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.
TV Tower | |
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Height | 368m |
Floors | 0 |
Year | 1969 |
City | Berlin |
Radio masts and towers are, typically structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting. There are two kinds: structures that are guyed and self-supporting. They are among the tallest human-made structures. Masts are often named after the broadcasting organizations that currently use them or initially built them. In the event of a mast radiator or radiating tower, tower or the whole mast is the transmitting antenna.
Source: Wikipedia