VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-08-24

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World's Most Remote Island - Tristan da Cunha
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A picture of Tristan da Cunha which is considered the world's most remote island. Nearby is Inaccessible Island.

Tuxtla Gutiérrez
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La ciudad Capital de Chiapas

Las Lagunas de La Molina
Josema (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Josema.
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One of the more exclusive condos from Lima.

Vrijthof (Maastricht)
BigVoet (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: BigVoet.

Bikini Atoll
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
Site of the first Hydrogen Bomb test.
From http://www.rmiembassyus.org/Nuclear%20Issues.htm:
Bikini's weather outlook downgraded to "unfavorable" and Joint Task Force 7 directs several ships to move 20 miles to the south to remove them from the expected fallout zone. Despite weather reports showing that winds are blowing in the direction of inhabited islands, the March 1 Bravo hydrogen bomb test is detonated at Bikini. At 15 megatons, it is 1,000 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb. Within hours a gritty, white ash is enveloping islanders on Rongelap and Ailinginae Atolls. A few hours later, American weathermen are exposed to the snowstorm of fallout on Rongerik, and still later the people of Utrik and other islands experience the fallout "mist". Those exposed experience nausea, vomiting and itching skin and eyes. March 3 Rongelap islanders are evacuated 48 hours later, and Utrik is evacuated 72 hours after Bravo. Both groups are taken to Kwajalein for observation. Skin burns on the heavily exposed people begin to develop, and later their hair falls out. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission issues a statement to the press calling Bravo a "routine atomic test", and stating that some Americans and Marshallese were "unexpectedly exposed to some radioactivity. There were no burns. All were reported well."

Salou
RealBadBoy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: RealBadBoy.

Johan Cruyff Arena
RealBadBoy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: RealBadBoy.

Power lines
bonjbrown (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: bonjbrown.
Three parellel lines running acros Lake Austin. Difficult to see on Google Maps. Probably easier to see in Google Earth.

30 St. Mary's Axe ("Gherkin")
yikesahootie (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: yikesahootie.
Love it or hate it, here it is: the "Gherkin."
By Foster + Partners

London Zoo
yikesahootie (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: yikesahootie.

Cuartel General del Ejercito Peruano
Josema (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Josema.
Más conocido como "El Pentagonito".

Kondyor Massif
sharky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: sharky.
It's not a volcano or a meteor strike. It's an intrusion of rare minerals originally over 5,000 miles deep in the earth that tunneled up through the mantle over a billion years ago. Erosion caused the formation you see today.

Almirante Grau (De Ruyter class) light cruiser
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Displacement: 11,850 tons full load
Propulsion: Steam turbines, 4 boilers, 2 shafts, 79,000 shp, 32 knots
Crew: 953
Radar: LW-08 early warning
Sonar: CWE-610 hull
Fire Control: WM-25 target illumination, STIR-24 missile control
EW: HSA intercept, Ramses jammer, 2 Sagaie & 2 Dagaie decoy
Armament: 8 Otomat SSM, 3 dual 152mm/53, 8 40 mm
Ex-Dutch light cruiser. One 6" turret removed. The
last gun cruiser in service in the world.
Number Name Year Homeport Notes
CH 81 Almirante Grau 1953/73 Ex-De Ruyter

Concrete Outline of the USS South Dakota (BB-57)
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
When they scrapped "Old Nameless" in 1962, Sioux Falls couldn't get the whole battleship into landlocked South Dakota. So they salvaged what parts they could, poured a foot-high concrete outline onto the ground in Sherman Park along the banks of the Big Sioux River, and combined the pieces into a minimalist pseudo-replica.
The anchor, the ship's bell, a massive propeller, and other components are placed around the park within the outline. There is an original 16-inch gun (weighing 94 tons), suitable for shelling the towns of eastern South Dakota, and the actual flag mast. The outline is 680 feet in length.

American Samoa
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
Thumbnail shows the main island of Tutuila.

