VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2007-01-21

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Malacanang Palace
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The official residence of the President of the Philippines.

Manila Cathedral
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China Ship Scientific Research Centre's XTW-4 Ekranoplan
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The XTW-4 is the latest XTW series craft that was developed by CSSRC. Its design is similar to the XTW-1 and 2, so apparently the different tail layout of the XTW-3 was not successful. For the first time CSSRC is using turboprop engines in its WIG craft. Two PT-6A-15AG turboprops run the 5 blade propellers. The XTW-4 was launched in september 1999 and by early 2000 trails in the Changjiang River were completed.
Unlike the earlier XTW craft the XTW-4 is intended for sea operation. For the construction a new type of high strength, corrosion resistant aluminium alloy has been used. All primary control surfaces of the XTW-4 are operated by rod-cable systems, hydraulics are used to operate the taxiing gear.

Bow of the battleship USS Indiana (BB-58)
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This small bow section of the USS Indiana (BB-58) is used as a parking lot attendant's shed. It is across the street from Spenger's Seafood which has a huge collection of old nautical parts scattered around.
The parking lot incidentally is build on top of what was once the largest Indian mound in the San Francisco Bay area. Nothing of it remains; it was used as a gravel mine back at the turn of the last century.

Lots of Kites
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Manila International Container Terminal
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Dien Bien Phu

Alicia Annie Reef, Spratly Islands

Jacksonville Landing, The
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The Landing. On the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, it has restaurants, a shopping mall, cocktail lounges and outdoor entertainment.

Hitler Tower
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Wurzburg was brought into the Nazi fold soon after their assumption of power in 1933. This so-called Adolf-Hitler-Turm, built on the Hohenrothberg hill above Randersacker.

Florida Theater, The
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The Florida Theatre originally opened to the public on April 8, 1927, as downtown Jacksonville's 15th—and largest—movie theatre. With lavish interior decor unmatched in Jacksonville, the Florida Theatre is the city's last remaining example of 1920's fantasy architecture and is one of only four remaining high-style movie palaces built in Florida during this period.

First Flight Airport (FFA)
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In 1903 the first successful flight occurred here conducted by the Wright brothers.

Islamic Cultural Center of New York
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Quezon City Memorial

Jacksonville Museum of Science and History (MOSH)
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Nicknamed MOSH, this museum overlooks the St. Johns River and is near the downtown area. Great fun and an educational experience for the whole family, it comes with its own planetarium. Exhibits include marine life, native Florida wildlife, local history, and the Holozone, full of interactive games and simulator rides. In addition, classroom activities and planetarium programs allow for hands-on, interactive fun.

Umeda Sky Building

Icebreaker Fuji - Antarctic Museum
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The floating Fuji Antarctic Museum is moored on the opposite side of the pier. The museum itself is an expedition ship that explored the Antarctic for 18 years between 1965 and 1983. The interior of the ship is reproduced as it was during its service, and videos, panels and diorama are used to introduce the nature of the Antarctic as well as how the researches were conducted.

Now vacant 1913 Southern Pacific Railroad Station
Abandoned. Was recently used as a Mexican restaurant.

Yokohama Landmark Tower

'Steel Dragon' at Nagashima Spa Land
In August 2000, Nagashima opened Steel Dragon 2000. It held the record of being the world's tallest, longest, and fastest continuous circuit coaster for two and a half years.

Confederate Monument - Hemming Park
The monument was a gift from Charles C. Hemming, a native of St. Augustine, who spent his early life in Jacksonville and who served as a private in the Jacksonville Light Infantry during the Civil War. In appreciation of his gift, the city on October 26, 1899, named the park for him.

Quezon Radio Tower

Gathering of gliders

Pulling a glider out of its trailer

Schloss Drachenburg

'Luce Memorial Chapel' by I. M. Pei
1956-1963

Airplane landing at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (HEL)

Giant Spider
Cool playground!

German Historical Museum
1996-2003 Zeughaus Addition by I.M. Pei

Taichung Power Plant - Largest power station in Taiwan

RC-12 Guardrail
The RC-12, officially known as Guardrail is an electronic warfare aircraft operated by the US Army. As such it is one of the few fixed wing aircraft operated by US ground forces.

Jacksonville Maritime Museum
The Jacksonville Maritime Museum Society, Inc. focuses on the nautical history of the St. Johns River and the Port of Jacksonville.

'Bombardier'
A locomotive is on static display just below the sign.

Alberta Aviation Museum
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German Rail ICE-T high speed train
The ICE-T (or ICT) is a tilting model of the German InterCity Express series of high-speed trains.

