VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-08-31

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High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF)
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Nike Zeus Acquisition Radar (ZAR) site is now the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF)
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Texas Shaped Pond in Rockwall, TX
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Man-made retention pond on private ranch in Rockwall, TX. On axis with the state.

Navy ships under construction
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Northrop Grumman's Pascagoula shipyard, where many of the U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG) and San Antonio-class amphibious assault ships (LPD) are built. Two nearly completed DDGs are visible at the southeast corner of the wharf and one on the northeast side. Also visible in the center of the southern end of the yard are two partially completed DDGs and one partially completed LPD. Just north of the two partial DDGs are portions of several more on the building ways.
These ships are transfered to the water by way of a tracked carriage system that moves them into the submersible dock section visible just south of the LPD.

Titicaca Lake
Josema (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Josema.
The highest lake in the world. Located in the frontier line between Perú and Bolivia.

Former Air Defense radar site RP-62
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Was Oakdale AI. Now is 99th Regional Support Command HQ.

Sakurajima
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Defense Early Warning Radar site P-10
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By: kjfitz.
Cold War era site. Now North Truro Air Force Station with a JSS radar.

BOMARC Missile Site - 26th ADMS

BOMARC Missile Site - 22nd ADMS

Former Defense Early Warning radar site P-34
Now Empire AFS JSS site J-58.

Bear Mountain Bridge
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By: santo.
Longest central span suspension bridge in the world from 1924 until 1926 at 497 meters. Currently 59th longest (1926 was a long time ago).

Nucor steel sheet mill
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This Nucor Steel continuous thin-slab sheet mill was the subject of Richard Preston's book American Steel. This plant houses the first operational thin-slab continuous casting operation in the world.

Atlantic Highlands Army Air Defense Reservation
This area is the highest natural point on the Eastern Seaboard from Southern Maine to the Yucatan Penisula in Mexico. Most of the concrete emplacements are still intact, but few or no wooden structures remain. The casemates are not completely open to the public due to concerns for public safety and the security of the structures. You may walk along the marked trails through the Battery Lewis gun positions and climb atop the casemates for a great view of the New York Harbor. This will provide the visitor with an appreciation for the military significance of this site. Historic wayside exhibits are supposedly in the works.

Rock n Roll Mcdonalds
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West Mesa Air Force Station
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By: robsv.
This tiny Air Force Station west of Albuquerque housed a Ground Control Intercept radar system from 1958 until 1968. The FAA has operated a radar system here since 1961, and the site continues to be used by the FAA.

Aeropuerto Internacional Reina Beatrix (AUA)
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BOMARC Missile Site - 6th ADMS

Former Air Defense radar site P-58
Former Mather AFB. Now and FAA site.
What's with the odd roads(?) with the bulbs at the ends to the SE?

Punta Borinquen Radar Station
Former Ramey AFB.

El Misti volcano
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By: Josema.
Elevation: 5,822 meters.

Former Air Defense radar site RP-39 / J31
Was part of Fort MacArthur. Now an FAA site.

Tamiami radar site (J-06A)
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By: robsv.
This site was the first ASRS-4 (Air Route Surveillance Radar) installation - it went operational in the mid 1990's. It is part of the Joint Surveillance System.

Former Defense Early Warning radar site P-37
Was later Point Arena AFS JSS site J-34.

DeAnza Drive-In Theatre
This 4-screen drive-in was opened in 1951. It is Tucson's last remaining drive-in.

Mount Ruapehu
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Whitehouse radar site (J-04)
This radar site was built in 1979 and housed an ARSR-3 search radar (used by the FAA) and an AN/FPS-116 height-finder radar (Air Force). The height-finder was removed in 1988; the ARSR-3 was upgraded in the 1990's to an ARSR-4. This site is part of the Joint Surveillance System.

Former Defense Early Warning radar site P-38
Now Mill Valley AFS JSS site J-33.

Former Air Defense radar site P-47
Was Hutchinson AFS. Now an FAA site.

Mount Ngauruhoe
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.
Was used as "Mount Doom" in the Lord of the Rings movies.

Defense Early Warning radar site RP-1
On Fort Lawton. Now an FAA site.

Former Air Defense radar site P-52
Was Oklahoma City AFS.

BOMARC Missile T&E Training site

Lompoc Air Force Station
Used to be Cold War era Defense Early Warning site RP-15. Now a telemetry site for the Western Test Range.

Concepción

Defense Early Warning radar site P-33
Cold War ere site. Was a JSS site Klamath AFS later but now closed.

Glendale Drive-In
Nine screens, and still going strong!

Mount Unzen
Mount Unzen (雲仙岳, Unzen-dake) is an active volcanic group of several overlapping stratovolcanoes near the city of Shimabara.
In 1792, the collapse of a lava dome triggered a mega-tsunami that killed 14,524 people in Japan's worst volcanic-related disaster. The volcano was most recently active from 1990 to 1995, and a large eruption in 1991 generated a pyroclastic flow that killed 43 people.

Pico de Orizaba

19 Drive-In
This single-screen drive-in was opened in 1954 and is still operating seasonally.

Colima

Radome Gymnasium
Radome formerly used at Baker AFS, OR is now a Gym at a school.

Weird Collection of Islands
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Islands

Mount Huascaran
Josema (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Josema.
The highest mount in Perú and the fourth highest in Sudamerica with an elevetion of 6,768 meters.