File:Athlone On The Shannon River -b.jpg

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Description The following is the author's description of the photograph quoted directly from the photograph's Flickr page.
"Despite being more than 300 km (200 miles) long, it rises only 76 m (250 feet) above sea level, so the river is easily navigable, with only a few locks along its length. There is a hydroelectric generation plant at Ardnacrusha belonging to the ESB.

Shipping in Shannon estuary was developed extensively during the 1980s, with over IR£2 billion (%u20AC2.5Billion) investment. A tanker terminal at Foynes and an oil jetty at Shannon Airport were built. In 1982 a large scale alumina extraction plant was built at Aughinish. 60,000 tonne cargo vessels now carry raw bauxite from West African mines to the plant, where it is refined to alumina. This is then exported to Canada where it is further refined to aluminium. 1985 saw the opening of a huge coal-fired electricity plant at Moneypoint, fed by regular visits by 150,000 tonne bulk carriers. "
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This image, originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on 14 December 2009 by the administrator or reviewer Justass, who confirmed that it was available on Flickr under the stated license on that date.
Camera location53° 25′ 26.8″ N, 7° 56′ 32.13″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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