Google maps are scary places. Secret coordinates and secret places in Google Maps

Mysterious Island

In 2012, a team of Australian explorers discovered an "undiscovered" island the size of Manhattan (58.8 square kilometers) in the South Pacific. The mysterious place was named Sandy Island and took place on the maps northwest of New Caledonia. It also appeared on Google maps, resembling a black angular sausage. However, when scientists arrived at the site of the proposed island in November 2012, they found only endless ocean expanses. In their explanation, released in April 2013, the scientists declared the island a "mistake", explaining that, most likely, some kind of accumulation or formation, possibly made of pumice, was taken for the island.

lake of blood

Outside the city of Sadr in Iraq, at 33.396157°N, 44.486926°E, Google Maps indicates a blood-red lake. None official explanations about the origin of this object is not. Among unofficial versions: discharge into the lake of waste from production or local slaughterhouses, and possibly (and most likely), special bacteria that give the water a red tint.

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Ant peas

A strange pattern in the form of polka dots in the area of ​​the volcano on north side The Grand Canyon in the US has received a fairly simple explanation from scientists. The authors of the pattern turned out to be red reaper ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) that live in this desert. They create nesting mounds up to 120 cm in diameter, around which about 10 square meters. m stretches bare land. Meanwhile, this explanation, put forward by the physicist Amelia Carolina Sparavilla from the Institute in Turin, is still only a hypothesis and has not received official confirmation.

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Island-"matryoshka"

And this is the world's largest island on a lake, which is located on an island in a lake located on an island. A narrow strip of land is located in Canada on small lake located on another island. He, in turn, is located on a lake 90 km from the coast inside Victoria Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago. According to the assumptions of journalists, a human foot has never set foot on the “matryoshka” island.

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Cemetery of retired planes

Davis-Monten Air Force Base is where military planes come to die. "Burial" with coordinates 32 08 "59.96 ° north latitude, 110 50" 09.03 ° east longitude and an area of ​​​​more than 10 square meters. km is officially closed to the public, but you can still look at it using Google Earth. It contains the remains of many legendary aircraft, from the B-52 StratoFortress to the F-14 Tomcat. Among the several thousand units of aircraft, there are also spaceships that have served their time. According to some estimates, the total value of the scrap metal located here exceeds $35 billion.

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name in the sand

Sheik, billionaire and member ruling family Abu Dhabi Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan instructed to carve his name on the sand of his Al Futaisi island (8 km from Abu Dhabi) in the Persian Gulf. Apparently, this is the largest sand inscription in the world. The letters are so large that they interact with the tide, filling with water instead of being swept away by it.

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Mysterious Gobi Pattern

In China's Gobi desert, images have captured quite a few structures that are hard to explain. One of them is a mysterious mesh of regular shape. Discussing the pictures, Internet users were mainly inclined to the military-strategic origin of the object. The area of ​​the pattern was embarrassing - about 33 km. However, most likely, this is the Yagi-Uda antenna, it is also a “wave channel”. This antenna consists of active and several passive vibrators located parallel to each other along the radiation line and is used in radio communication and radar systems.

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Trolling google maps has a long history - people cannot deny themselves the pleasure of diversifying their landscapes with man-made symbols. Even a special term appeared - mapvertising. As a result, the largest Coca-Cola logo in the world can be seen on a hillside in Chile. At the same time, it is alleged that it is made from 70,000 empty soda bottles. Another advertising creative that has settled in Nevada is a giant image of the KFC symbol, Colonel Sanders.

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"Kiss of the Earth"

One of the funniest objects on Google Earth is definitely the "Kiss of the Earth". These unusual lip-like hills are located in Sudan's Darfur and are traditionally the source of witty comments on the Web.

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Google Maps service, as well as the mapping program "Google Earth", without a doubt, are one of the most popular products of the Internet giant. Who among us has not looked for his street and his house on aerial photographs, who has not tried to fly using the flight simulator built into the program? Every day, hundreds of thousands of people around the world surf the virtual planet and use the mapping service.

From time to time they make wonderful discoveries, finding unusual uses for standard functions or discovering something mysterious or simply funny in aerial photographs, and we present an exposé of the 10 most interesting secrets on google maps.

Chat with a Martian

The name of the program "Google Earth" has long been out of line with its capabilities, since it can also be used to travel on the Moon and Mars. To do this, just switch to another mode using the corresponding button on the program toolbar.

