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Who,
Who,What,
What,Where
Where&&how
howAround
Aroundthe
theParks
Parks

B y the N u m bers

Watered Down Facts
17,500 The seating

capacity of the newly built
Olympic Park aquatics center
in London (where the 2012
Olympics will take place). With
its distinctive architecture and
curved roof, it will be the first
venue visitors see upon entering
the Olympic Park. http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_
Aquatics_Centre

54 The number of outdoor

public pools in New York City

at Algarrobo, on Chile's southern
coast. http://www.dailymail.
co.uk/news/article-509718/Trymaking-splash-worlds-largestswimming-pool-1-000-yardslong.html#ixzz1A5tUDl7I

1946

The year Frank Capra
filmed the covered, state-ofthe-art indoor swimming pool
at Beverly Hills High School. The
movie? It's a Wonderful Life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/
tt0038650/trivia

first marine-life water park.
The success of Sea World
spurred Millay to open the first
amusement water park, Wet 'n
Wild, in 1977-a complex of giant,
concrete water slide structures.
http://www.waterparks.org/
waterpark_facts.asp

5 The number of water parks

in the town known as the " water
park capital of the world " :
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Waterpark

(There is, however, one indoor
public pool-and the website
photo of the pool is accompanied
by a banner reading, " There's no
place like Nome. " )

1,013

The length (in
meters) of the world's largest
swimming pool. It is located in
the San Alfonso del Mar resort

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at California's Hearst Castle gets
used. (Staff at the historic site
get to take an annual dip in the
lavish Roman-style pool as one
of the perks of the job.) http://
www.thriveontravel.com/photos/
neptune-pool-hearsts-castle.htm

1964

The year that George
Millay " turned water into gold "
by launching SeaWorld, the

w w w . NR P A . ORG

" bubbles " (some as large as 9.14
meters) making up the exterior
of the " Water Cube " -Beijing's
aquatics center from the 2004
Olympics. The outer wall is based
on the Weaire-Phelan structure, a
pattern modeled after the natural
formation of bubbles in soap
lather. http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Beijing_National_Aquatics_
Center

istock

1 The number of times per year
0 The number of outdoor public the
4000 The number of
state-owned Neptune Pool
pools in the city of Nome, Alaska.



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