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47-1336: Coordinates : 37°15′45.1″N 76°38′8.2″W / 37.262528°N 76.635611°W / 37.262528; -76.635611 Water park in York County, Virginia, United States [REDACTED] This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Water Country USA" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2019 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Water Country USA [REDACTED] Location York County, Virginia , U.S. Coordinates 37°15′45.1″N 76°38′8.2″W / 37.262528°N 76.635611°W / 37.262528; -76.635611 Opened June 20, 1984 ; 40 years ago ( 1984-06-20 ) Owner United Parks & Resorts Slogan "It's not just water... It's Water Country USA!" Operating season May – September Attractions Water rides 17 Website buschgardens .com /williamsburg /water-country-usa / Water Country USA
94-502: A tan ϕ {\displaystyle \textstyle {\tan \beta ={\frac {b}{a}}\tan \phi }\,\!} ; for the GRS 80 and WGS 84 spheroids, b a = 0.99664719 {\textstyle {\tfrac {b}{a}}=0.99664719} . ( β {\displaystyle \textstyle {\beta }\,\!} is known as the reduced (or parametric) latitude ). Aside from rounding, this
141-456: A datum transformation such as a Helmert transformation , although in certain situations a simple translation may be sufficient. Datums may be global, meaning that they represent the whole Earth, or they may be local, meaning that they represent an ellipsoid best-fit to only a portion of the Earth. Examples of global datums include World Geodetic System (WGS 84, also known as EPSG:4326 ),
188-1677: A 700-foot lazy river, as well as the Jammin' Jukebox. See also [ edit ] List of water parks References [ edit ] ^ "Revealing Water Country USA's 2019 Attraction Plans" . 15 August 2018. External links [ edit ] Official website v t e United Parks & Resorts Parks SeaWorld Current Abu Dhabi Orlando San Antonio San Diego Former Ohio Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Williamsburg Sesame Place Philadelphia San Diego Other Discovery Cove Water parks ( Adventure Island Aquatica Water Country USA ) Media Blackfish Sea Rescue SeaWorld Adventure Parks Tycoon Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures The Wildlife Docs Related Incidents at SeaWorld parks SeaWorld Orcas Shamu show Tilikum v. Sea World Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Water_Country_USA&oldid=1233159826 " Categories : Tourist attractions in Williamsburg, Virginia Water parks in Virginia United Parks & Resorts 1984 establishments in Virginia Hidden categories: Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas Articles with short description Short description
235-549: A drop pod that launches riders into the slide via a trapdoor. The complex is located next to the Cutback Water Coaster, or at the time that it was built, Meltdown. Wild Thang : A 500-foot long inner tube slide that is completely open. Two person tubes are utilized on this slide. Defunct rides [ edit ] Aquazoid : An 863-foot-long Proslide raft slide that is mostly enclosed. The enclosed portions, however, are mostly pitch black. Sat idle from 2019-2021. It
282-405: A final "high-dive" at the end. The dive tower was dismantled in 2015 before the season started. Attractions [ edit ] Kritter Korral : Play equipment and miniature slides for the park's smallest guests. Reserved for children under 50". Rock N' Roll Island : A rock and roll themed area featuring music from the 1950s and '60s. The area features a water obstacle course surrounded by
329-461: A final element known as the TornadoWave 60 where riders soar up and down a giant wall. The slide is ridden in four-person CloverLeaf tubes. Cow-A-Bunga : A children's area featuring three smaller slides, one utilized with double tubes, a shallow pool and a variety of splash features. Cutback Water Coaster : Opened in 2019, this Proslide water coaster features five "FlyingSaucer" sections where
376-484: A parking pass at Water Country USA is valid for same-day entry to Busch Gardens Williamsburg. Slides and attractions [ edit ] [REDACTED] Sign for Hubba Hubba Highway in Water Country USA Aquazoid Amped : An 863-foot-long Proslide raft slide that is entirely enclosed. It was previously known as Aquazoid however in 2022 LED lighting, sound effects and music were added into
423-588: A point on Earth's surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses (often called great circles ), which converge at the North and South Poles. The meridian of the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich , in southeast London, England, is the international prime meridian , although some organizations—such as
470-473: A region of the surface of the Earth. Some newer datums are bound to the center of mass of the Earth. This combination of mathematical model and physical binding mean that anyone using the same datum will obtain the same location measurement for the same physical location. However, two different datums will usually yield different location measurements for the same physical location, which may appear to differ by as much as several hundred meters; this not because
517-407: A series of banked turns, resulting in a bobsled type experience. The new Cutback water coaster mimics the layout of Meltdown with the addition of saucers and uphill sections. Rampage : Two toboggan style slides that sent riders down a ramp at a 60-degree incline, building enough speed to skip the 120-foot-long shallow landing pool. This slide was formerly one of 2 of its kind in the world, following