In the fifth version of Google Earth, users had an unusual opportunity - everyone was invited to chat with a Martian. To do this, just switch to the "Mars" mode, enter the Meliza query in the search box. The program will detect a robot lurking on the surface of the red planet. Click on it and a chat window will appear. You will see a warning that the robot is using an account on another planet, so errors may occur during the transfer process.

Try to chat with Melisa - she will rephrase your messages and tell you a lot of interesting things about Mars. True, the robot is ready to communicate only on English language. It must be assumed that the name of the robot Meliza stands for "Martian Eliza". As you know, Eliza was one of the first chatbots.

far route

One of the most popular features of the service Google Maps- laying routes. Indeed, it is very convenient when you are going to a store that you have never been to before, or going to another city, to see how best to get there.

But the possibility of laying routes also works for very long journeys. For example, if you decide to drive from Tokyo to Beijing, Google Maps will tell you exactly where to go. The service also has advice on overcoming the ocean, which will definitely appear on your way. Google proposes to cross 782 kilometers of the ocean ... on a jet ski.

And if you decide to go, say, from Boston to Sydney, Google Maps will help you with route planning, and 2756 miles of travel through Pacific Ocean they will advise you to overcome it in a kayak - a single kayak. In other words, if you plan to travel as a couple, then following the advice of Google, it is worth taking two boats.

It is interesting that earlier, when laying a route from North America to Europe, Google Maps offered to swim across the ocean. In the current version of the service, the calculation of routes between points so far from each other does not work.

1.68 kilometers of love

Google Maps have many different functions, one of which is laying your own routes. Photographer Derek Montgomery, 28, used it to upload his daily runs. And then one day, looking at the path done on Google Maps, Derek found that it somewhat resembled a letter. And since at that moment he was thinking about how to propose to his beloved, an interesting idea was born: to run a path that, after loading onto the map, will look like the letters MARRY ME? (Will you marry me?).

It took Derek several attempts to implement his plan. Firstly, it was necessary to find a suitable place without trees, where nothing would interfere with writing out the necessary zigzags. By the way, Google Maps helped with this - Derek looked at the pictures of the area near his house and found two football fields located next to each other.

Secondly, Derek was forced to draw a run plan, because in order for his route to turn into readable letters, it was necessary to run along a strictly defined trajectory. But even with the plan it didn’t work out right away - in the data downloaded from the GPS watch to Google maps, the letters were not readable. When, after another workout, the loaded route finally satisfied young man he didn't waste any time. That same evening, Derek asked the girl to look at the plan for his run today, informing her that something strange had happened to the GPS data. 1.68 kilometers of love and 1250 calories burned while jogging did their job - the girl answered “Yes”.

Symbols of love

The love theme on Google Earth is almost inexhaustible. As it turned out, there are dozens of objects on Earth that, when viewed from above, have the shape of a heart. Some of them are the fruit of human activity, but those created by nature are much more interesting.

For example, in 2009 Galesnjak island in Croatia became widely known. Its owner, Vlado Giuresco, was quite surprised when, on the eve of Valentine's Day, he was approached by many couples with a request to stay on the island. The island is uninhabited, and few people showed interest in it until Google Earth revealed that it has the shape of a heart. And since Croatia is tourist country, the presence of the island of lovers turned out to be very handy. You can admire the island by typing "Google Earth" in the search bar coordinates 43°58’42.70″N, 15°23’0.14″E.

You can also take your beloved to the German city of Braunschweig, where there is a small pond on the territory of the Burgerpark, which, like Galesniak Island, has the shape of a heart. You can quickly move to this place by entering the coordinates 52°15’27.48″N, 10°31’17.62″E.

And the biggest kiss in the world can be sent from Sudan. That is where it is interesting find, which was dubbed the lips of the Earth. A nondescript hill about 800 meters long, when viewed from above, really resembles huge lips. The find coordinates are 12°22’13.32″N, 23°19’20.18″E.

Canadian Badlands Guardian

One of the most remarkable discoveries in google maps made fifty-three resident of Canada Lynn Hickox (Lynn Hickox). Using Google Earth, she tried to find her way to a dinosaur museum near her home, but instead she saw a huge Indian head, which was later dubbed the Badlands Guardian. The relief, approximately 255 by 225 meters in size, is located in the province of Alberta, near the border with the United States. The "face" itself natural origin, but people worked on the creation of "headphones" - in fact, this is an oil well and the road to it.

