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Sightseeing placemarks that don't fit into any of the other sightseeing categories. |
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 | Sewage Treatment facility Syracuse, NY. In comes the dirty nasty water, out goes the nice clean water into the bay. |  | 09/15/2005 | 193 | 
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 | This is the 'Detran-SP' (National Department of Transit - Sao Paulo unity) building. On the other side, you can see the Ibirapuera Park |  | 09/15/2005 | 278 |
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 | Oyster Farms, New South Wales Australia |  | 09/15/2005 | 140 |
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 | Altona Cemetery, Melborne Australia | | 09/13/2005 | 152 |
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 | The water-cooling towers of this pretty-old power station in Cape Town can be seen for ages. Just across the road from a sewage-processing plant, it's not the nicest area to live in. |  | 09/12/2005 | 377 |
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 | The harbour of Rotondo. |  | 09/11/2005 | 251 |
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 | The harbour on Bonifacio - Corse - France. |  | 09/11/2005 | 269 |
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 | The northernmost point in Europe. Also a popular destination for tourists in northern Norway. |  | 09/11/2005 | 396 |
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 | The so-called Golden Triangle marks the border-triangle between Thailand, Laos and Myanmar (Burma) on the Mekhong River. The name is also used to described the region, which was once (in)famous for being the world´s main production area for poppies whose substances are subsequently refined into opium and heroin. It is now surpassed by Afghanistan which produces 90% of the world´s opium. | | 09/11/2005 | 268 |
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 | The only hydropower plant in Bangladesh is located at Kaptai, about 50 km from the port city of Chittagong. This plant was constructed in 1962 and is one of the biggest water resources development project of Bangladesh. After being commissioned in 1962, the plant could feed the national grid with 80 MW of electricity. In later years, the generation capacity was increased in two phases to a tota... | | 09/10/2005 | 266 |
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 | WujalWujal Aboriginal Community, Queensland Australia | | 09/10/2005 | 169 |
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 | Bwgcolman (aka Palm Island) , Queensland Australia | | 09/10/2005 | 170 |
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 | Lead singer of INXS "hanged" himself here in the Ritz-Carlton hotel Nov 22nd, 1997 |  | 09/10/2005 | 239 |
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 | Water thrower irrigating the fields. | | 09/09/2005 | 156 |
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 | Windmills near Münsingen outside of Stuttgart. |  | 09/09/2005 | 234 |
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 | It looks like a stubby beer bottle but it may be an island. | | 09/08/2005 | 301 |
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 | Cape Town's largest graveyard - covering the entire block and housing thousands and thousands of graves. It contains some of the oldest graves in the area. | | 09/08/2005 | 166 |
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 | Here's a nice view covering the border inspection zone between Poland and Belarus. Just north-east is the Belarus city of Brest (unfortunately outside the hi-res. area). | | 09/08/2005 | 230 |
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 | Since May 2004 when Poland came to the E.U., border inspection between Poland and Belarus has become more painful. You can clearly see the many cars on the right waiting to enter Poland. | | 09/08/2005 | 283 |
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 | Huge fuel refinery complex - prone to creating an awful stench for nearby residents and the occasional "oops" (chemical accident). | | 09/08/2005 | 223 |
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 | A Hydro-electric power plant on the Rhine near the nuclear power station Fessenheim | | 09/08/2005 | 230 |
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 | This is a collection of "Wonders of the World," modern and medieval versions, including "natural" (i.e., environmental/geological) wonders.
This collection contains A LOT of placemarks (80+) and was compiled from various sources on the internet. I think that a "Collections" category is a good idea. | | 09/07/2005 | 3,491 |
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 | A harbour where many new cars arrive to Norway to be sold nationwide. | | 09/07/2005 | 253 |
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 | Cattle Ranch in California, about 15 miles northeast of Modesto. | | 09/06/2005 | 175 |
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 | This is the tall, very tall (70 meters) monument of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, as it stands at Gagarin Square, Moscow. | | 09/06/2005 | 213 |
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