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Google Underwater View
The latest frontier for Google's Street View technology is underwater. Cameras have visited quite a number of popular diving and snorkelling locations, giving us spectacular imagery of sea life and coral reefs. Today we're taking a…
Grytviken
Way back in the early days of Google Sightseeing during our first-ever Island Week, we visited the remote south Atlantic territory of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. In the seven years since that article, a lot has changed with regards to Google's imagery there. Even in the frigid grasp of the ocean, nothing escapes Google Street View these days. Join us as we explore Grytviken, the world's southernmost territorial capital.
Portmeirion & The Prisoner
Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for a sinister late-1960s TV show called The Prisoner, which starred Patrick McGoohan as "Number Six". Portmeirion…
The Fairy Circles of the Namib Desert (Desert Week 2012)
The Namib Desert is not only the oldest desert in the world, but it has its own shipwrecks, 900-year-old tree "skeletons", and some of the highest sand dunes in the world. However we covered all those…
The Ruins of the Aran Islands
The three Aran Islands are in Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland and are named Inis Mór (Inishmore - Big Island), Inis Meáin (Inishmaan - Middle Island) and Inis Oírr (Inisheer - East Island).…
Graveyards of the Atlantic
New writer: Keith Tyler Keith is a Software QA Engineer based near Seattle, and is originally from Boston. He's a veteran geocacher, and a prolific submitter of Google Maps sights on VirtualGlobetrotting.com. The rocky East Coast…
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