South Africa

Touring Earth’s Impact Craters

Looking up at the moon, one of the most striking visible features has to be the sheer number of impact craters around its surface. These giant holes in the ground are made by asteroids and comets flying through space and…

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Wednesday, 17th March 2010

Landlocked Enclaves

Roughly 1 out of every 5 countries in the world are completely surrounded by land, or landlocked. In a handful of cases a country can be completely surrounded by another single country. These landlocked enclaves are such a rare geographic…

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Monday, 15th March 2010

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 incarceration in an event that was broadcast live all over the world. The South African courts convicted Mandela on charges…

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Thursday, 11th February 2010

Robben Island

Robben Island is a prison island off Capetown, South Africa, best known as the jail where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for eighteen years. The island has a dubious history as a place of imprisonment and exile long before the rise…

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Monday, 25th May 2009

Prison on a Roundabout

Beaufort West is a town in South Africa, which must be the only town in the world to claim that it has a prison in the middle of a roundabout. The town lies at the intersection of the N1 and…

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Monday, 29th September 2008

Dead Sperm Whale

The latest imagery update has now arrived on Google Maps, and with it comes this rather sad image of a beached Sperm Whale on the island of Hjelmsøya, which is off the coast of the extreme north of Norway. According…

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Thursday, 18th September 2008
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Recent Comments

  1. Guardian Heroes: Ok, that view from the lions gate looks amazing. I’d like to visit there someday.
  2. Mark: Guessing, from this account, that it’s Kevin Barrera. The location linked isn’t exact, but the...
  3. Alex Turnbull: Given how long the body must have lain there (long enough for the aerial photography airplane to have...
  4. Alex Turnbull: Hi Stuart, are you looking at the police officer? The victim looks pretty dead to me :(
  5. Doug: I love the joke you guys play — posting the EXACT same thing every February 2, now for the sixth year in...

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