Alert, Nunavut
Welcome to Alert, Nunavut, the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. Only 817 km (508 miles) from the North…
Sayano–Shushenskaya
Sayano–Shushenskaya was – until a recent accident – the largest power plant in Russia, and the sixth largest hydroelectric plant in the world. The main feature of the power station is a dam 245 m high and over a kilometre…
Bullrings
Bullfighting traces its history way back to when the Romans held public spectacles of “Man vs Beast”, and although France and Portugal both have long bullfight histories, it is considered a very Spanish tradition. So it’s in Spain where we…
Best of Google Sightseeing
Weirdness on the Ocean Floor
There’s some odd sightings on the ocean floor, thanks to the much-improved ocean surface depth images that were added to…
Climbing in a Flat Land
You might think that living in the Netherlands would be inconvenient for aspiring rock climbers – what with much of…
Definitely a duck (maybe)
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
Brayton Fire Training Field and Disaster City
In the city of College Station in Texas (part-way between Dallas and Houston) there is a scene of apparent disaster,…
Google Sightseeing 2011 Wrap-up
Happy New Year! The festive break is over, and we’re all back to work – but there’s still time to…
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