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Helsinki
60.170833°,24.937500° - Vantor
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city of Finland, with a population of slightly more than 650,000. Located on the northern shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the country's center of politics, education, finance, culture and research. Helsinki has one of the world's highest standards of urban living, and the United Nations “World Happiness Report” has named Finland the Happiest Country in the World for the five consecutive years.
Cape Coral, Florida
26.639722°,-81.982500° - Vantor
Since many cities in the state of Florida contain master-planned communities, often built on top of waterways in the latter half of the twentieth century, a number of intricate designs are visible from the Overview perspective. Here is one particular development in Cape Coral, a city with a population of more than 190,000 people. Cape Coral is the largest city between Tampa and Miami and has more than 400 miles (640 km) of navigable waterways.
Mar del Plata
-38.000000°,-57.550000° - Vantor
Mar del Plata is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. With more than 600,000 residents and several million visitors per year, it is the largest seaside resort city in Argentina and also one of the country’s major fishing ports. The city is host to a mix of architectural styles, including picturesque, art deco and the vernacular Mar del Plata Style — chalets with stone facades, gable roofs of Spanish or French tile, prominent eaves and front porches.
Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing
34.138029°,-118.728268° - National Wildlife Federation
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing will be the world’s largest wildlife overpass when it’s completed around 2025. Constructed across the Ventura Freeway near Los Angeles, California, the 200-foot-long (61-meter), 165-foot-wide (50-meter) corridor will provide safe crossing for mountain lions and other animals, using vegetation and walls to block light and noise from vehicles. Construction broke ground on Earth Day of this year and this rendering uses satellite imagery to show the planned, finished look of the corridor.
Barranquilla
10.963889°,-74.796389° - Planet
Barranquilla is a city in northern Colombia, located on the Caribbean Sea next to the Magdalena River. With had a population of about 2.2 million, it is Colombia's fourth-most populous city after Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. This Overview also shows the city of Soledad, which borders Barranquilla to the south and is part of its metropolitan area.
Harrat Khaybar
25.637794°,39.958346° - Vantor
Volcanic craters cover the landscape in Harrat Khaybar, a lava field in Saudi Arabia. Formed by a series of eruptions over 5 million years, the Harrat covers an area of more than 4,600 square miles (12,000 square km). In the bottom right of this Overview is White Mountain, a geological rarity which gets its pale color from a huge volcanic explosion that emitted gases and white ash containing silicon.
Palma de Mallorca
39.566667°,2.650000° - Airbus Space
Palma is a resort city and capital of the Spanish island of Mallorca, in the western Mediterranean. Tourism has caused Palma to grow significantly since the mid-1900s and is consequently its main economic sector. In fact, more than half of the island’s 410,000 residents work in tourism.
Giudecca
45.427185°,12.324909° - Airbus Space
Today we’re excited to share our first high-resolution Overview from Pléiades Neo, the latest high-resolution satellite from Airbus Space! Here we see part of Venice, Italy – a city of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. Giudecca, visible on the right side of this Overview, is a series of eight small islands separated from the heart of the city by the Giudecca Canal.
Mars Backshell Wreckage
0.000000°,0.000000° - NASA
This Overview of Mars, captured by NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, shows the wreckage of a “backshell” — a component that detached from the Perseverance rover when it landed on Mars in February 2021. We can also see the backshell’s 70-foot-wide (21-meter) parachute in frame. The Ingenuity is a robotic helicopter that follows the Perseverance rover around Mars, taking photos as it hovers above the red planet’s surface. This photo was taken, along with 9 others, during its 26th flight last week, which lasted 159 seconds and spanned 1,181 feet (360 meters).
Santorini
36.416667°,25.433333° - Vantor
Santorini, officially known as Thira, is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea. It is known for its beautiful scenery and traditional architecture — low-lying cubical houses made of stone, often whitewashed to reflect the hot mediterranean sun. Santorini’s primary industry is tourism, welcoming about 2 million visitors every year. This Overview also shows Therasia, Nea Kameni, Palaia Kameni, and Aspronisi, four smaller islands included in the municipality of Santorini.
