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Larsen C Ice Shelf Crack
68.766667°,-60.933333° - NASA
On July 12, 2017 it was reported that an iceberg — roughly twice the size of Luxembourg — separated from the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica. This photograph from January shows a massive fracture in the ice that measured more than 100 feet wide and over 100 miles long at the time. It is estimated that this chunk weighs roughly one trillion tons and the break could lead to a rise in global sea levels by roughly four inches (10 centimeters).
Port of Long Beach
33.754185°,-118.216458° - Nearmap
Shipping containers are loaded into a massive cargo ship (1200+ feet) at the Port of Long Beach — the second-busiest container port in the United States. The seaport generates approximately $100 billion in trade, employs more than 316,000 people, and along with the Port of Los Angeles to which it is connected, serves as the single largest source of air pollution in the metropolitan LA area.
Larung Gar
32.152575°,100.467637° - Vantor
Hundreds of dwellings - all painted in a vibrant red color - make up Larung Gar, the world’s largest Buddhist institute. The settlement is located in a remote valley in Tibet and contains a population that has grown to approximately 20,000 people since its founding in 1980. In recent years, the Chinese government has started to systemically demolish homes and force thousands of occupants out of Larung Gar, claiming the settlement is too crowded and unsafe. They have also closed off the area to all foreigners. Many Tibetans fear the erosion of their language, traditions, and ways of worship in the midst of these incursions by the Chinese government.
Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK)
40.078856°,116.582160° - Vantor
Beijing Capital International Airport is the second busiest airport in the world, handling more than 90 million passengers every year. The dragon-like layout of the terminals is meant to celebrate the thrill and poetry of flight, while the orange roof evokes the vibrant coloration of the city’s famed Forbidden City.
Wrigley Field
41.948387°,-87.655326° - Vantor
Wrigley Field is home to the Chicago Cubs baseball team and is the second-oldest active major league ballpark (after Fenway Park in Boston) with its first game played in 1916. "The Friendly Confines" are known for its ivy-covered brick outfield wall and was the last major league ballpark to have lights installed for night games in 1988.
Eastern State Penitentiary
39.968390°,-75.172652° - Nearmap
The haunted house at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is consistently ranked among the scariest Halloween attractions in the United States. The prison operated from 1829 until 1971 and housed notorious criminals like the gangster Al Capone. The facility was also the first of its kind to be constructed in a “wagon-wheel” layout with seven wings of cellblocks radiating from a central hub. Hope everyone has a safe and scary Halloween!
Car terminal
37.908562°,-122.367247° - Nearmap
Cars are unloaded and parked at an automobile terminal in Richmond, California, USA. In 2015, 17.5 million cars and light trucks were sold in the United States, raising the total number of registered vehicles in the country to roughly 253 million.
Port Newark
40.681667°,-74.150556° - Nearmap
Shipping containers are stacked at the Port Newark Container Terminal in Newark, New Jersey, USA. The massive facility handles over 600,000 shipping containers every year and has begun expansion projects that will increase annual capacity to 1.1 million containers by 2030.
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
33.636667°,-84.428056° - Vantor
Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, USA is the busiest airport in the world by total passengers and number of flights. In 2015, ATL accommodated more than 101 million passengers and 882,000 flights. Dozens of planes departing and arriving at concourses A-D are seen in this Overview.
Halong Bay
20.900000°,107.200000° - Vantor
Hạ Long Bay, located in the Quảng Ninh Province of Vietnam, is a stunningly beautiful destination. Here, towering limestone pillars and tiny islands topped by a rich, green forest rise from the beautiful waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. Halong translates as 'where the dragon descends into the sea' and local legend suggests that this seascape was created when a great mountain dragon charged towards the coast, its flailing tail gouging out the valleys and crevasses in its path.
