User:Joshuapaquin/List of interesting Google Maps satellite images

In 2005, internet site Google Maps added to its service a collection of satellite imagery of North America, in June 2005 this was extended to cover the whole world, however the amount of high resolution images for other countries can be very little compared to North America. Since its release, many enthusiasts have located interesting images across the world.

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Australia[edit]

Spider impact crater added (with a little photo-geographical interpretation).
Uluru map

New South Wales[edit]

Kingsford Smith International Airport in Sydney map

Canberra[edit]

New Parliament House map

Canada[edit]

Ontario[edit]

Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan map
Parliament building in Ottawa map
CN Tower in Toronto map
Canada Aviation Museum in Ottawa map
Niagara Falls at the USA border map
Casino in Windsor map
Ontario Assembly in Toronto map
Correctional facilities in Milton map
Pickering nuclear power plant map
Wind tunnel in Ottawa map
Toronto Pearson International Airport map
Canadian War Museum map
- (the highway was rerouted around the new museum site, as seen in the satellite image but not the overlayed map)

PE[edit]

Confederation Bridge near Borden-Carleton map

Quebec[edit]

Impact crater in Manicouagan map
Olympic Stadium in Montreal map
Six Flags La Ronde in Montreal map
Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau map
Biosphere 2 in Montreal map
Citadel in Quebec City map

Denmark[edit]

Legoland Billund map
Most of the LEGO Bricks are made here map

Egypt[edit]

Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt map

Finland[edit]

The ruins of a 19th-century town near Bomarsund fortress, Sund, Finland map

France[edit]

Eiffel Tower, Paris, France map
Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France map
Palace of Versailles map
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris map
The Louvre museum in Paris map
The Mont Blanc, higher mountain of Europe map

Germany[edit]

Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag (top left), Berlin map
New Berlin Main Station - Lehrter Bahnhof map

Greece[edit]

The Acropolis featuring the Parthenon, in Athens, Greece. map

Hong Kong[edit]

India[edit]

TajMahal in Agra. map

CharMinar in Hyderabad (Deccan), India. map

Iraq[edit]

Baghdad International Airport in Baghdad. map

Italy[edit]

The Colosseum in Rome Italy map
Vatican City in Rome map
Circus Maximus, in Rome map
The Vesuvio volcano, near Naples map
The historical center of Venice, you can see the Canal grande (main channel) map
Ischia island (Naples) map
Eolie islands (Alicudi, Filicudi, Lipari, Panarea, Salina, Stromboli, Strombolicchio, Vulcano); Stromboli (top right, blurred) and Vulcano (bottom) are active volcanoes map
Etna, Sicily: greater volcano of europe map
Some sort of firework - not sure what this is zoom in for a better look: map
Tower of Pisa, Tuscany: the leaning tower map

Japan[edit]

Macao[edit]

Macau International Airport, Taipa, Macao map
Macau Tower, Macao, Macao map
Ruins of St Paul's, Macao, Macao map

Mexico[edit]

Estadio Azteca , Mexico City map

Netherlands[edit]

Afsluitdijk , Netherlands map

North Korea[edit]

Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea map

South Africa[edit]

Robben Island , South Africa map
Lesotho map
An Airforce base in Pretoria , South Africa map
The Voortrekker Monument , South Africa map
South African Government , South Africa map

Spain[edit]

Bilbao Guggenheim Museum map
Bull fighting arena in Madrid map
Circuit in Barcelona map
Alhambra fortress map

Sweden[edit]

Öresund Bridge Tunnel map
Globen Stadium in Stockholm map
Lund citadel map
Wind turbines near Lund map
Stockholm Royal Palace map
Cruise ship at the Port of Värtan map

Switzerland[edit]

Syngenta advertising in a field map
Road tunnel map

Tanzania[edit]

Mount Kilimanjaro in Arusha map

Thailand[edit]

Chalong Bay map
Chiang Mai stadium map
Ancient moat around Nakhon Ratchasima map
Bangkok map
Chiang Mai Airport map

Turkey[edit]

United Arab Emirates[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

Big Ben in London map
Buckingham Palace, London map
University of Cambridge Colleges along river Cam, Cambridge map
University of Cambridge West Cambridge site under development:
- aerial photo of the site from 1996 showing early development (not from Google)
- aerial photo of the site from 2004 showing ongoing development (from Google)
Donington Park Circuit in Derby map
Site of the Eden Project under construction (not from Google) map
HMS Belfast in London map
London Eye in London map
The Millennium Dome, London map
- And another aerial photo taken shortly after the dome was completed map
Tower Bridge and Tower of London in London map
Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland map
Carnoustie Golf Links golf course in Scotland map

United States[edit]

Non-Government[edit]

Barringer Crater, near Winslow, Arizona map
Central Park, New York City, New York map
Fashion Island and Newport Center, Newport Beach, California map
Fenway Park, in Boston, Massachusetts map
Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina map
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California map
Grand Canyon, Arizona map
Ground Zero, New York City map
Hollywood Sign, Los Angeles, California map
Hoover Dam, outside Boulder City, Nevada map
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana map
Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada map
Mauna Kea, Hawaii map
Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch map
Mount St. Helens in Washington state map
Niagara Falls map
Oil platform? off Louisiana map
Space Needle, Seattle, Washington map
Washington Monument, Washington, DC map
Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom, near Orlando, Florida map (note Mickey Mouse ears at entrance)
Odd abandoned Airfield known as Luke Auxiliary Field No 4 near Surprise, Arizona map

US Government[edit]

Airplane Graveyard and spaceflight test runway at Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California map
Area 51 at Groom Lake map
Cheyenne Mountain map
Craters at Nellis Bombing Range map
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in the Mojave Desert, CA map
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA map
Naval Graveyard, Benicia, California map
Space shuttle launch pads and landing runway at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida map
The Pentagon in Crystal City, Virginia map
The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC map
Swastika shaped building at a San Diego Naval base map
Air Force One, at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, AZ[1]

Zambia[edit]

Victoria Falls in Livingstone map

Iceland[edit]

Vestmannaeyjar Archipelago [2]

External links[edit]

aDayBlog.com -- Maps - A daily blog showing a map image with a small description of that map.
Baudelet.net - A very large collection of locations : Paris, Egypt, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka and many other countries.
Google Sightseeing - A blog with descriptions and notes about interesting places.
Google Sightseeing UK - UK blog with descriptions and notes about interesting places (No longer maintained?).
Google maps explorer - A large user-submitted directory of interesting Google maps locations.
Perljam.net - A large collection of interesting locations.
Google Globetrotting - User submitted collection of maps.
Multimap Sightseeing - Similar collection for the UK, using Multimap.com's aerial photos.
The World According To Google - Another blog with descriptions and notes about interesting places (European places mainly, Polish version available Świat według Google).
As Good As Being There Another showcase site
Satellite maps of the world Another archival site, Links for Google Maps, MSN Virtual Earth, +
Blackbird Spotting maps the location of every existing Mach 3 Blackbird, with aerial photos from Google Maps
World Heritage sites links
Virtual Tourism Another directory of interesting locations on Google maps with accompanying videos of the same location.
Google Maps of Indian Cities
Google Maps World Gazetteer plots over 2000000 locations worldwide on Google Maps
GoogolMaps - A new globe sightseeing page featuring Google Map thumbnails.
[3] - A daily french Google Maps directory.