Extremely Long Jetties
Monday, 1st August 2005 by Alex Turnbull
This is the Port Germein jetty. It is an absolutely staggering 1646 metres long (or maybe 1680 metres, depending on who you talk to). You can really see why it needs to be so long though - it extends right out until the water is actually deep enough for a boat (more info)
Longer even than that is the Busselton jetty, which at 1841 metres is the longest wooden jetty in the southern hemisphere. That's almost 2 kilometres long! The jetty is 140 years old and has an underwater observatory at the end, a train to take you there, and apparently some pretty awesome diving (official site).
I did some quick Googling of my own, but couldn't turn up the world's longest wooden jetty. Anyone able to point us in the right direction?
Thanks: Max Powar, AussieBob, Giles Pepper and me... again! Go me.
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Awesome.
There’s also the pier in Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico — which they claim is 6 kilometers long. I’ve been there, and I can’t vouch for that — they won’t let non-workers onto it — but it is insanely long.
Oh, and it’s worth zooming out to see how the line from the end of the pier to the center of Merida — the inland capital that it serves — is super straight…
4 miles or 6.44 kilometers from shore to where it bends. Dunno if it counts as a jettie because I am an american and we don’t have words like “jettie” “flat” or “lift”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetty – Jetties are pretty common in California. In Carlsbad, they are there to keep sand from eroding away from the currents. In Mission Beach View Placemark the jetties keep the channel into Mission Bay open.
to Aaron:
Haha, yes we do have the word jettie =p Maybe you dont live near the coast, but I can name plenty of jetties we have here in southern cali. In fact I commonly surf at the Santa Ana River jetties, which is close to the popular many many Newport jetties
The longest wooden pier in Europe is in city of Sopot, Poland. It is merely 515 meter long, no comparision to 6 km long jetties.
The Pier at Southport, UK is really long as it starts inland somewhat – the image on google maps is not high res though but I worked it out as over 600 metres long. A train runs along that too.
When you get to the end there’s a really boring visitors centre. It’s such an anti climax.
Those are not jetties. They are piers. A Jetty is a protective structure that blocks the tide and waves. (ussually made of rock or concrete) A pier is a floating, or fixed above the water structure that alows the water to pass undernieth. Six years in the Coast Guard, taught me something.
Here are the Galveston Texas Jetties, one of which is 7 miles long. View Placemark,.112850&t=k&hl=en
Acording to the U.S. Army corps of engineers, they are the longest in the world: http://www.swg.usace.army.mil/items/whatwedo/10.asp Good fishin too!
Southend Pier in Essex, England, is 2158m (over a mile) long.
View Placemark
http://www.southendpier.co.uk/
Southend pier? Says it is 1.34 miles/2158 meters
scratch that. longest pleasure pier
Try the Lucinda Sugar Jetty, near Ingham, 120km north of Townsville. A little over 5 km long.
Busselton jetty is a great place but it is in a bad state of repair so the train is no longer running. It is a long walk but the undersea observatory is well werth the effort.
Berkeley Pier in the San Francisco Bay was a 3 mile long wooden structure extending out past the mudflats (the average depth of the Bay is only 14 feet) to allow trollies to reach incoming SF ferries. Currently 1 mile of it is paved and used for fishing.
hi there is a prety lone jettie in SA in rapid bay its about 1km long but it takes ages to get out there like 20 mins.
Storm sewer outflow near Vancouver – 4 km long.
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1531&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=53.495258,-0.517033&z=18
Just south of there, two more: ferry dock about 3.5 km and Delta Superport about 5 km.
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1531&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=53.495258,-0.517033&z=18
I think this must be the longest in Australia
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