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Pul-i-Charki Prison

Turner Falls Dam
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/burnham.html
(picture at the bottom of the page)

Thanks for identifying these!

Could be an archaeological site.

That is a La Triomphant class:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triomphant_class_submarine

The SSBN (the southernmost of the three) has been identified elsewhere as the USS Florida in drydock undergoing SSGN renovation/upgrade.

I'd say they are Nanchang CJ-5 / CJ-6 (equivalent to the Russian Yakovlev Yak-18A "Max"). They are trainiers.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/yak-18-pics.htm

A Chinese friend of mine says this is a work slogan. The first string of characters very roughly states, "This dam is dedicated to meeting its electric production targets." The second string of characters says, "No mater what happens the workers will not lose sight of their production targets."

In Google Earth they look more like camo netting in a square pattern.

Largest mall in California.
Largest one story mall west of the mississippi.

Here's an article that interviews the owner:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/virgin/112250_virgin13.shtml

"My dad bought the thing years ago," says General Manager Dan Johnson. The jet is a MiG 21, bought from Czechoslovakia, complete with flight logs.

Looks the same to me:
http://www.airforce.ru/aircraft/mikoyan/mig-21/mig-21smt/MiG-21SMT_2.jpg

Considering the paranoia and grandness with which this ruler does things (go to Google Earth and look at Pyonyang some time) I doubt he'd ever really come here. The first thought I had was some taody trying some blatant falttery of the boss.

Here's what Wikipedia says:

"Area 51 has two operating runways, the main is 14L/32R, a concrete runway constructed in the 1990s, measuring 11,980 x 200 ft (3651 x 61 m) with a 1000 x 100 ft (304 x 30 m) overrun at each end and the secondary, shorter runway is 12/30 which also doubles as a taxiway, measuring 5,420ft x 150ft (1,652m x 45m). The much more enigmatic older runway is exactly 6 miles (9656 m) long. It is composed of 12,500 ft of concrete, 11,080 ft of asphalt, and 5560...

Pictures:
http://www.patrimonionacional.es/aranj/aranjuez.htm

So you get paid to do what my wife gets mad at me for spending so much time doing. Great!

Also the longest runway in the US at 16000 feet long.
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2003/06/16/daily39.html

April 15 (4.15) is the birthday of Kim Il Sung.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il-sung

February 16 (2.16) is the birthday of Kim Jong Il.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il

Good annotated map of this area here:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/images/yongbyon-cib1.jpg

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/facility.htm

This site lists the "targets" in North Korea with missiles protecting them. Yong Bong is not one of the sites listed as having missiles.

Based on your comments I agree these are AA sites too. But that then begs the question, "Where are the missile sites?"

Scavenger hunt time. I find it hard to beleive that a site of this value would have no SAM sites around it but I haven't found any. I guess they could be out further and thus not in the high res area.

I'm not sure what North Korean SAM sites look like so I guess I could have seen them but not recognized them. They could also be well hidden.

39.743030,125.755654
39.723080,125.741921
39.718542,125.733617
39.732058,125.776254
39.745991,125.792347
39.738509,125.722427
39.733353,125.706548
39.740200,125.702353
39.771855,125.822656
39.704809,125.732287
39.768486,125.775095
39.775673,125.778249
39.768136,125.710014

I can send you the coordinates of another fourteen similar sites circling the "nuke plant" if you'd like to see them too.

"Flamme d'Or" by Phillipe Stark

I don't understand your comment. What do you mean by "pictures of where it is in relationship to other countries"? Wouldn't that just be a normal map?

And saying "you don't need as many satellite pictures" doesn't make sense. That is the whole purpose of this site. This site is specifically designed to collect ONLY satellite pictures.

This is a colaberative site. If you want to see different coverage then please feel free to post those images and locations you...

Wait! You missed the 7-11 down the street! Just kiddding. This is coverage campaign is very cool. I wish people would do this extensive coverage for every city. Due to your inspiration I may do this for Paris. Thanks Flea!

It isn't even pixelated in Google Earth.

This is a colaberative site. There are comment fields available for just this purpose. Please feel free to add this data youself.

I looked around more and quit after finding another fouteen sites. There seems to be two types.

One is a circle with from four to ten launchers around it and a slot in the middle with what I assume is a radar or launch director. They are usually in lower areas.

