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Beach Haven West
39.670417°,-74.233111° - Nearmap
Beach Haven West is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Stafford Township, New Jersey. The neighborhood, which has about 3,900 residents, was built upon salt marshes beginning in the 1950s. Looking at this Overview, it is evident that Beach Haven West was supposed to continue growing; however, a lack of permits from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Wetlands Protection Act of 1970 prevented it from expanding further across the Mill Creek delta.
Kwinana Beach Tire Graveyard
-32.217833°,115.774083° - Nearmap
A forklift divides thousands of tires into uniform sections on a large lot in Kwinana Beach, Western Australia. Kwinana Beach is an industrial suburb of Perth that contains several large petro-chemical refineries, including those run by BP and Alcoa. In the 1970s, many residents of the suburb accepted property resumption offers from the local government citing increased pollution, health problems, and other nuisances caused by growing industrial development.
Third Avenue Bridge
44.982972°,-93.259417° - Nearmap
Third Avenue Bridge passes over Upper Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally, the Falls of Saint Anthony was the only natural major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River; however in the 1950s and 1960s, a series of locks and dams was constructed to extend navigation to points upstream. A small portion of the lock system can be seen in the bottom right of this Overview. Surrounding this area is a 1.8-mile (2.9-km) self-guided walking trail with signs explaining the area's history.
LaSalle, Colorado Cattle Feedlot
40.325417°,-104.778639° - Nearmap
In this Overview, thousands of cattle can be seen on a feedlot in LaSalle, Colorado -- a small town roughly 50 miles (80 km) north of Denver. This particular feedlot has a capacity for 69,000 cows and is one of several owned by the largest cattle feeding company in the world. Other feedlots owned by company, located in Arizona, Idaho, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, have an estimated total feeding capacity of more than 900,000 head of cattle.
Adelaide Canola Flowers
-34.439861°,138.557833° - Nearmap
Yellow canola fields are visible across the landscape north of Adelaide, Australia. While various crops are grown here, the canola fields are easy to notice because of their vibrant flowering color. The crop is grown for the production of oil, which is extracted by slightly heating and then crushing the flower seeds. Canola oil is primarily used as a source of biodiesel and also for cooking purposes.
Griend
53.251389°,5.254167° - Maxar Technologies
Griend is a small, uninhabited Dutch island located in the Wadden Sea, roughly 62 miles (100 km) northwest of Amsterdam. In the Middle Ages, the island housed a walled settlement and monastery, which were destroyed by St. Lucia’s flood in 1287. Later, a few farmers inhabited Griend between the 18th and 19th centuries, but continuous erosion pushed them away — the island remains only 25 acres (10 hectares) in size today.
Kingston, Jamaica
18.017924°,-76.870697° - Maxar Technologies
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. More than 660,000 people live in Kingston's metropolitan area, accounting for nearly one-quarter of Jamaica's total population. The city is surrounded by the Blue Mountains, Red Hills, Long Mountain and Kingston Harbour, which is the seventh-largest natural harbor in the world.
Dnieper River Snowdrifts
51.193056°,30.523833° - NASA
Swirling snow drifts accent the terrain surrounding the Dnieper River, which flows for roughly 1,400 miles (2,200 km) from Russia to the Black Sea. The Dnieper is the longest river in the Ukraine and Belarus, and the fourth-longest river in Europe. This amazing image was captured by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet while aboard the International Space Station in February 2017.
The Bean
41.882694°,-87.623333° - Nearmap
Cloud Gate -- nicknamed "The Bean" because of its shape -- is a public sculpture in the center of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois. Created by Indian-born British sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor, it is made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together and polished heavily to remove any seams. It is one of the most visited and photographed tourist attractions in Chicago, receiving upwards of 25 million visitors in 2017.
Commencement Bay Parasail
47.277111°,-122.452750° - Nearmap
A parasail is pulled behind a motorboat on Commencement Bay, just offshore Tacoma, Washington. Average water temperatures here can drop below 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7°C) in January and February, and often do not rise above 55 degrees Fahrenheit (12.7°C) in summer months.
