The Morganza Spillway – Spring Flooding Special
The Morganza Spillway is a flood management system on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, intended to protect the cities of…
Deserts
Sand Tornado (Desert Week)
We’re continuing the first annual GSS Desert Week! In time-honoured tradition, we’ll mostly be posting about deserts. For about a week! The Sahara is probably the world’s most famous desert, and covers much of northern Africa. However today we’re only…
The Namib Desert (Desert Week)
Welcome to the first annual GSS Desert Week! In time-honoured tradition, we’ll mostly be posting about deserts. For about a week! The Namib Desert in Namibia and Angola forms part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park, and covers an area of…
Trona Pinnacles
The Searles Lake basin, deep within California’s desert conservation area, is a dry lake bed featuring more than 500 rock spires known as the Trona Pinnacles. The pinnacles are formed from a rock-like substance known as “tufa”, a calcium carbonate…
Google Sightseeing Safari
There have been many creatures found on Google Earth, but the most impressive ones are mostly there as part of the National Geographic African Megaflyover Project, which brought us thousands of super-high-resolution aerial photographs of Africa. So to highlight the…
Trail of Desert Dust
Check out this car absolutely rocketing through the desert in Afghanistan – the dust plume it’s kicking up is over a kilometre long! This is actually Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, which as well as playing a pivotal part in the War…
Mystery Egyptian Desert Spiral
Update: Thanks to cowens and others who informed us that this is actually an absolutely massive piece of land art called desert breath. Click through for some images and a way better description than I gave it! What on earth…
Best of Google Sightseeing
Very Large Christs
Back to his very origins, humans have chosen to worship physical representations of their deities. Currently the most popular religion…
Shipwrecks of Aden
For centuries, the port of [Aden][w] has served as Yemen’s gateway to the the world. Its distinctive double harbour lies in the crater of an extinct volcano. Over the years, a number of wrecked ships have accumulated in Aden’s harbour, many of which are visible in Google Maps imagery.
Lesotho: Kingdom in the Sky
Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.
Rozenburg Wind Wall
The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong…
Lesotho: Kingdom in the Sky
Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.
Rozenburg Wind Wall
The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong…
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