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Friday, 21st January 2011 by Chris Hannigan
Here at Google Sightseeing we’re absolutely fascinated with the more unusual names that places have been given. There’s so much choice in this field that today we’re able to bring you another post about creative place names – but this time themed entirely around things you’d find in the kitchen. You have to imagine that quite a bit of work goes into naming a new place. I wonder what early…
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Here at Google Sightseeing we’re absolutely fascinated with the more unusual names that places have been given. There’s so much…
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Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
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