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Greek Olive Groves
35.078525°,25.047392° - Vantor
Olive tree groves surround the village of Ινία, Greece. Approximately 90% of all harvested olives are turned into oil; the remaining 10% are eaten as table olives.
Sydney
-33.867906°,151.201237° - Vantor
Check out this stunning view of Sydney, Australia. The city is the most populous on the continent with more than five million residents. The geography of the city - located on the Tasman Sea and built around numerous harbors and inlets - is captured in this Overview.
DuSable Harbor
41.885597°,-87.611850° - Nearmap
Sailboats are docked at DuSable Harbor in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The facility is located on Lake Michigan in the heart of the city’s downtown area and contains 420 slips for boats between 30 to 60 feet in length.
Del Ray Beach
26.475548°,-80.156470° - Vantor
A residential community is seen here in Delray Beach, Florida, USA. Because many cities in the state of Florida 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 such as this one that are visible from the Overview perspective.
Eagles Super Bowl Parade
39.965570°,-75.180966° - Vantor
Millions of fans flooded the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, yesterday to attend the Super Bowl parade for the Eagles’ championship victory. Official estimates suggest more than two million fans were in attendance, including a massive collection of people seen here in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Sun Lakes
33.208518°,-111.876263° - Vantor
Sun Lakes, Arizona, USA is a planned community with a population of approximately 14,000 residents, most of whom are senior citizens. According to US census data, only 0.1% of the community’s 6,683 households are home to children under the age of 18.
Het Loo Palace
52.234167°,5.945833° - Vantor
Het Loo Palace is located in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. “The Great Garden,” situated behind the residence, follows the general Baroque landscape design formula: perfect symmetry, axial layout with radiating gravel walks, parterres with fountains, basins, and statues.
Port of Hamburg
53.532581°,9.916544° - Vantor
The Port of Hamburg - known as Germany’s “Gateway to the World” - is located on the Elbe River in Hamburg. On an average day, the facility is accessed by 28 ships, 200 freight trains, and 5,000 trucks. In total, the port moves 132.3 million tonnes of cargo each year - that’s roughly 1/3 of the mass of all living human beings.
Tampa International Airport (TPA)
27.975906°,-82.534138° - Nearmap
Designed in the 1960’s, Tampa International Airport's Landside/Airside design was the first of its type in the world. In this layout, baggage and ticketing functions take place in a central "Landside Terminal” which is surrounded by four “Airside” satellite terminals where planes embark and disembark.
Ventura Fire
34.275000°,-119.227778° - NASA
Wildfires, visible at center, burn in Ventura, California. Numerous blazes have already destroyed hundreds of homes and thousands of residents have fled the surrounding areas. The largest fire has expanded to cover an area roughly the size as the city of Orlando. To be very clear, the two white streaks seen here at left are cloud cover, not fires.
Shanghai Interchange
31.118920°,121.388230° - Vantor
A highway interchange connects three major roads - the S20, G60, and S4 - in Shanghai, China. The city is home to roughly 2.5 million cars and 24 million people.
Houston Abandoned Cars
29.786157°,-94.878034° - Nearmap
Hundreds of abandoned cars that were damaged by Hurricane Harvey are seen at the Royal Purple Raceway in Houston, Texas, USA. It is estimated that 30,000 now fill the lot and more than a half a million cars were damaged by the storm’s floodwaters. The cars will remain here until insurance adjusters assess the damage and process claims for each vehicle.
Calipatria Fields
33.116410°,-115.627270° - Vantor
Agricultural development is seen in Calipatria, California, USA. At an elevation of 180 feet (55 m) below sea level, the city has the lowest elevation in the western hemisphere.
Munsu Water Park
39.039177°,125.780009° - Vantor
Munsu Water Park is located in Pyongyang, North Korea. The facility is open year-round with water slides, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, various sport courts, and a rock climbing wall.
Fortaleza
-3.718333°,-38.542778° - Vantor
Waves roll into the coast of Fortaleza, Brazil. Located in the northeast of the country on the Atlantic Ocean, Fortaleza has nearly 16 miles (25 km) of urban beaches. It’s nearly 2.7 million residents make it the 5th most populous Brazilian city, behind São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and Salvador, respectively.
Stelvio Pass
46.528611°,10.452777° - Vantor
The Stelvio Pass in northern Italy is the highest paved roadway in the Eastern Alps, with an elevation of 2,757 meters (9,045 feet) above sea level. Only accessible in the summer months, the road and its 75 hairpin turns are sometimes scaled during the famous Giro d’Italia cycling race.
Kuşadası
37.859722°,27.259722° - Vantor
Kuşadası is a resort town located on the Aegean Sea in Turkey. While the town has roughly 64,00 residents for most of year, in the summer months its population can rise to nearly half a million people with the influx of tourists.
Lava Field
38.968922°,-112.472327° - Vantor
Pivot irrigation fields surround a lava field known as The Cinders, in Millard County, Utah. Along with farming, one of the elements of Millard County's economy is fossil digging as Trilobite fossils are relatively common in the region west of Delta.
Harris Cattle Ranch
36.305402°,-120.258655° - Vantor
Harris Cattle Ranch is located in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Spanning 800 acres with a a cattle population of over 100,000, the facility produces 150 million pounds of beef per year, making it the largest beef producer on the West Coast of the United States.
Iron Ore Mine Tailings Pond
46.407676°,-87.530954° - Vantor
Tailings are the waste and by-products generated by mining operations. The tailings seen here were pumped into the Gribbens Basin, next to the Empire and Tilden Iron Ore Mines in Negaunee, Michigan, USA. Once the materials are pumped into the pond, they are mixed with water to create a sloppy form of mud known as slurry. The slurry is then pumped through magnetic separation chambers to extract usable ore and increase the mine’s total output. For a sense of scale, this Overview shows approximately 2.5 square kilometers (1 square mile) of the basin.
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