Antarctica

Ringing In 2012 Around the World

As we ring in 2012 here at Google Sightseeing, we know that you, too, are celebrating the New Year. Of course, depending on where you are around the globe, you’re celebrating it at very different times – sometimes more than a day apart! With that in mind, here’s your guide to the first – and the last – places on Earth to enter 2012.

Only from above: the best of Google Maps

We get so many submissions of weird and wonderful things our readers have found on Google Maps and Google Earth…

Deception Island (Island Week 5)

Zoom in on the South Shetland Islands, just off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, and you’ll see what…

New Street View images for Antarctica, Ireland and Brazil

Today Google have added even more countries to their ever-expanding Street View offering, which now takes Pegman onto all seven…

The World’s Largest Desert: Antarctica

When one thinks of Antarctica, the word “desert” probably does not come immediately to mind. We think of deserts as…

Frozen Plane Wreckage

These buildings are what make up Molodyozhnaya, one of the original Soviet research stations in Antarctica, and the site of…