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Melrose Park
-32.016664°,69.955090° - Maxar Technologies
Melrose Park is a residential community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The neighborhood is planned with streets in eight concentric octagons and contains 1,975 households.
Clew Bay
53.412910°,-8.243890° - Airbus Space
Clew Bay, a natural ocean bay in County Mayo, contains Ireland’s most extensive display of sunken drumlins. Drumlins are elongated, teardrop-shaped hills formed by moving glacier ice, and sunken drumlins are those now partially underwater. The islands of Clew Bay—approximately 360 altogether—date back at least 20,000 years, when much of Ireland was covered by an ice sheet.
Awaza, Turkmenistan
39.974626°,52.828381° - Maxar
Luxury resorts line the coast of the Caspian Sea in Awaza, Turkmenistan. Located about 7.5 miles (12 km) west of the city of Turkmenbashi, this special tourist zone constructed its first hotel in 2004 and now has at least 22 hotels and resorts. Due to its remote location and ultra-modern architecture, Awaza has been called the “least-known and most peculiar beach resort in the world.”
Canyon Lake
33.681444°,-117.250389° - Nearmap
Canyon Lake is a city and gated community in southern California, with a population of slightly more than 11,000 people. Constructed as a master-planned community in 1968, it is one of just five gated cities in the state. In 2006, it was featured in “United Gates of America,” a BBC documentary that explored why people live in gated communities and what effects it has on them.
Lindblad Cove
-63.850000°,-59.450000° - Maxar
We’re excited to launch a new series with Lindblad Expeditions that will focus on some of the most unique places on Earth that you can explore! This is Lindblad Cove, named after Lars-Eric Lindblad, a conservationist and explorer, who led a group of 56 guests to Antarctica in 1966. At the time, Antarctica had only ever been visited by other explorers and scientists. The cove is three miles (5 km) wide and is home to various species of birds, whales, and seals. Every year, Lindblad guests travel to the Cove aboard the National Geographic Explorer, and now two new ships, the National Geographic Endurance and National Geographic Resolution, making this one of the many trips where curious people are guided to the world’s wild, remote places. Check out Lindblad Expeditions to learn more and see where else that curiosity can take us.
Glasgow
55.860916°,-4.251433° - Airbus Space
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference – also known as COP26 – is currently underway in Glasgow, Scotland. The commitments made by world leaders at this year’s conference will have serious consequences on our environmental future. Scientists warn that that future is in jeopardy unless large-scale cuts are made to greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. Some highlights from the conference so far include: India’s pledge to cut emissions to net zero by 2070, a vow by nearly 100 nations to end deforestation by 2030, and the Global Methane Pledge – a plan from the US and European Union to slash methane emissions 30% by 2030.
Lake of the Ozarks
38.201111°,-92.715556° - Maxar
Lake of the Ozarks is a reservoir in central Missouri that was created by the damming the Osage River. It has a surface area of more than 54,000 acres (220 square km) and at least 1,150 miles (1,850 km) of shoreline. The Village of the Four Seasons, shown here at center, is home to about 2,200 residents and a popular tourist destination.
Centuripe
37.616667°,14.733333° - Pio Andrea Peri
Centuripe is a town of about 5,400 people on the island of Sicily, in southern Italy. It is located in hill country, between the Dittaino and Salso rivers, at roughly 2,400 feet (730 m) above sea level. When viewed from this aerial angle, the human-like shape of Centuripe comes into view!
Antarctic Sea Ice Melt
-65.539300°,101.884100° - Maxar
Sea ice breaks apart in various block sizes roughly 40 miles (64 kilometers) off the coast of Antarctica. Antarctic sea ice extends far north in the winter and retreats almost to the coastline every summer. In the 1980s, Antarctica lost 40 billion tons (36.3 billion metric tons) of ice every year. In the last decade, that figure was estimated at a staggering 252 billion tons (229 billion metric tons) per year.
Great Bahama Bank
23.568444°,-76.440111° - Maxar
The Great Bahama Bank is a carbonate platform submerged in the shallow waters around Andros Island in the Bahamas. The limestone that makes up the Bank has been accumulating for at least 140 million years and today is more than 2.8 miles (4.5 km) thick. During the last ice ages, when sea level was roughly 390 feet (120 m) lower, the Great Bahama Bank was dry land.