Banco de Crédito del Perú - Sede Central
Josema (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Josema.
La forma ovalada que se ve al lado izquierdo del techo es toda de vidrio y tiene una altura de 5 pisos aproximadamente. En el centro de ese espacio se encuentran las escaleras eléctricas que llevan del Hall Central al primer piso de oficinas. Al centro de toda la estructura de forma cuadrangular hay una gran cascada, de esta manera todas las oficinas que miran a la parte interna del edificio tienen una linda vista.

Anatahan Island
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
From Wikipedia:
Anatahan Volcano is a small volcanic island located 120 km (80 miles) north of Saipan Island and 320 km (200 miles) north of Guam. The island is about 9 km (5.6 miles) long and 3 km (2 miles) wide. Anatahan began erupting suddenly from its east crater at about 5:00 p.m. on May 10, 2003.
Since then it has continued to alternate between eruptive and calm periods. On April 6, 2005, approximately 50,000 cubic meters of ash and rock were ejected, causing a large, black cloud to drift southward over Saipan and Tinian. Recent eruptions have caused some commercial flights to re-route.

Couples Ochos Rios Resort
santo (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: santo.
All-inclusive resort near Ochos Rios in Jamaica.

Pedernales Falls
bonjbrown (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: bonjbrown.
Pronounced Perd-na-lez.

Bordeaux U-Boat Pens
Lorran (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Lorran.
The most southern of all the Bay of Biscay bases at Bordeaux, is not actually located on the Atlantic coast, but is situated some 60 miles inland on the Gironde River, Donitz decided he wanted a Bunker facility built here, and that work commenced in September 1941.
Eventually an 11 pen structure, 7 of which had dry dock facilities, was available in a complex, 245 metres long by 162 metres wide and with a height of 19 metres. The roof had a varying thickness from 5.6 metres to about 3.6 metres over the rear servicing area.

Hipódromo de Monterrico

Stadion Feyenoord - De Kuip
mmoo (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mmoo.

Cape Royds
Location of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Expedition Hut, inscribed on the World Monument Fund's World Monuments Watch
List for 2006.

Gelredome Stadium
RealBadBoy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: RealBadBoy.

Philips Stadium (PSV)

Noah's Ark
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Former Noah's Ark Restaurant.
It is a large wooden boat that looks as though it has been shipwrecked. Several large fiberglass animals stand guard in the deserted parking lot, including a giraffe, elephant, and mastadon/mammoth.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)

Airplane approaching Heathrow
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Kegs Drive-in
Drive-in restaurant made of two giant kegs.

Aberdeen Proving Ground Craters
ry0ohki (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: ry0ohki.
Not quite sure what these are, but I believe they are craters in the mortar testing area? Although the size of them makes me think its something more? Anyone else know for sure?

Lille Zenith
Lorran (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Lorran.
Building with a roof paint to see him from space, Rem Koolhass.

B/S Georgios Averoff
Georgios Averoff is the world's only surviving heavily armored cruiser of the early 20th century. During the Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913, she gained her greatest glory as the Hellenic Navy fleet flagship by freeing the North and Central Aegean islands, as well as the coastal cities of East Macedonia and Thrace. In 1917, she entered World War I and served on the side of the Entente. She participated in the Asia Minor Campaign (1919-1922), carrying Greek troops to and from Smyrna. She served on the Allied side during World War II, having fled to Egypt with the rest of the fleet. She led the Greek naval force when the fleet dropped anchor in the Faliron Bay, Athens on October 17, 1944, at the end of the Nazi occupation. Averoff's last voyage was to Rhodes in May 1945, to commemorate the accession of Dodecanese from Italy. She was towed to her permanent berth in Faliron Bay in 1985, where is now open as a museum.

Aerojet rocket engine test site
robsv (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: robsv.
The headquarters and rocket test area for aerospace/defense corporation Aerojet. The test area contains structures and facilities for the manufacture and testing of rocket engines. The site covers 8,500 acres, and is currently undergoing environmental remediation.

Academic Hospital Maastricht (AZM)
BigVoet (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: BigVoet.

Stadium Parkstad Limburg (Roda JC)

Cimetière du Montparnasse
Kooothor (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Kooothor.
The big cemetary nearby the Montparnasse tower wich is bigger than the Eiffel one.

