Rum Slick

Just off the coast of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, is what looks rather like a Rum Slick – waste from the production of molasses at the nearby Cruzan Rum Distillery. Certainly the dark patch starts directly offshore from the…

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Friday, 25th August 2006

The Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace was a huge iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 (photo tour). After the exhibition the building was moved to Upper Norwood where it stood from 1854 until…

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Thursday, 24th August 2006

Ming Class Submarine

A long time ago, way back when this website began, I thought that spotting submarines on satellite photographs would be very unlikely, what with them travelling underwater most of the time. As it turned out there are a lot of…

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Tuesday, 22nd August 2006

Off the Map & Not in the Guide Book

Get out your diaries and keep November 9th free as that’s the day you’ll be able to buy Google Sightseeing – the book! We’ve got almost 100 of our favourite sights from the last year, licensed high-quality satellite photographs and…

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Monday, 21st August 2006

Ship Breaking

Ship Breaking is primariliry carried out in developing nations such as India and Bangladesh – as their laws on dealing with lead paint, asbestos and general worker’s conditions fall far short of Europe and the US. Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard…

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Monday, 21st August 2006

Underwater Plane

This is Normans Cay in the Bahamas, and lying submerged just under the surface of the water is a genuine 1980s drug smugglers plane! Here’s a bonus underwater photo of the wreck taken by a guy who snorkled around it.…

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Friday, 18th August 2006
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