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Brighton Pier
50.816388°,-0.137253° - Vantor
Brighton Pier, also known as Palace Pier, is constructed off the coast of the English city of Brighton. Extending 1,719 feet (524 meters) into the English Channel, the structure contains numerous restaurants, rides, and roller coasters.
Gobustan National Park
40.164582°,49.298363° - Vantor
The landscape of Gobustan National Park in Azerbaijan is slivered by hundreds of ravines - narrow canyons that are created by flowing water over a long period of time. This site is best known for a series of elaborate rock engravings that were created here between 5,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Incheon Bridge
37.414274°,126.572495° - Vantor
Incheon Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that stretches 21.4 kilometers (13.3 miles) from Yeongjong Island to the mainland of Incheon in South Korea. The structure’s central tower (what makes the bridge “cable-stayed”) was the most challenging part to construct with a height of 230.5 meters (756.2 ft) and a vertical clearance of 74 meters (243 ft). The entire project cost more than two billion dollars (three billion Korean won) to complete.
European migrant crisis
46.181700°,20.010900° - Vantor
As many of you know, Europe is currently being overwhelmed by a flood of migrants and refugees from the Middle East, many of whom are fleeing the devastation in Syria. Last week, the country of Hungary sealed its borders, forcing the travelers to go elsewhere. On September 13th, two days before the borders were closed, huge numbers of refugees came together in the Hungarian town of Röszke near the border with Serbia. This Overview shows that gathering as hundreds of migrants set up temporary shelter with tents and buses.
Thessaloniki
40.642069°,22.946651° - Vantor
With a population of nearly 790,000 residents in its urban area, Thessaloniki is the second largest city in Greece after Athens. Following a massive fire in 1917 that destroyed much of the city, large sections of the downtown area were reconstructed according to a European-style urban plan that we see on the right in this Overview.
Mount Shasta
41.409167°,-122.195000° - Vantor
Mount Shasta is a potentially active volcano located in Siskiyou County, California, USA. At 14,179 feet, Mount Shasta is not connected to any nearby mountain and stands nearly 10,000 ft above the surrounding terrain.
New Century Global Center
30.572222°,104.060833° - Vantor
This morning I’ll fly to Chengdu, China. The city is home to the recently constructed New Century Global Center - a multipurpose facility that contains numerous shopping malls, an IMAX cinema, a “mediterranean village," a pirate ship, a skating rink, and a 500x130 foot screen that displays artificial sunrises and sunsets. The structure contains the largest amount of floor space for a single building with approximately 18 million square feet.
Arlit Uranium Mine
18.760752°,7.318642° - Vantor
The Arlit Uranium mine is located in Arlit, Niger. French nuclear power generation as well as the French nuclear weapons program are dependent on the uranium that is extracted from the mine - more than 3400 tonnes per year. This image was featured in our story "Rethinking Nuclear Power."
Nishinoshima
27.246944°,140.874444° - Vantor
Nishinoshima is a volcanic island located 940 kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan. Starting in November 2013, the volcano began to erupt and continued to do so until August 2015. Over the course of the eruption, the area of the island grew in size from .056 square kilometers to 2.3 square kilometers. This Juxtapose shows the island one year before the eruption began and the same location after seven months of activity.
Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums
39.051389°,-94.480556° - Vantor
Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums in Kansas City, Missouri, are home to the Kansas City Chiefs (American football) and Kansas City Royals (baseball), respectively. Together, the two stadiums make up the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex and have a combined seating capacity of more than 114,000.
The Green Cathedral
52.323157°,5.318778° - Vantor
Look closely at this Overview and you'll see “The Green Cathedral” - an artistic planting of 178 Lombardy poplar trees near Almere, Netherlands. The “Cathedral” is 50 m (490 ft) long and 75 m (246 ft) wide, which mimics the exact size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Reims, France. The artist, Marinus Boezem, also made a clearing in a nearby beech forest of the same shape to suggest that as the poplars decline, beech trees will fill the empty space to symbolize a cycle of growth and decline.
Cattle feedlot
34.715428°,-102.507400° - Vantor
Cattle are visible at a feedlot in Summerfield, Texas, USA. Once the animals reach a weight of 650 pounds, they are moved to these facilities and placed on a strict diet of specialized animal feed. Over the next three to four months, the cows gain up to 400 more pounds before they are shipped off to slaughter. The lagoon seen at the top of this feedlot gets is glowing color from a high concentration of manure and chemicals.
Schönbrunn Palace
48.184865°,16.312240° - Vantor
Schönbrunn Palace is a 1,441 room complex that sits upon 435 acres of spectacular gardens in Vienna, Austria. It was here that Mozart gave his first concert to the royal family when he was only six years old.
Oil Field Service Ships
5.263871°,115.257724° - Vantor
Oil field service ships anchor offshore of Labuan, a territory of Malaysia that is located off the coast of Borneo. In addition to being an offshore financial center, Labuan is a support hub for deepwater oil and gas activities in the region. The economy of Labuan is heavily dependent on its fossil fuel resources, which account for 65% of its exports.
Port of Rotterdam
51.950990°,4.065449° - Vantor
Two container ships are docked at the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. From 1962 until 2002 it was the world’s busiest port, but was overtaken first by the the port in Singapore and later by the facility in Shanghai, China. Container ships such as these can weigh up to 300,000 tons and extend up to 1,200 feet (366 meters).
Brazilian Mine Disaster Juxtapose
-20.237096°,-43.421697° - Vantor
On 5 November 2015, two dams collapsed at an iron ore mine in southeastern Brazil. News outlets estimated that approximately 62 million cubic metres (81 million cubic yards) of toxic waste water (similar to the red mud on previous page) was unleashed. As seen in this Juxtapose, the immediate release of sludge wiped out the village of Bento Rodrigues, resulting in the death of 17 people. Because of this pollution, more than half a million people did not have access to clean drinking water or water to irrigate crops for an extended period of time. Furthermore, within two weeks of the dam rupture, the contaminated waters had spread across a 644-kilometre (400-mile) stretch of the Doce River and entered into the Atlantic Ocean, killing significant amounts of plant and animal life along the way. Officials are concerned that the toxins will continue to threaten the Comboios Nature Reserve, a protected area for the endangered leatherback turtle.
Marabe Al Dhafra
23.611166°,53.706629° - Vantor
The villas of Marabe Al Dhafra in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates are home to approximately 2,000 people. The yearly average temperature in Abu Dhabi is slightly greater than 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34.5 degrees Celsius).
Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW)
42.212500°,-83.353333° - Vantor
Detroit Metropolitan Airport covers more than 11 square miles in Romulus, Michigan. Concourse A at McNamara Terminal, seen here at left, is the world's second-longest airport terminal building, extending a length of one mile (Kansai Airport in Japan has a 1.7 mile long terminal). Detroit Metro is the 16th busiest facility in the United States, serving more than 32 million passengers each year.
Tarawa
1.416667°,173.033333° - Vantor
Kiribati is a low-lying island nation in the Central Pacific Ocean. The 102,000 residents of Kiribati may be forced to relocate as increased ice melt causes the Pacific Ocean to rise and submerges its islands. Fiji has boldly offered to take in the people of Kiribati if that occurs. Tarawa, an atoll that serves as the capital of the country and is home to half of it’s population, is seen here.
Vail Ski Resort
39.639100°,-106.373800° - Vantor
Vail Ski Resort is located in Eagle County, Colorado, USA. Spanning 5,289 acres, Vail is the third largest single mountain ski resort in the United States and has the fourth largest skiable terrain in North America. This particular Overview was luckily captured in October as the foliage on the mountain was changing colors.
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