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Two years ago our very own Noel Ballantyne wrote an article for Volcano Week 5 about Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania that at 5,893 metres is the highest mountain in Africa. At the time, Noel wrote of the…

For the seventh year running, volcano week is back!. We have a fascinating line-up of volcano posts scheduled, where we'll be visiting some of the most spectacular scenery Google Maps and Street View have to offer. If you'd like to…

This week, the always-much-more-interesting-than-it-sounds desert week returns – even later than it did last year (although here at Google Sightseeing we prefer to simply think that our years are slightly longer than yours). However, once again we've been scouring the…

Not content with covering almost every road in the world, Google have partnered with the University of Queensland to produce underwater Street View, and have announced plans to cover Australia's Great Barrier Reef in September of this year. The images…

OK, so we've really outdone ourselves this year, but better late than never we always say - this year, November is the chosen month for the long-awaited return of Island Week! Island week originally began broadcasting in August 2006, but…

Hello! Yes we are still here, we've just been caught up (temporarily at least) with offline activities. As we haven't been keeping you bang up-to-date with the goings on on Google Maps, we should point out that Google just yesterday…