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.
Surprisingly on-time, the following week of Google Sightseeing will be dedicated to our Second Annual Island Week.
Following on from the success of last year’s Island Week, we’ll be posting sights related to small pieces of land that are surrounded completely by water.
Island Week 2006 featured:
This form will auto-link URLs or you can use simple HTML, <a href="http://googlesightseeing.com">Like this</a>.
Link to specific places either as a Google Maps page or a decimal latitude and longitude written like this: lat/lng:55.949400,-3.200000.
If you've found an unrelated sight that you think should be posted in its own entry then use the suggestion form!
Could you please feature Easter Island this time around? It is such a cool place, with such an intriguing history. I’d love to see the arial view!
@Jane: We’ve got loads of great islands to feature, but we’ll do our best to include Easter Island.
I’ll be going to St. Thomas on Friday, so I’m hoping for something from the US Virgin Islands…
OK — I just sent in Seal Island, South Africa — home of the infamous “Air Jaws”, as documented on numerous specials on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week — maybe it will make the cut….