Archive for June 2nd, 2007

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.

The editors: James & Alex

New Imagery June 2nd

Saturday, 2nd June 2007 by James

For all those who are already sick of Street View, Google have added loads of new imagery and terrain to Google Earth.

The full list of what’s new is on the community forum and Google Earth Blog is keeping up with the latest developments.

Get submitting those new sites sights!

Update June 8th: The new images are now also available in Google Maps

Spiral Land Art

Saturday, 2nd June 2007 by Alex

This is the bizarre Spiral Jetty, a huge piece of land art on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks and earth, it forms a 1500 foot long (~450 metre), 15-foot wide counterclockwise coil, which extends from the lake shore. It was actually entirely submerged by rising lake waters for many years, but due to lowering water levels, has since re-emerged.

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Spiral Jetty was built all the way back in 1970 by the late American sculptor Robert Smithson, who also created some other pieces of land art which are still visible on Google Earth, including the 1971 piece Spiral Hill, Broken Circle in Emmen, Holland.

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See other spirals on GSS, and read more about Spiral Jetty at Wikipedia.

Thanks to Dan Blue and Mike Shubeck.