Google Street View began its world tour in 2007. Today, the map application of the Internet giant has become such an integral part of our lives that hundreds of millions of people around the world use the panoramas of the American company every day. Flat-panel images compiled from data collected from satellite imagery, GPS, and the LIDAR distance sensor not only captured buildings, streets, and city and village atmospheres, but also surprising and often funny moments.
One page of the collection of these beautiful, special, amazing, silly, surreal, weird and funny pictures is Nile The website, where you can find thousands of photos that meet the above criteria, from South America to Australia, from the South Pole to the International Space Station. Mouth is very easy to use, you can randomly go to the next “station” by clicking the upper right button. I have collected some interesting sites without claiming to be complete.
The longest geographical name in the world
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauauootamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. This 85-letter Maori word is the name of a tiny hill in New Zealand that is 305 meters high. As far as we know, this is the longest geographical name in the world, which, of course, got into the Book of Records. The proper name literally means that
the summit of the mountain where Tamati, the wondrous man who climbed the mountains; The world traveler who passed here played the flute for his love.
In the long list of toponyms, the second longest name on the planet can be found next to the American city of Webster
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The name of the lake is calculated.
Flying saucer over Utrecht
The largest brick building in the Netherlands is De Inktpot on the edge of Moreelsepark in Utrecht. The building block designed by architect Georg van Heukelum has been used as the headquarters of the national railway company since its opening in 1921. On the occasion of the city’s annual art festival, the municipality asked sculptor Marc Roegrock in 2000 to create a special building on the roof of this tower. The final art object called Zover became a flying saucer 12 meters in diameter that emits these blinking lights in the evening as if it was about to take off. Meanwhile, the UFO had become such a popular exhibit that the railroad company bought it and then put the spaceship into its final form.
One of the most beautiful mosques in the world
the Nile The group included the eighth largest mosque in the world with its dazzling beauty, which can be seen in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the emirate of the same name as the United Arab Emirates. The church, which was named after Prince Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, was handed over in 2007, and is decorated with 54 domes decorated with white marble. The minarets at the four corners of the building are 115 meters high. The entire area of the mosque can accommodate forty thousand worshipers at the same time. Here you can see the world’s largest carpet designed by Ali Haliki. Its size is 5700 square meters. The carpet is made of 35 tons of wool and 12 tons of cotton, so its total weight is 47 tons. There are approximately 2.5 billion knots in a carpet. Designed by Muhammad Ali Al Ameri and Spatium Halcrow, the mosque also contains the largest chandelier in the world, which is more than ten meters in diameter.
Fantasy Bratislava Hotel
Anyone who wants to enjoy an exciting, fairytale-like hotel, or even stay there, doesn’t have to travel far from Hungary. Next to the Bratislava railway station, at 1 Vancurova utca, is a hotel called Galéria Tachyon, chosen as the 45th most unique building in the world. The two-star hotel with 17 rooms will be 30 years old this year.
Platform 9¾ at King’s Cross
Almost every fan of Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s bestselling series knows that students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry actually boarded their school at King’s Cross railway station in the heart of London, which opened in 1852. In the Wizarding World, Harry Potter and his friends have arrived on their train Through a brick wall between platforms 9 and 10, but in fact these two platforms are located far from the main station, in a separate building. In order to bridge the contrast between fantasy and reality, when shooting the feature film, the crew set up platform 9¾ in front of a brick wall between platforms 4 and 5. After filming, this set became so popular among fans that a quarter-scale replica was rebuilt from a cage prop Sparrows perched on top of two bags lost in the wall parallel to the rebuilding of the train station in 2014.
Of course, these are just a few selected examples. Because Google Street View depicts the world around us with many types of vehicles around the world, we can find shots taken from a boat of a bear eating fish on the bank of Kamchatka River, the interior of an ocean line explored on foot, an alley in Hong Kong, a movie in London , or even high-altitude photos taken from a hot air balloon in Piedmont. The northern lights seen around Inari in Lapland were actually captured from a dog sled. Photographs of the wreckage of the plane that crashed in Manitoba, Canada, in 1979 were taken from a snowmobile.
So far, I have found two recordings from Hungary on the site. There is no flattery too. Made in 2011 at the intersection of Fegyvernek utca and Fonyód utca in Újbuda Register hereand the photo was taken a year later on Ságvári Endre Street in Abaújszántó here You can watch it separately if you don’t want to waste time finding scenes collected by the site separately.
