Canadian Regions & Territories

Up Periscope!

Nearby our sighting of the USS Ohio a few of weeks ago, we can see what very much looks like another submarine, running at periscope depth. Thanks: Neil Harrington

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Thursday, 8th November 2007

USS Ohio (October 07 Image Update)

This is the USS Ohio, an Ohio class submarine cruising along the US/Canada border in the Straight of Juan de Fuca. Flanked to the north and south, it looks like it has its missile tubes open, as seen in this…

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Thursday, 11th October 2007

Tonight’s Dinner

For tonight's dinner we're following what might well be the world's largest recipe - as it's written in large type all over the surface of Google Earth. To start with, on the coast of Nova Scotia a vineyard uses the…

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Thursday, 6th September 2007

Island and Lake Recursion (Island Week 2)

(It's the last day of Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we're almost done with posting about islands. And it's lasted about a week.) Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada is officially the world's largest island that is located…

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Monday, 3rd September 2007

Autumn

There's a nice story on Vanity Fair about how the author, Nick Tosches, spent more than a year attempting to track down the shot location of a desktop picture called Autumn that came with his copy of WIndows. Eventually Nick…

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Wednesday, 21st February 2007

Native American, Listening to an iPod

Just in case you missed this when it did the rounds in October, here's some hills in Canada which seem to resemble... well, I'd be hard pushed not to admit that this does look an awful lot like a Native…

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Tuesday, 28th November 2006

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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