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan

C-46 and other static display aircraft at Gifu Air Base

Airplane (Airbus) in flight over Japan

The Grand Li-Hai Hotel

'Euro' light sculpture

Royal Malaysian Air Force Museum
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Trackmobile Rail Car Mover
Rail car movers are vehicles equipped with a set of both steel rail wheels and rubber tire road wheels. This allows the vehicle to move cars along the rail lines, as well as travel on surface roads and through fields. Trackmobile Rail Car Movers allow operators to literally "drive" to a location and mount the rails, lower the rail wheels and raise the road wheels, and couple to rail cars.

Military tracked vehicles on unusual test track

Transrapid maglev on test track at Transrapid factory
Transrapid is a German monorail system using magnetic levitation. Based on a patent from 1934, planning of an actual Transrapid system started in 1969. The test facility for the system in Emsland, Germany was completed in 1987, and on the 17th June 1993 the Transrapid TR-07 vehicle reached a record-breaking speed of 450 kilometers per hour. Today the maximum design speed has exceeded the 500 km/h (310 mph) mark and currently stands at about 550 km/h, with the fastest (and currently the only operational) scheduled passenger service reaching 430 km/h between Longyang Road station and Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China. The system is developed and marketed by Transrapid International, a joint venture of the German companies Siemens AG and ThyssenKrupp.

German baseball game - man on first and second

The Grand Hotel Taipei

Port of Nagoya public Aquarium

Nagoya Dome

Oversized chess set and odd sculptures in a prison

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Heritage Center and Aerospace Museum
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Hang glider in flight

Humvee Ambulance

Cool building on Nagoya Harbor

Ruins of Heisterbach Abbey
Heisterbach Abbey (Kloster Heisterbach; also Petersthal, formerly Petersberg) was a Cistercian monastery in the Siebengebirge near Oberdollendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Maze

Large Car Park
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Can't find a factory around, anyone got a clue what it is ?

World Expo 2005 (under construction)
Expo 2005 was the World's Fair held in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, east of the city of Nagoya. The Expo ran for 185 days between March 25 and September 25, 2005. Aichi 2005 was Japan's second Universal Exposition, the first being Osaka's Expo '70 (1970), but Japan's fifth if the Special Expositions of Okinawa's Expo '75 (1975), Tsukuba's Expo '85 and Osaka's Expo '90 are also counted. [wikipedia]

Grandhotel Petersberg

Pool in the shape of the Port of Nagoya

Wind Farm

Nagoya automobile export port

Koxinga's Shrine

Morocco Temple
The Morocco Temple (also known as the Morocco Temple Ancient Arabic Order) is a historic building in Jacksonville, Florida.

Two armoured vehicles
At a ThyssenKrupp plant.

Demolished building

Toyota Auto Museum

Odd structure in the water
Perhaps a fountain?

World's first commercial automated "Urban Maglev" system
The world's first commercial automated "Urban Maglev" system commenced operation in March 2005 in Aichi, Japan. This is the nine-station 8.9 km long Tobu-kyuryo Line, otherwise known as the Linimo. The line has a minimum operating radius of 75 m and a maximum gradient of 6%. The linear-motor magnetic-levitated train has a top speed of 100 km/h. The line serves the local community as well as the Expo 2005 fair site. The trains were designed by the Chūbu HSST Development Corporation, which also operates a test track in Nagoya. Urban-type maglevs patterned after the HSST have been constructed and demonstrated in Korea, and a Korean commercial version Rotem is now under construction in Daejeon and projected to go into operation by April of 2007.

Nagoya Maritime Museum

Harvesting
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Toyota Bridge
"A pedestrian-friendly Nielsen Lohse bridge with a walkway wider than the roadway．"

Tanks

Tuntex Sky Tower

Driver training course

Osaka Imperial Hotel

Toyota Stadium
"The high-tech state-of-the-art 45,000 seat Toyota stadium was built as a venue for the 2002 World Cup but was overlooked when Korea became co-hosts due to political in-fighting between the owners Toyota and the government. The stadium has a retractable roof designed to resemble the traditional curves of a temple roof, large video screen and excellent views for the spectators. The stadium is located in Toyota city and can be reached in about 50 minutes from Nagoya on the Tsurumai subway/Meitetsu Toyota Line. J. League side Nagoya Grampus eight play some of their home games at Toyota stadium.
The stadium was designed by Kisho Kurokawa Architect and Associates who also designed Oita Stadium. Opened July 2001."

Giant driver training course

Big Gun
I am not sure, it looks like a big gun

Swiming pool, dive tower and slide

Hapagfly.com
Now owned by TUI

Locomotive on static display
At the ThyssenKrupp Transrapid plant.

Chang-Gu World Trade Center

Military jets

Japanese writing on hangar

Tank

Three jets on static display

Rail transfer slide
I have no idea what the real name of this contraption is but rail cars are moved sideways to other tracks while parked on the red platform. Thing of it as a linear turntable.

Small Glider

Hockey Rink