Ship Graveyard

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 15th July 2005

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Update: Turns out that this is actually just an image glitch, thanks to everyone who helped clear that up. Still cool though ;-)

Check out this fantastic image of half-sunk ships in Greece. Spooky!

Sunken Ships

Props to Mike for this little beauty :-)

Shipwreck!

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 15th July 2005

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This is the hulking, rusted remains of some sort of large ship off the coast of South Africa… a few hundred miles up the coast from here is the famous skeleton coast, home to countless shipwrecks.

Shipwreck

Many thanks to Patrick. Yes that Patrick :-)

Bahá’í Temples

Posted by James Turnbull, Thursday, 14th July 2005

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The Bahá’í Faith is one of the youngest of the world’s major religions. There are currently seven Bahá’í Houses of Worship in various parts of the globe, although we can only find two of them available in high-res satellite shots.

Our first temple is in Wilmette, Illinois USA and one submitter noted that it resembles a big egg from the ground.

The second Bahá’í Temple available on Google Maps is also the most famous, The Lotus Temple in New Delhi apparently holds the title of “most visited edifice in the world”, designed to resemble a lotus flower it is composed of 27 free-standing marble clad “petals” and is just over 40 meters tall.

 Lotus

Thanks: Joe Chin, Artem Koronkevitch, Sathish, Saikat Guha, Ashutosh Rajekar, Jay Hinde, Rob B, Tom, Eamon, Esquif & Ananya Gupta

Manta Ray?

Posted by James Turnbull, Thursday, 14th July 2005

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Is this dark grey triangle off the coast of Rio de Janeiro a giant Manta Ray? They can apparently grow up to 8 metres wide, so if a Manta Ray was swimming near the surface we might be able to see something at the maximum zoom level. Any sealife experts willing to prove it one way or the other?

3 Seasons In One Day

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Wednesday, 13th July 2005

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

Check out this cool image of Montréal, where you can see 3 seasons in one shot!

3 seasons

Thanks to Waldo for this one.