Europe

Crazy Polar-suited Norwegians in Street View Fight

It looks as if our Crazy SCUBA Guys have made a comeback! This time the two Norwegian men have been captured wearing bright red polar suits, and can be seen apparently attempting to beat each other to death at the…

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Monday, 30th April 2012

Top Ten Northernmost Items on Google Maps

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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Thursday, 26th April 2012

Lærdalstunnelen, The World’s Longest Road Tunnel

Faced with the challenge of building a year-round road to connect Norway's two largest cities (Bergen and Oslo), through a mountainous region of central Norway, engineers decided to create the world's longest road tunnel. Named after the municipality at the…

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Wednesday, 18th April 2012

100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic

On the 15th April 1912, exactly 100 years ago this weekend, the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Titanic had 2,223…

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Friday, 13th April 2012

Street View Competitors, Part 2

Today, we continue our tour of street-level imagery in places Google Street View hasn’t reached yet! Here are more images from the numerous services that not only offer their own street-level imagery but have beaten Google to the punch in numerous cities around the globe.

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Thursday, 5th April 2012

Street View Competitors, Part 1

Google Street View may be ever-expanding in its reach, but it’s still a long way from covering the entire world. There are numerous services that not only offer their own street-level imagery but have beaten Google to the punch in numerous cities around the globe. That got us wondering just what we’re missing from other sites over here at Google Sightseeing, so join us as we take a two-part tour of street-level imagery in places Street View hasn’t reached yet!

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Tuesday, 27th March 2012

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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