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Weird Red Plane 2

Weird Red Plane 2

A plane with a weird projection off the front. 200 feet to the NW is its weird double shadow (the plane has the black shadow, the projection has the grey shadow)
No rating yet02/28/2006492Google Earth Logo
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Blue and Red Line

Blue and Red Line

A blue line with a fainter red line below it. What is interesting is how they managed an overlap error on an imaging error. Just scroll to the right to see the overlap error. It's there twice. Location: Turkish-Syrian border
No rating yet02/27/2006178Google Earth Logo
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Half An Island

Half An Island

Looks like this island in Greece got cut in half!
Rating of 402/26/2006191Google Earth Logo
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pac man

pac man

weird face
Rating of 2.33333333302/22/2006926Google Earth Logo
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Lake Of Blood II - Iraq

Lake Of Blood II - Iraq

Found a second lake with red wather. Looks like chemicals.
Rating of 3.16666666602/13/20061,271Google Earth Logo
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Cloud cutoff

Cloud cutoff

Suuny on your left, cloudy on your right.
No rating yet01/13/2006173Google Earth Logo
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E.T. Face

E.T. Face

An odd E.T. face.
seems like twol lakes, but I'm not sure.
Rating of 3.601/05/2006520Google Earth Logo
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Black trapezoid in Bradenton Florida

Black trapezoid in Bradenton Florida

Stumbled upon a blacked out trapezoid in Bradenton, Florida? Is there anything worth hiding in Brandenton?
Rating of 401/02/2006359Google Earth Logo
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Midtown in Miami

Midtown in Miami

Future site of Midtown, a major development in the middle of Miami, formerly a dump for trailers. Some of the trailers can be seen in the image, but due to the overlay ntaken at different times, half of it is cleared already.
Rating of 3.512/11/2005324Google Earth Logo
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UFO

UFO

ufo.
Rating of 3.211/20/20052,651Google Earth Logo
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Face at Mt. St.Helens

Face at Mt. St.Helens

A formation resembling a face in the crater.
Rating of 310/29/2005814Google Earth Logo
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Summer and Winter in Edmonton

Summer and Winter in Edmonton

Simultaneous Summer and Winter in Edmonton canada.
No rating yet10/23/2005219Google Earth Logo
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McMurdo Station, Antarctica

McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Strange map quirks in the vicinity of McMurdo station, Antarctica.
Rating of 310/16/2005970Google Earth Logo
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A line in a desert, Saudi Arabia

A line in a desert, Saudi Arabia

It doesn't look like a map quirk. Maybe a road construction connecting nowhere to nowhere
Rating of 3.510/15/2005976Google Earth Logo
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Strange sign

Strange sign

Strange singn - Alral Lake
Rating of 4.510/13/20051,679Google Earth Logo
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A red lake in Bagdad

A red lake in Bagdad

A red lake in Bagdad.
Why red polutio ?
No rating yet10/08/2005267Google Earth Logo
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Interesting Different coloured roofs in Pyongyang, N. Korea

Interesting Different coloured roofs in Pyongyang, N. Korea

A quirk on the map I found, and I think is intersting is there are blue, green and red coloured roofs around the city, I believe each one designated a function. They are all similar colours and are spread about the city.

I think blue is Agruculture, Green is Military. Red I am not so sure.

I know I haven't got them all so iIf you find any more that I don't have, ...
Rating of 2.510/04/2005515Google Earth Logo
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Another Dark Spot

Another Dark Spot

Here is an empty area on the Canadian/Alaskan border. Hmm... Some subversive colaboration? Is Canada trying to take over Alaska?
No rating yet09/29/2005437Google Earth Logo
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Island and its Ghost

Island and its Ghost

Here is an island and beside of it there is something looking like its "Ghost"
Rating of 309/25/2005523Google Earth Logo
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CD ROM

CD ROM

Looks like a big CD-ROM.
Rating of 509/23/2005741Google Earth Logo
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Very windy area in usa

Very windy area in usa

just a mistake of the satellitepicture ;-)
Rating of 209/23/2005232Google Earth Logo
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Potomac River

Potomac River

It appears to be a map glitch of some sort... scotch tape? Not quite sure, but definitely an iregularity.
No rating yet09/21/2005460Google Earth Logo
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Southpole Antarctica

Southpole Antarctica

I tried to get the absolute geographic Southpole. Google pointers show 89°60'00 - but no picture. Only white shapes.
I hope one day we will get the real scenery!
Rating of 209/18/2005485Google Earth Logo
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Northpole Arctic

Northpole Arctic

I tried to get the absolute geographic Northpole. Google pointers show 89°59'99 - but no picture. Not even white ice.
Rating of 109/18/2005343Google Earth Logo
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Great Bay black square

Great Bay black square

I don't know what is hidding behind this black square
No rating yet09/16/2005565Google Earth Logo
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