This place, unlike the Croatian island, has no tourism potential - there is not much to see from the Earth, and the territory is closed. However, thanks to Google's aerial imagery, the Badlands Guardian and the place where he is located, has gained truly worldwide fame.

Interestingly, the farmers who rented the land on which the Indian was found found out about the hype that had risen on the Internet about this site, quite by accident. When the land lease for the next ten years came up, they drove to the nearest town, where they were told about the Badlands Guardian.

To see the Indian with headphones, enter the coordinates 50.010083, -110.113006.

Drawings in the fields

An Arizona farmer spared four hectares of land to create a giant portrait of the famous TV presenter Ofra Winfrey. You can see it if you enter in the search bar "Google Earth" coordinates 33.225488, -111.5955.

Interestingly, next to it, in the neighboring field, there is another lesser-known drawing. The giant inscription on the field is very reminiscent of News 3D - I wonder if the farmer reads our site in the morning?

Lenin is always alive

In May 2008, Google Earth enthusiasts combing maps of Russia discovered a gigantic inscription "Lenin is 100 years old" between the Siberian villages of Trud, Znanie and Zverinogolovsk. The inscription was formed with the help of trees cut down (and possibly planted) in a special way. Due to the nature of the inscription, it is easy to determine the time of its creation - 1970. Could the Siberians, performing such a grand task, think that after forty years the results of their work could be seen by anyone simply by entering the coordinates 54.468142.64.79923 into Google Earth?

The amazing find was just the beginning. It turned out that there are quite a lot of similar symbols of the past on the territory of Russia. For example, the same inscription, carved from trees, was found near the village of Arkhangelskoye (coordinates +54.419444, +56.780278), and on the banks of the Tura River there are huge letters “Glory to the CPSU” (coordinates 58.346111+59.803611).

Observant Google Earth users also found several inscriptions created for the fiftieth (coordinates +57.091111+40.854444) and sixtieth (coordinates 54.623889+65.019444) anniversaries of the USSR (1967 and 1977, respectively).

But the time of the creation of the giant word "Lenin" is close Belarusian village Lyaskovichi (coordinates +52.158333+25.562222), unfortunately, is unknown - there are no dates in the inscription that could tell when this happened.

Get on Google Maps

search interesting objects Entire communities of people all over the world are engaged on Google Maps. Some (like, for example, the Canadian who discovered the Indian in the headphones) are lucky almost the first time, others spend it for satellite maps days on end, but nothing particularly surprising is found.

However, if nothing remarkable can be found, you can go the other way - create an object with your own hands that can get on Google maps and become available for viewing by the whole world. So, for example, in September 2008, the residents of Chelyabinsk amounted to main square city ​​giant smiley with a radius of about eighty meters. True, despite the fact that the Google satellite shot a bright symbol, which amounted to several thousand people, it still has not appeared on the maps.

More fortunate enthusiasts from National University Oregon, who celebrated the release of the second version of Firefox by creating a huge program logo on the field. The logo, about 67 meters wide, can now be seen on Google maps. To do this, just enter the coordinates 45.123464, -123.11431.

English alphabet on Google Maps

The potential of Google Maps is inexhaustible. For example, they can be a source of inspiration for people in creative professions. Australian designer Rhett Dashwood assembled the first English alphabet from aerial photographs. It took the designer about six months to find all the letters on Google Earth. Interestingly, the search area was limited to the Australian state of Victoria. Links to all the places that are in the alphabet can be found on Rhett's website.

Twenty-five-year-old Briton Rachel Young (Rachel Young) got into a car accident and was forced to comply with bed rest. After reading about an Australian designer's alphabet, she decided to make her own using UK maps. Searching suitable places on the maps, it took her much less time than the Australian - only 15 hours. It is interesting that, according to the British, during this time she discovered about a hundred variants of the letter B, but the letters K, N and Q did not want to be.

But the story with the alphabet did not end there either. After Rachel showed her alphabet to the news agency she works for, she was asked to look for letters on a map of New York City. Despite the fact that the British woman had never been to this city, in just five days she completed the task and compiled another English alphabet, this time from aerial photographs of New York.

Dutch designer Thomas de Bruin went even further. Exploring the map of the Netherlands, he found on it all the capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet. In addition, he supplemented his alphabet with numbers from one to ten and punctuation marks.


You can see the results of Thomas' work on his Flickr page.