Texas Shaped Library
bonjbrown (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: bonjbrown.
When I was a student at the University of Texas wandering through the library we wondered what the heck the architect had in mind with this wierd shaped library. Supposedly it's designed in the shape of Texas. Sort of abstract I suppose. The official name of the library is Perry-Casteneda Library or the PCL. Sometimes called the pickle.

H-53 Helicopter @ Kabul Airport
sharky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: sharky.
The helicopter could be a Apache or a Black Hawk. Their own airforce has green Mil Mi-8's

Koror
The largest island in the Republic of Palau.

TT Assen Circuit

Airshow at Cold Lake Airbase
BaasG (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: BaasG.
Flightline with 7 Thunderbird F-16's and the Snow Birds, static show with tiger CF-18, E-3, C-141, KC-10, KC-135, P-3, A-10's, F-16's, F-15E's and some crowd.

Entering Chicago's Union Station
boogerpresley (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: boogerpresley.
A whole slew of railroad tracks leading into Chicago's Union Station. Metra & Amtrak service the area.

Stadion Galgenwaard
This is a football stadium in Utrecht. It's been the home of FC Utrecht since 1970. The stadium, which underwent a renovation starting at the beginning of the 2000s, has a capacity of 23,750 spectators

Embassy of the United States of America in Peru
Justo al frente de esta embajada (supuestamente una de las más seguras de todo Lima) hay un Centro Comercial en donde hace unos años un movimiento terrorista colocó 1 coche bomba. No estuvo a más de 100 metros de la entrada principal de la embajada.

RV Ben Franklin & Vancouver Maritime Museum
RV Ben Franklin was built between 1966 and 1968 in Switzerland for deep ocean explorer Jacques Piccard and the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation. She was christened "America's largest submersible". Her namesake, American patriot and inventor Ben Franklin, was the first to map the Gulf Stream and gave it its name.
The submersible made a famous 30-day drift dive off the East Coast of the United States and Canada in 1969, mapping the Gulf Stream's currents and sea life. She also made space exploration history by studying the behavior of aquanauts in a sealed, self-contained, self-sufficient capsule for NASA.
During Ben Franklin's career, she was also involved in acoustic, marine biological, chemical and other experiments as well as deep water salvage operations, pollution studies, photo mapping of the sea floor and ocean environment research for the U.S. Navy. She was donated to the Vancouver Maritime Museum by Horton Trading Company in December 1999.

Olympic Stadium Amsterdam (1928)

Henry E. Rohlsen Airport (STX)
The only airport on the island of St. Croix.

Stadium Arke (FC Twente)

La Atarjea
Planta de tratamiento de Aguas.

Jardines de la Paz Cementery
Another exclusive spot from Lima. In fact, is a very nice and peaceful place for a cementery. The view...the wind.

HR MS Buffel
Hr Ms Buffel was the first of three (Buffel, Schorpioen and Stier) ironclad turret-ram ships built for the Royal Netherlands Navy between 1867 and 1869. Her mission was coastal defense in the North Sea. The submerged bow ram was intended to disable an enemy warship either by making holes in it below the waterline, or by shearing off its rudder. The rotating turret-mounted gun increased the arc of fire and provided protection for the gun and gunners.
Buffel never engaged an enemy vessel during her 17 years in commission. Following her retirement from active service, Buffel became an accommodation ship, first at Hellevoetsluis and later at Den Helder. She served for many years as a stationary training hulk in the Amsterdam Navy Yard where she survived World War II. She is now fully restored as a museum ship.

Sparta Stadium
Sparta Stadium Rotterdam

CoRCoVaDo
CoRCoVaDo (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: CoRCoVaDo.

Sailing ship Christian Radich
More on the pier to the NNW.

