VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-07-07

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Paul Allen's Floating Heli-Pad
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The wide looking boat with the circle on it is a floating heli pad. Rumor has it that since Mercer Island wouldnt let him land on his property, he built a floating one.

Mrs. Orcutt's Driveway
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Naval ships being scrapped
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By: Hinkkanen.
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Shipbreaking firms at Brownsville, Texas, break up old naval vessels with mostly cheap Mexican workforce, more info here.

Mortavika-Arsvågen Car Ferry
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
The Mortavika – Arsvågen Car Ferry is shown docked at Arsvågen with a line of cars in queue. The ferry runs 38 times a day and takes 25 minues to complete its crossing of the Boknafjord.

Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
The facility, which is owned by the U.S. Army and operated by a contractor, operated intermittently in 1942-73 to produce bombs, shells, boosters, and mines. It is now in standby status.
The 19-square mile Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant is a U.S. Army Armament, Munitions, and Chemical Command facility. On standby status since 1973, the operation leases 16 square miles of land for agriculture, grazing, and wildlife management activities. The plant was built in 1942 to produce munitions and provide support functions during World War II. It has been in and out of production over the years. The plant consists of five main components: five major production areas where munitions were loaded, assembled, and packed; a fertilizer manufacturer; two major storage facilities; a sanitary landfill; and a burning ground where materials contaminated with explosives were ignited. When the plant was active, staff disposed of wastewater contaminated with explosives into 56 earthen surface impoundments, which were located near the five production areas. Dried solids from the bottom of the pits periodically were scraped and ignited at the burning ground.

Remains of Glasgow Air Force Base
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Used to be an AFB for B52s. Now a Boeing Test air field.

Salt Fork State Park
Blue_Scapegoat (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Blue_Scapegoat.
Largest State Park in Ohio. Park is 17,229 acres, with a 2,952 acre lake.

Elephant Island
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
Twenty-two members of Shackleton's Endurance spent 4 months here in 1914 at Point Wild awaiting rescue. It is a member of the South Shetland Islands.

Howard Wood Field
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.

'Beer garden' in Warsaw on the river Wisła
artek (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: artek.
small pub "garden beer" working only on summer time.

Geauga Lake (Previously Six Flags Ohio)
Blue_Scapegoat (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Blue_Scapegoat.

Furnace Creek Airport (DTH) - Lowest Airport in North America
Furnace Creek Airport in Death Valley. Elevation 210 ft below sea level.

Casper Events Center

Brucemore National Historic Site
grain91 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: grain91.
historic house

Coughlin Alumni Stadium

Airplane on runway at Billings Logan International Airport (BIL)

Sluzewiec Racetrack
artek (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: artek.
Main horse track in Warsaw - Służewiec Tor Wyścigów Konnych

Nissan Island
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
Nice looking atoll. It belongs politically to Papua & New Guinea although population would reportedly rather join Solomon Islands.

Lake Arlington Sign
darkhorse219 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: darkhorse219.
"Lake Arlington" written on the side of the lake. Can be seen from Lancaster Ave. (Texas 180)

Akershus Slott og Festning (Akershus Fortress)
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
Dating from 1299, this Medieval castle and Royal Residence developed into a fortress in 1592, and later was rebuilt into a renaissance castle in the mid 17th century. The Royal Mausoleum is also located here.

Montana State Prison
The institution is designated to maintain a population of 1300 adult male offenders that are classified to one of six custody levels (Max, Close, Medium I, Medium II, Minimum I and Minimum II).
There are approximately 600 employees of which 318 are uniformed staff.
The physical plant consists of three compounds, Max, High Side, and Low Side which are contained within a 68 acre double fenced perimeter.

Tethered Aerostat B-94 - Cudjoe Key
This particular balloon transmits american television signals into Cuba for the U.S. Information Agency. It's use is to seal off the border to illegal drugs coming in by aircraft.

Another burning field
erikz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: erikz.

Plaza de Espana
doranchak (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: doranchak.

Union Buildings - Pretoria
Were built to commemorate the unification of South Africa under British rule. The two wings at the sides represent the Boerish (Afrikaans) and the English part of the population. The building's name comes from the time of the South African Union, which was only changed in 1961 to the current name, the Republic of South Africa.
More than 80 years later they were chosen as the place where South Africa's first democratically-elected president, Nelson Mandela, was inaugurated in May 1994.

Murrysville Arboreal Sign
Originally planted by Boy Scouts in 1933, the Murrysville Arboreal Sign spells MURRYSVILLE in 836 spruce trees, is 150 feet tall and 800 feet wide, and was once the world's largest, although it is currently in a state of neglect. The bottom of the Y commemorates the site of the Haymaker Gas Well, which was once the world's largest.

