National Geographic African Megaflyover Project

News has spread across the internet over the last day or two of a "hack" that allows you much more zooming on Google Maps. Unfortunately for all the people who've wasted hours scanning the earth, this is really nothing new.…

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Thursday, 8th March 2007

Nessie

Finally, after years of searching, we've found the Loch Ness Monster! And the reason it has taken so long to find conclusive proof of the monster's existence is we've been looking in entirely the wrong place. You see, rather than…

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Wednesday, 7th March 2007

Parachute In Flight

As Google Earth is getting higher and higher resolution images, there's much more to see in flight that the odd aeroplane, and today we can see a skydiver in flight over a French drop-zone. It looks like the skydiver is…

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Tuesday, 6th March 2007

Shark Found in Australia!

With all the new imagery of Australia, we were really hoping to find a shark - but we had no idea that the first shark discovered would be quite this big! Creating the shark's eye with a solitary tree was…

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Monday, 5th March 2007

Missile attack on Utah

I awoke this morning to find my email inbox bursting with messages along the lines of "OMFG! On Digg there's a Google Map showing a CRUISE MISSILE in flight!!!!!!!!!one". And it was true! While I was asleep over 2500 people…

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Sunday, 4th March 2007

UFO over Utrecht

For once no-one can try to cover up the truth - this is no water tower, no dirt on the lens, and no weather anomaly! Nope, this time we've found a real, actual, honest-to-goodness UFO landing on a building in…

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Friday, 2nd March 2007

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.

Like this site? We published a photo book of the best entries, you should buy a copy.