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Chicago Tractor-Trailer Hub
41.750750°,-87.878611° - Nearmap
Trailers are docked and loaded at the Chicago Area Consolidation Hub, a package sorting facility in Hodgkins, Illinois. This 1.5 million square foot (139,355 sq. m) facility is owned by the United Parcel Service (UPS) and handles packages traveling throughout the United States and world. Roughly 1.5 million packages pass through its more than 65 miles (105 km) of conveyor belts every day.
Dorsoduro Sestiere - Venice
45.430361°,12.333444° - Maxar Technologies
This Overview shows part of the Dorsoduro sestiere in Venice, Italy. A sestiere — which comes from the Italian “sesto,” meaning sixth — is a subdivision of an Italian town or city divided into six districts. Dorsoduro is Venice’s university district and is filled with bars, restaurants, indie shops, vintage fashion boutiques and art galleries, such as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
The Pearl - Qatar
25.368611°,51.551944° - Maxar Technologies
The Pearl-Qatar is an artificial island in Doha, Qatar, spanning nearly 2.5 miles (4 km) in the Persian Gulf. Once completed, the island is expected to have nearly 19,000 dwellings and 45,000 residents. Twelve precincts make up the Pearl-Qatar, and each one has a national or international theme — including aspects of Arabic, Mediterranean and European culture.
Hạ Long Bay
20.843408°,107.009542° - Maxar Technologies
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 rich, green forests rise from the 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.
Petare, Venezuela
10.483861°,-66.803028° - Maxar Technologies
Petare is a city in northern Venezuela, and is part of the greater Caracas urban area. With a population of nearly 370,000, it is considered one of the largest slums in the world. Homes in Petare are packed tightly together and many are stacked on top of each other along landslide-prone hills.
Alakol Lake
46.104867°,81.178937° - Maxar Technologies
Alakol Lake is a 1,020-square-mile (2,650 sq. km) salt lake located in east central Kazakhstan. The lake, which aptly translates to "multicolored lake," has varying shades of blue and green depending on its depth, levels of phytoplankton, and sediments flowing in from rivers and streams. Its mineral-rich water and mud are believed to be therapeutic, attracting many visitors who seek a natural remedy for psoriasis and other skin ailments.
Asunción, Paraguay
-25.296681°,-57.668129° - Maxar Technologies
Asunción is the capital and largest city of Paraguay, with nearly 2.2 million people living in its metropolitan area. Known as "the Mother of Cities," it is one of the oldest cities in South America and the longest continually inhabited area in the Río de la Plata Basin. Shown on the left side of this Overview is the Hipódromo de Asunción, an 80,000-seat horse racing track and popular concert venue.
Yuanyang Rice Terraces
23.159391°,102.753863° - Maxar Technologies
Rice paddies cover the mountainsides of Yuanyang County, China. Constructed in “steps” by the Hani people for the last 1300 years, the slope of the terraces varies from 15 to 75 degrees with some having as many as 3,000 steps! The stunning colors that you see here are indeed real and result from the presence of water and certain plants within the terraces.
Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW)
41.786775°,-87.752188° - Maxar Technologies
Chicago Midway International Airport is a major commercial airport on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois. It was the city's primary airport from the time it opened in 1927 until 1955, when O'Hare International Airport was opened roughly 20 miles (32 km) to its north. Located on one square mile (2.59 sq. km), Midway remains the second-busiest airport in the state of Illinois, having served 22 million passengers in 2018.
Salt Lake City, Utah
40.776783°,-112.060569° - Nearmap
Salt Lake City is the capital and most populous municipality in the state of Utah, with about 1.2 million residents in its metropolitan area. It was founded in 1847 by followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who sought to escape persecution they experienced living in the east. As shown in this Overview, the city has a distinct north-south east-west grid system, which was laid out by church leader Brigham Young using what was called the "Plat of Zion" or the "Mormon Grid."
Mir Mine
62.529461°,113.993557° - Maxar Technologies
The Mir Mine is an inactive, open-pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine is 1,722 feet (525 m) deep and has a diameter of 3,900 feet (1,200 m), making it one of the largest excavated holes in the world. Active for 44 years, the mine had an output of 10 million carats of diamond per year during peak production in the 1960s.
Øresund Bridge
55.570628°,12.848637° - Maxar Technologies
Stretching nearly 5 miles, the Øresund Bridge is the longest combined road and rail bridge in Europe. The bridge, which then becomes a tunnel, joins together two metropolitan areas — the Danish capital city of Copenhagen and the Swedish city of Malmö. The bridge itself has a mass of 82,000 tonnes and supports two railway tracks and four road lanes.
Louvre Pyramid
48.858951°,2.277020° - Geomni Maps
The Louvre Pyramid in Paris, France, was designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei, who passed away yesterday at the age of 102. The structure, which consists exclusively of glass segments and metal poles, reaches a height of 71 feet (21.6 m) and has a square base with 112-foot-long (34 m) sides. While the pyramid is often recognized as Pei’s most famous design, his firm’s other works include the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
Hyundai Car Factory
32.281981°,-86.328442° - Nearmap
Cars are parked next to the Hyundai production facility in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The plant has a capacity of 300,000 automobiles and also contains the production facility for their engines. 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.
Manzhouli
49.491810°,117.280617° - Maxar Technologies
Manzhouli is a sub-prefectural city in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Located on the border with Russia, it is a major land port of entry and has experienced a boom in recent years as a center of Sino-Russian trade. Since China restricted commercial logging two decades ago, hundreds of factories have opened in Manzhouli to take advantage of lumber from Russia — demand for which is depleting many of Russia's forests.
Rottnest Island Yacht
-31.994995°,115.560582° - Nearmap
A yacht cruises around Rottnest Island, located off the coast of Perth, Western Australia. The dark blotches seen in the water are parts of the Kingston Reef — one of five Marine Sanctuary Zones surrounding the island. These zones form a habitat for many species of fish and crustaceans, bottlenose dolphins, blue whales, Australian sea lions, New Zealand fur seals, and migrating humpbacks.
Omaha Beach
49.368889°,-0.868611° - Maxar Technologies
Omaha Beach was one of five key targets in the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, during World War II. Today marks the 75th anniversary of this operation — now known as “D-Day" — which began the liberation of Nazi-occupied France. With its high cliffs, the 5-mile (8 km) stretch of Omaha Beach had heavier casualties than any of the other four targets -- Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword.
Elliott Bay Marina
47.628735°,-122.387261° - Nearmap
Boats and buoys are moored at Elliott Bay Marina, a private marina in Seattle, Washington. Located in the city’s Magnolia neighborhood, it has 1,250 slips ranging in size from 32 to 63 feet (9.75 to 19.2 meters) and 10 miles (16 km) of docks.
Staten Island Boat Graveyard
40.556107°,-74.216520° - Nearmap
The Staten Island Boat Graveyard is a marine scrapyard located in Arthur Kill on the northern shore of Staten Island, New York. Founded in the 1930s, it serves as a dumping ground for wrecked tugboats, barges, ferries and other vessels from all decades of the 20th century. Some of these boats have historic significance, including the submarine chaser USS PC-1264 — the first World War II U.S. Navy ship to have a predominantly African-American crew — and the New York City Fire Department fireboat Abram S. Hewitt, which served as the floating command post at the 1904 sinking of the passenger ferry PS General Slocum, a disaster that killed more than 1,000 people.
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