All sights in Europe

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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More Scotch Tape

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Monday, 25th July 2005

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Remember our giant piece of Scotch Tape holding Canada together? Well our ever-helpful readers have since turned up several more pieces of this gargantuan sticky-tape…

Firstly we have this enormous length of tape, which is actually holding Ghana and Ivory Coast together. Not high-resolution on this one, but at the eastern end the tape fades out rather prettily into some lovely clouds.

Ghana Scotch Tape

Next up is this semi-transparent tape stitching a large section of the Libyan desert together. Notice how all of these anomalies run at very similar angles across the images?

Libyan Tape

Finally we have this shoddy looking job in Russia, which appears to have required two pieces of tape to get the job done! I think their mistake was trying to tape water together…

Russian Tape

Thanks: Dave, Winterfresh, Alxdr, mcb, blumentopf and MoonFella.

Scimitar Pool

Posted by James Turnbull, Friday, 22nd July 2005

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According to submitter “Roberto” this house is owned by a local butcher who had his swimming pool built in the shape of his company’s logo, a Scimitar sword.

I checked our submissions database and there were no other custom-made pools in recognisable shapes. I’m sure there must be loads out there so if you can find any then please leave a comment on here :D

Battersea Powerstation

Posted by James Turnbull, Tuesday, 19th July 2005

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Battersea Powerstation was constructed in the early 1930s but has been disused since the late 70s. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (who also designed the classic red phoneboxes) the power station is probably most famous for starring alongside an inflatable pig on the cover of Pink Floyd’s album, ‘Animals‘.

Since they pulled out the generating equipment there has been no roof on the building so we can see right into the middle, which could easily house Trafalgar Square and St Paul’s Cathedral (it’s one of the largest brick structures in Europe). Soon it will all be gone to make way for trendy apartments, posh hotels and sculptured gardens. For more info and ground level panoramas see the BBC site.

Thanks: Reagan Blundell, Bertrand Capo, Wayne, GazH (UK), Richard Wild, russ, Charles Chow & Andy

More Shipwrecks

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Monday, 18th July 2005

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Here’s one in Saint Lawrence bay, Quebec…

St. Lawrence Shipwreck

…a beached wreck off the Washington coast…

Washington Coast Shipwreck

…and finally a super-cool submerged ship in the river Clyde, near Glasgow! (it’s great posting Scottish things :-D )

Clyde Shipwreck

Thanks to Jacob, Jonny, troy, DDA, Jonathan Hoppe, Patrick, Joel Leo, Mike and Gus (from the comments).

Ship Graveyard

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 15th July 2005

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Update: Turns out that this is actually just an image glitch, thanks to everyone who helped clear that up. Still cool though ;-)

Check out this fantastic image of half-sunk ships in Greece. Spooky!

Sunken Ships

Props to Mike for this little beauty :-)