ground began life in 1854 as the Garrison Ground, a strip of Moore Park set aside for British soldiers stationed at the nearby Victoria Barracks to play on. Almost 175 years later the army is long gone and the ground is one
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 oldest sports venues still in active use anywhere in the world — places where professional sport is still played in 2026, some of them nearly two centuries after the first match. The rule: a purpose-built sports venue with permanent spectator
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/ August 16, 2026
Here are today’s 3 verified theme park & live event stories, covering Theme Parks & Roller Coasters and Live Music & Venues. Every item below links to its original source. The TLDR Theme Parks & Roller Coasters Dreamfinder Is Coming Back to EPCOT’s Journey Into
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/ August 16, 2026
Son of Beast was a towering wooden roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that opened on April 28, 2000, as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster in the world. Built by the Roller Coaster Corporation of America with track design by Werner Stengel’s
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/ August 16, 2026
Mount Panorama Circuit is a 6.213-kilometre motor racing track cut into a public road on the outskirts of Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. Opened on 17 March 1938 as a scenic tourist drive built partly as a Depression-era employment project, it doubles as an ordinary
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/ August 16, 2026
The Kala & Tai Nui Serpentine Body Slides are Universal Volcano Bay’s dueling trap-door drop: two riders step into side-by-side capsules 125 feet (38 m) up inside the Krakatau volcano, the floors release together, and both plunge simultaneously into intertwining serpentine tubes that corkscrew down
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/ August 16, 2026
Ko’okiri Body Plunge is the signature drop at Universal Volcano Bay in Orlando: a 125-foot (38 m) trap-door body slide that falls at a 70-degree angle straight through the heart of Krakatau, the 200-foot volcano at the center of the park. When Volcano Bay opened
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/ August 16, 2026
Meteor at Wet’n Wild São Paulo is Brazil’s answer to the trap-door era of water slides: a 40-metre (131 ft) capsule slide that the park bills as the tallest capsule slide in the world. Riders are sealed into a launch capsule 13 storeys up; when
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/ August 16, 2026
Toboganxote at Xplor Park: Height & Stats Toboganxote (also styled Toboganxotes) is the giant raft slide at Xplor Park in Mexico’s Riviera Maya, and one of the tallest water slides ever built in Latin America. Its structure stands 41 metres tall — about 134.5 feet
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/ August 16, 2026
Insano at Beach Park, on Brazil’s northeastern coast near Fortaleza, is arguably the most famous water slide in Latin America. Its tower stands 41 metres tall — 134.5 feet, the height of a 14-storey building — and its near-vertical chute accelerates riders from zero to
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/ August 16, 2026
Daredevil’s Peak is the crowning slide of Thrill Waterpark at Perfect Day at CocoCay, Royal Caribbean’s private island in the Bahamas. Dropping from a 135-foot (41 m) tower, it opened in 2019 as the tallest water slide in North America — a startling superlative for
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/ August 16, 2026
Captain Spacemaker at Caribe Bay in Jesolo, Italy, is one of Europe’s great water slide landmarks: a 42-metre (137.8 ft) tower slide that held the title of world’s tallest water slide for a decade and a half, from its 1999 debut until 2014. It remains
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/ August 16, 2026
Junoon Drop is the headline water coaster at Aquarabia, the giant water park that opened at Qiddiya City, Saudi Arabia, on April 23, 2026. Rising more than 42 metres (roughly 138 feet) inside the park’s Camel Rock centerpiece, it is billed as the tallest and
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/ August 16, 2026
Tucked under the enormous glass dome of the American Dream mega-mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Thrillagascar and Jungle Jammer are a pair of trap-door drop-capsule slides that plunge from 142 feet — making them the tallest drop-capsule water slides in the world, and almost
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/ August 16, 2026
The Primorsky Oceanarium sits on Russky Island off Vladivostok, at Russia’s far southeastern edge, where the country meets the Sea of Japan. Officially opened on September 3, 2016 — with President Vladimir Putin cutting the ribbon — and welcoming its first visitors three days later,
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/ August 16, 2026
Most aquarium tunnels last thirty or forty meters. The one at Antalya Aquarium keeps going for 131 — a curving underwater walkway that is widely cited as the longest aquarium tunnel in the world. Above and around it drift hundreds of sharks and rays in
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/ August 16, 2026
At the edge of the Port of Las Palmas on Gran Canaria stands a white, wave-patterned building that holds Europe’s most dramatic single aquarium view: a curved acrylic window 36 meters wide and seven meters tall, the largest of its kind in the world. This
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/ August 16, 2026
On a headland in Ocean Expo Park on Okinawa’s Motobu Peninsula stands the aquarium that taught the world how to keep whale sharks. Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium — chura means “beautiful” in the Okinawan language, umi means “sea” — opened in 2002 as the successor to
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