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Wednesday, 19th November 2008 by James Turnbull
Namibia’s Skeleton Coast is named so for two different types of skeletons that littered the beaches: whales and ships. Thanks to the end of mass whaling the whale bones are now all gone, but the bones of ships remain, very slowing rusting away. For example, the Eduard Bohlen ran aground here way back in 1909. There are purportedly thousands of ships lining this coast, thanks to the gale force winds,…
In the city of College Station in Texas (part-way between Dallas and Houston) there is a scene of apparent disaster,…
While most people dispose of old vehicle by sending them for scrap or recycling, there are endless opportunities to do…
With around 250 days until the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, this seems like a good opportunity…
In 2005, the military government of Burma (Myanmar) made one of its most curious moves yet when it gave its ministerial officials less than a day’s notice that they were to pack up and move to a new capital almost 400 km north of the old capital, Rangoon, under threat of arrest or imprisonment. The government had secretly been constructing a capital in the middle of the nowhere called Naypyidaw; a way for the government to escape the congestion and chaos of Rangoon in a purpose-built capital in which everything would be under their control. Naypyidaw covers a sprawling 4,800 km2 – that’s 78 times the size of Manhattan!
Here at Google Sightseeing we’re fond of the excesses that are common in the oil-rich city of Dubai.1 Before the…
Spend any time browsing Google Maps or Earth and you’ll soon spot an airport – they’re usually easy to spot…
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…
Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…
The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library may not look very special from above: … but from street…
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
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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