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#1732851752080564-411: Is 6,367,449 m . Since the Earth is an oblate spheroid , not spherical, that result can be off by several tenths of a percent; a better approximation of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is where Earth's equatorial radius a {\displaystyle a} equals 6,378,137 m and tan β = b
611-475: Is 110.6 km. The circles of longitude, meridians, meet at the geographical poles, with the west–east width of a second naturally decreasing as latitude increases. On the Equator at sea level, one longitudinal second measures 30.92 m, a longitudinal minute is 1855 m and a longitudinal degree is 111.3 km. At 30° a longitudinal second is 26.76 m, at Greenwich (51°28′38″N) 19.22 m, and at 60° it
658-519: Is 15.42 m. On the WGS 84 spheroid, the length in meters of a degree of latitude at latitude ϕ (that is, the number of meters you would have to travel along a north–south line to move 1 degree in latitude, when at latitude ϕ ), is about The returned measure of meters per degree latitude varies continuously with latitude. Similarly, the length in meters of a degree of longitude can be calculated as (Those coefficients can be improved, but as they stand
705-575: Is a water park in York County, Virginia , United States, near Williamsburg, Virginia . It is the Mid-Atlantic 's largest water park, and it offers live entertainment, shops and restaurants, water rides, and other family attractions, all of which have a 1950s or 1960s surf theme. It is owned by United Parks & Resorts . The park is just a few miles away from Busch Gardens Williamsburg , with which it shares clientele. Multi-park passes are available, and
752-399: Is a water slide manufactured by ProSlide Technology . It requires riders to sit in a 2-6 seater round tube. Riders drop from inside a tunnel at a 45-degree angle out into the ride's main element shaped like a funnel on its side. Riders oscillate from one side to the other until they exit through the back of the funnel and into a splash pool. Many of the slides feature a conveyor belt to bring
799-606: Is advertised as the largest in the state at 23,000 square feet, with a maximum depth of 8 feet. Every 10 minutes, the wave pool generates waves reaching 4 feet high that cycles for 8 minutes at a time. The pool likely opened with the park in 1984. Vanish Point : A 75-foot-tall quadruple-speed slide complex manufactured by Proslide in 2011. There are two pairs of speed slides within Vanish Point. Riders can either plunge down 300-foot-long speed slides, or slide through one of two enclosed helixes that utilize Proslide's SKYBOX technology,
846-506: Is advertised as the largest kids area in the waterpark. Hubba Hubba Highway : A 1500-foot-long lazy river on the eastern side of the waterpark. There are plenty of splash features guaranteed to get all riders wet. This was installed in 2003. Jammin' Jukebox : A slide tower hosting three body slides that were constructed in 2008. The tower formerly was occupied by the Peppermint Twist body slides. Jet Scream : Presumed to be one of
893-520: Is around 320 feet long. Sliders go down head first, just like any other common mat racer. This is a relatively short ride estimated to be around 4 seconds. Installed in 1998. Rambling River : This is a 736-foot-long lazy river that winds around the Rock'n'Roll Island (formerly Adventure Isle) section of the park. This is significantly shorter in length than the park's existing Hubba Hubba Highway. Riptide Race : 520 foot dueling water slide sitting 54 feet off
940-506: Is different from Wikidata Articles needing additional references from January 2019 All articles needing additional references Coordinates on Wikidata Official website not in Wikidata Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system ( GCS ) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude . It
987-452: Is known as a graticule . The origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km (390 mi) south of Tema , Ghana , a location often facetiously called Null Island . In order to use the theoretical definitions of latitude, longitude, and height to precisely measure actual locations on the physical earth, a geodetic datum must be used. A horizonal datum
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#17328517520801034-635: Is the exact distance along a parallel of latitude; getting the distance along the shortest route will be more work, but those two distances are always within 0.6 m of each other if the two points are one degree of longitude apart. Like any series of multiple-digit numbers, latitude-longitude pairs can be challenging to communicate and remember. Therefore, alternative schemes have been developed for encoding GCS coordinates into alphanumeric strings or words: These are not distinct coordinate systems, only alternative methods for expressing latitude and longitude measurements. Tornado (ProSlide ride) The Tornado
1081-409: Is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others. Although latitude and longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system , the geographic coordinate system is not cartesian because the measurements are angles and are not on a planar surface. A full GCS specification, such as those listed in
