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Playa del Palo
36.717996°,-4.359575° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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.
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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.
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