Secret places on google map. Unusual places on Google maps

16.10.2019

Drawings in the Peruvian Nazca Desert

Looks like an unidentified object flying down the river in Buenos Airos— click on the picture to view.

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

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

Indian head in the mountains of the USA— click on the picture to view.
Atacama, Giant Inca drawing— click on the picture to view.

China.
Coordinates 40.458779,93.313129 Airplane site

Chinese pattern
40.458181,93.388681
Another chinese pattern
40.451323,93.743248
40.480381,93.493652
And when was this one applied?
Is there anything to hide behind these? black rectangles?
62.174478,-141.119385

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

The famous Area 51, where UFOs and aliens are allegedly 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 that are only visible from above.
32°40"36.82"n,117° 9"27.33"e

The rocket flew and did not reach
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

A sight measuring hundreds of meters
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 the remains of an ancient civilization under 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 could be a geological formation, a glacier, or... the remains of Noah's Ark.
There are legends among local residents about a huge old ship on the top of a mountain near Mount Ararat. Writer Charles Berlitz in his book “The Lost Ship of Noah” cites the testimony of the Armenian George Hagopian.
Georgiy Hagopyana 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 visited inside. On the upper deck, Georgy saw a superstructure with many windows. The body of the ark was huge and hard as stone.
The American magazine New Eden in 1939 published an interview with a former pilot of the Russian tsarist army, 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. It took them two weeks to reach the site. According to Roskovitsky, the ship resembled both a giant barge and a freight car, and inside there were many rooms - small and large. Moreover, the small rooms were covered with metal mesh.
But the first significant evidence of the existence of an unknown object on the top of the mountain is considered to be photographs taken by American pilots in 1949. A few years later, something resembling a ship covered with snow was seen by Turkish soldiers. The object was then photographed two more times: in 1973 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 obtained. Porcher Taylor, who worked for the CIA at the time, says the picture was quite unexpected. But he was unable to 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 Spitsbergen
78°14"23.12"N, 15°27"30.19"E

Neftegorsk is a ghost town, completely destroyed in 1995 after an earthquake of 9-10 magnitude
52°59′45″ n 142°56′41″ e
Another strange structure 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 mounds. The side length of the square is 287 meters! Approximately 112 m from the northwest corner, three rings, each 19 meters in diameter, are located diagonally.
On the opposite side, at a distance of 112 meters from the south-eastern 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!

The structure in Antarctica is clearly not of natural origin. Dungeon entrance
-66.603547, 99.719878
Four strange balls in Peru
13°33"39.26"s, 75°16"05.80"w

UFO in the Area 51 area?
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Chanquillo, Spanish Chankillo is an ancient monumental complex on the desert coast of Peru in the Casma oasis in the department of Ancash, Peru. Among the ruins are the hilltop Fort Chanquillo, the Thirteen Towers solar observatory, living quarters and public meeting areas. It is assumed that the Thirteen Towers Observatory was built in the 4th century. 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’s a pity that they cannot be clearly seen in Google Maps (and Earth). The 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. 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 is entirely visible only from a bird's eye view. There is an opinion that the geoliths of the Nazca and Palpa plateaus carry information encoded in mathematical form from their creators, be they people or someone else.

Several videos on this topic

An earthquake, a plane crash, a fire, a geoglyph of Russia, drawings in the fields and other interesting places on the planet. The coordinates of all places are given. In some places, you need to change the date to see what's in the video (where Google frequently updates photos).
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 drawing at the airport, USA
35°41"18.90"N 139°45"19.90"E Tokyo, flower
45°38"27.65"N 122°47"43.01"W drawings in the USA fields
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 TV Tower Berlin
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 "Elk", 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 House in the shape of a heart with an arrow, Oman
34°55"29.03"N 139°56"32.84"E Rybka, 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 drawing, Egypt
50°41"53.40"N 3°10"8.99"E Car on the roof of a house, 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 Consequences of the 2011 Japan earthquake
37.790699,-122.322937 Plane crash (only google maps!) 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 near 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 City on the water, 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 Overturned 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 "Cosmos", 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 Airplane takes 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-inscription 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 Hippopotamus Lake, Tanzania
47°16"52.49"N 0°50"51.44"W drawings in the fields of France
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 began 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 Labyrinth, Washington
21°50"21.11"S 46°34"3.04"W in Brazil
28° 0"21.90"N 86°51"33.79"E Tent camp near 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 Netherlands
52°19"36.22"N 4°55"11.33"E Newspaper parking lot, Netherlands
52°25"50.72"N 4°23"24.12"E Boat and plane
51°17"6.09"N 30°12"44.47"E Chernobyl-ship graveyard
69° 3"38.05"N 33°12"18.76"E Nuclear submarine "Kursk"

Google Maps is the most popular mapping service that was developed in 2005. But we will not delve into the history of its creation, advantages, etc. We'll talk about what secret places there are in Google Maps. Interested? Then read this article.

