Shadows

Island Monument Mystery (Island Week 3)

It’s Island Week 3 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. It'll probably last about a week. Here in the Mentawai Islands of West Sumatra, Indonesia there is a tiny, seemingly unnamed, almost totally-forested island. The…

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Friday, 5th September 2008

Lindisfarne (Island week 3)

It’s Island Week 3 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. It'll probably last about a week. Lindisfarne is a tidal island, off the north-east coast of England, which thanks to having been home to a…

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Wednesday, 3rd September 2008

Tinsley Towers

Tinsley Viaduct is a two-tier road bridge in Sheffield, England; the first of its kind in the UK. It carries the M1 motorway over a 1033 metre section of the Don Valley, and is one of Sheffield's most prominent landmarks.…

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Thursday, 28th August 2008

The Donghai Bridge

Such is the volume of new imagery that is added to Google Earth, that by the time we got around to posting the longest cross-sea bridge in the world, it had already been superseded. Fortunately for us however, the current…

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Thursday, 31st July 2008

Hokkaidō Centennial Memorial Tower

This is supposedly the Hokkaidō Centennial Memorial Tower in Nopporo Forest Park, Hokkaidō, Japan. The official site claims it's 100m tall, and was completed in 1970 to honour the 100th anniversary of Hokkaidō's official colonisation1. Of course dear geeky-reader, you…

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Wednesday, 23rd July 2008

Storm King Art Center

Dotting the landscape here in Mountainville, New York, is a collection of bizarre shapes and interesting shadows. This is actually a huge outdoor sculpture garden called the Storm King Art Center. Founded in 1960 by Ralph E. Ogden as a…

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Thursday, 10th July 2008

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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