VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2010-01-18

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David Evans "The Edge"'s yacht 'Cyan'
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U2 guitarist The Edge owns this yacht.

Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome - Ground Zero
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial, commonly called the Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome, in Hiroshima, Japan, is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The building serves as a memorial to the people who died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

Chartres Cathedral
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, , a Latin Rite Catholic cathedral located in Chartres, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) southwest of Paris, is considered one of the finest examples in all France of the Gothic style of architecture. The current cathedral is one of at least four that have occupied the site.

Abandoned Radar Site
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Site of Lyndonville Air Force Station (formerly North Concord AFS).
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Martha Coakley's house
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The Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and former Democratic candidate in the special election‎ to fill the Class 1 seat in the United States Senate made vacant by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy lives here.

Palace of Versailles
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The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles, the Île-de-France region of France. In French, it is known as the Château de Versailles.
The court of Versailles was the center of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime.

Decommissioned HMCS Gatineau (DDE-236) & HMCS Terra Nova (DDE-259)
The Restigouche class destroyer was a class of destroyers that served the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces from the late-1950s to the late-1990s.
The RCN began planning the St. Laurent-class destroyer in the late 1940s and originally intended to procure 14 vessels. Delays in design and construction saw the number of vessels for the St. Laurent-class halved to 7. The 7 remaining vessels were redesigned as the Restigouche-class, taking into account design improvements found during construction of the St. Laurent's.
There were seven ships of the class commissioned between 1958 and 1959.
The most noticeable difference between the St. Laurent and Restigouche classes was that the latter had the bridge raised one full deck higher in order ot see over a new forward Vickers 3"/70 Mk.6 gun mount.

Michael Glennie's House
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Michael Glennie is Senior Vice President of Florida Panthers Holdings. Glennie is the former President of the Boca Raton Resort Club.

Abandoned Radar Site
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Brockport Gap-Filler Radar Site (P-21A, Z-21A)

George Quatela's House
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George Quatela serves as the branch manager of G&L Shell Contractors, a general contractor based in Naples, Florida.

Giant cockroach

Charles & Lucille King's House
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Charles & Lucille King are the founders of The Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation which was established in 1988 to support individuals, institutions and organizations committed to educational excellence and professional development.

Palace de Fontainebleau
The Palace of Fontainebleau, located 55 kilometres from the centre of Paris, is one of the largest French royal châteaux. The palace as it is today is the work of many French monarchs, building on an early 16th century structure of Francis I. The building is arranged around a series of courtyards. The city of Fontainebleau has grown up around the remainder of the Forest of Fontainebleau, a former royal hunting park.

Carl Schoeppl's House
Carl Schoeppl is Managing Shareholder and Founding Partner of The Law Offices of Mark Jay Krum.

RPS Samar Del Norte (LT-510)
USS LST-1064 was an LST-542-class tank landing ship of the United States Navy. She was later named Nansemond County (LST-1064), but never saw active service under that name.
She was laid down on 9 January 1945 at the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Massachusetts and was launched on 14 February 1945, called simply USS LST-1064. She was commissioned on 12 March 1945 by Lieutenant Leland H. Austin.
She was named Nansemond County on 1 July 1955 after Nansemond County, Virginia, then was slated for disposal on 17 September 1959.
The ship was purchased by Japan in April 1961 under the terms of the Military Assistance Program and sailed as the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force's JDS Shiretoko (LST-4003). In 1975, she was returned to the United States.
The ship was next transferred to the Philippines on 24 September 1976, and served in the Philippine Navy as RPS Samar Del Norte (LT-510), after the province of Northern Samar.

Abandoned Radar Site
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New Salem Gap-Filler Radar (P-50E, Z-50E) was active in the nineteen-fifties and sixties.

Chris Conway's House
Chris Conway is President of Premium Asset Recovery Corporation, a healthcare debt purchaser.

Russell Slaight's House
Russell Slaight is the owner of RAMS Imports, Inc., and Ocean Marble & Tile, both South Florida based exotic tile importers.

Formed Air Force radar site (J61) in Trevose, Pennsylvania.

