memorial parks

plural of memorial park
as in cemeteries
a piece of land used for burying the dead Forest Lawn in Glendale, California, is the memorial park that serves as the final resting place for many of Hollywood's greatest

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Recent Examples of memorial parks Memorial Day observances were also held at Forest Lawn memorial parks in Covina Hills, Hollywood Hills and Glendale. Daily News, 25 May 2026
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  • University of Oxford ancient DNA researcher Ruairidh Macleod and his colleagues recently sequenced the telltale bacterial DNA in teeth from plague victims at four ancient cemeteries in the area around Russia’s Lake Baikal.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 June 2026
  • Willerslev and other researchers looked for traces of plague-causing bacteria in remains from four cemeteries near Siberia's Lake Baikal.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026
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  • The largest and deepest of these whale graveyards was discovered in the Diamantina Fracture Zone—a deep-sea trench located about 1,400 km (about 870 miles) off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • These graveyards form when whale carcasses fall to the sea floor, becoming a sustaining snack for nearby critters.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026

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