Interesting Google Earth Finds
Traffic Accident - Baghdad
33°19′37.28″N, 44°17′4.78″E
Traffic Accident - Baghdad
33*20`18.93″N, 44*22`40.93″E
Capsized Cruise Ship - Korea
35°9′20.89″N, 129°8′49.49″E
Crane Collapse - Holland
52°1′44.67″N, 4°17′20.73″E
Some of the sights you find in Google Earth are just plain mysterious. For example, why is a fighter jet parked (Google Earth coordinates 48.825183,2.1985795) in what looks to be a residential neighborhood lot near Paris? And why is this lake in Iraq (33.39845000,44.48416800) blood red?
Sometimes Google Earth is lucky enough to catch things as they happen. Here Google Earth captures a truck that crashed (Google Earth coordinates 46.765669,-100.79274) outside of Bismarck, North Dakota. In another instance, Google Earth caught fishermen illegally bottom-trawling (28.102512,-14.265835) beaches near Spain’s Canary Islands.
The unblinking eyes of the satellites record not only human achievements, but our less successful moments as well. One example is this huge ship (Google Earth coordinates 30.541634,47.825445) floating on its side after a maritime accident in the waters of Basrah, Iraq.
For aviation buffs, Google Earth offers the unique ability to spot airplanes in midair. One Google Earth Community has Placemarks for more than 3300 planes in flight, including this World War II bomber (Google Earth coordinates 52.336392,-0.1953462) flying over Huntingdon, England.
Google Earth doesn’t have advertising, unless you consider the corporate logos and trademarks big enough to be seen from space. This giant Ford logo (Google Earth coordinates 42.302284,-83.231215) is found near (where else?) Detroit, Michigan. You think that’s big? Check out the massive Coca-Cola logo (-18.529225,-70.25002) etched into a hillside in Chile with 70,000 Coke bottles. Haven’t they heard of recycling?
Nothing can replace hopping in a plane and going somewhere, but Google Earth gives you a small taste of what you might see when you visit some of the world’s tourist destinations. This spectacular shot shows Victoria Falls (Google Earth coordinates -17.925511,25.858223) on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Other virtual destinations worth flying over are Mt. Everest (27.985866,86.92844) and Mt. Kilimanjaro (-3.0726042,37.343093).
Google’s satellites sometimes catch the Earth’s inhabitants on the move, like these ten African elephants (Google Earth coordinates 10.903497,19.93229).
Think parking is tough where you live? In Westenbergstraat, Netherlands, drivers apparently have to park on the sides of walls (Google Earth coordinates 52.069207,4.3139865).
National Geographic partnered with Google Earth on a project called Africa Megaflyover. The magazine has made more than 500 high-resolution images accessible through Google Earth, including this close-up view (Google Earth coordinates 15.298693,19.429661) of camels and their caretakers taking a water break in Nigeria.
Spend enough time on Google Earth, and you start thinking that the world is a pretty low-resolution place. But Google Earth is steadily updating its maps with high-resolution pictures. Zoom in on this Google Earth satellite shot of Australia’s Bondi Beach (Google Earth coordinates -33.892351,151.27538), and you can almost read the designer labels on the bikinis.
If you’re in the intelligence business, Google Earth makes hiding big things nearly impossible. This image is believed to be of a 1.8-square-mile scale model of a disputed region on the border of China and India. Google Earth spotters found it in a remote area in north central China (Google Earth coordinates 38.265652,105.9517). One theory on why this model exists comes from the Australian publication The Age, which reported that the scale model is used to train tank drivers.
As if Oprah Winfrey’s celebrity weren’t big enough already, an Arizona farmer built a 10-acre homage to the talk show host (Google Earth coordinates 33.225488,-111.5955). Visitors can tell their friends, “I got lost inside Oprah’s head.”
Without a doubt, the best thing that ever happened to crop circles is Google Earth. This circle in the desert just outside Beatty, Nevada (Google Earth coordinates 37.401437,-116.86773), is one of hundreds spotted with the software.
This giant pink bunny (Google Earth coordinates 44.244273,7.769737) in Prata Nevoso, Italy, was built by a group of artists from Vienna, according to published accounts. It’s 200 feet long and answers to the name “Hare.”
Dubbed The Badlands Guardian by locals, this geological marvel (Google Earth coordinates 50.010083,-110.113006) in Alberta, Canada, bears an uncanny resemblance to a human head wearing a full Native American headdress–and earphones, to boot. Of course, The Guardian was produced naturally.
I caught an image of grass fire on google maps. This is above Africa in the Republic of the Congo just east of Kikwit.