Port of Tanjung Priok
-6.104000°,106.886500° - Vantor
Dozens of massive cargo ships and tankers - some weighing up to 300,000 tons - are anchored outside the Port of Tanjung Priok in Jakarta, Indonesia. The facility is the country's busiest and most advanced seaport, handling more than 50% of Indonesia's trans-shipment cargo. The port is also among the least efficient in all of Southeast Asia, due to slow customs handling and limited docking capacity.
Whakaari / White Island
-37.516667°,177.183333° - Vantor
Whakaari, also known as White Island, is an active stratovolcano, situated 48 km (30 mi) from the North Island of New Zealand in the Bay of Plenty. Whakaari is New Zealand’s most active volcano, and has been built up by continuous eruptions over the past 150,000 years. The island is approximately 2 km (1.2 mi) in diameter and rises to a height of 321 m (1,053 ft) above sea level.
Burning Man
40.786944°,-119.204444° - Vantor
Over the next few days, thousands of people from around the world will head to the desert in Nevada, USA to construct Black Rock City. Laid out in a grid plan with radiating avenues named after the numbers on a clock, the city serves as home to roughly 60,000 people for Burning Man, an annual week-long event. Burning Man is described as an experiment in community, art, self-expression, and radical self-reliance. Additionally residents in Black Rock City practice one of the event's key principles of ‘Leave No Trace’ – meaning significant efforts are taken to make sure as the city is disassembled in the days following the festival, the desert returns to its original state.
Karlsruhe, Germany
49.009167°,8.403889° - Vantor
The city of Karlsruhe, Germany was planned with a palace tower at its center, surrounded by 32 radiating streets. Because the design resembled the ribs of a folding fan, the city is sometimes called the “fan city” or “Fächerstadt." Additionally, this city's urban plan gave rise to the geometry concept of “Karlsruhe Metric” which refers to a measure of distance that assumes travel is only possible along radial streets and along circular avenues around the center.
Washington, D.C,
38.890556°,-77.020278° - Vantor
Washington, D.C.'s L'Enfant Plan was developed in 1791 by Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant for George Washington, the first President of the United States. L’Enfant designed a compass-aligned grid for the city’s streets, with intersecting diagonal avenues that were later named after the states of the union. The diagonal avenues also intersect with the north-south and east-west streets at circles and rectangular plazas in order to create more open, green spaces. Lastly, L'Enfant laid out a 400 foot-wide (122 meter) garden-lined “grand avenue” - what is now know as the National Mall – that connects the US Capitol Building, the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial (the latter two are visible at right in this Overview).
L'Eixample, Valenica
39.464722°,-0.370000° - Vantor
The urban plan of the L’Eixample district in Valencia, Spain, is characterized by long straight streets, a strict grid pattern crossed by wide avenues, and apartments with communal courtyards. A similar layout was used for the district of the same name in Barcelona.
Brick Kilns
23.767575°,90.318299° - Vantor
Kilns for firing and making bricks are scattered across the landscape in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Almost all bricks in the country are made using a 150-year-old process where soil is mixed with water, formed into bricks using wooden molds, left to dry in the sun, and then burned in these orange, traditional kilns. As the widespread use of old kilns has hampered air quality in the country, local groups and the government have been working to increase the use of "clean" brick kilns with more sustainable technology.
Port of Shanghai
30.626393°,122.062528° - Vantor
The Port of Shanghai is the world’s busiest container port, handling more than 35 million TEUs (approximately 776 million tons) of cargo every year. That weight is roughly equal to 1.7 times the mass of all humans living on the planet.
Maggie Daley Park
41.882500°,-87.618889° - Vantor
This Overview shows Maggie Daley Park in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The park’s Buckingham Fountain stands out in this Overview with its ornate design and serve as a gathering point for thousands of visitors at the yearly Lollapalooza festival.
Naarden
52.300000°,5.166667° - Vantor
Naarden is a star fort in the Netherlands. The city was constructed in the manner seen here so that an attack on any individual wall could be defended from the two adjacent star points by shooting at the enemy from behind. Today Naarden is home to roughly 17,000 residents.
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