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.
Sticking with members of the World Federation of Great Towers, this is Rotterdam’s 186 metre-high Euromast. Apparently the tower is built on a concrete block weighing 1,900,000 kilos!
You can see the view from the 100 metre-high restaurant on the official site, and Hans points out that the red structure on the water just to the south is another floating Chinese restaurant!
Thanks to Alessandro Lo-Presti (Agilo), Aar Clay and Hans.
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Link to specific places either as a Google Maps page or a decimal latitude and longitude written like this: lat/lng:55.949400,-3.200000.
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I was going to ask why you hadn’t posted another member of the World Confederation of Great Towers a little closer to your home, also known as Blackpool Tower. However, I then realized Blackpool isn’t exactly high-res yet. Oops. (I think Blackpool Tower is the smallest tower amongst the World Conferation’s members. Tehehehe.)
Talking of towers, this is the Northampton Lift tower in England. Not quite on the same scale as the others but interesting non the less.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
[Find out more here][1].
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Lift_Tower
The myth is that if you shot a bullet off the top of the tower in a westerly direction (and presuming it didn’t lose any height – this is a myth after all!) it wouldn’t hit anything until well past Moscow.
Something got lost in cyberspace - the link should be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Lift_Tower
Oh i give up. google it!