Delhi
28.614656°,77.057758° - Maxar
Delhi, India contains approximately 16 million residents. The neighborhoods of Santosh Park and Uttam Nagar, both pictured here, are home to some of the city’s poorest people and contain its most built-up and densely populated land. Numerous studies have shown a correlation between the wealth of a residential area and its total number of trees and the amount of green space. This Overview is a particularly striking example of that trend.
Red River Showdown
32.779712°,-96.759603° - Nearmap
The Red River Showdown is an annual college football rivalry game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and University of Texas Longhorns. The two teams first played each other in 1900 and have competed every year, uninterrupted, since 1929. This Overview shows this year’s game on October 9th that was attended by more than 93,000 fans (including the halftime show!). Oklahoma won this year, beating Texas 55-48.
Cologne
50.936389°,6.952778° - Maxar
Cologne is the fourth most populous city in Germany, with just over a million inhabitants. Situated on the Rhine River, the city is known for its Cologne Cathedral and numerous institutions of higher education, including the University of Cologne — one of Europe’s oldest and largest universities. Green areas cover more than a quarter of Cologne, which equates to roughly 800 square feet (75 square meters) of public green space per inhabitant.
Cádiz, Spain
36.533333°,-6.283333° - Maxar
Cádiz is an ancient port city surrounded by the sea in southwest Spain. Because the city was constructed upon a spit of land that cannot support high-rises, its skyline has not substantially changed since medieval times. A portion of the “Old City” — an area characterized by narrow winding alleys connecting large plazas and markets — is seen in this Overview.
Nurjol Boulevard
51.127208°,71.436947° - Maxar
Nurjol Boulevard is a 1.3-mile (2.2-km) long pedestrian zone in the center of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. It runs from the Ak Orda Presidential Palace (seen at bottom) to the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center (top), passing through gardens, fountains, “Lovers Park” and the iconic Baiterek Tower monument. Nur-Sultan, formerly known as Astana, has been Kazakhstan’s capital since 1997 and is home to about 1.1 million people.
Ridgeway, Minnesota
43.908877°,-91.551905° - Maxar
An amazing array of hills and valleys surrounds the small community of Ridgeway in Winona County, Minnesota. Located in the southeastern corner of the state, Winona County is part of the Driftless Area — a swath of North America that escaped all three phases of the Wisconsonian Glaciation. As a result, the terrain here is much different than the rest of Minnesota, which averages out to be the fifth-flattest state in the USA. Interstate 90 can be seen in this Overview, passing through Ridgeway on its 3,200-mile (5,150-km) route from coast to coast.
New Hampshire Fall Foliage
43.127639°,-71.543472° - Nearmap
Colorful fall foliage is seen in Bow, New Hampshire, USA. Around this time of year, with the arrival of colder temperatures, leaves begin to change their colors, thereby creating this marvelous and fleeting view. Visiting this part of the country to observe the magnifcent landscapes is known as “leaf peeping.”
Areia Branca
-4.955830°,-37.136900° - Maxar
Saltwater evaporation ponds surround Areia Branca, a coastal city near the northeastern tip of Brazil. Areia Branca is one of the most important salt production hubs in the country, with an average annual yield of 5.5 million tons — around 98% of Brazil’s total production. Salt collected here is used in thousands of different products, including food, cosmetics and industrial chemicals.
Muri Lagoon
-21.258333°,-159.729167° - Airbus Space
Muri Lagoon is a kilometer-wide (0.62 miles) lagoon on the southeastern coast of Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands. It is a significant tourist attraction to the region, despite being heavily polluted with nitrogen from agricultural runoff and leaking septic tanks — so much that it was declared a natural disaster in 2015. Rarotonga is the largest and most populous of the 15 Cook Islands, a self-governing country in the South Pacific Ocean.
Port of Savannah
32.128705°,-81.151907° - Nearmap
The Port of Savannah, on the coast of Georgia, is the fourth-largest seaport in the United States. In recent weeks, it has faced a consistent backlog of roughly 20 ships awaiting berth space as a result of a significant increase of incoming container ships. The logjam in Savannah reflects similar congestion at other large U.S. ports - including Los Angeles, Long Beach, and New York / New Jersey - which experts believe is the result of many retailers rushing to restock inventory before the holidays.
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