Reservoir named after Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis [4] (reservoir of the Central Park; English Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir , Central Park Reservoir ) [5] - reservoir in the Central Park of New York [4] .
| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir | |
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| English Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir | |
 View of the reservoir in the fall of 2016 | |
| Morphometry | |
| Square | 0.43 [1] km² |
| Volume | 0.0038 [2] km³ |
| Coastline | 2.5 [1] km |
| Deepest | 12 [2] m |
| Specifications | |
| Year of filling | 1862 [3] |
| Location | |
| A country |
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| State | New York |
| County | Manhattan |
It covers an area of 43 hectares (106 acres ), a volume of 3.8 million m³ (> 1 billion gallons ), a depth of 12 m (40 feet ), and a coastline of 2.5 km (1.58 miles ) [2] [ 1] .
It was built between 1858-1862 [1] , the authors of the reservoir are the famous designers of the Central Park Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vox .
In 1917, a fountain was installed on the reservoir [5] .
The lake is surrounded by an interesting landscape with thickets of Yoshino cherry and Japanese Kanzan, rhododendron cherries [3] . The fauna of the lake includes species such as mallard , geese , coot , loons , grebe , herons .
In 1994, it was renamed in honor of Jacqueline Kennedy [5] . The original name of the reservoir is the Central Park Reservoir.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Central Park Conservancy: Reservoir (inaccessible link) . web.archive.org . centralparknyc.org. - Archived copy of the reservoir page on the official website of the Central Park dated June 1, 2008: centralparknyc.org. Date of treatment January 28, 2018. Archived June 1, 2008.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Reservoir . centralparknyc.org . The Official Website of Central Park NYC. Date of treatment January 28, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 Central Park Reservoir (inaccessible link) . web.archive.org . EFCG Inc .. - An archival copy of the page on the history, sights and flora of the Central Park reservoir on November 21, 2007 on the EFCG Inc .. website. Access date January 28, 2018. Archived November 21, 2007.
- ↑ 1 2 Map of the central part of New York / New York // Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vol.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Diane Cardwell. Central Park Reservoir Fountain Returns to Life . cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com . The New York Times (July 30, 2007 4:11 PM). Date of treatment January 28, 2018.