Comments on: Ghost Towns: Underwater Edition http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/02/18/ghost-towns-underwater-edition/ Why bother seeing the world for real? Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:32:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: koen http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/02/18/ghost-towns-underwater-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-204617 koen Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:31:36 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=3768#comment-204617 Lake Arenal in Costa Rica swallowed two villages. Supposedly you can see a church tower when the water's low enough, but the picture isn't very high quality. :( The lava-spitting volcano right next to the lake (you'd say that's a major safety concern for a dam...) does make up for a lot though. http://maps.google.nl/?ie=UTF8&ll=10.496927,-84.860458&spn=0.170476,0.339203&t=h&z=12 Lake Arenal in Costa Rica swallowed two villages. Supposedly you can see a church tower when the water’s low enough, but the picture isn’t very high quality. :(

The lava-spitting volcano right next to the lake (you’d say that’s a major safety concern for a dam…) does make up for a lot though.

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

]]> By: john http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/02/18/ghost-towns-underwater-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-204616 john Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:47:52 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=3768#comment-204616 Per Wikipedia, the church was "dynamited on 15 December 1947, on purported safety concerns." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent,_Derbyshire Per Wikipedia, the church was “dynamited on 15 December 1947, on purported safety concerns.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derwent,_Derbyshire

]]> By: cookie monster http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/02/18/ghost-towns-underwater-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-204615 cookie monster Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:37:44 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=3768#comment-204615 I have heard many conflicting reports of when it was blown up - ranging from 1944 (not long after the reservoir was finished) to 1959 and as late as 1970. Parts of the village are visible but its unlikely you saw the church tower. I have heard many conflicting reports of when it was blown up – ranging from 1944 (not long after the reservoir was finished) to 1959 and as late as 1970.
Parts of the village are visible but its unlikely you saw the church tower.

]]> By: Ian Brown http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/02/18/ghost-towns-underwater-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-204613 Ian Brown Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:38:13 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=3768#comment-204613 cookie monster - I was going to post this! When did they blow up the Church? I grew up in Derbyshire and was taken to see the remnants of the villages as a child during the drought of 1976, when the reservoir was low enough that they were visible. My foggy memory tells me the Church was visible, but I'm fully prepared to accept that was not actually the case! cookie monster – I was going to post this!

When did they blow up the Church? I grew up in Derbyshire and was taken to see the remnants of the villages as a child during the drought of 1976, when the reservoir was low enough that they were visible. My foggy memory tells me the Church was visible, but I’m fully prepared to accept that was not actually the case!

]]> By: cookie monster http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/02/18/ghost-towns-underwater-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-204612 cookie monster Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:09:16 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=3768#comment-204612 Not much to see now http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.373191,-1.70743&spn=0.014338,0.038624&t=h&z=15 but under Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire are the two villages of Derwent and Ashopton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybower Pic of Derwent church reasserting itself before it was finally blown up http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/images/2008/01/22/ladybower_reservoir_derwent_church_spire_203x152.jpg Not much to see now
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

but under Ladybower Reservoir in Derbyshire are the two villages of Derwent and Ashopton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybower

Pic of Derwent church reasserting itself before it was finally blown up
http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/images/2008/01/22/ladybower_reservoir_derwent_church_spire_203×152.jpg

]]> By: Simple http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/02/18/ghost-towns-underwater-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-204604 Simple Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:37:45 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=3768#comment-204604 Here's another flooded town from Romania: http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&t=k&lci=lmc:panoramio,lmc:wikipedia_en&layer=x&g=bezid&ll=46.4215,24.905062&spn=0.011863,0.022058&z=16 The story is the same as most of them: flooded because of man mad dams. Here’s another flooded town from Romania: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

The story is the same as most of them: flooded because of man mad dams.

]]> By: Luke http://googlesightseeing.com/2009/02/18/ghost-towns-underwater-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-204603 Luke Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:32:39 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/?p=3768#comment-204603 Wow! Amazing. Wow!
Amazing.

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