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 | Fort Kuivasaari belongs to Finland and located on a Kuivasaari island in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic sea. It has strategic position near a Helsinki - capital city of Finland.
Word "kuivasaari" means - dry island. Good joke because the island is very rare to dry from a rain. Fortunately it was a rain break during our visit there so picture above is clear.
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 | This is the second biggest opensky mine in the world, this mine have been used for two thousand years ago by Romans, and nowadays it's used by the NASA because the terrain is such as Mars, the dam you can see at the north of the mine are contamined waters. |  | 08/31/2005 | 1,039 |
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 | Bjurbole is the biggest recent meteorite fall found in Finland so far. This meteorite broke into many pieces when it hits the sea ice in the gulf of Finland, on the 12 March 1899.
328 kg of material were recovered from 8 meters deep (0.4 meter ice 0.5 meter water and 7 meters mud) by divers. The meteorite had made a 4 meter wide hole in the ice, and mud was spread over a 24 x 33 m wide... | | 01/02/2006 | 769 |
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 | A dragline excavator at the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine near Hibbing,MN. This mine is the largest open pit iron mine in the world. The mine is approximately 3 miles long, 2 miles wide, and 535 feet deep. |  | 01/24/2007 | 1,009 |
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 | 4 MI-24 assault helicopters over finland. |  | 08/03/2005 | 657 |
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 | Lavansaari aerodrome in Gulf of Finland on 26th August 1943. The photo interpreter has marked down only three fighter aeroplanes at the north part of the runway but I can see two fighters taking off and an Douglas A-20 at a stand from a close-up.
Finnish National Archive Sörnäinen. File PK 2103/63. |  | 10/30/2009 | 26 |
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 | Homestake Gold Mine was the oldest, largest and deepest mine in the Western Hemisphere, reaching more than 8000 feet below the town of Lead. |  | 10/31/2005 | 1,185 |
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 | The Wieliczka Salt Mine, located in the town of Wieliczka in southern Poland, lays within Kraków metropolitan area. The mine had been in continuous operation, producing table salt since the 13th century until 2007 as one of the world's oldest operating salt mines (the oldest being in Bochnia, Poland, some 20 kilometers away from Wieliczka). The mine is a major tourist attraction, with about 1.2... | | 08/21/2009 | 190 |
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 | The Ekati open pit diamond mine in northern Canada. Zoom in to see the huge trucks and excavators. Visit http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/ekati/ for more information on this mine. | | 09/25/2006 | 1,320 |
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 | Diavik Diamond mine is a large diamond mine in the Northeast of Canada.
You need the latest version of Google Earth to use the file! | | 09/11/2007 | 1,377 |
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 | Kennecott open-pit copper mine west of Salt Lake City, UT. Most productive copper mine in history and is currently 3/4 of a mile deep. | | 08/04/2005 | 807 |
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 | This is a former race track in Finland. Closed in the 1970's. Because drivers still used the track after closure, the government destroyed the surface. Nowadays tree's grow through the tarmac. It is one of Europes lost race circuits, but the remains are still visable. | | 12/29/2005 | 471 |
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