VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-10-21

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Discovery Island
10xAnyone (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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This is where Discovery Island used to be in Walt Disney World. It is no longer there.

Disney World - Exact Center of Walt Disney World
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This is a circle on the ground in Walt Disney World. It has quotes from many famous scientists on it, and is the EXACT center of Walt Disney World.

Williams-Brice Stadium
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Among the finest of America's college football stadiums, this is the home field of the University of South Carolina Gamecocks.

Beaver Island Archipelago, Michigan
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
The largest island, Beaver Island, bills itself as America's "Emerald Isle" and is a 30 mile ferry ride from Charlevoix, Michigan on the mainland. Beaver Island is also the most remote inhabited island in the Great Lakes.

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Bridge
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
From http://www.pennways.com/DE-1_KWVM_Hwy.html#C&D_Canal_Bridge:
The DE-1 C & D Canal Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge. It is 4,498 feet long, has six lanes, and the main span has 145 feet of vertical navigational clearance above the average high tide water level, and 750 feet of horizontal navigational clearance. The C & D Canal bridge main span completely crosses the canal, and this was done to make it impossible for a ship to hit a bridge pier and bring the bridge down. The northbound and southbound roadways each have three 12-foot-wide lanes with 10-foot-wide left and right shoulders. The design is such that if one roadway has to be closed for maintenance, the other could temporarily carry four lanes (2 each way). The design is also convertible to eight lanes, by simply restriping the roadways. One construction contract for the entire bridge substructure and superstructure and was awarded on April 1, 1992, at $57.9 million (well under the engineering estimate), and the bridge opened to traffic in December 1995, with the final contract cost at the end of the project's construction tallying to $57,782,823.33.

Pair of Bar Lock early warning radar
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
To the NE is an old Soviet air base. There is the remains of a SA-2 site between here and the airfield that has been scraped away.

Smallville set
dear_leader (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dear_leader.
This is the smallville TV show set I pass by it on the trian every morning

McCormick Field
AKpilotEMT (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AKpilotEMT.
Home field of the Asheville Tourists, the Class A South Atlantic League affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, 1994-Present (Oct '05)

Former Site of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
10xAnyone (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: 10xAnyone.
This is the former site of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in Disney World.

African Oasis
Here is an oasis in Libya

St. George's Bridge
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
From
US-13 passes over the C & D Canal on a fixed high-level bridge that has 135 feet of vertical navigational clearance above the average high tide water level, and the bridge was opened to traffic in 1943. Given its age and its being paralleled by the new DE-1 C & D Canal Bridge about 1/2 mile to the west, DelDOT considered a plan to close and remove the US-13 St. Georges Bridge after the new DE-1 bridge opened.
This issue has been resolved in favor of keeping the US-13 St. Georges Bridge in service.

Sarge Frye Field
On the campus of the University of South Carolina, it's the home of the USC Gamecocks. One of the best college baseball fields in America, this stadium will soon become a relic replaced by a new $17.5 million facility in the Congaree Vista section of the city.

Burning Ship off coast of Iceland
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.
ID'd as a burning ship by archcorsair.

Reedy Point Bridge
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
From http://www.aaroads.com/delaware/canal_crossings.htm:
The easternmost bridge of the Canal crossings is that of the Reedy Point Bridge. The two-lane cantileaver span carries Delaware 9 (Delaware City Port Penn Road) between the town of Delaware City and marshy environs of the Delaware Riverfront between the canal and Port Penn. Underneath the northern portion of the bridge is Fort Dupont State Park. The 1968-opened Reedy Point Bridge and the Summit Bridge were completed as part of the 1954 improvement authorization for the Canal.

Giant Cemetery - Source of 2002 cholera epidemic
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
In 2002 an epedemic of Cholera in Atyrau was caused by when the reservoir to the NW overflowed and flooded this cemetery where cholera vicims were buried and washed the virus into the river.

Disney World - Monorail Parking
This is where the Walt Disney World monorails are parked when not in use.

New Castle Airport (ILG)

Norfolk Southern's Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge
From http://www.pennways.com/CD_Canal.html:
The bridge carries the Norfolk Southern Corporation railroad over the canal. In 1966, this railroad liftspan bridge over the canal was completed by US ACE and transferred to the Pennsylvania Railroad to carry freight trains across the canal. The present level of waterway traffic versus railroad traffic is such that the bridge is kept in the open position, and closed for train movements.

Katama Airfield
This is Katama Airfield in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. It is a grass airfield where you can get rides in a biplane or a plane that fought in WWII. It is privately owned and you can only land there with the owner's permission.

Capital City Stadium
Built in 1991 to replace an existing structure, this was home to the Capital City Bombers, the South Atlantic League Class-A affiliate of the New York Mets. (The city failed to agree on building a new, modern state-of-the-art minor league field so the team moved to Greenville, SC after the 2004 season. Minor league baseball's been played on that site since 1927 and in Columbia, SC since 1892 so hopefully they'll find a new team in the near future!)

Summit Bridge
From http://www.aaroads.com/delaware/canal_crossings.htm:
Completed in 1960, the Summit Bridge carries four lanes of traffic over the canal near the village by the same name. The crossing initially was to carry just two lanes of travel. However a Delaware politician lobbyed succesfully to have the bridge built with its current capacity. The cantilever bridge carries U.S. 301 & Delaware 71-896 between Northern Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The northbound approach features a grade separation between the triplex and Chesapeake City Road. The Summit Bridge and nearby railroad lift bridge (built in 1966) were recognized by the American Institute of Steel Construction as the most beautiful bridges of their types in the years they were completed.

Lake Olmstead Stadium
Home field of the Augusta GreenJackets, the Class A South Atlantic League affiliate of the San Francisco Giants

River Palace Hotel
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By: kjfitz.
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Munayshy Stadium

Iraqi Shipwreck
pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pdunn.

Lake Buena Vista
This is the lake that the town that Walt Disney World is in is named after.

Sam Lynn Ballpark
Home field of the Bakersfield Blaze, the California League (Class A Advanced minor league) affiliate of the Texas Rangers.

Lithia Springs Park
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By: jrobinsonky.

Dwyer Stadium
Home field of the Batavia Muckdogs, the New York-Penn League (Class A short-season minor league) affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies

Two Very Square Lakes
Theres are Lake Emerald and Blue Heron Lake. They are very square and are probably man-made.

Riverfront Commmunity
pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pdunn.

TV antenna with giant pad
Also WOLO antenna to the SW.