Interesting Intersection
A cross between a clover-leaf and a round-about.

Washington Grizzly Stadium
Capacity 23,117.
University of Montana.

Marine Corps Training facility
andrewmorrell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: andrewmorrell.
Not a hi-res image, but a spectacular look at Parris Island.

TPC Las Colinas
darkhorse219 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: darkhorse219.
TPC Las Colinas golf course, home the the Byron Nelson Classic

Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving
Bondurant Performance Driving School in Phoenix Arizona

Tethered Aerostat B-94 (in air) - Cudjoe Key

Isla Ratones
From doranchak:
"This small island located off the Joyuda coast in Cabo Rojo, is open to the public under the supervision of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources. The name “Mouse Island" derives from its size, not because of mice."
Picture from vantage point of Joyuda beach:
http://netdial.caribe.net/~jlbayron/joyuda.htm
This is a great map which also shows the location of "Ratones":
http://www.joyudaplaza.com/HotelImages/big_hotel_map.jpg
And a mislabeled photo, I think (although the island IS near Laguna Joyuda):
http://www.usefilm.com/image/326570.html

Tibesti - Tousside and Trou au Natron
doranchak (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: doranchak.
Part of an extinct volcano complex in Chad:
"Tousside is located in the Northwest portion of the Tibesti region in Northwestern tip of Chad, Africa. The main cone is located on the western rim of its caldera. The explostion crater - Trou au Natron lays on the southeast portion of the caldera rim. Looking to the east from the summit of Tousside, it is possible to see the volcanic cones, Ehi Timi of to the northeast and Ehi Sosso looking due east. Trou au Natron explosion-and-collapse structure is 6 to 8 kilometers in diameter and 950 meters deep. Within its walls is located four small andesitic volcanoes. Pic Tousside reaches 3,265 meters in height, the second highest peak in Tibesti. In the image above Pic Tousside is visably located near the middle of the dark andesite flows as well as Trou au Natron's white crater floor of sodium carbonate off to the lower right."

National Capitol Columns at the National Arboretum
These columns, which were removed from the Capitol bulding during a renovation in the 1950s, were set up with a reflecting pool in the Ellipse Meadow at the National Arboretum in the early 1990s.

Sioux Falls Regional Airport (FSD)
aka Joe Foss Field
South Dakota's 114th Fighter Group, nicknamed the Lobos, is stationed at Joe Foss Field, Sioux Falls, SD.

Waterkloof Air Force Base

Drivers Education Course
Natrona County School District's drivers ed closed course.

Loftus Versfeld Stadium

Sioux Falls Arena

Largest Lake in Africa
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of about 59,947 km2, Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's 2nd-largest fresh water lake by surface area. Lake Victoria is the world's 9th-largest continental lake by volume, with roughly 2,424 km3 of water. The lake has an average depth of 40 m and a max depth of 80–84 m. Its catchment area is169,858 km2. The lake has a shoreline of 7,142 km.
AKA Nam Lolwe (Dholuo)
'Nnalubaale (Luganda)
Nyanza (Kinyarwanda)
Ukerewe (undetermined)

Voortrekker Monument
Built in honour of the Voortrekkers (Pioneers), who left the Cape Colony in their thousands between 1835 and 1854. The architect was Gerard Moerdijk and it was his ideal to design a "monument that would stand a thousand years to describe the history and the meaning of the Great Trek to its descendants."

Fort Stanwix
albinoflea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: albinoflea.
The original Fort Stanwix was the site of a failed British seige in August of 1777, and is traditionally thought to be the first place that the American flag was flown in battle. This reconstruction was built in the 1970s after an archaeological dig on the original site was completed.

Plaza de Toros, Córdoba
doranchak (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: doranchak.

Manam volcano
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.

Ovau Island
Half of of an island off Bougainville is missing. I was hoping it might the one called Shortland Island but that is situated further south and seems to be quite complete ;=)

Statium Polonia Warszawa
artek (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: artek.
Polonia Warszawa ul. Konwiktorska 6 w warszawie

Gliders at Hobbs
Gliders at Hobbs Industrial Airpark in what looks like a start of competition. The National Soaring Foundation is based at Hobbs.

