Thames Estuary Airport a major International hub at Cliffe which would link in with the HS1 line through Kent to St Pancras. The Cameron government was committed to a full Aviation Review and a scoping study was released in March 2011. The "Marinair" proposal was put forward in the 1990s, in which an airport would be built on an offshore artificial island in the Thames estuary, north east of the Isle of Sheppey. When the proposal was put forward again in the government's 2002 consultation, it was rejected on the grounds of insufficient information and prohibitive expense. The Marinair plans had been developed
Irabere estuary and Iliomar forest Important Bird Area Irabere estuary and Iliomar forest Important Bird Area The Irebere estuary and Iliomar forest Important Bird Area is a tract of land in East Timor, a country occupying the eastern end of the island of Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Wallacea. The 16,554 ha IBA lies on the border between the districts of Viqueque to the west and Lautém to the east. In elevation it ranges from sea level to about 500 m. It contains the area around the Irabere River estuary, which is vegetated by degraded semi-evergreen forest on alluvial soils, "Casuarina" forest along the river and