Inco Superstack | |
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Height | 380m |
Floors | 0 |
Year | 1972 |
City | Sudbury |
The Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario, with a height of 381 metres (1,250 ft), is the tallest chimney in Canada and the Western hemisphere, and the 2nd tallest freestanding chimney in the world after the GRES-2 Power Station in Kazakhstan. It's also the second tallest freestanding structure of any kind in Canada, behind the CN Tower but forward of First Canadian Place. It's the 40th tallest freestanding structure in the world. The Superstack is situated on top of the biggest nickel smelting operation in the world at Vale's Copper Cliff processing centre in the city of Greater Sudbury.
Pyramid of Khafre | |
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Height | 136m |
Floors | 0 |
Year | 0 |
City | Cairo |
The Pyramid of Khafre or of Chephren (Arabic: ??? ????, romanized: haram ?afra?, IPA: [haram xafra?]) is the second-tallest and second-largest of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza and the tomb of the Fourth-Dynasty pharaoh Khafre (Chefren), who ruled from c.2558 to 2532 BC.
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