Archive for July 11th, 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

Globe Arena, Stockholm

Monday, 11th July 2005 by James

The Globe Arena looks like a big golf ball but is actually the world’s largest spherical building. Not much of a surprise there, it had to be the world’s largest or tallest something ;-)

Thanks: Michael, Alexander Danling & Sputnik

Silverstone

Monday, 11th July 2005 by Alex

Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.

This is the Silverstone racing circuit home of yesterday’s British Grand Prix. The track is half in Northamptonshire, half in Buckinghamshire, and you can still see the classic configuration of runways from when this used to be a World War II airfield. During the Grand Prix the airfield becomes the busiest in the UK, complete with its own air traffic control, and supposedly with a helicopter taking off every 8 seconds! (Wikipedia page)

If you look closely you can actually see cars driving round (there’s one visible in our thumbnail), and at the intersection of two runways in the centre of the track you can clearly see 3 bright red cars - a Ferrari presentation perhaps?

Silverstone

Thanks to Thomas, David Patrick, Rob, Mark, David Patrick, Paul Marciano, Steve Owen, Lianachan, Jan Koubek, Huw Morris, Rickard Jensen, Nick, Adam Sadler, Mario Sarno, Alessandro Guerra, Sean, Markus, Daniel Jibouleau, Kevin S and Stewa.

Hole In The Coast

Monday, 11th July 2005 by Alex

Update: After much debate in the comments of this post, determined reader Patrick has finally tracked down the truth about this mysterious location! Patrick contacted a friend who lives in Mexico and she pointed him towards this forum thread, where he discovered that this is a place called La Lobera; and our ‘hole in the coast’ is in fact, a collapsed sea cave. There’s some brilliant images of the hole and the surrounding area in the thread, some of which show the structure to be of pretty staggering size.

Many thanks and much kudos to Patrick, as this was driving us nuts! :-D

Anyone know what this strange hole in the coast of Mexico is? Weird.

Hole In The Coast

Thanks to Joey Shabadu