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Skellig Michael
51.771130°,-10.539963° - Maxar
Skellig Michael is an island 7.2 miles (11.6 km) west of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. Its landscape is steep and inhospitable, but it contains the site of a 6th century Gaelic monastery and serves as a habitat for puffins, razorbills and grey seals. The island is named after the archangel Michael, with "Skellig" derived from the Gaelic word sceilig, meaning a splinter of stone.
Boca Raton
26.386332°,-80.179917° - Maxar
Residential development is seen in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. Because many cities in the state contain master-planned communities, often built on top of waterways in the latter half of the twentieth century, there are a number of intricate designs that are visible from the Overview perspective. Boca Raton is home to roughly 91,000 residents.
Pebble Beach
36.568611°,-121.950556° - Maxar
Pebble Beach Golf Links is a public, 18-hole golf course in Pebble Beach, California. Hugging the rugged coastline of the Monterey Peninsula with sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean, it is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful courses on the world. Pebble Beach has hosted six U.S. Open Championships and a PGA Championship.
Lake Natron
-2.348486°,35.731660° - Maxar Technologies
Lake Natron is a salt lake in the Arusha Region of northern Tanzania, not far from the border with Kenya. It is shallow — less than 10 feet (3 m) deep — and varies in width depending on its water level. The color of Lake Natron is typical of saline lakes with high evaporation rates, in which salt-loving microorganisms thrive using photosynthesis to make their own food. A by-product of this photosynthesis causes deeper water to turn bright red and shallow parts of the lake to take on a rusty orange color.
School Bus Assembly Plant
36.189292°,-95.875041° - Nearmap
Hundreds of school buses are seen at an assembly plant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. The standard American school bus is 45 feet (13.7 meters) long and has a seating capacity of up to 90 passengers. This particular facility manufactures 50 to 75 buses a day on average.
Colorado Tire Graveyard
40.073594°,-104.643020° - Maxar
North America’s largest tire dump is located in Hudson, Colorado. The facility contains 50-foot-deep (15-meter) pits filled with approximately 60 million scrap tires. An estimated 1.5 billion tires are discarded each year worldwide. Of that amount, more than half are burned for their fuel.
Inis Oírr
53.058056°,-9.527500° - Maxar
Inis Oírr, or Inisheer, is the smallest and most eastern of the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay, Ireland. Its terrain is composed of limestone pavements formed about 350 million years ago, which residents have used to form an extensive network of stone walls across the island. Inis Oírr has five primary villages and about 260 permanent residents.
Florence
43.783333°,11.250000° - Maxar
Florence, the capital of Italy’s Tuscany Region, is seen here flanking the Arno River. Noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture, monuments, and museums, the city attracts millions of tourists every year. Among Florence’s many red terra-cotta roofs, we can see one of its most iconic sights — the Santa Maria del Fiore, or Florence Cathedral, which is home to the largest dome built of brick and mortar in the world.
Chicama, Peru
-8.005722°,-79.188250° - Maxar
Waves roll in to Chicama, Peru. This area is well known for having one of the longest surfs in the world, especially at “The Point,” a spot where you can allegedly surf a single wave for slightly more than a mile (2 km) if conditions are right.
Hulhumalé
4.180755°,73.534472° - Maxar
Hulhumalé is an artificial island in the Maldives, gradually formed by land reclamation since 1997. Now 2 square miles (4 sq. km) with a population near 100,000, the island was built to ease congestion on nearby Malé, which lies opposite Velana International Airport. With a population of 252,768 in an area of 3.2 square miles (8.3 sq. km), Malé is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
Seattle
47.609722°,-122.333056° - Nearmap
Seattle is the most populous city in the state of Washington, with a population of roughly 750,000. Situated on an isthmus between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, the city is a major gateway for trade with Asia. This Overview shows several neighborhoods north of the city center, including Eastlake, Portage Bay, Montlake and others.
Libya Irrigation
26.972480°,22.215840° - NASA / Google Timelapse
In Libya, where 90% of land is desert and just 2% gets enough rainfall for cultivation, irrigation is required to grow food. This Overview shows a series of center-pivot irrigation fields near the Kufra Oasis, one of Libya’s largest agricultural projects. Irrigation throughout Libya relies on the “Great Man-made River” — a 2,820-kilometer (1,750-mile) network of pipes supplying fresh water obtained from underground fossil aquifers.
Sundarbans
21.950000°,89.183333° - NASA
The Sundarbans is a region that covers 3,900 square miles (10,000 square km) of southern Bangladesh and a small section of Eastern India. This region is densely covered by mangrove forests and contains the largest natural reserve for the Bengal tiger. Over the past two centuries, approximately 2,600 square miles (6,700 square km) of the Sundarbans’ land has been developed.
Guayas River Estuary
-2.208180°,-79.942960° - Maxar
Guayaquil, Ecuador, sits on the upper stretches of the Guayas River estuary, adjacent to a 235-square-mile (608-sq.-km) network of tributaries and mangrove forests. Since the 1970s, commercial shrimp farms have become commonplace in the estuary, leading to mangrove deforestation. This presents a conflict for Guayaquil, which benefits from shrimp exporting but is the planet’s fourth-most vulnerable city to future flooding due to climate change.
Greater Tokyo
35.689722°,139.692222° - Airbus Space
Greater Tokyo, Japan, is one of the most populated and industrialized regions in the world. Encompassing several major cities, including Tokyo, Kawasaki and Yokohama, it is home to more than 38 million people. The so-called “Capital Region” also has the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a total gross domestic product (GDP) of about $1.8 trillion.
Night of Power
21.422500°,39.826111° - Masjid Al Haram
A record 2.5 million Muslims gathered at the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, last Friday to mark the Night of Power, one of the holiest nights of Ramadan. At center is the Kaaba, a cuboid stone structure that Muslims believe to be the Bayt Allāh, or “House of God.” Ramadan, the ninth month on the Islamic calendar, concluded on Tuesday with Eid al-Fitr.
Monaco
43.733333°,7.416667° - Maxar
Monaco is a sovereign city-state on the French Riviera on the Mediterranean Sea. With an area of 0.81 square miles (2.1 square kilometers), it is the second smallest country in the world, after Vatican City. This Overview features Port Hercules, the nation’s only deep-water port, as well as the Monte Carlo Casino and the Circuit de Monaco, the street course used for the annual Monaco Grand Prix Formula One race.
Big Sur Road Collapse
36.380383°,-121.901453° - Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Parts of California’s scenic Highway 1 have been collapsing into the Pacific Ocean in recent days, as bouts of rain lead to landslides. Today, state officials temporarily shut down a stretch of the road near Big Sur and urged local residents to evacuate since more rain is expected through Friday. Around 2,000 people live in the Big Sur area year-round.
Sydney Holdout House
-33.710156°,150.895524° - Nearmap
A home in The Ponds neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, has gradually been surrounded by suburban development, as the family who owns it has declined to sell for decades. Despite offers as high as $50 million, the Zammit Family refuses to sell developers their 5-acre (2-hectare) lot, which could accommodate 40-50 new properties. This Timelapse video shows the neighborhood between 2010 and 2024.
Key Bridge Cleanup
39.216944°,-76.528333° - Nearmap
Clean-up work continues on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, which was struck by a container ship and critically damaged on March 26th. The cargo ship “Dali” remains stationary while crews use cranes to remove large pieces of twisted steel and concrete from the wreckage. One of the largest cranes on the Eastern Seaboard, capable of lifting 1,000 tons, is assisting with the effort.
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