Detroit
42.331389°,-83.045833° - Nearmap
Detroit is the largest and most populous city in the state of Michigan, with 4.3 million residents in its metropolitan area. It is best known as the center of the U.S. automobile industry, housing the headquarters of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. Detroit is also a major port on the Detroit River, which is shown flowing through the city in this Overview — does anyone know why the river has two shades?
Maurtitius Ocean Currents
-20.473306°,57.309250° - Maxar Technologies
Just off the southwestern corner of Mauritius (shown at the center of this Overview) is what appears to be an underwater waterfall. In reality, it is just the flow of underwater currents and sand patterns on the ocean floor that form this spectacular optical illusion from the aerial perspective. Mauritius is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, roughly 1,200 miles (2,000 km) off the southeastern coast of Africa.
Chino, California Dairy Farm
33.989611°,-117.647222° - Nearmap
A herd of cows is ushered into a milking parlor on a dairy farm in Chino, California. For years, Chino was a center of dairy farming in Southern California, providing milk products to much of the southwestern United States. The industry peaked in the 1980s, when Chino and its surrounding areas had more than 400 dairies; today only a few remain.
Moose River Tributaries
51.270826°,-80.929432° - Maxar Technologies
Tributaries of the Moose River snake across snowy terrain near Moosonee, a town in northern Ontario, Canada. This area is part of the Hudson Plains Ecozone, a sparsely populated subarctic region extending from the western coast of Quebec to the coast of Manitoba. The ecozone contains the largest continuous wetland in the world, including the Moose River’s 41,900-square-mile (108,500 sq. km) drainage basin.
Sarychev Peak
48.091452°,153.199722° - Maxar Technologies
Sarychev Peak is located on Matua Island in the Kuril Islands of Russia. When the volcano erupted on June 11, 2009, the expulsion of debris caused significant interruption to air traffic between east Asia and North America. The eruption was also so great that astronauts aboard the International Space Station were able to photograph the plumes of ash and smoke rising from its cone, as the force of its shock waves dispersed all clouds covering the area.
Queens Unisphere
40.746417°,-73.844833° - Nearmap
The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth, located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens. Commissioned as part of the 1964 New York World’s Fair, the sculpture was dedicated to “man’s achievements on a shrinking globe in an expanding universe.” It is 140 feet (43 m) high and 120 feet (37 m) in diameter.
Corpus Christi Oil Refinery
27.833444°,-97.524750° - Nearmap
Check out this Overview, which shows a maze of pipes and other equipment at an oil refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Due to its position on the Port of Corpus Christi — the fifth largest U.S. port and deepest inshore port on the Gulf of Mexico — much of the city’s economy is driven by the oil and petrochemicals industry. An average of 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day were exported from this port during 2018.
Rauchenwarth Fields
48.081861°,16.529000° - Maxar Technologies
Colorful fields surround Rauchenwarth, a small municipality in eastern Austria. Located roughly 10.5 miles (17 km) outside of Vienna, Rauchenwarth has a population of about 700 people. Cold, wet winters and hot, dry summers make this region ideal for growing corn, wheat, barley, rye, sugar beets, sunflowers, and soybeans.
Palamanova
45.904944°,13.309944° - Maxar Technologies
The town of Palmanova, Italy, is recognized by its concentric layout known as a “star fort.” The rationale for this construction was that an attack on any individual wall could be defended from the two adjacent star points by shooting the enemy from behind. The three rings that surround Palmanova were completed in 1593, 1690, and 1813.
Crete Plasticulture
35.033793°,25.694451° - Maxar Technologies
Plastic greenhouses cover a stretch of shoreline on the south coast of Crete — the largest and most populous of the Greek islands. Inside these greenhouses, which cover an area of roughly 6 square miles (15 sq. km), large quantities of fruits and vegetables are grown for export. In the upper right corner of this Overview is the Bramiana Reservoir, which was built in 1986 to meet the needs of the thousands of greenhouses surrounding it.
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