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Thursday, 3rd November 2005 by Alex Turnbull
Here’s yet another world map on Google Maps, this time in what looks like a school playground, and for once the map is the right way up!
Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…
Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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What it needs is a big “You are here” thumbtack.
Who is to say what is the “right” way up?
Captain: The right way up is the same way as the Earth is…
Not to be confusing, but here goes. In 1986 I made a “snow angel” at the Geographic South Pole (Not to be confused with the Ceremonial or Magnetic South Poles). Technically, both legs, both arms, and my head all pointed due north! Read about the south poles here: http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/pole/poles/
Oh no! It seems our lovely map has been replaced by a souless baseball diamond…