Aircraft

Luzamba airport: plane-wreck central

If you're a nervous flier, you'd do well to avoid Luzamba airport in northern Angola1. It's not so much that lots of aircraft crash here (although it seems it's hardly a rare occurence) — more the fact that the wrecked…

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Wednesday, 7th October 2009

Remote military outposts (Island Week 4)

It’s Island Week 4 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week. GSS Reader Reg Coppicus from Canada thinks Isla San Felix might be "the crappiest posting ever". Fortunately for us, he's talking…

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Thursday, 1st October 2009

Chinese military weirdness

There aren't many sights that puzzle us here at Google Sightseeing, but this one has us stumped. In a remote desert area of Gansu province in northern China is this mysterious maze-like pattern. The "streets" are about 20 metres wide,…

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Tuesday, 18th August 2009

UTA Flight 772 Memorial (Desert Week 2)

Welcome to the second annual GSS Desert Week! In time-honoured tradition, we’ll mostly be posting about deserts. For about a week! Even by Saharan standards, the Ténéré region of northern Niger is pretty desolate: a vast sea of sand, broken…

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Monday, 15th June 2009

Saharan Stone Circle Mystery

Right in the middle of the Sahara desert, in the dunes of northern Niger, there's a circle which is clearly not a natural formation. The circle itself is roughly 52 metres across, but if we zoom out a little, we…

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Monday, 16th March 2009

The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Airport

This is Naval Air Station Sigonella, a U.S. Navy installation in Sicily, Italy, as seen in this image on Google Earth that was originally captured on June 27th, 2006. This next image of exactly the same area is from Microsoft…

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Monday, 9th March 2009

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