Archive for June 24th, 2005

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

The editors: James & Alex

Disneyland Park

Friday, 24th June 2005 by James

Disneyland Paris (formerly Euro Disney). The largest section at the top left is Disneyland Park below which is the smaller Walt Disney Studios Park and the east are the hotels and a massive car park.

I tried to find some Mickey Ears for the thumbnail shot but there doesn’t appear to be any :-( Can any of you eagle eyed sightseers spot a mouse?

Thanks: Julien, Thomas, Jef Poskanzer, Paul Bevan, Adam Wanderman, Donald, Andy, Dave, rob blum

Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge

Friday, 24th June 2005 by Alex

We have no idea where exactly this is (lack of map data makes it a little tricky to work out), but check out the totally cool bridge somewhere in Brazil! Best shadow yet I think.

If anyone knows what and where this is, please let us know in the comments. Cheers :-)

Update: Thanks to our helpful readers, we now know that this is the Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge which crosses the Paranoá Lake, in Brasília. There’s an absolutely stunning image of the bridge available here, and another here, but the Wikipedia page is a little lacking. If interested, you could also read this article about it though.

There’s also some fascinating stuff in the comments thread about the construction and design of Brasilia itself.

Brazilian Bridge

Thanks to Ben Singleton and everyone who commented on this one! :-)

Tokyo Tower

Friday, 24th June 2005 by Alex

This is the Tokyo Tower in Japan, which is the world’s tallest self supporting steel structure. Although it seems like everything can be classified as the world’s tallest something… ( I hearby declare myself the world’s third tallest Google Sightseeing Administrator).

The Tokyo Tower is (obviously) based on the Eiffel Tower, but at 333 metres, is 9 metres taller. There’s lots of good info about the tower over at Wikipedia, so we’ll just mention that the first floor houses an aquarium, home to 50,000 fish, and that this was the landmark which was destroyed again and again by Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Guiron, Gamera, and scores of other rubber-monsters.

Tokyo Tower

Thanks to Josh Stevens, John Riggs, Ben, Caius Toneriko, Pedro, Joe Chang and lots more :-)

Arc de Triomphe

Friday, 24th June 2005 by James

Arc de Triomphe at the centre of some eternally busy roads in Paris (more info).

Arc de Triomphe

Thanks: Bill Kendrick, nixx, Thomas, Keith, Nels N Nelson, gIMpSTa, Chris Granger, Don Campbell, Jim L., ringo, Donald P., numlok, Jason Hale