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Tuesday, 8th July 2008 by Alex Turnbull
Driving across the frozen Amur River between Russian and China we can see a couple of trucks – driven by the fearless and legendary Ice Road Truckers! Although it seems ludicrous, building “Ice Roads” over lakes, rivers or seas, is at times preferable to carving a road on land, as you can get long continuous straights on the ice, which hilly tree-covered land just doesn’t offer. However in this case…
Spend any time browsing Google Maps or Earth and you’ll soon spot an airport – they’re usually easy to spot…
Today the news is filled with stories about the opening of the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, which at 42.4km (26.3 miles)…
In grand Dubai-esque fashion, Ordos City in Chinese Inner Mongolia rises from the desert to proclaim the glory of mankind’s…
The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze River in China and is the largest power generating plant in the world.…
New imagery of Shanghai provides a good look at many of the unique buildings created for Expo 2010 which opened…
We can’t always be perfect right? Even some of history’s best architects made mistakes when they designed some of the…
Which is closer to the surface of the moon, the summit of Mount Everest or Ecuador? Contrary to popular belief,…
Back in 2005, when Google Sightseeing was brand new, we were desperate for Google to add aerial images of Manchester…
Judging by the number of new followers we have, it appears that this has been the week that Twitter finally…
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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