Zone 51

In the Google Earth search bar, you can enter not only coordinates geographical objects or their names. If you try to find a secret military facility, codenamed "Area 51" (Area 51), the program will "give out military secrets" and show the legendary American base in Nevada.

Many sincerely believe that it is in this place that the secrets that the American government carefully hides from civilians are located - either UFOs will be noticed there, or rumors will spread that the landing of astronauts on the moon was actually filmed at this base.

Drawings in the Peruvian Nazca Desert

Looks like flying down the river undefined object in Buenos Aires- click on the image to view.

Well of course it's not UFO, and here's what it is, see for yourself.

And what is this a figure that looks like a flower, or maybe this is the landing site of a spaceship?

Head of an Indian in the mountains of the USA- click on the image to view.

Atacama, Giant Inca drawing- click on the image to view.

China.
Coordinates 40.458779.93.313129 Aircraft pad

Chinese pattern
40.458181,93.388681

Another chinese pattern
40.451323,93.743248

40.480381,93.493652

And when was this one made?

Is there anything to hide behind black rectangles?
62.174478,-141.119385

In addition to black squares, there is also
66.2557995,179.188385

The famous Area 51, where UFOs and aliens are supposedly hidden
37°14"13.39"n, 115°48"52.43"w

There are also such closed colorful zones in cities.
52°14"55.40"n, 4°26"22.74"e

Who needs a compass at an altitude of 2 kilometers?
34°57"14.90"N 117°52"21.02"w

Arrows on the underwater bottom, which are visible only from a height.
32°40"36.82"n,117°9"27.33"e

The rocket flew and did not fly
38°13"34.93"n, 112°17"55.61"w

Ground drawing of some animal
31°39"36.40"n, 106°35"5.06"w

UFO landed in a grove
45°42"12.68"n, 21°18"7.59"e

Sight hundreds of meters in size
37°33"46.95"n, 116°51"1.62"w

Colorful lakes on the outskirts of Baghdad
33°23"41.63"n, 44°29"33.08"e

33°51"3.06"s, 151°14"17.77"e

Rock paintings in Oregon, visible from a height of 1.5 km
+42° 33" 48.24", -119° 33" 18.00"

Another triangle
-30.510783, 115.382303

Apparently remnants ancient civilization under the water. Pay attention to the size of the building and the height of the shooting...
31°20"23.90"n, 24°16"43.28"w

Türkiye, Noah's Ark

The anomaly near Mount Ararat is a geological formation of an unusual shape. It is located at an altitude of 4725 meters above sea level and has a length of almost 183 meters. To date, there are three main versions that explain its occurrence - it can be a geological formation, a glacier, or ... the remains of Noah's Ark.
Among local residents there are legends about a huge old ship on top of a mountain near Mount Ararat. The writer Charles Berlitz in his book "The Lost Ship of Noah" cites the testimony of the Armenian Georgy Khagopyan.
George Khagopyan said that in 1905, as an 8-year-old boy, he was on Mount Ararat with his grandfather. And that they found the ark and went inside. On upper deck George saw a superstructure with many windows. The hull of the ark was huge and hard as stone.
In the American magazine New Eden in 1939, an interview was published with a former pilot of the tsarist army of Russia, Lieutenant Roskovitsky, who allegedly discovered an object resembling an ark back in 1916 during a reconnaissance flight. Roskovitsky reported to the tsar, and Nicholas II equipped an expedition of 150 people. In two weeks they got to the object. According to Roskovitsky, the ship resembled a giant barge and a freight car at the same time, and inside there were many rooms - small and large. Moreover, the small rooms were covered with a metal mesh.
But the first significant evidence of the existence of an unknown object on top of the mountain is considered to be pictures taken by American pilots in 1949. A few years later, something resembling a ship covered in snow was seen by Turkish doctors. Then the object was photographed two more times: in 1973 it was made by the American spy satellite Keyhole-9 and in 1976 by the reconnaissance satellite Keyhole-11. CIA workers processing satellite images in the 70s found it difficult to interpret the data. Porcher Taylor, who at the time worked for the CIA, says that the picture was very unexpected. But he could not clarify what exactly was there, because the materials collected by Keyhole-9 and Keyhole-11 are still classified.
Coordinates: 39.440628,44.234517

World Seed Bank on Svalbard
78°14"23.12"N, 15°27"30.19"E

Neftegorsk - a ghost town, completely destroyed in 1995 after an earthquake measuring 9-10 points
52°59′45″n 142°56′41″e

