Unisphere

The Unisphere is a 140-foot-tall (43 m) stainless steel globe in Queens, New York City. It is in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. It was designed by landscape architect Gilmore D. Clarke. It is a symbol of the borough of Queens. The globe weighs 700,000 pounds (320,000 kg). This makes it the world's largest globe. There are fountains and a reflecting pool around the Unisphere.

The Unisphere was built for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.^[1] The Unisphere is designed to show countries around the world depending on each other. It stayed at the park after the World's Fair. The Unisphere was cleaned from 1993 to 1994.

1. ↑ "Unisphere: Built by US Steel as the symbol of the 1964-5 New York World's Fair" Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine, Place Matters, 5 February 2010