At 83 metres high, the Montmorency Falls in Quebec are 30 metres higher than Niagara Falls. Apparently there are staircases that allow visitors to observe the falls from different vantage points… Not our vantage point though!

The falls look absolutely stunning from up here, but make sure you compare the Google image to the shot posted on Wikipedia so that you can really appreciate what you’re looking at. Also note the suspension bridge over the crest of falls, where I imagine you really do get a superb view. (More info at Wikipedia)

Thanks to Mathieu Jobin and Donald A. P.

Remember our giant piece of Scotch Tape holding Canada together? Well our ever-helpful readers have since turned up several more pieces of this gargantuan sticky-tape…

Firstly we have this enormous length of tape, which is actually holding Ghana and Ivory Coast together. Not high-resolution on this one, but at the eastern end the tape fades out rather prettily into some lovely clouds.

Next up is this semi-transparent tape stitching a large section of the Libyan desert together. Notice how all of these anomalies run at very similar angles across the images?

Finally we have this shoddy looking job in Russia, which appears to have required two pieces of tape to get the job done! I think their mistake was trying to tape water together…

Thanks: Dave, Winterfresh, Alxdr, mcb, blumentopf and MoonFella.

Built into the side of Capital Hill, Canberra is Australia’s Parliament house. During construction more that 100,000 truckloads of earth was moved, although much of it was put back on top of many of the offices. In the centre of the building you can see the 81m tall flagpole.

I think this building was designed with Google Sightseeing in mind as it’s much more interesting from above than it is from the ground. (Wikipedia page)

Thanks: Keith T, Bradley Rex, Mark, camson, woowoowoo (again!), Craig Smith, Scott Collis & Martin Vivian

Google have added yet more features to Google Maps . There is now a new ‘Hybrid’ button on the maps interface that gives you the satellite imagery with the roads and place names overlaid. Pretty neat! Of course, as we now use the Maps API this all Just Works over on our map page.

Thanks to Ryan, Andrew, Kjfitz & Justin for spotting the change.

According to submitter “Roberto” this house is owned by a local butcher who had his swimming pool built in the shape of his company’s logo, a Scimitar sword.

I checked our submissions database and there were no other custom-made pools in recognisable shapes. I’m sure there must be loads out there so if you can find any then please leave a comment on here