1128-465: Is used to precisely measure latitude and longitude, while a vertical datum is used to measure elevation or altitude. Both types of datum bind a mathematical model of the shape of the earth (usually a reference ellipsoid for a horizontal datum, and a more precise geoid for a vertical datum) to the earth. Traditionally, this binding was created by a network of control points , surveyed locations at which monuments are installed, and were only accurate for
1175-741: The EPSG and ISO 19111 standards, also includes a choice of geodetic datum (including an Earth ellipsoid ), as different datums will yield different latitude and longitude values for the same location. The invention of a geographic coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene , who composed his now-lost Geography at the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC. A century later, Hipparchus of Nicaea improved on this system by determining latitude from stellar measurements rather than solar altitude and determining longitude by timings of lunar eclipses , rather than dead reckoning . In
1222-471: The International Date Line , which diverges from it in several places for political and convenience reasons, including between far eastern Russia and the far western Aleutian Islands . The combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The visual grid on a map formed by lines of latitude and longitude
1269-515: The 1st or 2nd century, Marinus of Tyre compiled an extensive gazetteer and mathematically plotted world map using coordinates measured east from a prime meridian at the westernmost known land, designated the Fortunate Isles , off the coast of western Africa around the Canary or Cape Verde Islands , and measured north or south of the island of Rhodes off Asia Minor . Ptolemy credited him with
1316-474: The Adventure Isle area. Moved adjacent to the Jammin' Juke Box slide tower in the 2008 season with the change to Rock 'n' Roll Island. Renamed "Little Bopper". Peppermint Twist : Two steep purple-colored body slides take riders through a 180-degree curve. This ride closed following the 2007 season. The tower, however, remains intact and is used as the tower for the new Jammin' Jukebox body slides. This ride
1363-499: The Earth's surface move relative to each other due to continental plate motion, subsidence, and diurnal Earth tidal movement caused by the Moon and the Sun. This daily movement can be as much as a meter. Continental movement can be up to 10 cm a year, or 10 m in a century. A weather system high-pressure area can cause a sinking of 5 mm . Scandinavia is rising by 1 cm a year as a result of
1410-708: The European ED50 , and the British OSGB36 . Given a location, the datum provides the latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } and longitude λ {\displaystyle \lambda } . In the United Kingdom there are three common latitude, longitude, and height systems in use. WGS 84 differs at Greenwich from the one used on published maps OSGB36 by approximately 112 m. The military system ED50 , used by NATO , differs from about 120 m to 180 m. Points on
1457-524: The French Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière —continue to use other meridians for internal purposes. The prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres , although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E. This is not to be conflated with
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1504-566: The center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels , as they are parallel to the Equator and to each other. The North Pole is 90° N; the South Pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the Equator , the fundamental plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The Equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres . The longitude λ of
1551-613: The default datum used for the Global Positioning System , and the International Terrestrial Reference System and Frame (ITRF), used for estimating continental drift and crustal deformation . The distance to Earth's center can be used both for very deep positions and for positions in space. Local datums chosen by a national cartographical organization include the North American Datum ,
1598-490: The distance they give is correct within a centimeter.) The formulae both return units of meters per degree. An alternative method to estimate the length of a longitudinal degree at latitude ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } is to assume a spherical Earth (to get the width per minute and second, divide by 60 and 3600, respectively): where Earth's average meridional radius M r {\displaystyle \textstyle {M_{r}}\,\!}
1645-468: The full adoption of longitude and latitude, rather than measuring latitude in terms of the length of the midsummer day. Ptolemy's 2nd-century Geography used the same prime meridian but measured latitude from the Equator instead. After their work was translated into Arabic in the 9th century, Al-Khwārizmī 's Book of the Description of the Earth corrected Marinus' and Ptolemy's errors regarding
