Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Mountain Venues
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
Natural Landmarks
Easter Island (Island Week 2)
(It’s Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week.) Located in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, almost four thousand kilometers from continental Chile, Easter Island – or locally Rapa Nui…
Takeover Week: Stone Mountain (Jerome)
Welcome to Google Sightseeing Reader Takeover Week! Every day this week, one of you has been chosen to have their very own sight posted here on GSS, while Alex and James take a well deserved holiday. Today’s sight is from…
Barra Airport
This is Barra Airport, located on the hebridean island of Barra. Now, I know what you’re thinking, it’s something along the lines of “No, you idiot, that’s a beach!“. You’re exactly right: Barra airport is the beach. In fact, it’s…
Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]
Free UK daily paper The Metro published an article last week about a YouTube video1 in which someone claimed to have found the shape of Jesus in a cloud, floating over Mount Sinai in Egypt. We thought this was such…
![Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]](http://media.googlesightseeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/choosemessiah1.jpg "Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]")
Ships in the Desert
We previously featured the dying Aral Sea back in January 2006, but since then much of the area has been updated with high resolution satellite imagery. Which means we can now see several ships, abandoned in the middle of a…
Image Update February ’07
While we were busy scouring the brand new Australia Day images, we failed to notice that Google have also unleashed an absolute wealth of new imagery for the rest of the world! Here’s what’s been updated: The entire country of…
Best of Google Sightseeing
US Space & Rocket Center
NASA’s first visitor centre, and one of the world’s largest public collections of space bits is the U.S. Space and…
20 Years of a Free Nelson Mandela
Exactly 20 years ago today, on the 11th February 1990, the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from a 27-year…
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…
Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
Trollstigen (Troll’s path)
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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