VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-08-05

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Three Ponds
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By: Kant.
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As befits the costliest home in the Northeast in 2005 (not to mention the U.S.), Three Ponds has a lot going for it. The main house, designed in a grand traditional style, totals about 25,000 square feet and has a curved living room with soaring ceilings. The grounds include far more than rolling lawns and trimmed hedges—there's a U.S. Golf Association-rated course designed by Rees Jones, a pro shop and a grass tennis court. The 14 gardens include vegetable, rose, hydrangea and butterfly plantings. There's also a 75-foot-long pool, barns, a guest cottage, fish house, orangery and three ponds stocked with fish. The property is listed with Susan Breitenbach at Allan M. Schneider & Associates.

Hiroshima ground zero
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Abandoned Brownwood subdivision
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By: kjfitz.
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Pictures.
A suburban subdivision (in the shadow of the massive Baytown Refinery) which was vacated due to flooding problems. Roads and lots for 400 homes were carved out of the bushes on this 450 acre riverfront peninsula in the 1950's. Flooding from a storm surge in 1961 was the first incident which halted further development. Levees and pumps were installed to protect the existing homes, however another flood in 1983 caused an evacuation, afterwhich FEMA bought out the residents interests, and the community was condemned. Now being turned into a natural preserve.

Air Force Plant 44 - Raytheon
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Air Force Plant 44 is southwest of Tucson and is operated by Raytheon Missile Systems Company [Hughes Aircraft]. It covers 2,900 acres (95% government-owned) and 2.1 million square feet (51% government-owned, including the manufacturing space and Final Assembly and Checkout [FACOI facilities). The main plant complex was built in 1951 by the Del Webb Corporation for Hughes Aircraft Co. Hughes then sold the plant to the U.S. Air Force (USAF), but continued to operate it. At that time it was the prime production plant for the Falcon family of air-to-air missiles. In 1954, the plant was expanded by adding land and building the FACO facility for the Navy’ s Walleye Missile. Test cells and explosive storage magazines for the Phoenix and AMRAAM programs were added later. In the mid-1980s over 1,900 acres were transferred to the state, Tucson, and the Air National Guard. At that time, AFP 44 supported the TOW, Maverick, Phoenix, ARBS (Angle Rate Bombing System), and AMRAAM programs. The FACO facility is used for Maverick and TOW missile assembly.

Direct TV Castle Rock Broadcast Center
VAX (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: VAX.
Ever wonder where your Direct TV comes from? Site Owned by Hughes Communication Satellite Serv INC.

Longest breakwater in the world
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
At 6.74 miles, the granite South Breakwater at the Port of Galveston is the longest breakwater in the world. It is part of a network of structures that protect Galveston's port and the vital industrial and shipping facilities in and around Galveston Bay, where a significant amount of the nation's oil and chemicals are produced. Flood and shoreline structures in the region are built primarily by the Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District.

Thiokol Promontory Complex
Thiokol builds the NASA space shuttle rocket motors at this sprawling isolated facility near the Promontory Mountains. Other defense and propulsions systems are developed, built, and tested here including ICBM rocket engines. The plant, once designated as "Air Force Plant 78" employs over three thousand people, who work in 450 buildings, clustered in the various industrial and test areas that are scattered throughout the bare hills of the 30 square mile complex. In 2001 Thiokol's propulsion divsion was acquired by Alliant Techsystems, a weapons and explosives manufacturer that operates a large plant outside Salt Lake City, the Bacchus Works. The Thiokol plant is expected to continue its current functions.

Chrysler Proving Grounds
3800 acre Arizona Proving Ground is one of America's premier vehicle test facilities.
Designed to meet a wide range of test requirements, for a wide range of vehicles, the Arizona Proving Ground sees millions of test miles each year! Based about 120 miles southeast of Las Vegas in Yucca Arizona, the Proving Ground is situated between the cities of Kingman and Lake Havasu.
Building Complex
The Arizona Proving Ground is an expansive facility with more than 50 miles of concrete and earthen surfaces that are continuously maintained. With elevations from 500 to 6500 feet above sea level, varied terrain and temperatures ranging from 30 to 120 degrees, APG provides a wide spectrum of vehicle testing conditions.

Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Center
The Nevada Department of Prisons selected Corrections Corporation of America as the private corrections contractor to design, build, and operate a correctional facility for women in Las Vegas. The Southern Nevada Women’s Correctional Facility opened in September 1997. In November 1998 the institution was accredited by the American Correctional Association. On October 1st, 2004, the Nevada Department of Corrections assumed control of the center.

Aircraft in desert storage at Kingman
Unusual desert airport, with some aircraft maintenance facilities, and large airliners in storage. Originally called "Storage Depot #41," Kingman was a major storage airport for airplanes returning from WWII.
Note all of the concrete foundations in the central airport area left over from the old WWII buildings.

Former Eaker Air Force Base
Arkansas Aeroplex
Eaker Air Force Base was the home of a B-52 bomber wing and a refueling wing, with around 4,000 workers, until 1992 when it was closed by BRAC. It is now a civilian airfield with some National Guard support activities.

Malibu Grand Prix - no more
bonjbrown (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: bonjbrown.
This used to be a place to race little cars for fun. There was an arcade with it. I think its gone now.

Iraq Shipwreck 11
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant
One of the seven original primary nuclear wepons component facilities, Rocky Flats is a 6,550 acre site, 16 miles from downtown Denver. The site has a heavily industrialized 384 acre complex, surrounded by a mostly undeveloped buffer zone. Rocky Flats made the nuclear "pits", the fissile plutonium cores of nuclear bombs. The facility was operated for many years by Rockwell International, until it was raided by the FBI in 1989, due to suspected (and later confirmed) criminal radioactive material management violations. Production of plutonium pits stopped at that point, and the EG&G Corporation took over the management of the plant, then the Kaiser Hill Company later took over management from EG&G. The Department of Energy, which owns the heavily contaminated facilty, has changed its name to the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site.

La Rambla
focusfree (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: focusfree.
One of the most famous strolling streets in world. In the oldest part of an old city.

Malibu Castle
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.
Go-cart racing, Arcade, mini-golf, etc.

Montasia Family Fun Center
bonjbrown (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: bonjbrown.

Tintic Standard Reduction Mill
A nice ruin of a mill that served the mines in the Tintic mining district, in the hills to the west. Located on a scenic, west facing slope, the complex was abandoned in 1925, as its process of reducing ore became outdated.

Nagasaki ground zero
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.

Iraq shipwreck 01

Alcoa Plant
Probably a bauxite processing plant.

Malibu Grand Prix - Redwood City
Go-cart racing, Mini-golf, arcade, etc.

Napoleon death place
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.

Lockheed Martin Astronautics
The main site for Lockheed Martin's Astronautics division is a 5,400-acre industrial site, with numerous production, test, and space simulation facilities, and over 70 laboratories. The Astronautics division designs and manufactures space launch vehicles, such as Titan and Atlas rockets; satellites, for communications and defense; and space probes, such as the Mars probe it built for the 1996 Jet Propulsion Lab Mars mission. Over 6,000 people work at this plant. Astronautics' administrative headquarters is five miles away at a 1,060-acre office complex called the Deer Creek Facility.

Houston Castle Golf and Games
bonjbrown (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: bonjbrown.

Malibu Grand Prix - Norcross
Go-cart racing, Mini-golf, arcade, etc.

Pima Air Museum
Third largest collection of historic aircraft in the world, displaying more than 180 aircraft covering the evolution of American aviation. Also operates the Titan Missile Museum.

