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Google Sightseeing Awards 2010

Wednesday, 5th January 2011 by

As we wave farewell to another successful year of Google Sightseeing, let us cast our minds back to some of the best posts of 2010, all summarised neatly into some arbitrary made-up categories!   Most comprehensive sightseeing tour We like to pretend a Google Sightseeing tour provides you with all you need to fully experience somewhere. To properly immerse yourself in this tour however, you really needed to read it…

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Most popular posts in “Volcanoes”

Mount Oyama

Mount Oyama Posted by
Tuesday, 20th June 2006

Santorini, Greece (Volcano Week 5)

Santorini, Greece (Volcano Week 5) Posted by
Friday, 6th August 2010

Mount Nyiragongo Destroys Goma (Volcano Week 3)

Mount Nyiragongo Destroys Goma (Volcano Week 3) Posted by
Tuesday, 14th October 2008

Alaska’s Aleutian Islands (Volcano Week 6)

Alaska’s Aleutian Islands (Volcano Week 6) Posted by
Thursday, 25th August 2011

Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens Posted by
Monday, 11th April 2005

Mount Mayon (Volcano Week 4)

Mount Mayon (Volcano Week 4) Posted by
Tuesday, 28th July 2009

Recent posts in the “Volcanoes” category

Volcanoes of the Northern Marianas (Volcano Week 7)

Volcanoes of the Northern Marianas (Volcano Week 7)

The Mariana Islands are part of a great submerged mountain range that extends all the way from Guam north to Japan. While the southern Marianas are known worldwide as tourist destinations, the uninhabited northernmost islands are actually a long string of active volcanoes fed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate into the Mariana Trench, the deepest location on Earth.

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Sakura-jima (Volcano Week 7)

Sakura-jima (Volcano Week 7)

Once a volcanic island centered in Japan’s Kagoshima Bay, during an eruption in 1914 the Sakura-jima volcano decided to change…

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Google Sightseeing writer set to climb Africa’s tallest volcano

Google Sightseeing writer set to climb Africa’s tallest volcano

Two years ago our very own Noel Ballantyne wrote an article for Volcano Week 5 about Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant…

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Piton de la Fournaise (Volcano Week 7)

Piton de la Fournaise (Volcano Week 7)

On the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, there are two volcanoes: Piton des Neiges has been inactive for…

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Colima (Volcano Week 7)

Colima (Volcano Week 7)

Colima is an active volcano in Mexico — one of the most active in North America. With an elevation of…

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Mount Etna (Volcano Week 7)

Mount Etna (Volcano Week 7)

Siciliy’s Mount Etna is the largest volcano in Italy, the tallest in all of Europe, and one of the world’s…

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