Google Maps - what is it?

As you may have already understood, in this article we will look at secret places in Google Maps. But first, for those who are not in the know, it’s worth briefly explaining what Google Maps is. Essentially, this is a map that covers the entire Earth (for those for whom this is not enough, you can additionally look at the map of Mars and the Moon). Thanks to Google's high-tech satellites, this map very accurately and clearly displays even the most remote corners of the planet.

But, perhaps, let's return to our sheep. Want to know where the secret places are in Google Maps? Read this article!

As you know, Google employs some very funny people. Developers are constantly adding some features, Easter eggs, and secrets to their software. For example, did you know that if you type the phrase “Google gravity” into the Google search bar and open the first link, you can observe how it affects the links, icons and pages of your browser.

And this is just one of thousands of examples. Google developers constantly insert some funny features into their creations. The mapping service from this company was no exception. The developers have also added so-called secret places to Google Maps. secret and interesting locations that are marked on the map. In this article we will talk about how to find them.

Secret places in Google Maps: coordinates and their descriptions

Well, let's not drag our feet and let's jump right in. Below we look at the strangest places on Google Maps.

By entering coordinates 66.266667, 179.250000, you can observe an unknown area of Siberia, located near Alaska. What's there? This question excites the minds of many Russian residents.

By entering the coordinates 37.7908, 122.3229 into Google Maps, you can observe a real plane crash. The map shows a plane broken in two. It is not known for certain whether this is a real disaster or an ordinary production.

At coordinates 36.949346,122.065383 you can see a skeleton of quite impressive size. It’s creepy to even imagine what animal these bones belong to.

If you're a conspiracy buff, this next location is sure to pique your interest. By entering the coordinates 32.664162, 111.487119, you can see the secret BBC base, which is located in the United States of America. What they do at this base is not known for certain, but if you wish, you can find a lot of the most fantastic theories on this matter.

By typing 54 28"6.32", 64 47"48.20" into the coordinate line, you can see a rather interesting picture. At this location, the inscription “Lenin 100 years”, which consists of trees, is clearly visible.

Sci-Fi lovers should type 19 56"56.76"S, 69 38"2.08"W into Google Maps. At these coordinates there is a drawing that strongly resembles an alien. Is this really the work of an extraterrestrial civilization?

Well, since this is the case, let’s not stray too far from the topic of aliens. At coordinates 45.70333,21.301831 you can see a real UFO hiding among the trees.

By entering the coordinates 45.408166, 123.008118, you can see the plane “parked” in the middle of the trees.

Remember how, as a child, playing on the beach with a shovel and a bucket, our parents told us something like: “Wow, what a deep hole, just a little more and you’ll dig all the way to China!” We took it as a joke, but apparently it was a very real warning. Don't believe me? Then enter the coordinates 38.85878007241521,111.6031789407134 into Google Maps and see a giant hole right in the middle of China!

At coordinates 44 14"39.45", 7 46"10.32" you can see a huge pink hare. It’s scary to imagine the “little” girl who played with him.

We've all probably heard and read about the notorious Area 52. By typing the coordinates 37.401437, 116.86773 into Google Maps, you can also look at this top-secret base.

Did Google Maps help you solve a murder?

There is also one interesting story that deserves special attention. At coordinates 52.376552, 5.198308 you can see the reservoir of the city of Almer. The pier, the trees, the beautiful landscape - everything would be fine if not for one detail. In the photo you can see a man dragging a corpse to the lake. The Google satellite captured a small pier, several figures and a suspicious trail that could be mistaken for blood. But everything is not as it seems at first glance. In fact, there was no murder.

As one reputable publishing house later found out, the card depicted the retriever Rama, who went for a walk with his owner Jacqueline Quenen. The dog simply jumped into the water and then ran to its owner, who was standing on a wooden pier. The frame left behind a wet trail, which Internet users mistook for blood.

The owner of the dog, who saw the photo on the Internet, helped shed light on this “murder.”

Conclusion

1. Baker Lake, Inuit territory in northern Canada

A man who calls himself "Dr. Boylan" believes that the darkened area in this photo and in some other locations hides extraterrestrial alien beacons.

2. Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany

This NATO airbase is the launching point for Operation Iraqi Freedom forces and for this reason could certainly be a target for terrorist attacks. This may explain why this item is partially removed from Google Maps.

