Archive for June 26th, 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

Middelgrunden Offshore Wind farm, Copenhagen

Sunday, 26th June 2005 by James

The Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm consists of 20 large 2MW windmills in the waters just outside of Copenhagen’s harbour. Covering a length of 3.4 kilometres, the curve of the windmills is designed to be a continuation of the super-ellipse formed by the roads of Copenhagen. There’s loads more info and some great pictures on the official website.

Thanks: Marc Armstrong & blumentopf

Marree Man

Sunday, 26th June 2005 by Alex

Ploughed into the Australian outback in 1998 (by persons still unknown), the Marree man is a 4km figure of an aboriginal. It’s faded into the desert quite a bit now but the shape (and size!) is still quite apparent. Wikipedia says that it was probably created using GPS and earthmoving equipment. There’s a good page here which discusses the possible reasons for creating the artwork.

Maree Man

Many thanks to Ken Mortimer, who it seems was the only person to submit this!