Utqiaġvik - northernmost US city
Northernmost US city, Barrow (Utqiaġvik) Alaska

F16s at Great Falls International Airport (GTF)
The 120th Fighter Wing (FW) of the Montana Air National Guard occupies 141 acres of leased land on the Great Falls International Airport (IAP), located approximately 3 miles southwest of downtown Great Falls, Montana. The 120th FW flies a general-purpose mission, including air defense, utilizing the F-16 Falcon.

El Estadio de La Cartuja

Sioux Falls Stadium

South Georgia
albinoflea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: albinoflea.
Home to the burial site of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. The Falkland Island War began here in 1982.

Max Worthington Coliseum
Montana State University

Reno H Sales Stadium (Bobcat Stadium)
Montana State University

Stadion Wojska Polskiego
Stadion Wojska Polskiego im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego

Orange Grove NALF
Orange Grove Naval Auxiliary Landing Field is used mainly for jet touch & go training (note the marks on runways and markings possibly intended to represent carrier deck) and for IFR training using its radar facility. History of the field here:

Nebraska State Fair Park Racetrack
5/8 mile dirt track.

Hotel Principe de Asturias
It is identified on this map:

Lincoln Air Guard Base
Used to be Lincol Air Force Base, now Lincoln Municipal Airport. Bomber wings, air refueling Squadrons, and an Atlas ICBM squadron were assigned to the base. The longest runway is 12,900 ft. long and 200 ft wide. Any aircraft in the world can land on this runway, even one of the space shuttles.

Kårstø Gas Processing Plant
The Kårstø Gas Processing Plant is one of the world’s largest producers of liquefied petroleum gases.

Lazienki Krolewskie - Royal Park in Warsaw
Royal Park & Museum

M/S Gabriella
erikz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: erikz.

Burnett Plaza
darkhorse219 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: darkhorse219.
According to skyscrapers.com, Burnett Plaza is the tallest building between Dallas and Los Angeles

Teatro Lope de Vega

Vikingskipshuset (Viking Ship Museum)
Museum housing the Viking ships and associated items from archaeological digs at Tune, Gokstad, and Oseberg.

Kalmar Nyckel
A reproduction of the 17th century ship that brought Swedish settlers to the colony of New Sweden, now known as Wilmington, Delaware. The ship is shown in port on the Christina River.

Belcher Islands
romulusnr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: romulusnr.
These strange islands in Hudson Bay are the result of post-volcanic rock being squeezed together by tectonic plate movements. There are over 1,500 individual islands. Inside the northern lagoon of the central island is the village of Sanikiluaq, the southernmost town in Canada's Nunavut Territory.

Martin Carpena Stadium
Can anyone find the real name of the stadium?
Closest thing I can find is:
http://www.malaga-weather.com/article.33.html

Korty Warszawianki
Tennis stadium - capacity 4400.

Bridge & road building

One in a ring of forts - Warsaw
1878-82 - a ring of forts according to designs of General Edward Todtleben (1818-1884) was built; forts marked with numbers and letters of russian alphabet. Work started 1879.
Forts on right bank of river Vistula:
Fort I Mlynkovski
Fort II Mierzwiaczka
Fort III Deblin
Fort IV Borova
and on left bank:
Fort V Borek
Fort VI Glusiec

Home Improvement Showdown
Corporate warfare. A Lowe's and a Home Depot that face each other in Houston

Stavanger Airport (SVG)
Opened in 1937, Stavanger Airport is Norway's oldest airport.
Stavanger Lufthavn

Herrenhäuser Gärten

D#1 Missile Annex A
Owned by Nebraska University, it's being leased to a company for ranching and storage...[T]his site has been used by the Nebraska National Guard as a training site for at least 5 years, mostly for military police K-9 training.
Offutt's missiles were manned by the 549th SMS which was activated August 15 1959, went on alert March 30 1962, started going off alert October 1 1964, and was inactivated December 14 1964.

Burning field
erikz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: erikz.

Museum of mountain Flying
Montana is the birthplace of mountain flying. This museum seeks to interpret and preserve the history of mountain flying in Montana and the northern Rockies. There are aircraft displays as well as interactive history displays.

New Bridge - Warsaw
ED: Link is bad. Can someone provide the good link?

Westernmost Point in US
Cape Wrangell on Attu Island (Alaska)

Rooftop Lettering

Deepest lake in the world
Lake Baikal, depth 5,712ft

Hermann Bridge
Bridge over Missouri river

Sculls on the Schuykill
andrewmorrell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: andrewmorrell.
Rowers in their sculls just north of the famous Boathouse Row near downtown Philadelphia.

Catalina Airport (AVX)
Santa Catalina Airport in the sky (1,602ft above sea level)
AKA Buffalo Springs Airport