PAVE PAWS Radar - Eldorado
This radar was dismantled and moved to Clear AFS.
The radar system is capable of detecting and monitoring a great number of targets that would be consistent with a massive SLBM attack. The system must rapidly discriminate between vehicle types, calculating their launch and impact points in addition to the scheduling, data processing and communications requirements. The operation is entirely automatic, requiring people only for monitoring, maintenance and as a final check on the validity of warnings. Three different computers communicating with each other form the heart of the system which relays the information the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Base.
The mission of the PAVE PAWS radar installations involves two activities. The first activity, surveillance, is to detect and determine attack characteristics of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles that might penetrate the PAVE PAWS field of view. Once detected, the launched object is continuously tracked and its trajectory estimated. Any object that separates from a booster is also tracked as it approaches. The second activity, tracking, supports the USSPACECOM Space Surveillance Network, which involves the surveillance and tracking of earth satellites and identification of other space objects.

Hole in the Rock
A 14-room house carved from a sandstone monolith by Albert Christensen, who spent 12 years on the project, and his wife Gladys, who continued the work for another eight years after he died in 1957. The cavity is 5,000 square feet of fully furnished, manmade cave, with a fireplace and a deep fryer. It is now operated as a tourist attraction, and includes taxidermy exhibits, a lapidary room, gift shop, snack bar & picnic area.

Strange Reservoir?
I'm really not sure what this is. Its near Lake Travis outside of Austin.

Tailings Basin for the Former Jackson County Iron Mine Quarry
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.

Colorado State Patrol Academy
The Academy's facilities include the main building, a nearby indoor firearms range, and a driving track on the top of South Table Mountain.
The Colorado Law Enforcement Memorial is also located on the Academy grounds.

Barsana Dham Hindu Temple
Hindu Temple and Retreat Center outside of Austin

Fort Peck Dam
Largest volume embankment dam in the USA (96,050,000 cubic meters), the second largest in the world (follows Tarbela dam in Pakistan, 148,500,000 cubic meters).

Chambers Island
cdiltz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: cdiltz.
Chambers Island in the waters of Green Bay, WI. There is an island in Mackaysee Lake, so this is an example of an island in a lake in an island in a lake!

University of Houston

Iraq Shipwreck 13

Texas Southern University

Retama Park

Parc Güell
focusfree (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: focusfree.
Parc Güell (Spanish: Parque Güell) is a privatized park system of gardens and architectural elements on Carmel Hill, in Barcelona, Catalonia. Carmel Hill belongs to the Collserola – the Parc del Carmel is located on the northern face. Park Güell is located in La Salut, a neighborhood in the Gràcia District. With urbanization in mind, Eusebi Güell assigned the design of the park to Antoni Gaudí, a renowned architect and the face of Catalan modernism.
The park was built from 1900 to 1914 and was opened as a public park in 1926. In 1984, UNESCO declared the park a World Heritage Site under "Works of Antoni Gaudí".

Frank Erwin Center
Frank Erwin Special Events Center on the University of Texas campus. Texas men's and women's basketball home. Lots of concerts and arena footbal.

Airplanes on static display
Cannon AFB

Canada France Hawaii Telescope
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is a non-profit organization that operates a world class 3.6 meter telescope atop Mauna Kea, a dormant Hawaiian volcano rising 4,200 meters above the Pacific ocean. The Observatory head- quarters are located in Waimea (Kamuela), where CFHT has been part of the community since 1977. The CFHT team of some 50 people includes engineers, technicians, astronomers, and administrators.

Cruiser FS Colbert
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
Last cruiser of the French navy. Since 1993 museum ship in Bordeaux.

NASA KC-135 N930NA on static display
Ellington Field
A 1,500-acre military and civilian air field used by the Air Force, NASA, McDonnell Douglas, Northrop Grummann, and UPS. Once a full Air Force Base, the field has been mostly turned over to the city of Houston, which is hoping to attract more commercial uses for the field.

Glasgow Airport
Glasgow AFB, former strategic air command base, now operated as an aviation research facility by Boeing. Facilities include a 13,000 foot runway, numerous hangars, and other test facilities. Much of it is abandoned.
Glasgow AFB, which closed in the 1970s, was so isolated and without business advantages that it sat idle for years until Boeing Company recently began testing planes there. The Boeing Company, of Seattle, Wash., owns most of the former air force base, including the old officer's club facility. In February 1997 Montana Senator Conrad Burns announced that he had helped set up negotiations between the Saint Marie Condominium Association (SMCA) and Boeing regarding the possible lease of the officers club on the old Glasgow Air Force Base. With the exception of the Glasgow Industrial Airport located in Glasgow, Montana, which is company-owned, runways and taxiways used by Boeing are located on airport properties owned by others and are used by the company jointly with others.