3. Pacific Northwest, USA

What exactly do we not see in this photo? This place is located near the border of Washington and Oregon states. Enthusiasts personally examined the place and found nothing remarkable except an ominous-looking fence and an unmarked entrance.

4. Szazalombatta Oil Refinery, Hungary

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

5. Huis Ten Palace, Holland

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

6. Unknown zone, Russia

Nobody knows what is hiding in this region. One opinion is that there is a “radar station or missile interception system” there, and some argue that the image of the surrounding area was inserted from another region of Russia.

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

Some have criticized Buffalo-based Mobil for blurring images of its facilities, saying oil corporations are not of much interest to terrorists. On the other hand, we do not know what the terrorists themselves think.

8. North Korea

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

9. Reims Air Base, France

The reasons why this air base is blocked in Google Maps are unknown.

10. Indian Point Power Plant, New York, USA

Many members of the United States government called for the shutdown of the Indian Point Power Plant. Environmental concerns aside, energy experts say 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 crudely blurred in satellite images, but 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 Northern Lights Research Program) is one of the most controversial operations currently underway in the United States. Gakona, the research site, and the experiments with the ionosphere carried out 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 in Google Maps: the Laguna Seca race track in Salinas, California. The strangest thing about it is precisely the fact that it is an apparently harmless race track.

14. Babylon, Iraq

While the surrounding area is clearly visible, the city of Babylon itself is blurry in the images. You can bet that this has something to do with the rebels there...

15. Tantauco National Park, Chile

Why is this endangered species sanctuary completely removed from Google Maps? Nobody knows this.

16. “The Hill”, Elmira Correctional Facility, USA

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

17. House of Alexey Miller, Russia

According to Wikipedia, this place is home to the “private palace of the executive director of OJSC Gazprom Alexey 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 houses 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 Google Street View images. That's because Sanders was a real person, Google said, and images of real people should be blurred in any photos.

19. Faro Islands, Denmark

It is believed that there are some unadvertised military installations in this zone.

20. NATO Headquarters, Portugal

This photo would be the funniest if it didn't have such a sinister context. Whoever edited the image of the Portuguese NATO headquarters simply copied another piece of land on top of the image of the building. Very strange.

21. Seabrook Nuclear Station, New Hampshire

This northeastern part of the United States is believed to be home to the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant.

22. Missile silo, Spain

According to one researcher, “At this site there is a small structure with what appears to be a missile silo in the middle. What's strange is that this zone is not blocked in Yahoo! Maps, but there is no image of it on 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 word here.

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A man who calls himself "Dr. Boylan" believes that the darkened area in this photo and in some other locations hides extraterrestrial alien beacons.

2. Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany

3. Pacific Northwest, USA

4. Szazalombatta Oil Refinery, Hungary

5. Huis Ten Palace, Holland

6. Unknown zone, Russia

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

8. North Korea

9. Reims Air Base, France

The reasons why this air base is blocked in Google Maps are unknown.

10. Indian Point Power Plant, New York, USA

11. Volkel Air Base, Holland

12. HAARP, Gakona, Alaska, USA

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

14. Babylon, Iraq

While the surrounding area is clearly visible, the city of Babylon itself is blurry in the images. You can bet that this has something to do with the rebels there...

15. Tantauco National Park, Chile

Why is this endangered species sanctuary completely removed from Google Maps? Nobody knows this.

16. “The Hill”, Elmira Correctional Facility, USA

17. House of Alexey Miller, Russia

18. Colonel Sanders

19. Faro Islands, Denmark

It is believed that there are some unadvertised military installations in this zone.

20. NATO Headquarters, Portugal

21. Seabrook Nuclear Station, New Hampshire

This northeastern part of the United States is believed to be home to the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant.

22. Missile silo, Spain

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 word here.

Google Maps service, as well as the Google Earth mapping program, are undoubtedly one of the most popular products of the Internet giant. Who among us has not looked for our street and our 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 navigate the expanses of the virtual planet and use the mapping service.

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

Chat with a Martian

The name of the Google Earth program no longer corresponds to its capabilities, since with its help you can also travel to 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 the Martian. To do this, just switch to the “Mars” mode and enter the query Meliza in the search window. 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 translation process.

Try to chat with Melisa - she will paraphrase your messages and tell you a lot of interesting things about Mars. True, the robot is ready to communicate only in English. We must assume that the name of the robot Meliza stands for “Martian Eliza.” As you know, Eliza was one of the first chat robots.