Another strange building in the desert
30.029281,30.858294

An anomalous place near the city of Osoyoos in Canada - Lake Khiluk
49° 4"42.70"N 119°33"58.79"W

Ushtogai square
50 49"58.38N, 65 19"34.54E
- is a geometric figure consisting of 101 mounds in the form of barrows. The length of the side of the square is 287 meters! Approximately at a distance of 112 m from the northwestern corner, three rings with a diameter of 19 meters each are located diagonally.
On opposite side, at a distance of 112 meters from southeast corner there is an embankment with a diameter of 18 meters. If the square, rings and mound are a single figure, then the length of the figure is 643 meters!

Clearly not of natural origin construction in Antarctica. Entrance to the dungeon
-66.603547, 99.719878

Four strange balls in Peru
13°33"39.26"s, 75°16"05.80"w

UFO in area 51?

Larger

Chanquillo, Spanish Chankillo is an ancient monumental complex on the desert coast of Peru in the Kasma oasis in the Ancash department, Peru. Among the ruins are the hilltop fort of Chanquillo, the Thirteen Towers solar observatory, living quarters and public gathering spaces. It is assumed that the Thirteen Towers observatory was built in the 4th century BC. BC e. The area of ​​the monument is 4 square meters. km. It is assumed that it was a fortified temple.

"Mandala" is the most mysterious geoglyph of the Palpa plateau, located 30 km from the more famous Nazca plateau. In addition to it, there are many geoglyphs on the plateau, it is a pity that in Google Maps (and Earth) they should not be properly seen. Geoglyph "Mandala" or Estrella (i.e. "star"), as the locals call it, is definitely the most amazing of them. According to scientists, it was created in the 2nd century AD. the Nazca civilization. The composition of two drawings has a size of about two hundred meters and the mystery, as you may have guessed, is how in ancient times people were able to create such a geometrically correct drawing, which can only be seen in its entirety from a bird's eye view. It is believed that the geolyphs of the Nazca and Palpa plateaus carry information encoded in mathematical form from their creators, whether they are people or someone else.

Several videos on this topic

Earthquake, plane crash, fire, Russian geoglyph, crop drawings and others interesting places planets. The coordinates of all places are given. In some places, to see what's on the video, you need to change the date (where google often updates the photo).

23° 6"54.45"N 113°19"3.79"E game center, China
35°38"6.01"N 139°44"40.63"E Tokyo Reclamation Center
33°26"19.18"N 111°58"51.41"W airport drawing, USA
35°41"18.90"N 139°45"19.90"E Tokyo Flower
45°38"27.65"N 122°47"43.01"W US crop drawings
52° 2"33.57"N 4°12"47.26"E Sundial, Netherlands
51° 3"16.04"N 1°58"42.45"W Medals, UK
52°31"15.93"N 13°24"34.08"E Berlin TV tower
37°47"30.27"N 122°23"23.57"W Bow and Arrow, San Francisco
35°46"52.68"N 139°35"59.27"E Note, Japan
54°56"30.29"N 59°11"35.85"E Geoglyph "Moose", Chelyabinsk
32°51"31.47"S 70° 8"31.76"W Highway, Chile
46°45"56.81"N 100°47"34.26"W Accident, USA
36°10"58.55"N 68°46"37.34"E Afghanistan (Afghanistan)
55°57"4.82"N 3°13"35.22"W Spiral, Edinburgh
23°38"44.11"N 57°59"13.14"E Heart Arrow House, Oman
34°55"29.03"N 139°56"32.84"E Fish, Japan
52° 9"14.17"N 2°14"53.03"W Frog, UK
43°42"53.23"N 112° 1"4.04"E Geoglyph giraffes of Mongolia
43°27"25.38"N 3°32"39.48"E Dinosaur, France
29°10"32.51"N 34°42"6.29"E sand pattern, Egypt
50°41"53.40"N 3°10"8.99"E Roof top car, France
39°44"57.08"N 105°0"23.02"W Pepsi Center, USA
42°54"6.25"N 22°59"31.76"E Medal, Bulgaria
35°42"13.37"N 140°50"21.12"E Aftermath of the 2011 Japan earthquake
37.790699,-122.322937 Plane crash- only google maps!
42°19"59.78"N 83° 3"19.94"W drawings, America
43°17"25.51"N 80° 1"42.35"W Field in Canada
51°56"57.39"N 7°35"25.43"E Dinosaurs at the History Museum, Germany
56°40"45.06"N 12°48"42.85"E 3 hearts, Sweden
52°30"36.12"N 13°22"19.99"E Sony Center, Germany
26° 6"57.47"N 80°23"48.39"W Boat City, USA
39°51"37.23"N 4°17"5.20"E secret place in Spain
69°10"36.03"N 33°28"27.51"E Capsized ships, Murmansk region
43°34"35.10"N 28° 9"4.00"E Pozhar, Bulgaria
52°32"15.37"N 13°34"28.10"E Labyrinth Germany
21°35"4.41"N 39°10"33.58"E "Space", Saudi Arabia
25°14"3.58"N 55°18"3.48"E balls, Dubai, UAE
33°36"6.59"N 111°42"38.98"W Fountain, USA
51°34"38.38"N 0°41"49.54"W Aircraft taking off, UK
53°27"5.16"N 113°44"4.84"W fig. in Canada, Formula 1
12°21"55.53"N 76°35"41.31"E INFOSYS lettering from residential buildings, India
53°48"49.58"N 3° 3"16.87"W Skull, UK (change date)
15°49"32.22"S 47°56"7.71"W Star, Brazil
51°58"14.47"N 4°12"1.03"E MiG 23, Netherlands
52°30"28.86"N 13°23"9.32"E Globe, Berlin
35°41"30.80"N 139°41"49.08"E Cocoon Tower Tokyo
55°24"0.17"N 10°23"7.93"E drawings, Denmark
40°35"44.02"N 141°24"27.53"E Fish, Japan
6°37"43.75"S 31° 8"10.10"E Hippo Lake, Tanzania
47°16"52.49"N 0°50"51.44"W French crop drawings
70°14"24.91"S 69° 6"25.56"E Strange object in the snow of Antarctica
33°49"46.31"N 130°28"4.68"E Sunken plane, Japan
59°57"16.63"N 30°20"15.96"E Cruiser "Aurora" St. Petersburg
25°11"46.30"N 55°16"36.87"E Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE, 828 meters. Burj Khalifa, Burj Dubai