University of New Mexico
focusfree (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: focusfree.
Central Campus

Lowell Observatory
A collection of eight observatories on Mars Hill, Anderson Mesa (10 miles away), and other hills in the Flagstaff area, comprising the Lowell Observatory. This observatory is known for it's observations of the Solar System, and of asteroids, though it also explores objects in deeper space. Extensive educational displays in the visitors center.

Wazee Lake
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
From http://www.co.jackson.wi.us/html/forestry/scuba.htm:
The lake was the site of the former Jackson County Iron Mine quarry. The mine was in operation from the early sixties until April of 1983. Approximately 850,00 tons of iron-rich taconite pellets were produced at the mine each year, with the bulk of them used for steel production in mills located in East Chicago, Indiana. A crash of the domestic steel markets in the United States contributed to the decision to close the mine... Today, Wazee Lake is recognized as the deepest inland lake in the State of Wisconsin with a maximum depth of 355 feet...Although all machinery was removed from the quarry upon its closure, remnants of the mining operation still remain visible underwater. A series of circular haul roads wind around the pit, where divers often find artifacts including chains, pipes; taconite pellets, and iron shovel teeth. Massive boulders and shear cliff faces create challenging and interesting features for the more experienced recreational diver.

Fauntleroy Ferry

Shinkansen Bullet Train railyard
masa (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: masa.

2005-08-06 - Approximate Site of Stranded AS-28 Russian Submarine
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
Aug 6, 2005
News agencies have been reporting the site at 70 km South of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which at 111.3 km per degree latitude equals 0.629°

Iraq shipwreck 07

Tibidabo
A Church and Amusement Park on a mountain overlooking Barcelona

Saint Andre Cathedral
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.

Colorado River Japanese internment camp
An internment camp in the desert where 17,000 people of Japanese ethnicity were imprisoned during World War Two. The facility consists of three camps in the region. One of ten such relocation camps in the country that imprisoned over 100,000 people during the war.

Iraq Shipwreck 08 & 09

Esplanade des Quinconces
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
The 'Esplanade des Quinconces' is a huge promenade laid out between 1818 and 1828 that takes up more than 12 hectares in the heart of Bordeaux by the river Garonne. It is one of the largest squares in Europe.

Hill AFB Air Museum
Museum exhibits over 80 military aircraft, missiles, and aerospace vehicles on the grounds and inside the Major General Rex A. Hadley Gallery and the Lindquist-Stewart Fighter Gallery. The museum collection also includes a wide variety of ordnance, an assortment of aerospace ground equipment, military vehicles, uniforms, and thousands of other historical artifacts.

Chapultepec Castle
TXArtcGal (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TXArtcGal.
More neat pictures at: http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/chapultepec-castle.htm

Cluster of Prisons
There are about four or five federal and state prisons and/or juvenile detention centers in this small area of Beaumont. You can also see some round things that I feel certain are petroleum related.

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Driving Range
I don't know when this was last in use but it has all of the markings of an old drive-in.

Iraq Shipwreck 12

Fake town on Fort Campbell
Used for urban warfare training.

Disch-Falk and Red McCombs Fields
Home of the University of Texas Longhorns baseball (National Champions -2005) and softball teams.

Man at Chapultepec Park
TXArtcGal (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TXArtcGal.
As I was skimming Mexico City, I spotted this "little guy." I did some research and found out he is part of Chapultepec Park, one of the world's largest parks within a city at 1600 acres of land. Check out the link for more info, and for a detailed map of the park.

