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Turks and Caicos
21.794550°,-71.738522° - Maxar
The Turks and Caicos Islands are a small tropical archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just north of the Caribbean Sea. This Overview focuses on the Caicos Islands group, which surrounds a shallow, turquoise-colored sea atop an underwater plateau. The Turks and Caicos, a British Overseas Territory, have a combined population of about 40,000 and welcomed nearly 1.6 million visitors in 2019.
Cumbre Vieja Low-Angle
28.610157°,-17.923374° - Maxar
Lava flows into the Atlantic Ocean on the ever-expanding coastline of La Palma in the Canary Islands. After three weeks, eruptions continue from the Cumbre Vieja Volcano and this low-angle satellite image captures the lava field that has scorched through the landscape. Lava now covers more than 1,000 acres (420 hectares) and has forced the evacuation of at least 6,000 residents.
Beijing South Railway Station
39.865833°,116.376389° - Maxar
Beijing South Railway Station is the largest train station in the Chinese capital — its 24 platforms have the capacity to dispatch 30,000 passengers per hour, or 241 million per year. The station also serves as the terminus for high-speed routes to Tianjin and Shanghai, on which trains can reach speeds up to 350 kilometres (217 miles) per hour.
Adrar Plateau
20.461405°,-13.017321° - Maxar
Amazing layered rock patterns are visible on the Adrar Plateau, near the town of Atar in northwestern Mauritania. Located within the Sahara Desert, the Adrar is an arid plateau known for its gorges, stony deserts and sand dunes. Cave and rock paintings show that this region was settled in the Neolithic era about 12,000 years ago — today, around 62,000 people live in the Adrar Region.
Facebook Headquarters
37.484135°,-122.148620° - Nearmap
Sorry for the delay…our post is up later than usual following today’s worldwide outage of Facebook and its products like Instagram. Here’s an Overview of Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, covering more than 250 acres on the edge of the brightly colored salt ponds (due to algae) of San Francisco Bay. We’ll be back with a regularly scheduled Overview tomorrow!
Playa del Palo
36.717996°,-4.359575° - Maxar
Playa del Palo is a beach on the western coastline of Málaga, Spain. It is about three-quarters of a mile long (1.2 km) and its fine sand, moderate swells and shallow waters make it a popular swimming spot for families. Playa del Palo is one of many beaches in Spain’s Costa del Sol (“Coast of the Sun”) region, a world-renowned tourist destination.
Cumbre Vieja Lava
28.610157°,-17.923374° - Maxar
Lava flows from Cumbre Vieja volcano on the coast of La Palma in the Canary Islands. The image, taken around midnight on September 30th, shows the volcano’s vent at the top and smoke billowing at bottom, where lava enters into the Atlantic Ocean roughly five miles (8 km) away. As this process continues, the area of La Palma has already grown several hundred acres.
Southern California Airplane Boneyard
34.597500°,-117.383056° - Nearmap
The Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California, USA contains an aircraft boneyard with more than 150 retired planes. Because the demand for jumbo jets has dropped significantly in the last two decades in favor of smaller, more affordable twin-engine planes, many large aircrafts such as Boeing 747s have been retired. The dry conditions in Victorville – located on the edge of the Mojave Desert – limits the corrosion of metal, meaning planes can be stored here for years while they are stripped for spare parts.
Guadalajara
20.687580°,-103.307078° - Maxar
Guadalajara is the capital of and largest city in the Mexican state of Jalisco, with upwards of 5 million people living in its metropolitan area. It is also the second most densely populated municipality in in Mexico, behind Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl. Guadalajara is a cultural hub, considered by many to be the home of mariachi music.
Mont Saint-Michel
48.636111°,-1.511389° - Maxar
Mont Saint-Michel is a commune built one kilometer (0.6 miles) off the coast of Normandy, France. Over the past 600 years, the island has functioned as a monastery (accessible to pilgrims only during low tide), a French fortification that withstood English attacks during the Hundred Years’ War, and a prison.Today, Saint-Michel is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the country.
Severny Island Ice
75.451901°,63.205232° - Airbus Space
Large chunks of ice float offshore Severny Island in the Russian Arctic. Almost half of the 18,882-square-mile (48,904-sq-km) island is covered by the Severny Island ice cap, which — if considered part of Europe — is the largest glacier by area on the continent. The ice cap spans 7,900 square miles (20,500 sq km), making it about the same size as the entire country of Wales.
Shelter Cove
40.027778°,-124.073333° - NASA
Shelter Cove is a small, remote community located along the “Lost Coast” of northern California, where the King Range meets the Pacific Ocean. Due to its rugged terrain, the Lost Coast region has no major highways and is mostly natural and undeveloped. The one-runway Shelter Cove Airport, seen at the bottom of this Overview, helps visitors access the area when weather permits.
Serrania de Hornocal
-23.338950°,-65.171590° - Maxar
The Serrania de Hornocal is a range of colorful mountains in northern Argentina. The peaks reach an elevation of 15,620 feet (4761 meters) above sea level and get their incredible colors and patterns from an exposed limestone formation known as Yacoraite. The visual variations within the rock layers results from historical changes in sea levels.
SFO International Terminal
37.616800°,-122.380732° - Nearmap
San Francisco International Airport is the twenty-first busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic accommodating more than 50 million passengers every year. In this Overview, three massive airliners are parked at the international terminal.
Cumbre Vieja Eruption
28.566667°,-17.833333° - Alfonso Escalero
Lava flow surrounds a home on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma, where the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted on Sunday. Spurred by more than 20,000 earthquake tremors in the span of a week, it is the first major eruption here since 1971. Intense lava sprays and plumes of smoke have caused thousands to be evacuated from the surrounding area and many structures have already been destroyed.
Piraeus
37.936194°,23.642250° - Maxar
Piraeus is a port city in Greece, roughly 7 miles (12 km) outside Athens. Since ancient times, it has served as a vital trade and transportation hub, and its port is currently the busiest passenger port in the country. In fact, the Port of Piraeus was the busiest in all of Europe in 2014, when it handled 18.6 million passengers.
Philadelphia
39.945667°,-75.164889° - Nearmap
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States, with a population of more than 1.6 million. The city played a pivotal role during the American Revolution, when it provided a setting for the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
Nebraska Sand Hills
40.864476°,-99.743275° - Maxar
Farmland plains meet the Nebraska Sand Hills just north of Lexington, Nebraska. This unique region, which covers roughly 20,000 square miles (51,000 square km), contains mixed-grass prairies and grass-stabilized sand dunes. Average elevation here gradually increases from 1,800 feet (550 m) in the east to nearly 3,600 feet (1,100 m) in the west, as the sand hills approach the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Itaipu Reservoir
-22.959186°,-43.047163° - Maxar
Agricultural fields line the shores of the Itaipu Reservoir — a body of water that forms the border between Brazil and Paraguay. The area’s tropical climate makes it an ideal place to grow sugarcane, coffee, tea, and cotton.
Golden Gate Park
37.769722°,-122.476944° - Maxar
Golden Gate Park is a 1,017-acre (412-hectare) urban park located in San Francisco, California. Its rectangular shape makes it comparable to Central Park in New York City; however, it is 20 percent larger, measuring roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) east to west and half a mile (0.8 km) north to south. With 24 million annual visitors in a typical year, Golden Gate Park is the third most-visited city park in the United States.
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