San Antonio class amphibious transport dock
The San Antonio class is the United States Navy's new primary class of amphibious transport dock (LPD) in the beginning of the 21st century. It is replacing the older Austin-, Cleveland-, and Trenton-class LPDs as well as the Anchorage-class dock landing ships, Newport-class tank landing ships, and one class that has already been retired, the Charleston-class amphibious cargo ships.

Last of the Yūshio class submarine
You can tell this is a Yūshio by the two small protrusions off the rear if the sail.
The Yūshio was a Japanese diesel-electric submarine class operated by the JMSDF. When it is the second generation, expansion development type of Uzushio class submarineof the teardrop type submarine that values the underwater performance following the Uzushio class submarine. Ten was built with the fourth defense plan in 1975 fiscal year. Training submarine Yukishio,retired on March 7, 2008. All warships did the retirement completion to the Yūshio class submarine.

Training Ship Tenryu (ATS-4203)

Flamingos
Flamingos or flamingoes (About this sound pronunciation) are gregarious wading birds in the genus Phoenicopterus and family Phoenicopteridae. There are four flamingo species in the Americas and two species in the Old World.

Bell tower of a submerged church
Lake Reschen is an artificial lake located in the western portion of the Italian province of Bolzano-Bozen.
The top of the 14th-century church tower is still visible. In winter, when the lake freezes, the tower is reachable by foot. A legend says that during the winter one can still hear church bells ring (in reality the bells were removed from the tower on July 18, 1950, a week before the demolition of the church and the creation of the lake).

'Episcopal Palace of Astorga' by Antoni Gaudí
The Episcopal Palace of Astorga was built by Antoni Gaudí and is one of the major attractions today, apart from the town cathedral, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Astorga.

Aero L-39ZA Albatros
The Aero L-39 Albatros is a high-performance jet trainer aircraft developed in Czechoslovakia to meet requirements for a "C-39" (C for cvičný - trainer) during the 1960s to replace the L-29 Delfín. It was the first of the second-generation jet trainers, and the first turbofan-powered trainer produced, and was later updated as the L-59 Super Albatros and as the L-139 (prototype L-39 with engine Garrett TFE731). The design is still produced in an evolved state as the L-159 ALCA, while more than 2,800 L-39s still serve with over 30 air forces around the world. The Albatros is versatile, seeing duty in light attack missions as well as basic and advanced pilot training, and is the most widely-used jet trainer in the world.

Barbara H (Towboat)
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Van with aquarium paint-job

Curious George

Steamboat Portland
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Sugar Cane Train No. 3 'Myrtle'
No. 3 Myrtle: produced as a sister engine to No. 1, the No. 3 is also a three-foot narrow gauge 2-4-0 steam locomotive produced by H.K. Porter, Inc of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in February 1943 for the Carbon Limestone Company. The LKPRR similarly altered the appearance of this engine, but gave it a slightly more modern appearance, representative of a typical oil-burning engine from the early 20th Century. As such, it has a steel cab, whaleback tender, small headlight modeled on an electric prototype, and darker color scheme. The No. 3's design, name and number were inspired by a historic sugar cane engine built in 1900 for the Hawaii Railroad and retired in 1945.

Shaggy and Scooby Doo

Submarine Akishio (SS-579)
The Yūshio was a Japanese diesel-electric submarine class operated by the JMSDF. It was the second generation teardrop type hull in Japan following the Uzushio class submarine. Ten were built.

Barnston Island Ferry
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PX9-757 - Filming Location for Stargate episode

Estádio 11 de Novembro
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Estádio 11 de Novembro is one of 4 stadium which hosts the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. Its capacity is 50,000.

Sugar Cane Train No. 5
No. 5: a three-foot narrow gauge outside frame 0-6-2 saddle tank locomotive. This engine is not in operating condition, but it is the only steam engine owned by the LKPRR with historical ties to Hawaii. It once ran on the Oahu Railway and Land Company until it was donated in 1954 to the Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles, California.[6] Through an equipment trade with Travel Town, the LKPRR brought No. 5 back to Hawaii, where it remains today awaiting restoration.

