Ramsar

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Rāmsar (Iran)
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Basic data
Country: IranIran Iran
Province : Māzandarān
Coordinates : 36 ° 55 '  N , 50 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 36 ° 55 '  N , 50 ° 40'  E
Height : 23  m below sea level
Residents : 33,018 (2012)
Time zone : UTC +3: 30
The Caspian Sea near Rāmsar
Imperial Palace, Rāmsar

Rāmsar ( Persian رامسر, DMG Rāmsar ) is a city in the province of Māzandarān , northern Iran , on the Caspian Sea and the Elburs Mountains with over 33,000 inhabitants (as of 2012).

The airport in Rāmsar is one of the lowest located airports in the world (21 meters below sea level), which until recently was only served by the Āsemān airline . Besides Persian , the "national language", Gilaki is widespread in Rāmsar .

history

On February 2, 1971, the Rāmsar Convention named after her , one of the oldest international treaties on environmental protection , was adopted in the city .

geology

One of the world's highest levels of natural radiation is measured in an area in Rāmsar that is home to around 2,000 people . The high levels of radiation are caused by hot springs that bring radium from underground rocks to the surface. The average annual dose equivalent is about 6 mSv. Up to 132 mSv were measured in a house on a wall in a bedroom, with a highest calculated value of 260 mSv. This high theoretical value is often given as the only value for Rāmsar. For comparison, occupationally exposed persons are allowed to absorb a maximum of 20 mSv per year in Europe and a maximum of 50 mSv in the USA. A firefighter in Austria may receive a "disaster dose" of 250 mSv at most once in a lifetime.

Attractions

  • The old Hotel Rāmsar, which used to be a casino.
  • A swimming pool by the sea .
  • The Caspian Sea Museum . Archaeological treasures and old pictures can be found in the Shah's former holiday home.

Rāmsar also has some suburbs ( sadats ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
  2. ↑ SMJ Mortazavi, PA Karamb: Apparent lack of radiation susceptibility among residents of the high background radiation area in Ramsar, Iran: can we relax our standards? . In: Radioactivity in the Environment . 7, 2005, ISSN  1569-4860 , pp. 1141-1147. doi : 10.1016 / S1569-4860 (04) 07140-2 .
  3. ^ M Sohrabi, AR Esmaili: New public dose assessment of elevated natural radiation areas of Ramsar (Iran) for epidemiological studies. International Congress Series, 2002 doi : 10.1016 / S0531-5131 (01) 00528-3
  4. ↑ http://www.probeinternational.org/Ramsar.pdf Very high background radiation areas of Ramsar, Iran: preliminary biological studies, Health Physics 2002 Jan; 82 (1): 87-93.
  5. ^ Chandrasekara Dissanayake: Of Stones and Health: Medical Geology in Sri Lanka . In: Science, Vol. 309, 2005

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