The other is usually on the edge of a ridge with a connecting path leading to the top or other side of the ridge where i suppose the radar is positioned. These sites don't have central parks and all the...

That last one is armed by the way. You can see single missile launcers with their missiles if you look at it in Google Earth.

And this is definitely one further to the west:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.745010,125.711387&spn=0.005603,0.008032&t=k&hl=en

(Feel free to submit these. You kind of "own" North Korea. ;-)

Similar to this on the side of the hill of your "odd" building.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.796901,125.784053&spn=0.005599,0.008032&t=k&hl=en

The odd building is just to the NE.

Scattered all aound rural america there are veteran's organizations, small town squares, and military reserve armories with guns, tanks, small boats, and planes on display to emorialize sacrifices in past wars. I wonder if these are the Korean equivalent. Maybe they are monuments to heros to keep the public aware that they are "at war."

I agree it is strange to find airplanes so far from runways though. even here the plane are usually somewhat close to airports.

The almost total lack of any motor vehicles in the area is spooky.

Thank you, Analogman. Your contributions to this forum really add a lot of value.

Go Flea! You're on a roll here.

Country's Largest Theme Park
(Also, outside of Africa, the biggest drive-through safari)

There were a total of 345 sites built. I tracked down 134 of them that were clearly there and submitted them. There were another 20 or 30 that were hi res but were so built over there was no remaining sign of them. I skipped those too.

Duh! Because it's a BSH (Big Smoking Hole.)

Actually if you zoom in on the NW corner of the hole you'll see that the black hole is probably a "stitching error" between two images that were taken at different times. The smoke is actually cloud cover. You can see the clouds cut off at the seem NW of the hole.

That's the last Nike site to be posted. Pshew!

Map #9000.

I'm still in the middle of the Nike sites but I looked and saw I was at 1999 so I looked through my bookmarks for something other than a Nike site (God I'll be glad when I'm done withthose). This seemed appropriate.

Congrats to you making the *new* top five list too.

Map #2000!

I agree. If I could put them straight into the database without going through the front page I would.

I get them from here:
http://ed-thelen.org/loc.html

I thnk Anonymous is asking how you made the connection between Mont Paon and Riene Jeanne.

The BBC article was April 10.

Saddam Hussein's presidential yacht
Al Mansur, damaged by an air strike
during the conflict, and attacked
subsequently by local people as a symbol
of the former regime, finally sank on
the afternoon of 12 June at Basrah

http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/photo_gallery_general1.htm

I added it to "info requested" because there is a good chance someone can tell us. We save "unexplained" for things that are controversial or for which there seems to be no concensus as to what is being seen.

Thanks for the info. I googled around and the S-200 is referred to as the SA-5. I can't find SAM-4 designation used with the SA-100.

This site:

http://www.wonderland.org.nz/rasa.htm

Says the S-200 (SA-5) is used in Libya but not the SA-4.

Thanks for getting me on the right track!

Thanks for all your comments. They help a alot. I'm always hoping to hear from you when I'm uncertain about the details of a site like this or the others you've commented on.

You're right. It was No. 21 that sunk, not No. 17.

Looks old. Maybe an archaeological site?

According to this article the dredge mysteriously sank on Jan 27 2003.

http://49ermike.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=set_linear_mode&forum=181&page=&topic_id=30644&prev_page=show_topic

and another picture:

http://www.49ermike.com/dc/user_files/1564.jpg

Pictures of the dredge at:

http://www.eastproject.org/Portal/ProjectsDetail04.asp?NCESSchoolCode=062409003630

Whoever posted the link to the pictures from the ground, can you please re-post them? I accidentaly removed your comment. Sorry.

Another one just to the south here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=31.005118,31.420437&spn=0.004254,0.007522&t=k&hl=en

Wonder what they are protecting?

It hadn't been moderated yet. There is an algorithm that assigns categories based on common words in the title. Then the moderators adjust them before approving them.

If you look closely at the large white expanse in Google Earth you'll see that this isn't the roof of a building but a large parking area. Actually it is probably an outside storage area rather than parking. The access to the lot is from the back door (probably for forklifts?) of the small L shaped building in the upper left corner of the lot. You can see that as an afterthought they needed access to the lot other than just through the building by looking at the dirt ruts/tracks going out of...

