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Google Sea View

Not content with covering almost every road in the world, Google have partnered with the University of Queensland to produce underwater Street View, and have announced plans to cover Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in September of this year. The images…

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Thursday, 23rd February 2012

Island Week 6

OK, so we’ve really outdone ourselves this year, but better late than never we always say – this year, November is the chosen month for the long-awaited return of Island Week! Island week originally began broadcasting in August 2006, but…

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Monday, 21st November 2011

Parks and Islands (and Denmark too)

Hello! Yes we are still here, we’ve just been caught up (temporarily at least) with offline activities. As we haven’t been keeping you bang up-to-date with the goings on on Google Maps, we should point out that Google just yesterday…

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Wednesday, 2nd November 2011

Volcano Week 6

This week sees the return of our longest-standing theme week, which is now entering its sixth year: Volcano week. The theme of the week is “volcanoes”, but over the next few days we hope to discover more about the places…

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Monday, 22nd August 2011

Guest post: Tom Howder of Twelve Mile Circle

We’re taking a bit of a summer breather here at Google Sightseeing, so to fill the gap in our schedule, we asked Tom Howder of the fascinating Twelve Mile Circle blog to write up a story he and his readers…

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Wednesday, 10th August 2011

Desert Week 2011

As is customary, the “much-more-interesting-than-it-sounds” desert week is one week late again this year! However, our writers have been touring (in some cases literally) the deserts of the world, to bring you the most fascinating sights to be found in…

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Monday, 20th June 2011
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Torqued Towers

This is the Turning Torso tower in Malmö, which at 190 metres is Sweden’s tallest skyscraper. The most striking thing…

The Island at Towan Beach

A well known landmark to locals and holidaymakers is the little house that sits atop an island off the shore…

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…

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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