VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-06-28

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Bonnaroo Festival Grounds
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Site of the annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.

Easter Island
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One of the most isolated spots on Earth.

Passage du Gois
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This 4.5-km road to the island/peninsula of Noirmoutier, on the Atlantic coast, can only be used at low tide. Otherwise, use boat, plane, or bridge (visible at bottom left, built in 1971).

Iter - Cadarache
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By: mq31.
French site for Iter project. The objective of the ITER machine is to demonstrate the scientific feasibility of fusion, with extended controlled burn and, marginally, ignition, for a duration sufficient to achieve stationary conditions on all time-scale characteristics of plasma processes and plasma-wall interactions.

Cariló - Valeria del mar - Ostende - Pinamar
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By: psycho_roy.
Cities - Seaside resorts - Beaches - Woods

Mall of Georgia
Connektion (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Connektion.
Mall of Georgia in Buford, just outside of Atlanta.

Arromanches D-day artificial port
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By: scotchpenicillin.
Remains of the artificial port built during the D-Day. You can see an aerial photo here.

Bollettieri Tennis Academy
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By: derose.
World´s most famous tennis academy.

Aguada, Puerto Rico
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North-South Korean Border
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Giuseppe Meazza - San Siro Stadium
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By: psycho_roy.
Inter Milan & AC Milan Soccer Stadium
Info from kjfitz:
The four angular towers are 51 meters high and interrupt the continuity of the upper level of tiers in order to sustain the roof's main supporting beams. These red-colored metallic beams extend along the perimeter of the stadium and have a rectangular structure. They intersect at the four corners of the stadium and extend to the exterior. The main supporting beams are 9.5 meters high.
The current capacity of the stadium is 85 000 with all seats being covered. Although the East side of the stadium does not have a third tribune, designed not to interfere with a hippodrome situated next to the stadium, the atmosphere inside is awesome. The lack of this tribune enables a great view of Milan and fans sitting on the highest seats can admire the city's most beautiful cathedral.

Stockholm Globe Arena
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By: Gideon.

Playcenter
ellmar (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: ellmar.
Amusement Park

Aral Sea
kaicarver (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kaicarver.
Though steps are being taken in Kazakhstan to save the smaller North Aral Sea (top right), the South Aral Sea is drying up. The large island in the center is called Vozrozhdeniye Island ("Renaissance Island") and is the site of a decommissioned biological weapons laboratory. "Buried on the island are hundreds of tons of powdered anthrax bacteria, as well as plague, typhus, smallpox, and many other disease-causing organisms." The nearby Savitsky Karakalpakstan State Art Museum is supposed to be amazing, by the way.

Parque Centenario
psycho_roy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: psycho_roy.
Park

5 Velarde class small corvettes & 4 Lupo class light frigates
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Meliton Carvajal (Lupo) class light frigates
Displacement: 2,500 tons full load
Dimensions: 106 x 11.28 x 3.66 meters (347.5 x 37 x 12 feet)
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 cruise diesels, 7,800 bhp, 20 knots;
2 LM2500 boost gas turbines, 50,000 shp, 35 knots
Crew: 185
Aviation: aft helicopter deck with hangar; 1 AB-212
Radar: RAN-10S air search
Sonar: EDO-610E hull
Fire Control: 1 RTN-10X, 2 RTN-20X, 1 RTN-30X
EW: Lambda ESM, 2 SCLAR decoy
Armament: 8 Otomat II SSM, 1 8-cell Albatros SAM (8 Aspide missiles)
1 5/54 DP, 2 dual 40 mm AA, 2 triple 12.75 inch torpedo tubes
First two Italian built for Peru, others built in Peru.
Number Name Year Homeport Notes
FM 51 Meliton Carvajal 1979
FM 52 Manuel Villavicencio 1979
FM 53 Montero 1984
FM 54 Mariategui 1987
Velarde (PR 72) class small corvettes
Displacement: 610 tons full load
Dimensions: 59 x 8.35 x 2.6 meters (193.5 x 27 x 8.5 feet)
Propulsion: 4 diesels, 4 shafts, 22,000 bh, 34 knots
Crew: 36 + 10 passengers/troops
Radar: THD 1040 air/surface search
Fire Control: Castor-II
EW: DR 2000 interept
Armament: 4 MM38 Exocet SSM, 1 76 mm OTO DP, 1 dual 40mm/70 AA
French-built for export.
CM 21 Velarde 1980
CM 22 Santillana 1980
CM 23 De Los Heroes 1980
CM 24 Herrera 1981
CM 25 Larrea 1981
CM 26 Sanchez Carrion 1981

Palermo Opera House - Teatro Massimo
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Nerang Gold Coast Cycling Center Velodrome
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By: 8hangtime.
Olympic-style track bicycle racing venue. 356 meter asphalt oval with three criterium circuits around it.

