This is the fantastically modern-looking Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, (which reminds me of The Flight of the Navigator!).

As I’ve said before, everything on this site seems to be the tallest/biggest/highest something, and this building proves to be no exception, as it contains the world’s tallest glass wall (which overlooks Victoria Harbour). There’s some fantastic lower-down shots of the building over at their homepage.

Thanks: David, Mike Gavin, Chris Granger, Michelle Cleveland, Nels Nelson, Paul

Overlooking Victoria Harbour (as seen in our previous post), is the Two International Finance Centre, which at 415.8 metres it is currently the tallest building in Hong Kong. Check out that shadow! Apparently it is the third tallest building in Greater China and the 6th tallest office building in the world.

Interestingly the building has 88 storeys, which is an extremely lucky number in Cantonese culture. Except that it doesn’t really, because some of the ‘taboo floors’ like 14 and 24 are omitted (In Cantonese ‘14′ sounds like ‘You must be dead’ and ‘24′ sounds like ‘It is easy to be dead’). There’s more info at Wikipedia too.

Actually there’s tons of huge skyscrapers right here, the Bank of China Tower for example, which was the first building outside the United States to break the 1000 foot mark.

Thanks to Chris G.

This is brilliant, hundreds of sea-vessels of all shapes and sizes zipping around in Victoria harbour, Hong Kong. Scroll around to see just how many of them there are! Victoria Harbour is one of the busiest ports in the world, with an average of 220,000 ships visiting the harbour each year.

Apparently the container port in Hong Kong is the busiest in the world. There’s some weird looking cargo transporter things, and you can also see one of them being tugged (check out the guy doing the u-turn too!).

There’s also a massive cargo ship, and even an airplane in this mega-harbour!

As usual, loads more great info about Victoria harbour is available on Wikipedia

Thanks to Nels Nelson and others.

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The Kawasaki Man-Made Island is in the middle of an undersea tunnel between Kisarazu City and Kawasaki City across the Tokyo bay. Apparently they started boring the tunnel from the island towards each side.

Thanks: Daryl, Callum, Benet, Alex, pooms & Jacob

This is the Tokyo Tower in Japan, which is the world’s tallest self supporting steel structure. Although it seems like everything can be classified as the world’s tallest something… ( I hearby declare myself the world’s third tallest Google Sightseeing Administrator).

The Tokyo Tower is (obviously) based on the Eiffel Tower, but at 333 metres, is 9 metres taller. There’s lots of good info about the tower over at Wikipedia, so we’ll just mention that the first floor houses an aquarium, home to 50,000 fish, and that this was the landmark which was destroyed again and again by Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Guiron, Gamera, and scores of other rubber-monsters.

Thanks to Josh Stevens, John Riggs, Ben, Caius Toneriko, Pedro, Joe Chang and lots more