Kuala Lumpur
3.147778°,101.695278° - Vantor
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and largest city in Malaysia, with an estimated 1.73 million residents. In recent decades, the city center has undergone rapid development and seen the addition of numerous skyscrapers, including the Petronas Towers — the tallest twin buildings in the world. In fact, Kuala Lumpur ranks 10th among cities with buildings above 100 meters, with a combined height of 34,035 metres from its 244 high rise buildings.
Iceland
64.963100°,-19.020800° - Airbus Space
Iceland is a Nordic island nation famous for its dramatic landscape of volcanoes, geysers, lava fields, fjords and hot springs. It also contains some of Europe’s largest glaciers, including Vatnajökull, a massive ice cap that covers about 8% of the country’s land area. Iceland has roughly 371,000 residents, more than 65% of whom live in the capital city of Reykjavík.
Plaza Mayor
40.415364°,-3.707398° - Costas Spathis
Plaza Mayor is a public square in the heart of Madrid, Spain. Dating back to the 15th century, it once served as the central marketplace of Old Madrid. Today, the 130,000-square-foot (12,000-square-meter) space still provides residents and tourists a location for shopping, eating, and enjoying a space outdoors.
Mount Vesuvius
40.822382°,14.420151° - Vantor
Mount Vesuvius is a somma-stratovolcano located in Campania, Italy, about 5.6 miles (9 km) east of Naples. It is best known for its eruption in AD 79, which killed thousands and destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae. With an eruption as recent as 1944 and at least 3 million living nearby, Vesuvius is regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.
Wallis
-13.287898°,-176.200937° - Planet
Wallis, also known as Uvéa, is a Polynesian atoll in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna. Surrounded by a lagoon, barrier reef and some 15 smaller islands, it spans 39 square miles (100 square km) and has 8,333 residents. Wallis is of volcanic origin, with fertile soil and plentiful rainfall to support subsistence farming.
La Condesa
19.412525°,-99.169422° - Vantor
La Condesa is a neighborhood in the Cuauhtémoc Borough of Mexico City, located a few miles west of the city's main square. Its wide, tree-lined avenues, stately art nouveau mansions and well-maintained art deco apartment buildings give it a distinctly European feel. Avenida Amsterdam, the elliptical roadway seen on the left side of this Overview, was used as a private automobile and horse-racing track in the early 1900s; today it encircles Parque México, a large urban park.
The Vatican
41.902500°,12.452500° - Airbus Space
Happy Easter! This Overview shows the Vatican City and the surrounding city of Rome, Italy from a low angle. At the top we see St. Peter’s Basilica, regarded as one of the holiest Catholic sites and one of the greatest architectural feats in all of Christendom. With an area of 121 acres (49 hectares) and a population of about 825, The Vatican is the smallest state in the world by both area and population.
Gruissan
43.107778°,3.084444° - Vantor
Gruissan is a commune of about 5,000 residents, located on the Mediterranean coast of southern France. Traditionally a fishing village, the circular town is built around a former 10th century château, of which only the Tour Barberousse (Redbeard Tower) remains. The castle ruin can be seen near the center of this Overview surrounded by green trees.
Penikese Island
41.450107°,-70.923091° - Vantor
Today, Lindblad Expeditions introduces Penikese Island, part of the Elizabeth Island chain in Buzzard’s Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Since the late 19th century, the island has contained a natural history school, a leprosy hospital for residents of Massachusetts, and a substance abuse treatment facility. All are gone now with only resident seabirds remaining, along with a few wind-worn, shingled rustic buildings in the classic, archetypal style of the Cape, set on a grassy plain overlooking the bay. To learn more or explore this region, visit expeditions.com.
SS Maheno Shipwreck
-25.267349°,153.238534° - Andreas Dress
The wreck of the SS Maheno can be found on the east coast of Fraser Island in Queensland, Australia. The ship — which was washed ashore by a cyclone in 1935 — was an ocean liner that made regular crossings between New Zealand and Australia in the early 20th century. The 5,000-ton steel-hulled ship has slowly disintegrated over the years and remains a popular tourist attraction.
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