Verizon Wireless Music Center

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Operated by the Department of Energy, this multiple laboratory facility is engaged in research and development in renewable energy and related technologies. Some of the facilities include: Solar Energy Research Facility (SERF) houses 42 laboratories for research in photovoltaics, superconductivity and related materials science; Field Test Laboratory Building houses 41 laboratories for research in alternative fuels and industrial processes; The National Wind Technology Center, located in the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site buffer zone, is the site of NREL's wind energy research. NREL leases another 275,000 sq. ft. of office space in the Denver West Office Park. The space is used for administrative offices and research labs.

National Atomic Museum
The National Atomic Museum is a large gallery of artifacts and informational displays about the nation's nuclear weapons development program. The museum is operated by Sandia National Laboratory, and is located on the grounds of Kirtland Air Force Base. On display at the Museum are numerous nuclear weapons casings, including the casings of Fat Man and Little Boy, the types of bombs used on Japan in World War II. Also on display is the casing of a Mk. 17 hydrogen bomb, the same type that fell out of a B-36 bomber on its descent into Kirtland Air Force Base in 1957. Static displays on the history of the development of nuclear technologies, and a regular screening of the film "The Ten Seconds that Shook the World" are additional features of the museum. In the lot outside is a nuclear cannon, and several aircraft, including a B-29 and a B-52. The library at the museum houses a collection of books on nuclear and military technologies. There is also a museum store that sells scientific models and toys, and an unusual collection of out-of-print books for sale. Unusual artifacts such as parts from missiles and Cray supercomputers are also sometimes available at the store.The museum was founded by the Defense Nuclear Agency in 1969, and was congressionally chartered as the nations "official" Atomic Museum in 1991. Sandia Lab took over management of the museum from the Department of Energy in 1996.

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - LA

Brest Castle

Pont d'Aquitaine

Cruise ships in Marseille
What are all these ships doing in same harbour at the same time? There are six ships of the same operator here all counted.

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Selma

Standard Bank Stadium
Home of the Frontier League's Windy City Thunderbolts.

Herbert Hoover Museum and Library

Iraq shipwreck 05 & 06

Dassault Aviation
Dassault Aviation facilities at Bordeaux-Merignac airport, note the lone Mirage fighter on tarmac.

Historic City of Toledo
A Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a fortress of the Emirate of Cordoba, an outpost of Christian kingdoms and, in the 1500s, the temporary seat of supreme power under Charles V, Toledo is the repository of over 2 millennia of history. Its masterpieces are the product of heterogeneous civilizations in an environment where the existence of 3 major religions was a major factor.
Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.

Seattle Ferry

Peugeot factories
Peugeot's Mulhouse factory is the largest employer in Alsace.

Roubaix Grand-Place

Tomball College

Grain carrying ship

Tanker

Vashon Island Ferries

Natural arch
Aka "Chateau de dinan"

Seattle-Bremerton Ferry (at Bremerton)

Maltese Cross - Freeway Interchange
This is the interchange of the Gulf Freeway and the Sam Houston Tollway. It resembles a Maltese Cross.

Elko NEXRAD
NEXRAD (Next Generation Radar) is a special type of radar that is used for obtaining weather information. Unlike previous radars, NEXRAD is capable of detecting not only the existence of interesting objects in the air (precipitation, clouds, etc.) but also their motion. This allows meteorologists to get a better idea of what is happening inside a cloud and predict phenomenon such as wind shear and tornados with greater accuracy.
NEXRAD was originally deployed in Oklahoma City in 1988. The technical name for NEXRAD is WSR-88D which derives its name from Weather Surveillance Radar Doppler, with the "88" coming from the year it was deployed.

'Blaye citadel' by Vauban
The Blaye Citadel was built by Vauban at the end of the 17th century and along with the Fort of the Island of Pate and Fort Medoc on the left bank, formed Bordeaux's line of defense on the estuary of the Gironde.

Steilacoom Ferry

Ice breakup

Lagatjar alignments
Over 140 standing stones are arranged in several lines along the top of a hill overlooking Camaret-sur-Mer.

Rio Grande Zoo
The most elaborate zoo in New Mexico