1692-461: The ground, opened in 2023. Rock'n'Roll Island ; An area of the park that was formerly known as Adventure Isle, but was renovated in 2008 to what it currently is. It includes a newer trio of twisting body slides (Jammin' Jukebox), a lazy river making up the perimeter of the area (Rambling River), an advertised 11,000 square foot activity pool, a "log cross" activity, and a refurbished children's slide (Little Bopper). Surfer's Bay : A wave pool that
1739-749: The length of the Mediterranean Sea , causing medieval Arabic cartography to use a prime meridian around 10° east of Ptolemy's line. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes ' recovery of Ptolemy's text a little before 1300; the text was translated into Latin at Florence by Jacopo d'Angelo around 1407. In 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference , attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt
1786-461: The location has moved, but because the reference system used to measure it has shifted. Because any spatial reference system or map projection is ultimately calculated from latitude and longitude, it is crucial that they clearly state the datum on which they are based. For example, a UTM coordinate based on WGS84 will be different than a UTM coordinate based on NAD27 for the same location. Converting coordinates from one datum to another requires
1833-579: The longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich , England as the zero-reference line. The Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911. The latitude ϕ of a point on Earth's surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through (or close to)
1880-460: The melting of the ice sheets of the last ice age , but neighboring Scotland is rising by only 0.2 cm . These changes are insignificant if a local datum is used, but are statistically significant if a global datum is used. On the GRS 80 or WGS 84 spheroid at sea level at the Equator, one latitudinal second measures 30.715 m , one latitudinal minute is 1843 m and one latitudinal degree
1927-476: The park's original slide complexes, Jet Scream is made up of four inner tube slides that are each more than 400 feet long and are advertised to travel at an average speed of 25 mph. These slides are mostly open but do feature a few small enclosed sections. Kritter Korral : A sea-themed toddler play area with some very small slides in the shape of sea creatures scattered throughout a 2-foot-deep pool. Little Bopper : A small, kid-friendly corkscrew slide that
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1974-438: The raft whips around a tilted saucer, giving off an advertised "drop and dive" section. The slide also features three uphill sections made possible by a water jet propulsion system . The slide is more than 850 feet long, utilizes four-person inline rafts and mimics the layout of the former Meltdown slide that it replaced. H2O-UFO : A kids area with splash features and slides, as well as two scaled down Proslide tube slides. This
2021-498: The removal of Thunderbolt at World Waterpark in 2014 and Everglides at Adventure Island in 2017. However, "Screamin Mimi" at Water World still operated. Sitting but not operating from 2019-2022. Demolished in December 2022 to make room for Riptide Race Shows [ edit ] Aquabatics! This was a diving themed show, with divers and acrobats performing many different stunts, and
2068-437: The slide's enclosure, and its name and theme was changed to Aquazoid Amped. Big Daddy Falls : A Proslide raft slide that is mostly open, and features a "lazy river" section near the end of the slide that winds through and around waterfalls. This is followed by a final plunge. The whole slide is 670 feet long. Colossal Curl : Installed in 2014, this Proslide mega raft slide features a funnel element ( Tornado 24 ), as well as
2115-506: Was formerly Little Twister in a different section of Adventure Isle, which would become Rock 'n' Roll Island in 2008. It is now painted yellow instead of the original pink. Malibu Pipeline : Two Proslide inner tube slides that span more than 450 feet in length and are mostly enclosed. Both feature maximum plunge finales of 55 feet into a 3-foot-deep pool. Presumed to have opened in the late 1990s. The two slides are named "Bonzai" and "Oahu". Nitro Racer : A six-lane Proslide mat racer that
2162-464: Was previously known as Sonic Whip . Volleyball Courts : Several beach volleyball courts that took up the space where Hubba Hubba Highway is now, and before that were located across from Jet Scream where the lockers are. (Catering was where the restrooms are.) Meltdown : Closed at the end of 2018 season to make way for an enhanced new launched ProSlide turboslide water coaster (Cutback). Was an inline boat slide that opened in 2000 and traveled down
2209-508: Was renamed Aquazoid Amped for the 2022 season which added LED lighting, sound effects and music around the slide's enclosure. Atomic Breakers : A series of slides and splash pools. Closed and removed 2007. This ride was previously known as Runaway Rapids . Lemon Drop : 2 short Yellow body flumes which dropped into a deep (10 ft) section of the Adventure Isle pool. Closed and removed in 2008. Early on, this ride had three tubes. Little Twister : A small pink children's water slide in
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