Australia / Oceania

Virtual Photography with Google Street View

Today we've got a special guest post by Matt Bucher, a writer living in Austin, Texas who publishes a blog of photographic images taken from Google Street View, called Apres Garde. We love Matt's choice of images, and he agreed…

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Monday, 10th May 2010

Australia’s Top Ten Giant Animals

We've visited many of the world's largest objects here on Google Sightseeing, but if there is one country that - more than any other - has a fondness for large roadside attractions, it is Australia. So we present Australia's Top…

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Friday, 23rd April 2010

Street Circuits, Part 2: Australia

Continuing our series on street racing circuits around the world, let's take a ride in the Google Street View Car around some of Australia's most famous venues! Adelaide The home of the Australian Grand Prix until 1996, Adelaide's streets in…

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Monday, 22nd March 2010

Bunjil, the sky God

It's been a while since we featured a giant geoglyph, so it was with great pleasure that we learned of Australia's Bunjil geoglyph at the You Yangs National Park in Victoria. "You Yangs" is a derivation of the Aboriginal words…

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Wednesday, 14th October 2009

Islands of the Pacific Ring of Fire (Island Week 4)

It’s Island Week 4 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week. On September 29, 2009, just south of the islands that make up the Independent State of Samoa in Polynesia, an earthquake…

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Friday, 2nd October 2009

Apollo 11

Unless you've been living on the, er, Moon, you can hardly have failed to notice that today1 marks the 40th anniversary of the historic landing of the Apollo 11 mission – during which, Neil Armstrong became the first human being…

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Monday, 20th July 2009

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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