Two Crop Circles
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Alto Palermo Shopping Center
Retail - Mall - Shopping Center - Cinemas

Sambódromo São Paulo
ToMaZlP (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: ToMaZlP.
Main venue for carnival in São Paulo.

Paseo Alcorta Shopping Mall
Shopping Mall

Target Center
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Adler Planetarium
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Vila Belmiro Stadium
derose (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Santos FC home field, the stadium that Pelé used to play.

Howard High School
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Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
Isles

Abasto Shopping Center
Retail - Mall - Shopping Center - Cinemas - Foof Court

Half frozen lake (cheney reservoir)
scotchpenicillin (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: scotchpenicillin.
the right part of the lake seems to be frozen. It seems to be an overlapping seasons...

Club Hípico de Santiago
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By: kjfitz.

Alisher Navoi National Park
The park is named after Alisher Navoi (1441 - 1501), the founding poet of the Uzbek language. Also visible is Oliy Majlis, the Uzbek parliament.

Stockholm Royal Palace
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The royal castle in Stockholm.

Kabul Stadium
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Kenan Stadium
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Estação da Luz
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Praça da Luz, nº 1

Big Helicopter
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Big helicopter (possibly russian made) at Jorge Chavez Int'l (LIM), Lima, Peru. Compare with the jetliner below.

Bala Hissar fort
doranchak (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: doranchak.
More info: http://www.zharov.com/dupree/chapter04.html

Star Trek the Experience at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino
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By: bell.
Las Vegas Hilton (which houses Star Trek the Experience http://www.startrekexp.com/)

Cattedrale di Palermo
During the Norman domination, in 1184 the archbishop of Palermo Walter Offamilio started the construction of a splendid cathedral to replace the Muslim mosque with a Christian church.
Over the centuries the additions and restorations modified the original building: the most radical change was made by Ferdinando Fuga in 1771 and in 1809. He was an architect from Florence and gave to the interior of the church a neoclassical aspect.

La Géode
Located in La Villette, Paris's biggest park, La Géode is an Imax cinema within a 36-meter-diameter sphere composed of about 6,430 approximately equilateral steel triangles. It's like a big spherical mirror, part of La Villette's "City of Science", next to the "City of Music". The park, designed by Bernard Tschumi, contains 35 architectural "follies" arranged on a grid.

Mercado Central

Ostia Antica
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Parque Rivadavia
Park

Afsluitdijk (Closure-dike)
This 32-km-long barrier dam divides the North Sea from the Inland Sea. It was completed in 1932, turning the Zuiderzee into a lake, the IJselmeer.

Estadio Nacional

City of Arts and Sciences
Valencia's brand-new Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias has remarkable architecture. It's proudly billed as "Europe's largest urban culture and leisure centre".

Theatro Municipal de São Paulo
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By: ellmar.
Praça Ramos de Azevedo, s/nº.

MASP - Museu de Artes de São Paulo

Marina del Rey
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Cullera
This town to the south of Valencia has its name painted on the side of its 233-meter mountain.

Coburg Velodrome
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By: 8hangtime.
Olympic-style track bicycle racing venue. 250 meter concrete oval

Chaman-i-Houzouri (a.k.a. Jeshn Ground)
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By: doranchak.
The Chaman-i-Houzouri lies at the foot of Tapa Maranjan. This open field was a golf course during the reign of Amir Habibullah (1901–1919). Today it is a favorite meeting ground, especially on Fridays and during holidays such as Jeshn-i-Jamhuriat (July 17–19), Republic Day. Occasionally spectacular competitions in tent-pegging are held here. Superb riders on gaily caparisoned horses gallop past, long lances lowered, and attempt to spear a series of small pegs planted in the ground. Once a practice sport for young warriors training to ride through a rival encampment and literally bring it down upon their enemy’s heads, it is now an exacting sport in which riders from the Ghazni-Katawaz area excel. Other sports events take place in Ghazi Stadium, next to the Chaman. The Jeshn exhibition buildings and the Kabul Nandari (Theater) stand in a ring around an artificial lake between the Chaman and Tapa Maranjan.

Zell (Mosel)

Amphitheatre of St. Maria Capua
The amphitheatre of St. Maria Capua Vetere contains many years of history. It was built under Augustus and was restored by Hadrian and Antonius Puis. The amphitheatre measures 170x140 meters, second in size only the Colosseum in Rome. An interesting subterranean Mithraeum with well-preserved frescoes is located nearby as well.

Catedral Metropolitana da Sé
Praça da Sé, Centro

Parque Las Heras
Park

Península Antártica Argentina
Península
ED: Originally submitted as part of Argentina. Wikipedia shows that these claims have been made, but are generally not recognized. So I'm going to leave any maps on Antarctica in the Antarctica category.

Field Museum of Natural History
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By: trecherus.

Cloud shadow
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By: Hinkkanen.
Nicely situated cloud shadow in the middle of the lake Särkijärvi near the town of Loviisa.

