Overlooking Victoria Harbour (as seen in our previous post), is the Two International Finance Centre, which at 415.8 metres it is currently the tallest building in Hong Kong. Check out that shadow! Apparently it is the third tallest building in Greater China and the 6th tallest office building in the world.

Interestingly the building has 88 storeys, which is an extremely lucky number in Cantonese culture. Except that it doesn’t really, because some of the ‘taboo floors’ like 14 and 24 are omitted (In Cantonese ‘14′ sounds like ‘You must be dead’ and ‘24′ sounds like ‘It is easy to be dead’). There’s more info at Wikipedia too.

Actually there’s tons of huge skyscrapers right here, the Bank of China Tower for example, which was the first building outside the United States to break the 1000 foot mark.

Thanks to Chris G.

This is brilliant, hundreds of sea-vessels of all shapes and sizes zipping around in Victoria harbour, Hong Kong. Scroll around to see just how many of them there are! Victoria Harbour is one of the busiest ports in the world, with an average of 220,000 ships visiting the harbour each year.

Apparently the container port in Hong Kong is the busiest in the world. There’s some weird looking cargo transporter things, and you can also see one of them being tugged (check out the guy doing the u-turn too!).

There’s also a massive cargo ship, and even an airplane in this mega-harbour!

As usual, loads more great info about Victoria harbour is available on Wikipedia

Thanks to Nels Nelson and others.

The Channel Tunnel (or Chunnel) a 23-mile underwater crossing of the English Channel. The trains go underground here, with the train loading terminal just to the west. There’s also a large horse etched into the hill alongside. The French side of the tunnel at Calais is not in high-resolution but you can still make out the trainlines.

The thumbnail shot is of one of the boring machines used to dig the tunnel, apparently there’s a big “FOR SALE, ONE CAREFUL OWNER” sign alongside it.

Thanks: Michael Davis, Richard Peat, Mr.Tea, Winchester, David Patrick, Ben Singleton, DarrenW, Sarah, Matthew Pettitt, Giles Turnbull, Callum, Cynthia Kraft

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The Kawasaki Man-Made Island is in the middle of an undersea tunnel between Kisarazu City and Kawasaki City across the Tokyo bay. Apparently they started boring the tunnel from the island towards each side.

Thanks: Daryl, Callum, Benet, Alex, pooms & Jacob