Australia / Oceania

Whakaari/White Island (Volcano Week 3)

Whakaari/White Island (to give it its official title) is an active andesite stratovolcano 48 km from the east coast of the north island of New Zealand. The volcano reaches 321 m above sea level, but this is actually just the…

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Friday, 17th October 2008

Visiting Bruny Island (Island Week 3)

It’s Island Week 3 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. It'll probably last about a week. Bruny is one of 20 islands and island groups in the Australian state of Tasmania, the largest island of…

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Tuesday, 2nd September 2008

Backchannel

Sorry folks, no post today. However, many of you may be unaware that we operate a "backchannel" of sorts over at Twitter, where as well as a feed of all the posts from the main site, we also post some…

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Tuesday, 26th August 2008

Face of Cowboy Jesus Found in Desert!

The proof is now clear for all to see - Jesus was a cowboy! As demonstrated by this ridiculously large example of Pareidolia in the Australian Outback. These images have been colour-adjusted for clarity Actually, you're not just seeing things,…

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Friday, 22nd August 2008

Road Train

When Google recently added street view for vast stretches of empty road across the middle of Australia, most people didn't expect to find much of interest out there. To be fair, those people were mostly right. However, every now and…

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Friday, 15th August 2008

Street View for Australia and Japan

Much to the annoyance of the tinfoil-hat privacy nuts, Street View's spread across the globe continues with two launches today: Japan and Australia! Japan has coverage in the following cities: Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Saitama, Chiba, Sendai, Sapporo, Hakodate, Kyoto and…

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Monday, 4th August 2008

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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