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Google Earth + Maps 60cm Image update

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
16 years ago2,670 views

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/09/where-in-world-is.html

Google launched some updated 60cm satellite images for GEarth for
the U.S., Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Australia and New Zealand

They give some clues as to where the images are. It's a very fun Game. See if we can find them all!!!

Here they are

1) I don't mean to "flatter," but this remote Northwestern cape is very beautiful.

2) You can now explore the ruins of this ancient Mayan city, first discovered in 1934.

3) This small Peruvian village attracts many tourists each year for the Incan ruins atop nearby hills.

4) This city claims to be the southernmost city in the world, with approximately 64,000 residents.

5) Home of the Russian Pacific Fleet, this city is also Russia's largest Pacific coast harbor.

6) Named after Saint Irene, though sometimes referred to as Thera, this island is a popular Greek tourist destination.

7) The Trojan horse from the 2004 movie Troy is visible in this city.

8) This city is the second most populated metropolitan area in Africa,
second to Cairo.

9) For better or for worse, the testing done at this site changed the world forever. In 1965 it was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark.

10) Odessos was the original name of this large city, then a trading colony.

11) This was the first port on the Shandong peninsula to be opened to the west in the 1800s.

Apparently the image "touches" 130 countries

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