VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2006-05-31

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Pirate skull
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DCF77 German time station
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DCF77 is a longwave time signal and standard-frequency radio station. Its primary and backup transmitter are located in Mainflingen, about 25 km south-east of Frankfurt, Germany.
Most radio clocks in Europe are set based on DCF77.

Bandaranaike International Memorial Conference Centre (BMICH)
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Sugathadasa Stadium
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Bangalore International Airport (BLR/VOBG)
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Premadasa Stadium

F-GITA 'Gitanic' the crashed 747
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.
On September 12, 1993, this plane missed its landing at Tahiti airport and finishes its race in the lagoon in end of the runway. Only 4 wounded was to regret. The plane was relatively damaged: the engine and other parts of the plane where changed. Following this incident, the plane was called Gitanic.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747_24969/836

Royal Colombo Golf Club

NSS Annapolis VLF Transmitter
romulusnr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: romulusnr.
Annapolis Radio Station, now NSS, a naval (obsolete) radio station for VLF communication with submarines.

Apollo Hospitals Colombo

CHU (Canadian time station)
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Bandaranaike Int´l Airport (CMB/VCBI)

VNG (Australian time station)
VNG was Australia's national time signal service, and operated on 2500, 5000, 8638, 12984, and 16000 kHz.
VNG broadcasted time in binary coded decimal, during seconds 21-58. It also broadcast DUT-1 information during seconds 1-16. Tones were usually of 1 kHz. VNG also broadcast a spoken time signal as well.
It was shut down December 31, 2002, due to a lack of funding. Many scientific and astronomical users of the service were somewhat inconvenienced at the shutdown, and daytime reception of overseas time signal services from Australia is generally thought of as rather poor as the nearest time signal services are BPM in China and WWVH (or WWV) from the United States.
-Wikipedia

Juan Manuel Cagigal Naval Observatory
Near posted coordinates of YVTO Venezuelan time station, which is located at the Cagigal naval observatory. This must be the observatory, not sure where the YVTO 5MHz transmitter is, but probably somewhere to the north.

Skull Kingdom Fun house
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Some kind of fun house.

Strange Airplane
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.
Look like a Lockheed P 38, but without propellers. Any specialist ?

ATA Indian time station transmitter
The coordinates at Meinberg seem to be consistently about 400m east of the actual sites.

Colombo South Hospital

Chennai/Madras - Meenambakam Airport (MAA/VOMM)

Collapsed terminal at Charles de Gaulle-Roissy airport
On 23 May 2004, not long after its inauguration, a portion of Terminal 2E's ceiling collapsed early in the day, near Gate E50, killing four people. (Wikipedia)

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (HYD/VOHY)
Runway 1: Heading 09/27

Airplane landing at Thiruvanthapuram Int´l Airport (TRV/VOTV)

TDF Allouis (French time station)

Airplane on runway of Cochin International Airport (COK/VOCC)

Goa - Dabolim Airport (GOI/VAGO)

La fontaine Médicis du jardin du Luxembourg

Greenville Municipal Airport or Majors Airport or Majors Field
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It appears as if someone can't decide on one true name for this airport.
"Majors Airport, named for Truett Majors, the first Hunt County native to perish in World War II, began operations on June 26, 1942, as a training center for the United States Army Air Forces. Greenville was chosen as a site for the USAAF flight-training center due to the efforts of the influential politician Sam Rayburn. The airport was at one point the home to approximately 5,000 pilots, support personnel, and civilian employees. In addition to training United States Army pilots, the airfield was the training site for Escuadrón 201 of the Mexican Air Force. The training center was closed after the defeat of Germany in July 1945; the city of Greenville then took ownership of the property, then leased the site to TEMCO (later L-3 Communications)." --Wikipedia

Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada
Near posted coordinates for EBC time station, which presumably broadcasts from this institute somewhere.

Numbers on the image
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Rugby VLF transmitter
The Rugby VLF transmitter is a large VLF transmission facility near the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. It went in service at January 1, 1926 and was originally used to transmit telegraph messages to the Commonwealth. After the 1950s this transmitter, active as callsign GBR (short for Great Britain) on 16 kHz, was used for transmitting messages to submerged submarines. Around 1930, a second transmitter was installed for transatlantic telephony on 60 kHz using the carrierless single-sideband modulation. This transmitter went out of service in 1956 and transformed to the time signal transmitter MSF. This new function (and the "MSF" callsign now commonly used) developed from the decision, in 1951, to use the station to transmit modulated standard frequencies for scientific reference purposes. In 1972 these transmissions were consolidated onto the present frequency of 60 kHz and a further reference, that of a time signal, was added. In 1977 this took the form of the rolling slow code in use today.
The GBR transmitter was shutdown on April 1, 2003 after the Royal Navy didn't renew their contract with BT in favour of a new contract with VT Communications. On 1 April 2007 BT’s contract to transmit the MSF time signal will also pass to VT Communications, who will use their Anthorn transmitter, Cumbria.
- Wikipedia

Tennis/Karting

Registration mark
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
These marks are usually trimmed out when two maps are joined.

Vine leaf
"Chanteloup-les-Vignes" could be translated by "Singingwolf-the-Vines"

RTZ (Russian time station)
These are the coordinates posted online for RTZ, one of 3 Russian time stations. The odd pattern in the middle of the Siberian wasteland suggests there is much more going on here. Also, the 50kHz transmission doesn't require a large "mast field" installation (like VLF), so this land can't all be transmitter.

Cemetary or Mausoleum
jbottero (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jbottero.
Looks like a mausoleum or above ground cemetary?

Round field
Probably an irrigation circle. Quite different than its American counterparts though.