Woodpeckers
'Woodpecker Column' by Fastwürms
Dai Skuse and Kim Kozzi

Beetlejuice

French Air Force CASA CN-235-300
The CASA/IPTN CN-235 is a medium-range twin-turbo-prop aircraft developed jointly between CASA in Spain and IPTN in Indonesia as a regional airliner and military transport. Amongst its military roles are maritime patrol, surveillance and troop transport. The largest user is Turkey which has a total of 61 aircraft.

George M. Verity Riverboat Museum

'Church of Colònia Güell' by Antoni Gaudi
The Church of Colònia Güell, Antoni Gaudí's unfinished work, was built as a place of worship for the people in a manufactured suburb in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, near Barcelona (Spain). Colònia Güell was the brainchild of Count Eusebi de Güell. However with Güell went broke only the crypt was completed.

Point Atkinson Lighthouse
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The original lighthouse at Point Atkinson was built in 1874. It was replaced by the current hexagonal concrete structure in 1910.
The lighthouse is the main attraction of the Lighthouse Park.

C.S. Lewis Centenary statue by Ross Wilson
A statue of Digory Kirke (C. S. Lewis's fictional alter ego from The Magician's Nephew) in front of the wardrobe of his book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe .

Steamboat Natchez

Fiat 500 "Bambino" - On Safari

Coast Guard Fishery Control ship Barend Biesheuvel

Jackie Robinson & Mack Robinson Sculpture
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first African American Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson
Matthew "Mack" Robinson(July 18, 1912 – March 12, 2000) was an American athlete, setting a world record and winning a silver medal in the Olympics. He was the older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jackie Robinson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Robinson_(athlete)

Anti-air frigate Suffren (D602)
The Suffren anti-air frigate was a large vessel of the French Navy, designed to protect a fleet against air threats, surface ships, submarines, and, to a lesser extent, provide fire power against land objectives. She is the sister-ship of the Duquesne, and was decommissioned in 2001.
The dome-like structure surrounding the DRBI23 radar is reminiscent of the Dutch Tromp class guided missile frigates and has on occasion led to confusion when identifying between the two ship classes.

SS Klondike
The SS Klondike was the name of two sternwheelers, the second now a national historic site located in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. Both ran freight between Whitehorse and Dawson City along the Yukon River from 1921-1936 and 1936-1950, respectively.
The Klondike I was built in 1921 and had the distinction of having 50% more capacity than a regular sternwheeler, while still having the shallow draft and meeting the size requirements in order to travel down the Yukon River. Klondike I had a cargo capacity of 270 metric tonnes without having to push a barge.

Photo shoot with a small dog

Sucidava Fortress
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Dutch Coast Guard Multipurpose Ship ARCA

Narrowest commercial building in the world
The Sam Kee Building is located at 8 West Pender Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is noteworthy for being the narrowest commercial building in the world.

M.S. Dixie II

E.L. Thumper

W.P. Snyder, Jr. (Towboat)

Southern Empress

Another claim for the geographical center of Europe
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Slovakian claim for the geographical centre of Europe near the Catholic church of Krahule, the only village in Slovakia where German is an official language as the German minority here reaches the requried limit of 20%.

Str. Chautauqua Belle

Willamette Queen

Douglas DC-9 converted into a library

The Black-Eyed Susan

PanoMagique Balloon over Disney Village

Giant hand spade from the Triënnale Apeldoorn

Spirit of Texas Paddlewheeler

Crashed helicopter
Part of the ''House of Chaos.'

Dutch Coast Guard Tridens

Zaanstad Windmills
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Indian Mural

Steamboat Arabia Museum

MS Kristina Regina
MS Kristina Regina is a cruiseship owned by the Finnish shipping company Kristina Cruises. She was originally built in 1960 by Oskarshamn shipyard, Oskarshamn, Sweden as the car/passenger ferry SS Bore for Steamship Company Bore, Finland. She was later known as SS Borea, before being rebuilt in her current form in 1988.
In her current construction the Kristina Regina does not fulfill the requirements of the SOLAS 2010 regulations, and as a result she is likely to be withdrawn from international cruise service by 2010.

French soldiers

Estádio da Tundavala
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The Estádio da Tundavala is one of 4 stadium which hosts the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.

Newport Belle

Giant blocks

Runway constructions

'Blocks'