3° 0"8.59"S 33° 5"24.30"E Tanzania market
66°17"50.90"S 100°47"7.55"E Ice begins to melt in Antarctica
67°25"48.55"S 60°52"35.18"E "Hand" in Antarctica)
40°41"21.15"N 74°2"40.34"W Statue of Liberty, USA
41°40"2.82"N 86°29"32.18"W Studebaker
41°45"39.13"N 86°16"9.39"W St. Patrick's Park, USA
44°58"1.39"N 124° 1"7.43"W bear
47°35"43.11"N 122°19"51.84"W Football match
48° 1"39.15"N 122° 9"50.93"W Maze, Washington
21°50"21.11"S 46°34"3.04"W in Brazil
28° 0"21.90"N 86°51"33.79"E Camping at Mount Everest
29°50"36.13"N 47°50"49.45"E Fire
35°17"2.60"N 33°22"21.11"E Cyprus flag
44°45"39.41"N 20°28"19.73"E name of the former President of Yugoslavia
44°34"54.07"N 38° 6"13.78"E Gelendzhik
48°48"18.82"N 2° 7"8.93"E Skeleton, Versailles
50° 3"8.21"N 8°36"51.04"E aircraft
50°56"17.25"N 5°58"40.80"E NATO Headquarters The Netherlands
52°19"36.22"N 4°55"11.33"E Newspaper Parking, Netherlands
52°25"50.72"N 4°23"24.12"E Boat and aircraft
51°17"6.09"N 30°12"44.47"E Chernobyl-cemetery of ships
69° 3"38.05"N 33°12"18.76"E Nuclear submarine "Kursk"

1. Baker Lake, Inuit territory in northern Canada

The man, who identified himself as "Dr. Boylan", believes that the darkened area in this picture and in several other locations hides extraterrestrial beacons of aliens.

2. Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany

This NATO air base is the starting point for Operation Iraqi Freedom forces, and for this reason, it can certainly be a target for terrorist attacks. This may explain why this feature is partially cut from Google Maps.

3. Pacific Northwest, USA

What exactly are we not seeing in this photo? This place is located near the border of the states of Washington and Oregon. Enthusiasts personally examined this place and found nothing remarkable, except for the sinister appearance of the fence and the unmarked entrance.

