The World’s Largest Swimming Pool

Apparently officially recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records, here in San Alfonso del Mar in Chile you can hardly miss the world’s largest swimming pool! This absolutely immense pool is 1 kilometre long and covers eight hectares –…

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Wednesday, 3rd October 2007

New Imagery in Google Earth October 07

The Google Latlong Blog has posted an announcement of new and updated 60cm satellite imagery in Google Earth and Google Maps. As with the last update the list of what’s new is formatted as a set of clues which you…

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Wednesday, 3rd October 2007

The Y Bridge

Zanesville in Ohio claims that their Y-bridge is “the only Y-shaped bridge in the world!” Now in its fifth incarnation, the bridge spans the Licking river to the West and the Muskingum river to the East. Allegedly this makes the…

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Tuesday, 2nd October 2007

Bingham Canyon Mine

This is the gargantuan Bingham Canyon Mine – an open-pit copper, gold, silver and molybdenum mine near Salt Lake City, Utah. In full-scale production since 1906, the pit is over 0.75 miles (1.2 km) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide,…

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Monday, 1st October 2007

Friday Dance

Woohoo! It’s Friday! A fact which doesn’t appear to have escaped this guy etched onto a mountainside in Mongolia – he’s clearly doing a Friday dance of joy! Thanks to Kerry and anarster

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Friday, 28th September 2007

The Swastika Building

Thanks to the power of Google Earth and the internet the US Navy have decided to spend as much as $600,000 on major alterations to a perfectly good barracks. The reason for the spend is that, when viewed on Google…

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Thursday, 27th September 2007
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Sivash: The Rotten Sea

Sivash is the shallow system of lagoons that separates Crimea from mainland Ukraine. Home to large-scale salt deposits, Sivash may just contain the most colourful waters to be found in Google Maps, with ponds of blue, beige and organe readily visible.

Robben Island

Robben Island is a prison island off Capetown, South Africa, best known as the jail where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated…

Revisiting Area 51

Whether it’s space aliens, light-speed travelling spaceships, or just some top-secret government testing, the world’s most famous “secret place” has…

Top Ten Northernmost Items on Google Maps

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!

Top 5 Worst Traffic Cities in the World

Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…

World’s Tallest Lighthouses

For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and…

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