Long route

One of the most popular features of the service Google Maps- route planning. Indeed, it is very convenient when 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 ability to plot 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 how to overcome the ocean that will definitely come your way. Google offers to cross 782 kilometers of ocean... on a jet ski.

And if you decide to go, say, from Boston to Sydney, Google Maps will help you with plotting your route, and they will advise you to cover the 2,756 miles of the journey across the Pacific Ocean in a kayak - a single-person kayak. In other words, if you plan to travel as a couple, then following Google's advice, you should take two boats.

It’s interesting that earlier, when planning a route from North America to Europe, Google Maps suggested swimming across the ocean. In the current version of the service, calculating routes between points so distant from each other does not work.

1.68 kilometers of love

Google Maps have many different functions, one of which is creating your own routes. Twenty-eight-year-old photographer Derek Montgomery used it to upload routes for his daily runs. And then one day, while looking at the route he had taken on Google Maps, Derek discovered that it was somewhat reminiscent of a letter. And since at that moment he was thinking about how to propose to his beloved, an interesting idea was born: 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 too - Derek looked at pictures of the area near his home and found two football fields located next to each other.

Secondly, Derek was forced to draw a plan for his run, 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 - the letters were not readable in the data downloaded from the GPS watch to Google maps. When, after another training session, the busy route finally satisfied the young man, he lost no time. That same evening, Derek asked the girl to look at the plan for his run that day, telling her that something strange had happened with the GPS data. 1.68 kilometers of love and 1250 calories burned during the run did the trick - the girl answered “Yes.”

Symbols of love

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

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

You can also take your loved one to the German city of Braunschweig, where on the territory of the Bürgerpark there is a small pond, which, like Galesnjak Island, is shaped like a heart. You can quickly travel 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. It is there that there is an interesting find, which was dubbed the lips of the Earth. When viewed from above, the inconspicuous hill, approximately 800 meters long, really resembles huge lips. The coordinates of the find are 12°22’13.32″N, 23°19’20.18″E.

Canadian Warden of the Badlands

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

This place, unlike the Croatian island, has no tourist potential - there is nothing special to see there from Earth, and the territory is closed. However, thanks to Google aerial photographs, the Guardian of the Badlands and the place where he is located have gained truly worldwide fame.

It is interesting that the farmers who rent the land on which the Indian was found learned about the hype that arose 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 Badlands Guardian.

To see an Indian wearing headphones, enter coordinates 50.010083,-110.113006.

Drawings in the margins

A farmer from Arizona 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, nearby, in the next 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 website in the morning?

Lenin is always alive

In May 2008, Google Earth enthusiasts combing maps of Russia discovered a giant inscription “Lenin is 100 years old” between the Siberian villages of Trud, Znanie and Zverinogolovsk. The inscription is formed using 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 have thought that they were carrying out such a grandiose task that, forty years later, anyone could see the results of their work by simply entering the coordinates 54.468142,64.79923 into Google Earth?

The amazing discovery was just the beginning. It turned out that there are quite a lot of similar symbols of the past on Russian territory. For example, the same inscription, cut out of trees, was discovered near the village of Arkhangelskoye (coordinates +54.419444, +56.780278), and on the bank 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 creation of the giant word “Lenin” near the Belarusian village of Lyaskovichi (coordinates +52.158333+25.562222), unfortunately, is unknown - there are no dates in the inscription that could suggest when this happened.

Get on Google Maps

Whole communities of people all over the world are engaged in searching for interesting objects on Google Maps. Some (like the Canadian woman who discovered an Indian wearing headphones) are lucky almost the first time, others spend days on end looking at satellite maps, but don’t find anything particularly surprising.

However, if you can’t find anything noteworthy, 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. For example, in September 2008, residents of Chelyabinsk created a giant smiley face with a radius of about eighty meters on the main square of the city. True, despite the fact that the Google satellite photographed a bright symbol, which consisted of several thousand people, it still did not appear on the maps.

Enthusiasts at Oregon National University were luckier, as they celebrated the release of Firefox 2 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 endless. 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 included in the alphabet can be found on Rhett's website.

Twenty-five-year-old British woman Rachel Young was in a car accident and was forced to remain in bed. After reading about an Australian designer's alphabet, she decided to make her own using maps of the UK. It took her much less time to find suitable places on the maps than the Australian - only 15 hours. Interestingly, according to the British woman, 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 found.

But the story with the alphabet did not end there either. After Rachel showed her alphabet to the news agency where she works, she was asked to look up the 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. While exploring a map of the Netherlands, he found all the upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet on it. In addition, he supplemented his alphabet with numbers from one to ten and punctuation marks.

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

Zone 51

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

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