Ack. I should know better than to comment on sports. Football, thats the ball with the pointy ends right? Thanks.

Site of the Sugar Bowl college football game each year.

Thumbnail did not match URL so I updated it.

Only in Google Earth. They are still there in Google Maps.

The horseshoe shaped building in the lower left of the thumbnail was my Elementary / Middle School from '70 to '73. Never thought it unusual at the time to have Marines in snadbag enplacements with big machine guns on the school grounds.

Oops, sorry Analogman, I accidentally deleted your comment about this being a very narrow track that is only .75 miles long and suggesting it may be a bicycle track.

Acctually I did find reference to a bicycle test track in this area so I thnk you are correct.

These are all part of the Airburst Range. A list of all the targets can be found here. This target is listed as an SA-2 missile site.

Looks pretty clear as these images go. There is a lot of washed out color where the bare white stone is but I think that's just because the reflection is so hight it's overwhelming the CCDs in the camera. You see it often in the images taken of the beaches.

I agree.

That's the Mississippi delta.

Cool. Thanks to our expert on castles and all things medieval!

Missiles or anti-aircraft guns?

If you cared to, knowing the height of the monument, the length of the shadow, and the direction of the shadow (all known values or easy to extract from the image) one could approximate the time of day and maybe the date from the exact height and angle of the sun.

8000th map!

Thanks, but not really my find. It is from another forum.

It is pulling a banner too!

Maybe a tank (fuel?) with a retaining berm around it. They often do that to retain possible leaks.

Looks lik this might have been a horse ranch an that was a training circuit.

The prime meridian used to pass through here (or it competed with the one that passed through the Observatory at Greenwich anyway.) A long line of brass plates in the ground marks the meridian and marches off through the city.

It is becoming an unhealty obsession. When I drive around I picture everything from the air. 1,000,000 here I come!

No problem. Thanks.

English translation please.

English translation please.

None of us here at Google Globetrotting speak spanish. What is this?

I like it.

Yes.

Actually I try to keep it to things that look interesting but occasionally I find things that are really cool or unusual but boring to look at and I post them anyway. The non-perspective views of the donuts fall on the boring to look at side of not uniquely cool so I chose not to do them. I'd not reject them if I saw them go by though.

It also depends on my mood. Good question though. I'm sure Texasandroid and nic have their opinions.

I didn't. Not sure why I said Brazillian back then. I may have posted it incorrectly as in Brazil and later fixed the location but not the title. I actually don't have any idea as to which nationality the ships are. Given the way the ships are in the vicinity are docked though I'd guess they are local, not visiting.

That would be fun. I found other giant donuts but didn't post them because they were all from directly overhead and had no shadow. They looked more like giant hot dogs (which I also found but which didn't look like anything actually).

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I actually live less than a mile from there and drive that street down the center street a dozen times a week. One of the best neighborhoods in Alameda.

Do we know for sure the Google Earth pictures are earlier? Perhaps they date back to post Gulf War I and these are post Gulf War II.

Thanks

Almost the exact same shape but wrong location. Yours is inside the channel while mine is out beyond the entrance.

Anyway, I submitted yours in your name.

It looks like there is a much smaller sub at the southern end of the same warf.

Built on top of the remains of Anniston Air Force Base.

Um, um, no, it's... it's still flying... its just that the earth has shifted upwards under it and is rotating along with it. That's it!

OK, thanks. I fixed the title and description.

I usually find that these areas in arid lands that are geometrically greener that the surrounding areas are usually military bases.

It is a big art / happening / gathering. In earlier years everyone was a participant so everything and everyone was part of some art or performance. Lately its been more commercialized and attracts more sightseers and single day people. The art installations are becoming more mainsteam and require much more planning and financing. Bigger crowds mean more rules and less freedom / more abuse of the system, etc.

Neat find!

This is a rare image in which you can make out individual people. look in the central piazza.

So I've been all over their site and can't find anything about UFOs. Are you just making fun of them?

What's that to the SW?

I've seen these in other ranges. I think they are the the remains of controled explosives. This may be an area that they use to train people on explosives. Think of it as an explosive scratch pad. I think I saw an area like this on the northern edge of Sandia too.