4. Shazalombatta Oil Refinery, Hungary

This is one of the strangest examples of censorship in Google Maps - this place is simply painted over in green. The factory area has been removed, the buildings have been erased, and all you can see is regular grass.

5. Huis Ten Palace, Holland

It's hard to imagine that the Dutch royal family could be a prime target for a crazed terrorist, but Royal Palace Huis Ten is heavily blurred on Google Maps when viewed from any angle. (However, the surrounding area and trees can be seen with crystal clarity at close magnification.)

6. unknown zone, Russia

No one knows what is hidden in this region. One of the opinions is that there is a "radar station or missile interception system" there, and some argue that the image of the surrounding area is pasted from another region of Russia.

7. Mobil Oil Corporation, Buffalo, New York, USA

Some criticize Buffalo-based Mobil for blurring pictures of its factories, saying that oil corporations not very interesting for terrorists. On the other hand, we do not know what the terrorists themselves think.

8. North Korea

Everyone has heard of this country, which is part of the supposed "Axis of Evil", but very few have ever visited it. You won't see it on Google Maps either, as the entire country exists in the imagery, but without road markers, street names, or any other identifying details.

9. Reims Air Base, France

The reasons why this air force base blocked in Google Maps, unknown.

10. Indian Point Power Plant, New York, USA

Many members of the United States government called for a shutdown of the Indian Point power plant. Environmental considerations aside, according to energy experts, the power plant is not strong enough to withstand an earthquake like the one that recently devastated Japan.

11. Volkel Air Base, Holland

It's quite funny to see how this air base is rudely blurred on satellite images, however, WikiLeaks has published diplomatic correspondence that confirms the presence of nuclear warheads on the territory of this base.

12. HAARP, Gakona, Alaska, USA

HAARP (High Frequency Research Program) northern lights) is one of the most controversial operations currently underway in the United States. Gakona, the site of research, and the ionosphere experiments being conducted there, are revered by some conspiracy theorists as the cause of everything from floods to earthquakes, but there is very little evidence of this.

13. Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, Salinas, California, USA

This is one of the strangest examples of censorship on Google Maps: the Laguna Seca race track in Salinas, California. The strangest thing about this is the fact itself: this is an apparently harmless race track.

14. Babylon, Iraq

While the surrounding area is perfectly visible, the city of Babylon itself is blurred in the pictures. You can bet it has something to do with the local rebels...

15. Tantauco National Park, Chile

Why is this endangered species sanctuary completely cut out of Google Maps? Nobody knows.

16. The Hill, Elmira Correctional Facility, USA

This is the highest security prison in New York State. Perhaps, after the riots in the Attica prison and several incidents of uprisings and mass escapes around the world, the authorities may indeed be worried about the possibility of escapes using helicopters.

17. House of Alexey Miller, Russia

According to Wikipedia, this place is the "private palace of the executive director of JSC Gazprom Alexei Miller." But why is he given preference over all other people? Maybe we're just not powerful enough to convince Google to cut out our homes from satellite imagery.

18. Colonel Sanders

This is the strangest fact from Google: Colonel Sanders, the face of the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, does not appear in any of the Google Street View images. This is because, according to Google representatives, Sanders was real person, and images real people should be blurry in any shots.

19. Faro Islands, Denmark

It is believed that in this zone there are some non-advertised military installations.

20. NATO Headquarters, Portugal

This shot would be the funniest if it didn't have such an ominous context. Whoever edited the picture of the Portuguese headquarters of NATO, he simply copied another part of the earth's surface over the image of the building. Very strange.

21. Seabrook Nuclear Station, New Hampshire

Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant is believed to be located in this northeastern United States.

22. Missile mine, Spain

According to one researcher, “At this site is a small building with what looks like a missile silo in the middle. What is strange is that this area is not blocked in Yahoo! Maps, but its image is not Google Maps.

23. Nuclear zone, France

We're not entirely sure what "The Marcoule site of the Commissariat l'Energie Atomique" means, but we think "atomique" is the key here.

You have probably used the Google maps service at least a few times. What about Google earth?

Google earth is a virtual globe with a map and geographic information. With the help of high-precision satellite images, you can examine in great detail every corner of our planet, having previously pointed to it with the mouse cursor.

But in order not to waste time, check out 50 little-known, interesting and most mysterious places, which can be found in the vastness of Google Earth.

