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Elliðaey
63.465278°,-20.175000° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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° - Vantor
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.
Mount Fuji
35.362727°,138.730265° - Vantor
Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano and the tallest peak in Japan, rising 12,389 feet (3,776 meters). Fuji has an extremely symmetrical cone, which is snow‑capped for several months of the year. During warmer months, climbing routes make it possible for hundreds of thousands of people to hike the volcano each year.
Gardens of Versailles
48.808056°,2.108333° - Vantor
The Gardens of Versailles are situated across 2,000 acres (8 square kilometers) of land behind the Palace of Versailles, 12 miles (19 kilometers) outside of Paris, France. The grounds are landscaped in the classic French garden style, including one section known as The Orangerie — seen here at bottom left — that contains more than one thousand (primarily orange) trees.
Munich
48.133333°,11.566667° - Airbus Space
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, in southeastern Germany. It straddles the River Isar, a tributary of the Danube, and has an eclectic mix of historic and modern architecture along its many avenues and squares. Upwards of 1.5 million people live in Munich proper, and roughly 6 million inhabit the city’s metro area.
Rio Madre de Dios
-11.888269°,-71.408443° - Vantor
The Rio Madre de Dios swirls in the rainforests of Peru. Oxbow lakes — the U-shaped branches coming off the main river — form when a wide meander from the main stem of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water.
The First Overview Puzzle
52.276361°,4.557083° - Vantor
Today we’re excited to announce our first PUZZLE where we turned one of my favorite Overviews — Dutch Tulips — into a mesmerizing (and challenging!) 1000-piece adventure. When complete, the puzzle blooms at a colorful 20x27 inches on recycled paper. Click the “Shop” link below to learn more and place an order!
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