VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2006-10-15

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Weston Observatory
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The Weston Observatory was built in 1887 as an observation tower for the citizens of Manchester, New Hampshire.

Angel Island
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Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay which offers spectacular views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin County Headlands and Mount Tamalpais. It is a California state park, Angel Island State Park. The highest point on the island, almost exactly at its center, is Mount Livermore at 788 ft. (240 m). The island is almost entirely in Marin County, California, although, surprisingly, there is a small sliver (0.7%) at the eastern end of it which extends into the territory of San Francisco County. The United States Census Bureau reported a land area of 3.107 km² (1.2 sq mi) and a population of 57 persons as of the 2000 census.
Until about ten thousand years ago, Angel Island was connected to the mainland; it was cut off by the rise in sea levels due to the end of the ice age. From about two thousand years ago the island was a fishing and hunting site for Coast Miwok Native Americans. In 1775 the Spanish naval vessel San Carlos made the first European entry to the San Francisco Bay under the command of Juan de Ayala. Ayala anchored off Angel Island, and gave it its modern name (Isla de los Angeles); the bay where he anchored is now known as Ayala Cove.
Like much of the California coast, Angel Island was subsequently used for cattle ranching; this destroyed most of the native oak woodland and brush cover. In 1863, during the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a camp on the island (now known as Camp Reynolds or the West Garrison), and it subsequently became an infantry garrison during the US campaigns against Native American peoples in the West. In the later nineteenth century, the army designated the entire island as "Fort McDowell" and developed further facilities there, including what is now called the East Garrison or Camp McDowell. During the Spanish-American War the island served as a discharge depot for returning troops. It continued to serve as a transit station throughout the first half of the twentieth century, with troops engaged in the First and Second World Wars embarking and returning there. During World War II, Japanese, and German POWs were also held on the island. The army abandoned the island in 1946, but returned in the 1950s when a Nike missile base was constructed; this was decommissioned as obsolete in 1962.
From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station processed approximately 175,000 Asian immigrants entering into the US, serving a similar role to Ellis Island for European immigrants. Angel Island is sometimes referred to as "The Ellis Island of the West." The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 provided tough entry restrictions, so many immigrants waited on the island for as long as two years while they exhausted appeals. The conditions of buildings on Angel Island were poor. Many of these immigrants carved poems in Chinese on the walls of the island's buildings, poems which have been anthologized and studied by scholars. One unhappy prisoner carved in the wall, "For what reason must I sit in jail? It is only because my country is weak and my family poor." A fire burned down the administration building in 1940, and all subsequent immigration processing took place in San Francisco.
A quarantine station was opened in Ayala Cove (then known as Hospital Cove) in 1891.
In 1938, hearings concerning charges of membership in a proscribed political party against labor leader Harry Bridges were held on Angel Island before Dean James Landis of Harvard Law School. After eleven weeks of testimony that filled nearly eight thousand pages, Landis found in favor of Bridges. The decision was accepted by the labor department and Bridges was freed.
Angel Island became a State Park in 1958.
On June 11, 1962, three prisoners apparently escaped from the prison on nearby Alcatraz Island. Some of the materials used in their escape attempt later washed up on Angel Island, aiding in the investigation by the FBI.
In the 1970s, the Chinese American community successfully lobbied the State of California to designate the Immigration Station as a State Landmark. Today, the Angel Island Immigration Station is a federally designated National Historic Landmark.
There are two active United States Coast Guard stations - at Point Blunt and Point Stuart - on the island.

Mobile ARM Missile Launcher
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This motorpool contains SA-6 SAMs, PAT HAND radar, SA-9 TELs, SA-8 TELARs, SA-8 Transloaders, SA-13 TELARs, ZSU-23-4, 2S6M TELAR, SS-21 Scarab, BTR-60PB, Strykers, HMMWVs, SA-11 TELAR...and other additional equipment.
(Thank Alkavian for the IDs)

Saddam's heads
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By: kjfitz.
Replicas of Saddam Hussein's head, which once adorned the roof of one of his palaces, now gather dust in a vacant lot in Baghdad's International Zone.

Resolute Bay
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Resolute Bay, Nunavut
"Resolute is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here..."

'Fountain'
Part of the Market Street Beautification Project, the [M. Justin Herman] Plaza suffers some from its north orientation. Since the completion of the Embarcadero Center, the daytime crowd enlivens the space as do frequent craft markets and entertainment. The fountain by Armand Vaillancourt used to have the double-decker freeway as a backdrop. Now that the freeway is gone, the array of angular concrete forms can no longer be joked about as a stockpile of spare freeway parts. For the moment it seems overexposed.