1 Airplane Graveyard
32 08’59.96″N, 110 50’09.03″W
Tucson, Arizona

2. Mysterious spots in the desert
27°22"50.10"N, 33°37"54.62"E
Red Sea, Egypt

3. Swastika building
32°40"34.19"N 117°9"27.58"W
Coronado, California, USA

4. Herd of buffaloes
4°17’21.49″ S 31°23’46.46″ E
Tanzania

5 Giant Triangle
33.747252, -112,633853
Wittman, Arizona, USA

6. Shipwreck of the SS Ayrfield, overgrown with trees
-33,836379, 151,080506
Sydney, Australia

7. Keepers of the Badlands
50°0"38.20"N 110°6"48.32"W
Alberta, Canada

8. Parking for fighters
33.927911, -118,38069
State of California, USA

9. Firefox Logo
45°7"25.87"N 123°6"48.97"W
Dayton, Oregon, USA

10. Forest plantation in the shape of a guitar
-33,867886, -63,987
Cordoba, Argentina

The forest is made of 7,000 cypresses and eucalyptus trees, planted by Pedro Martín Ureta in memory of his wife.

11. Lake in the shape of a heart
41.303921, -81.901693
Ohio, USA

12. Strange desert stripes
40.452107, 93.742118
China

13. Huge target
37.563936, -116,85123
Nevada, USA

14. The world's largest swimming pool
33.350534, -71,653268
Valparaiso, Chile

The length of the pool is 1013 meters, and its total area is 8 hectares.

15. Jesus loves you
43.645074, -115,993081
Idaho, USA

16. The Lion King
51.848637, -0,55462
Great Britain

17. Turkish flag
35.282902, 33.376891
Kyrenia, Cyprus

18. Star Fort
Netherlands

19. Potash ponds
38°29"0.16"N 109°40"52.80"W
Utah, USA

20. Mystical figures
37.629562, -116.849556
Nevada, USA

21. Shopping mall in the shape of a boat
22°18"14.15"N, 114°11"24.66"E
Hong Kong

22. Russell Square
London, Great Britain

23. Coca-Cola Logo
-18,529211, -70,249941
Chile

24. Concentric Circles
39.623119, -107,635353
Colorado, USA

25. Island in the lake on the island in the lake
69.793°N, 108.241°W
Northern Canada

26. Upside down car
51°19"18.13"N, 6°34"35.64"E
Krefeld, Germany

27. Strange symbol
37.401573, -116,867808
Nevada, USA

28. Monkey face
65.476721, -173,511416
Russia

29. big pool for swimming
52°29"52.24"N 13°27"13.67"E
Berlin, Germany

30. The largest phallic structure
41,84201, -89,485937
Dixon, Illinois, USA

31. Big and kind giant
19°56"56.96"S 69°38"1.83"W
Huara, Tarapacá, Chile

32. Another "parked" fighter
48.825183, 2.1985795
France

33. Some more desert mysterious stripes
40.458148, 93.393145
China

34. Shipwreck
30.541634, 47.825445
Basra, Iraq

35.Multiple runways in the desert
32.663367, -111,487618
Eloy, Arizona, USA

36.Oil Fields
37°39"16.06"S 68°10"16.42"W
Rio Negro, Argentina

37. Mattel logo
33.921277, -118,391674
El Segundo, California

38. Uluru / Ayers Rock
-25,344375, 131,034401
Northern Territory, Australia

39. 1:20 scale model of the disputed border region
between India and China
38.265652, 105.9517
Yun Ning Xian, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

40. UTAH Flight 772 Desert Memorial
16.864841, 11.953808
Sahara Desert

41. Earth formation in the shape of a heart
20°56"15.47"S, 164°39"30.56"E
New Caledonia

42. Rainbow plane
Katie Terrace Englewood Rocks New Jersey US

43. Barringer Meteor Crater
35.027185, -111,022388
Winslow, Arizona

44. Come downtown and play
35.141533, -90,052695
Memphis, Tennessee, USA

45. Hippo Pool
6°53"53.00"S 31°11"15.40"E
Katavi, Tanzania

46. ​​Solar field
34.871778, -116,834192
Daggett, California

47. Giant US flag
7300 Airport Boulevard, Houston, TX 77061, USA

48. Big red lips in the desert
12°22"13.32"N, 23°19"20.18"E
Sudan

49. Grand Prismatic Spring
44.525049, -110,83819
yellowstone national park, Wyoming, USA

50. Batman symbol
26.357896, 127.783809
Okinawa, Japan