Image description: Thames Barrier - a downstream section of the barrier illuminated at dusk, with Canary Wharf and other Docklands buildings illuminated in the distance, London.

The Thames Barrier was built 1974-82 and protects greater London from high surge tides.

The barrier's cowled supports operate massive rotating gates which rise from below the water.

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