Watercraft

Yes, we're finally back, and as to be expected, we missed some great Google Earth-related news while we were off. Firstly the story that seems to have sprung up everywhere is (of course) a Street View one. The garage419 site…

Rising from the waters of Oslo Fjord, Norway, is the absolutely incredible Oslo Opera House. Designed to speak of the sheets of ice that formed the fjords of Norway, the huge white slab of angular building could almost be mistaken…

Llyn Brianne is a man made reservoir on the River Towy, west Wales, which was formed by the construction of the UK's tallest dam, which at around 90m tall is the world's largest clay core dam. Recently the BBC has…

Namibia's Skeleton Coast is named so for two different types of skeletons that littered the beaches: whales and ships. Thanks to the end of mass whaling the whale bones are now all gone, but the bones of ships remain, very…

Here at Google Sightseeing we love to explore abandoned, off-limits places, much as the rest of the Internet does - from a safe distance. In the past we've featured abandoned towns, cities, mines and even whole abandoned islands, but we've…

It’s Island Week 3 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. It'll probably last about a week. Bruny is one of 20 islands and island groups in the Australian state of Tasmania, the largest island of…