UFO Landing :O
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Here are coordinates from secret places for you:
01. Google Pool: 37°25′20.41″N 122° 5′6.00″W
02. Airplane: 50°12′47.26″N 8°52′7.31″E
03. Tent: 28°29′43.15″N 81°34′50.07″W
04. Indian 1: 6°42′51.37″N 42°11′42.82″E
05. Black Line & Fire on ice: 69° 3′7.72″N 41° 8′29.66″W
06. BAR: 39°49′21.77″N 3°28′44.50″W
07. Star: 37°24′1.66″N 116°51′58.85″W
08. Pyramid: 37°37′38.49″N 116°50′26.44″W
09. Eddie Fuck: 53°32′18.35″N 1°20′44.17″W
10. Nude Dutch People: 52° 4′43.34″N 4°19′58.12″E
11. Nude German Woman: 52°30′31.46″N 13°20′6.90″E
12. English Crop Circle: 53°31′54.33″N 1°21′24.93″W
13. Firefox-Logo: 45° 7′25.87″N 123° 6′48.97″W
14. Nazi-Building: 32°40′33.83″N 117° 9′28.36″W
15. Reversed Ship: 35° 9′18.21″N 129° 8′51.37″E
16. Bomber: 52°20′10.98″N 0°11′43.17″W
17. Indian 2 (with i-pod): 50° 0′38.19″N 110° 6′48.31″W
18. Donut Store: 25°57′0.25″N 97° 8′50.29″W
19. Giant of Tarapacá: 19°56′56.86″S 69°38′1.81″W
20. Italian Crop Circle: 44°40′52.79″N 10°19′6.39″E
21. Radar Station: 18°20′39.01″N 66°45′8.79″W
22. Sailing/Pirate Ship: 33°51′13.07″S 151°13′59.47″E
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53 Comments on “Interesting Google Earth Finds”
Very cool list of stuff. It’s crazy what people have found with Google Earth
I really love this wonderful list of google earth images and locations. How fascinating!
*gasp* cool
I can see my landlords truck in our parking lot! it was shot in 2006. Do they have newer footage?
Great stumble!
“The unblinking eyes of the satellites record not only human achievements, but our less successful moments as well.”
Just so you know, it’s not satellites. Google Earth’s high res images like these are taken by helicopter and aeroplane flyovers.
Nice finds though
the badlands guardian is incredible!
Most of these images are actually taken from planes, not from satellites. Satellite imagery can’t do much better than 1m resolution.
Interesting…Im sure there are other millions of unique satellite pictures we have yet to see.
Proof that native americans invented the earbud headphones!
I absolutely love that last one, the native American with the headphones!
Sadly, the bomber is no longer there
The star shaped set up in the desert is from Viet Nam era training site for pilots to learn to deal with SAM missle sites.
FYI, a lot of the imagery in Google Earth isn’t from satellites, it’s from aircraft. You couldn’t get that shot of the elephants from any commercially-available satellite imagery.
Coords 37.401437,-116.86773 is not a crop circle. It is a simulated Surface to Air missile site located in Nevada (SA-2 I believe). Zoom out and you can see other target on this bombing range, including a rail line and a simulated town. Possibly for simulated nuclear deliveries.
That’s not a crop circle, thats a defunct missile site or perhaps a storage bunker site for weapons.
Ahhh. The WWII plane one was updated/gone.
Nice finds mate.
I severely question the authenticity of a number of these items.
That crop circle is either an artillery battery or a Anti-Air missle battery
Great pics, thanks for sharing. Love the ‘Hare’!
very interesting cool and crazy stuff
This site is amazing… great compilation… and why the hell is that water red!?!?!
A most amazing site Google earth. I feel like James Bond.
iNative, iPod, iRock!
Wow. Amazing stuff to be seen via google earth. I wonder how long before they start more actively crowd sourcing satelite image analysis.
on google earth has the interesting chart. haha
The first picture shows a Dassault Mirage IIIc jetfighter. The mass production started in 1960 and there are now 1500 of these. Very close to where the jet is staying (Sèvres), there is a military airport (Villacoublay). The owner is probably a former pilot who wanted to buy a plane… The whole area is full of military related companies (MBDA, Dassault, Lagardere…)
and in the last pic, he has earphones!!
The picture at the top looks to be a B-58 Hustler. There is another one next to a motel in Fort Worth, TX.
great! i found few more such amazing pics while searching on google earth but donno how to copy coordinates to share with others
that last image is a grass fire, not a meteorite.
The red lake is freeeakky
woo….great collection..i loved it……….
I see the Badlands Guardian is listening to his iPod
Simply amazing. I wish I had my own spacecraft to take my own photos from up there.
Thanks for turning us on to this collection
I would subscribe to Google Earth now.
wow
scary…what happened to privacy?
The elephants are obviously fake. I don’t know how they got on there but take a look at them on google earth becaue they are out of place and look to be a drawing to me.
Outdoors is not private, it is public.
Awersome! Some were real funny and some were pure awe inspiring
Superb collection !
I couldn’t see what exist at the first two coordinates (the jet in France and the pretended red lake in Iraq). Trying different altitudes and different directions to aproach was imposible to reach the exact coordinates,… look like theese are jumping over the mentioned ones.
Search on “77 water st. nyc” and check out the bi-plane and runway on top of the office building.
Does anyone know why the water is red?
Great pics! Very funny… thanks.
The jet fighter on the parking near Paris is a real fighter parked on the parking lot of a school for Electronic Engineers specializing in military aviation. The students are supposed to take the electronics apart and reassemble before year end…
In San Diego on coranado island there is a building that is shaped like a swastica