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Other sightseeing placemarks that don't fit into the other categories. |
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 | Amazing Race location aired 3-28-06. Ancient city with Amphitheather and other ruins. Amphitheater is at the far right. |  | 03/31/2006 | 156 | 
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 | The "zero point" for all surveys in France in front of Notre Dame cathedral. We also provide concentric circles and arcs to show distances from the Zero to all parts of continental France, and a great circle route to its antipode. |  | 03/09/2006 | 395 |
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 | Spitbank Fort was a Royal Commission fort built between 1867 and 1878, the smallest of the 3 main forts in the Solent off Portsmouth, England. It is 162 feet across, with 1 floor and a basement, and armour plating only on the seaward side. It was originally planned to have armed with 9 10" eighteen ton RML guns on the seaward side, and 6 7" seven ton RML guns on the landward side. In ... | | 03/04/2006 | 189 |
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 | It was decided in 1860 to build a series of five forts in the Solent to guard the Spithead anchorage and the inner approaches to Portsmouth Harbour. The original size of the forts was to be a vast 300ft in diameter. After much deliberation it was decided that only four forts Horse Sands, Spitbank, No Man’s Land and St. Helens would be built at a reduced size of 240ft in diameter. Work commenced... | | 03/04/2006 | 216 |
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 | No Mans Land Fort was built in the Solent between the years 1867 and 1880 to protect Portsmouth. It is almost identical to St Helens Fort. It is now a luxury home with 2 helipads. It has recently become a hotel for high-paying guests, due to the privacy it offers |  | 03/04/2006 | 622 |
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 | Google Earth shows a mixture of English and Irish names.
This file provides separate sets of English (Bhéarla) and Irish (Gaeilge na hÉireann) county names which can be seen at relatively high altitudes.
Covers both Ireland and Northern Ireland (UK) |  | 02/21/2006 | 656 |
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 | The International Boundary Commission defines the borders as straight lines which this file connects between its 11,522 monuments and ove-water turning points. |  | 02/14/2006 | 263 |
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 | The Observatory at Stanford in the San Francisco Bay Area consists of five 18 metre dishes operating as a high-resolution X-band interferometer for extragalactic observational work.
The Observatory (historically known as "Heliopolis"), first achieved the angular resolution of the human eye (one arcminute). It was also here that the first discovery was made revealing the dire... | | 02/14/2006 | 183 |
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 | Google Earth shows a mixture of English and French names and only at VERY low altitudes, making them hard to locate. This file provides separate sets of English and French provincial names and their capitals. | | 02/14/2006 | 294 |
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 | Current Canadian disputes with Denmark, USA, and internal | | 02/14/2006 | 272 |
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 | This file shows the boundary of Canada's Nunavut Territory, created in 1999, but not yet shown by Google Earth when Borders is active. The file contains a link to the legal definition from the Nunavut Planning Commission. | | 02/13/2006 | 173 |
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 | Google Earth does not show terrain below sea level. File contains Wikipedia source. | | 02/12/2006 | 609 |
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 | One of the largest Ferris Wheels in the world. | | 02/12/2006 | 173 |
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 | SWEPCO (power plant) in Benton County | | 02/07/2006 | 216 |
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 | 4 cataventos, 4 windmills, in Fortaleza, CE - Brasil. | | 02/04/2006 | 207 |
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 | the base in Antarctica continent ( Brasil ) |  | 01/24/2006 | 240 |
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 | 5 spanish places in Morocco that i know, if you know some one more tell me please |  | 01/05/2006 | 270 |
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 | Grapes culture near the Douro River ... will become porto in a few year. Turn on "terrain" option. | | 12/26/2005 | 206 |
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 | I suppose this must be full of building by now, but it looks like "ground art" at the time the picture was done :-) | | 12/26/2005 | 169 |
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 | WHOI is dedicated to research and higher education at the frontiers of ocean science. Its primary mission is to develop and effectively communicate a fundamental understanding of the processes and characteristics governing how the oceans function and how they interact with Earth as a whole. | | 12/11/2005 | 183 |
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 | TV Tower of Brasilia - Torre de TV de Brasília, DF - Brasil. | | 12/10/2005 | 260 |
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 | The famous junction between Av. Ipiranga & Av. São João, in São Paulo downtown. O famoso cruzamento da Av. Ipiranga com a Av. São João, em São Paulo, SP - Brazil. | | 12/08/2005 | 237 |
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 | Polution in Sao Paulo / Poluição em São Paulo, SP - Brasil. | | 12/07/2005 | 194 |
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 | Parque do Ibirapuera (Ibirapuera Park), in São Paulo, SP - Brazil. | | 12/07/2005 | 224 |
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 | An island near Venice that is covered by a cemetery ! | | 12/07/2005 | 251 |
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