Jindalee Operational Radar Network (Hart's range receiver test bed)
The Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) is an over-the-horizon radar network that can monitor air and sea movements across 37,000km2. It has an official range of 3,000 km but depending upon certain atmospheric conditions has a range up to and including the Korean peninsula. It is used in the defence of Australia and can also monitor maritime operations, wave heights and wind directions. It was built by RLM Management [1], then in Burwood East in Melbourne, in partnership with Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Lockheed Martin, Telstra, BAE and Tenix Defence Systems. Up to now, the network has cost approximately $A1.8 billion.

Inuvik, Northwest Territories
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One of the largest towns in the Canadian arctic. The northern end of the Dempster Highway, which is as far North as you can drive on all-season public roads in Canada. (the Alaska pipeline road is not public)

Airplane Parking at Buttonville Muni Airport (YKZ / CYKZ)
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AVRO Vulcan at Goose Bay Air Force Base (YYR / CYYR)
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Montreal Saint-Hubert Longueuil Airport (YHU/CYHU)
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Parking lot is a giant newspaper
The parking lot of this newspaper printing plant in Amsterdam, Nl is designed as one giant newspaper. The headlines are actual text. For instance 'Aanvoer goederen' top left means 'deliveries' (accompanied by the subline dock driving backwards'. small print is ineligeble and consists of random lines. From ground level these headlinse are almost unreadable, but this printing plant lies directly underneath one of the main landing paths of Schiphol Amsterdam Airport. Thje plant is owned by PCM and is used for ptinting it's own newspapers De Volkskrant and Trouw and for third parties like Amsterdam-based daily Het Parool.

Jindalee Operational Radar Network (Longreach transmitter)
The Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) is an over-the-horizon radar network that can monitor air and sea movements across 37,000km2. It has an official range of 3,000 km but depending upon certain atmospheric conditions has a range up to and including the Korean peninsula. It is used in the defence of Australia and can also monitor maritime operations, wave heights and wind directions. It was built by RLM Management [1], then in Burwood East in Melbourne, in partnership with Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Lockheed Martin, Telstra, BAE and Tenix Defence Systems. Up to now, the network has cost approximately $A1.8 billion.

Onera Modane-Avrieux Center wind tunnels
Created just after the Second World War at Avrieux near Modane in Savoy, this Center houses a set of wind tunnels for simulating flows ranging from subsonic to hypersonic velocities. It has the particular feature of receiving its energy essentially in hydraulic form through a forced pipe 850 m high coming from the Aussois dams (reserve of 12 millions m3) and with a maximum flow rate of 15 m3/s. The Center includes a set of wind tunnels simulating flows from subsonic to hypersonic velocities.

Cape Arago Lighthouse
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Heceta Head Lighthouse
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MK-105 Mine Sweepers (See dda's Sea Dragon)
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Parbellum gets the credit for this one. I thought it was worth posting as a complement dda's super Sea Dragon map.

China Aviation Museum
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China Aviation Museum is about 40 miles north of Beijing and located in the foot of fascinating Xiao Tang Hill (XiaoTangShan) in Chang Ping County. On November 11, 1989, it was opened to the public in the 40th Anniversary of the Founding of Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. More info, pictures and visitors reports here and here.

Jindalee Operational Radar Network (Experimental Stage A receiver)
(Compare in size to the older Stage B receiver to the NW.)
The Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) is an over-the-horizon radar network that can monitor air and sea movements across 37,000km2. It has an official range of 3,000 km but depending upon certain atmospheric conditions has a range up to and including the Korean peninsula. It is used in the defence of Australia and can also monitor maritime operations, wave heights and wind directions. It was built by RLM Management [1], then in Burwood East in Melbourne, in partnership with Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Lockheed Martin, Telstra, BAE and Tenix Defence Systems. Up to now, the network has cost approximately $A1.8 billion.