Castillo de Real Felipe

Ushuaia - Most Southern City in the world
Cities
Ushuaia - Southest City in the world

Prainha Branca

Jockey Club de São Paulo
Hipódromo de Cidade Jardim

Villa Bellini
Approximately in 1850, the Municipality of Catania purchased the villa that belonged to the Paternò Castello family, in order to build a public park. Later on, the Municipality also bought new land and today it covers the overall surface of approximately 71.000 square metres. In 1932, the ancient entrance of Via Etnea was turned into a monumental one and a large basin was created, which is now the dwelling place of beautiful white swans. The Villa is a leisure place, where to go for a walk or to meet friends. In the last few years it has been hosting shows, which enliven the evenings of the residents and tourists in Catania.

Roman Column marking the end of the Appian Way
The columns, built in the 2nd century AD, marked the end of the Imperial Roman road, the Via Appia, that led all the way from the capital to the important port.

Zurich Bellevue
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Estádio Anacleto Campanella
Azulão

Keimola racing track (Abandoned)
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By: Hinkkanen.
Keimola racing track near Helsinki. First race in 1966 and last in 1978. Link below in Finnish but has some good pictures.

John G. Shedd Aquarium
Opened in 1929, it is one of the oldest public aquariums in the world.

Stadium Australia
derose (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: derose.
Olympic Stadium built for the 2000 Olympic Games at Sydney, Australia.

Oz Park

ESRANGE (Sweden)
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The rocket launch site ESRANGE in in the northern of Sweden.

Mercado Municipal
Mercado Municipal de São Paulo

Brindisi Casale Airport

Italian Navy - Taranto Harbor
Bigger ship to the left.

Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway Kisarazu City entry
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By: TexasAndroid.

Congonhas Airport (CGH)

Ex-Penitenciaría
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By: hkfczrqj.
Despite having an "ex" in its name (reflecting a weird name change), this building is the main prison in Santiago, hosing low to medium risk inmates. It also has an high security annex -to the right of the main complex (despite of the high security status, an embarrasing and spectacular helicopter-based escape took place some years ago).

Maritsa coalfields
Lignite coalfields. "25 million metric tons per year of lignite come from these mines. At expected production rates, the reserves at Maritsa East are projected to last 50 years." Due east of Plovdiv, southwest of Stara Zagora.

Newport State Airport (site of Coventry concert)
Phish's farewell festival was held here in 2004.

Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial

Esporte Clube Pinheiros
One of the biggest clubs in Latin America with 168,000 sq mtrs area.

Galileo Galilei planetarium

Martin Lockheed Corporation

Praia da Baleia - SP

Stadio Angelo Massimino

Raytheon Aircraft Airport
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One of seven airports in Wichita, KS

Ulrico Mursa Stadium
Portuguesa Santista´s home field.

Il Duomo di Messina
The Duomo was built in 1160 in the reign of King Ruggero, but it was altered in 1300 and 1500 and after the disastrous damages of the earthquakes in 1894 and 1908.
The Norman building built on a basilican plan is tripartite with a double row of 13 columns terminating in three semi-circular apses. It is also interesting to note the two protruding constructions built beside the Cathedral around 1400 and the doors of the two sides started in 1300 and completed in the sixteenth century. In the crypt, which takes all the underground of the apses and the transept, a Confraternity of merchants created the church of Santa Maria in 1683.

Planisphere labyrinth field
scotchpenicillin (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: scotchpenicillin.
It seems to be a giant labyrinth made in a field (corn ?). If anybody have some infos about that...

Palermo Golf Club
Golf Course - 29 Holes

Ginásio do Ibirapuera
São Paulo´s biggest arena.

Viaduto do Chá - São Paulo

Palazzo Reale
The Palazzo dei Normanni (Norman Palace), AKA the Royal Palace of Palermo, was the seat of the Kings of Sicily with the Hauteville dynasty and served later as the main seat of power for the rulers of Sicily. Since 1946, it's been the seat of the Sicilian Regional Assembly. The building is the oldest royal residence in Europe; and was the private residence of the rulers of the Kingdom of Sicily and the imperial seat of Frederick II and Conrad IV.
Inscribed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015.

Peñón de Ifach
This 332-meter-high, 1-km-long rock juts out on the Spanish Costa Blanca. The Moors called it the Northern Rock (Gibraltar being the Southern Rock). Called "Penyal d'Ifach" in Valenciano.

Pont de Normandie Bridge
World's second-longest cable-stayed bridge at 856 m (2808 ft), connects Honfleur and Le Havre over the Seine estuary.

Zhuhai Jinwan Airport (ZUH)
The airport was built on an artificial island reclaimed from Chek Lap Kok, one of the islands that make up the airport's 12.48 km² platform

Copenhagen Parken
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By: guisteinbruch.
Copenhagen stadium

Maresias / Paúba

Santa Catalina Convent & Plaza
The convent of Santa Catalina was founded at the beginning of XVII century