Missile destroyer BAP Ferre

RCMPV St. Roch
Built for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force to serve as a supply ship for isolated, far-flung Arctic RCMP detachments, St. Roch was also designed to serve when frozen in for the winter, as a floating detachment, with its constables mounting dog sled patrols from the ship. Between 1929 and 1939 St. Roch made three voyages to the Arctic. Between 1940 and 1942 St. Roch navigated the Northwest Passage, arriving in Halifax harbor on October 11, 1942. St. Roch was the second ship to make the passage, and the first to travel the passage from west to east. In 1944, St. Roch returned to Vancouver via the more northerly route of the Northwest Passage, making her run in 86 days. The epic voyages of St. Roch demonstrated Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic during the difficult wartime years, and extended Canadian control over its vast northern territories.
Retired after returning from the Arctic in 1948, St. Roch was sent to Halifax by way of the Panama Canal in 1950. This voyage made St. Roch the first ship to circumnavigate North America. Returned to Vancouver for preservation as a museum ship in 1954, St. Roch was hauled ashore in 1958. Housed over in 1966 and restored to her 1944 appearance by the Canadian Parks Service, the ship is the centerpiece of the maritime museum complex at Kitsilano Point.

Stadium De Geusselt (MVV)

Stadium MyCom (NAC)

Peruvian submarines
Casma class (Type 209/1200) coastal submarines
Displacement: 1,300 tons submerged
Dimensions: 56.1 x 6.2 x 5.5 meters (184 x 20 x 18 feet)
Propulsion: Diesel-electric, 4 diesels, 1 shaft, 5,000 shp, 21 knots
Crew: 31
Sonar: CSU-83 active/passive suite, DUUX 2 intercept
Armament: 8 21 inch torpedo tubes (14 A-184 torpedos)
Depth: 250 meters
German-built for Peru. Two additional craft are in reserve.
Number Name Year Homeport Notes
SS 31 Casma 1980 San Lorenzo
SS 32 Antofagasta 1980 San Lorenzo
SS 33 Pisagua 1982 San Lorenzo
SS 34 Chipana 1983 San Lorenzo Ex-Blume
One may be the BAP Abtao
Check out the clear shot of the one in the floating dry dock too.

Stadium Vijverberg (De Graafschap)

Giant praying hands
Sixty-foot, thiry-ton bronze Praying Hands at the main enterance to Oral Roberts University.

Stadium Willem II (Willem II)

Pachacamac, Temple City of the Sun
king_david (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: king_david.
Abandoned Peruvian city
South Lima

Stadium Zuiderpark (ADO Den Haag)

Stadium Oosterpark (FC Groningen)

Stadium Alkmaarderhout (AZ)

Airplane approaching LaGuardia
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Stadium Mandemakers (RKC)

Stadium De Goffert (NEC)

Palladium
ig_softy (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: ig_softy.
Dancing club

HMCS Haida
HMCS Haida is the only survivor of the 27 Tribal class destroyers built for the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Australian Navy between 1937 and 1945. Haida joined her sisters of the Tribal class as part of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla out of Plymouth, England, in early 1944. Her illustrious World War II career included the destruction of 14 enemy ships during patrols in the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. Two tours of duty in the Korean conflict reinforced her claim to the title of "The Fightingest Ship in the RCN." Haida is the most famous ship in the Royal Canadian Navy, having sunk more enemy surface tonnage than any other Canadian ship.
Paid off in September 1963, HMCS Haida was on Toronto's waterfront for the last 33 years. In 2002, the ship was acquired by the federal agency Parks Canada along with a contribution of $5 million to undertake repairs to the hull and superstructure. The ship has just come out of dry dock and was moved to the city of Hamilton, Ontario on August 30, 2003: the 60th anniversary of her commissioning into the Royal Canadian Navy. Haida will now become a focal point of a new revitalized waterfront in Hamilton along with the new Canada Marine Discovery Centre both of which are scheduled to open in June 2004.

Rotterdam Airport - Zestienhoven
mmoo (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mmoo.

Stadium Vast & Goed (RBC)

Track Surface Grooming at Fort Erie Race Track
straybytes (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: straybytes.
One of North America's Most Picturesque Race Tracks. Providing 108 years of live racing.

Stadium Abe Lenstra (SC Heerenveen)

Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT)
BigVoet (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: BigVoet.
Also site of war monument.

Stadium Polman (SC Heracles)

Lima Golf Club

St. Laurentius church
mmoo (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mmoo.

Love Pear Park
I really don´t know why people in Lima call this park that way but I supose that is because many couples go there to take a walk.

Curving highway viaduct
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
Curving highway viaduct in southern Sicily