Brand new on Google Maps/Earth this week is Fort Boyard, located between the Île d'Oléron and the Île-d'Aix in the Pertuis d'Antioche straits, on the west coast of France. It was designed to bridge the gap…

There's been an announcement on the Google Earth Forums about another large imagery update for both Google Earth and Google Maps. From the Post: the whole state of Minnesota, South Carolina, North Dakota, Missouri (updated to…

Off the island of Guam, we find a floating dry-dock. I'd assumed the cargo was craned into the dry dock, but instead the dry dock slightly submerges itself (just like a submarine) so that the ship…

Mumbai's most famous monument, the Gateway of India was traditionally the first thing visitors arriving by boat would see of the city. The Gateway is 26 metres high and was built to commemorate the visit of…

We feel sure that the undoubtedly great, and now very sadly late Steve Irwin wouldn't blame the stingray that brought about his untimely demise for a single second. In fact we reckon that Steve probably wouldn't…

Just off the coast of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, is what looks rather like a Rum Slick - waste from the production of molasses at the nearby Cruzan Rum Distillery. Certainly the dark patch starts…