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.
Here in Medicine Hat, Canada, you couldn’t possibly miss the Saamis Teepee. Designed for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and moved here in 1991, it stands over 65 metres high - making Medicine Hat the proud owner of the world’s tallest teepee.
You just couldn’t make this stuff up could you?
Thanks to Allison.
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If you zoom out and move a little bit to the north there is this giants circles
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The circles are part of Canadian Forces Base Suffield, Canada’s largest military base (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFB_Suffield). If you zoom in and out and pan around, you can see bomb and artillery craters ect. Ironically, CFB suffield also contains a wildlife reserve which is one of the few remaining areas of wild prairie grassland.
Someone tell me, how the heck do they draw those circles? They are massive!
They look like canals or something.
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those circles are roads.
those circles are fields of crops. They use an irrigation system that is secured at the centre of the field and then rotates resulting in round areas. Some places use irrigation that moves across the field in a straight line.