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Atlasov Island
50.860833°,155.564167° - NASA
Clouds surround the volcanic peak of Atlasov Island in Russia. Recorded volcanic activity here dates back to 1790 and continues to present day, as seen with the ash plumes in this Overview captured in August 2019. Atlasov, the northernmost of the Kuril Islands, is uninhabited and rises 7,674 feet (2,339 meters) above the Sea of Okhotsk.
Jakarta
-6.200000°,106.816667° - Airbus Space
Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, lies on the northwest coast of the island of Java. Its metropolitan area covers 2,468 square miles (6,392 square km) and is home to nearly 36 million people, making it the world’s second-most populous urban area, after Tokyo. This Overview shows the massive city along the Java Sea, with some of Indonesia’s “Thousand Islands” archipelago visible offshore.
Dubai Whirlpool Interchange
25.055816°,55.248835° - Maxar
A whirlpool interchange connects three major roads by the Miracle Garden in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. When construction of this junction began in 2006, Dubai contained 30,000 industrial cranes — 25% of all cranes on the planet.
Loosdrecht
52.200556°,5.115222° - Maxar
Loosdrecht is a town of roughly 8,600 inhabitants in the North Holland Province of the Netherlands. It is known for its lakes, the Loosdrechtse Plassen, which attract thousands of tourists each year. Surrounding these lakes are hundreds of peat polders — low-lying pieces of reclaimed land protected by dikes, around 4,000 of which exist in the Netherlands.
Samarkand
39.628146°,66.971960° - Maxar
Samarkand is the second most populous city in Uzbekistan and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. It is home to upwards of 500,000 people and has shown evidence of human activity since the late Paleolithic Era. This Overview shows the southeastern side of the city, with its traditional mud-brick Uzbek houses built around central courtyards and gardens.
Elliðaey
63.465278°,-20.175000° - Maxar
Elliðaey is the most northeastern island of the Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands), located off the southern coast of Iceland. The island’s permanent population is zero and its only building is a hunting lodge built by the Elliðaey Hunting Association, which can be seen in this Overview on the northern end of the island. Due to its unique off-the-grid location, the lodge has earned Internet fame as “the loneliest house in the world.”
Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
40.749550°,-73.845643° - Nearmap
The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York City, has been the home of the US Open Tennis Championships since 1978. The 2021 tournament kicked off yesterday on the complex’s 22 courts, including three of the largest tennis stadiums in the world – Arthur Ashe Stadium, Louis Armstrong Stadium, and the Grandstand.
Sakha Republic Lakes
69.052056°,159.818972° - Maxar
There are upwards of 800,000 lakes in Russia's Sakha Republic, many of which are found clustered in its northeastern corner. Sakha, also known as Yakutia, is the most expansive subnational entity in the world, covering nearly 1.2 million square miles (3.1 million square km) -- an area almost equal in size to India. About 40% of the republic is north of the Arctic Circle and covered by permafrost, which keeps many of its lakes frozen for 9-10 months of the year.
Dampier Creek
-17.959000°,122.247167° - Maxar
Dampier Creek winds its way inland to form the eastern border of Broome, a coastal town in Western Australia. Broome is home to roughly 14,000 people, but its population can grow to upwards of 45,000 per month during peak tourist season from June to August. Its 14-mile (22-km) white-sand Cable Beach, paleontology exhibits, pearl farms, and other attractions make it a popular destination for travelers around the world.
Yarra Yarra Lakes
-29.689000°,115.887000° - Planet
The Yarra Yarra Lakes Nature Reserve is a system of small salt lakes near the town of Carnamah, Western Australia. Once the site of a great river, this landscape has formed due to changes in land and sea level, a drier climate, and infrequent rains. Lakes here will change color throughout the year, turning blue in the winter as they fill with water and pink in the summer as they evaporate and leave behind salt.
La Latina, Madrid
40.411500°,-3.710972° - Maxar
La Latina is a neighborhood located in the center of Madrid, Spain. The area was named after an old hospital of the same name that was founded in 1499. In the lower left of this Overview, you can also see the popular Mercado de la Cebada market, with its six-panel, multi-colored rooftop.
Crowds Flee Afghanistan
34.565833°,69.213056° - Maxar
Chaos has unfolded at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in recent days as thousands attempt to flee the Taliban-controlled country. This Overview shows crowds lined up on the tarmac near a departing American C-17 aircraft. Those fleeing Afghanistan must navigate numerous Taliban-controlled checkpoints before they can enter the airport.
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
32.896944°,-97.038056° - Maxar
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport covers more than 27 square miles (70 sq. km) in Texas — an area larger than the island of Manhattan. It handled 39.3 million travelers in 2020, down from more than 75 million the previous year because of COVID-19. Still, this volume made DFW the fourth-busiest airport in the world that year by passenger traffic.
Seville
37.386089°,-6.000710° - Maxar
The River Guadalquivir flows through the center of Seville, Spain. With about 1.5 million residents in its metropolitan area, Seville is the largest city in the autonomous community of Andalusia and the fourth-largest in Spain. Near the center of this Overview — amid the city’s many red tile roofs — is the Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza, a 12,000-seat, eighteenth century bullring.
IJsseloog
52.600000°,5.750000° - Maxar
IJsseloog is an artificial island used as a depository to store polluted silt in the middle of the IJssel River in Flevoland, Netherlands. Silt is granular material, smaller than sand but larger than clay, and may occur as soil or as sediment mixed in suspension with water. IJsseloog can hold 20 million cubic metres (706 million cubic feet) of silt, which is roughly 8,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth.
Port Hercules
43.735056°,7.425139° - Maxar
Port Hercules, the only deep-water port in Monaco, provides anchorage for up to 700 vessels. The area of the port (2.02 square kilometres or 0.78 square miles) comprises approximately 8% of the entire country.
South Boston
42.336111°,-71.045833° - Nearmap
South Boston — more popularly known as “Southie” — is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was once a predominately working class Irish Catholic community, but has recently become a popular neighborhood for young professionals and families. At the top of this Overview is Fort Independence, one of the oldest continuously fortified sites of English origin in the United States.
Pingyuan Reservoir
45.995097°,125.985003° - Maxar
Clear blue water fills the Pingyuan Reservoir, located just outside of Zhaodong City in northeastern China. Water stored here serves the more than 100,000 inhabitants of Zhaodong and surrounding farms of Heilongjiang Province, which grow soybeans, maize, wheat, potatoes, beets and flax. For a sense of scale, the Pingyuan Reservoir covers about 1.32 square miles (3.4 square kilometers) — roughly the same area as Central Park in Manhattan.
Kikori River Delta
-7.428366°,144.428927° - Airbus Space
Clouds float over the Kikori River Delta in southern Papua New Guinea. Part of the Gulf of Papua, this coastal mangrove forest is considered one of the most important wetland regions in the Asia-Pacific due to its cultural and biodiversity value. It is a habitat for Indo-Pacific humpback and Australian snubfin dolphins, both listed as “vulnerable” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Chaos at Kabul Airport
34.565833°,69.213056° - Maxar
Chaos unfolded earlier today at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where thousands of people rushed to the airport in hopes they would be evacuated on departing jets. As shown in this image, hundreds crowded onto the tarmac and runways, desperately clinging to outgoing planes. After quickly sweeping through other areas of Afghanistan, the Taliban has now taken control of Kabul, the capital city and home of 4.6 million people.
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