Jindalee Operational Radar Network (Laverton transmitter)

War Spoils
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A pair of camoflaged Russian-made Mi-8 helicopters at Fort Bliss, TX

Airplane landing at Yellowknife Airport (YZF / CYZF)

C-17 Globemaster refueling at Biggs Army Airfield

Fort Point Light
State: CALIFORNIA
Location: SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR ENTRANCE
Nearest City: SAN FRANCISCO
County: SAN FRANCISCO
U.S.C.G. District: 11
Year Station Established: 1853
Existing Historic Tower:
* Year Light First Lit: 1864
* Is the Light Operational? NO
* Date Deactivated: 1934
* Automated:
* Foundation Materials: BRICK AND GRANITE FORTRESS
* Construction Materials: IRON
* Markings/Patterns: WHITE W/BLACK LANTERN
* Shape: NINE-SIDED ON FORT'S STAIRWAY TOWER
* Relationship to Other Structures: INTEGRAL
* Tower Height: 27
* Original Optic: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL
* Year Original Lens Installed:
* Present Optic: REMOVED
* Year Present Lens Installed:
* Height of Focal Plane: 110
* Fresnel Lens Disposition:
* Has tower been moved? NO

Cape Blanco Lighthouse
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Hills Bros Coffee

T-38 Talon at El Paso International

Umpqua River Lighthouse

Cape Meares Lighthouse

Departing North Las Vegas Air Terminal
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Jindalee Operational Radar Network (Hart's range transmitter test bed)

2006-10-15 - Hawaii Earthquake Epicenter
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The Pacific Tsunami Center reported a preliminary magnitude of 6.5, while the U.S. Geological Survey gave a preliminary magnitude of 6.6. The earthquake was followed by several strong aftershocks, including one measuring a magnitude of 5.8, the Geological Survey said.

Yaquina Head Lighthouse

Miniature Stone Lighthouse
On the marina jetty.

Coquille River Lighthouse

Tanks on rail cars
Look at the shadows.

Cleft of the Rock (Cape Perpetua) Lighthouse

Gander Int'l Airport (YQX / CYQX)

Jindalee Operational Radar Network (Laverton receiver)

Jindalee Operational Radar Network (Longreach receiver)

Airplane approaching St-Hubert Airport

Airplane landing at McCarran
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Greater Sudbury Airport (YSB / CYSB)

Inuvik Airport
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Fighters at Moose Jaw Air Force Base (YMJ / CYMJ)

Odd Chinese aircraft facility
Anyone want to take a stab at explaining this one?
Odd ramp or track, no airport nearby, green pool to the SW.

Monument to Volunteer Fire Department
Lillie Coit's monument to the Volunteer Fire Department, sculpted by Haig Patigian and installed in 1933.
Coit had both this monument and Coit Tower errected. The confusuion between the two and the shape of the later often result in Coit Tower being mistakenly identified as a monument to the Great San Francisco Fire.

Winnipeg St-Andrews AIrport (YAV / CYAV)

Sydney/J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport (YQY / CYQY)

Thunder Bay Int'l Airport (YQT / CYQT)

E-6 MERCURY (TACAMO) in flight
Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadrons (VQs) 3 and 4 operate E-6As in the same manner as their EC-130s - as TACAMO (take charge and move out) communications platforms serving as command links to the fleet ballistic missile submarine force.
The E-6 is the airborne portion of the TACAMO Communications System. It provides survivable communication links between the National Command Authority (NCA) and Strategic Forces. The E-6 is a derivative of the commercial Boeing 707 aircraft. Its a long range, air refuelable aircraft equipped with four CFM-56-2A-2 high bypass ratio fan/jet engines with thrust reversers. The weapon system is electromagnetic pulse hardened. It has an endurance of 15+ hours without refueling and a maximum endurance of 72 hours with in-flight refueling. Mission range is over 6000 Nautical Miles (NM). It carries a crew of five officers, nine enlisted aircrewmen, and up to four trainees for TACAMO missions. For ABNCP missions it carries five naval officers, nine naval enlisted aircrewmen, and a eight person battle staff as determined by the United States Strategic Command (J36).

108 Mile Ranch Airport (ZML / CZML)

CF-188 Hornet at Bagotville Air Force Base

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse

Warrior Rock Lighthouse

Yaquina Bay Lighthouse

Tuktoyaktuk Airport (YUB / CYUB)

Brandaris
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The "Brandaris" is the oldest lighthouse of the Netherlands. It's located on one of the Wadden islands, Terschelling. The first tower was built in 1323 but this one eventually collapsed into the sea in 1570. The second tower (the actual one) was finished in 1594. Today the "Brandaris" has a fully automatic light.

CP-140 at Greenwood Air Force Base

Tall ship underway

Multi-purpose Logistics Module for the Space Shuttle

Dauphin Barker Airport (YDN / CYDN)

Zama Lake Airport (CFT9)

Canadian Rockies Int'l Airport (YXC / CYXC)

Schefferville airport (YKL / CYKL)

Val-d'Or Airport (YVO / CYVO)