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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.
Whether it’s space aliens, light-speed travelling spaceships, or just some top-secret government testing, the world’s most famous “secret place” has…
The European Space Agency is a collaboration between 18 European states with the simple aim of “exploring space” and yesterday…
This is the Turning Torso tower in Malmö, which at 190 metres is Sweden’s tallest skyscraper. The most striking thing…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
It looks as if our Crazy SCUBA Guys have made a comeback! This time the two Norwegian men have been…
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and…
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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 It seems our lovely map has been replaced by a souless baseball diamond…