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A curious round-ish depression located in the mountains by the Korean DMZ. More info on Wikipedia.
The sea, which straddles the border between Israel and Jordan, has seen its surface area shrink by about 33 percent since the 1960s. A plan to replenish the Dead Sea with seawater from the Red Sea was proposed in 2009, but abandoned in 2021.
Source imagery: Maxar
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/16143715
The Batagaika Crater, located in the Chersky Range of northeastern Siberia, Russia, is the largest permafrost crater in the world. One kilometer (0.6 miles) long, 100 meters (328 feet) deep, and growing, it has been sinking due to thawing permafrost since the 1960s. Batagaika’s rim is extremely unstable and the site of regular landslides, retreating by as much as 30 meters (98 feet) in a single year.
67.580000°, 134.771400°
Source imagery: Maxar
The former capital of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, a British overseas territory, has been fully abandoned since 1997 due to a series of eruptions at the Soufrière Hills volcano. More info here.
34°22'25.3"S 137°40'23.6"E
I was randomly browsing Google Earth and had drifted into Hungary when I noticed that many plots there, are elongated. They have a short front towards a road, where a house or structure usually is located, but then extend a pretty long way behind that!
Summer residences close to Copenhagen in Denmark. The hedges are angled, from 180cm to 80 cm, securing privacy and optimal light access for plants close to the tip of the "slices".
All homes have access to electricity, water, sewage and water. The houses must be less than 50 square meters, and you can only live there between April 1st to October 1st. Outside this period you can only stay there on weekends.
https://www.rundtidanmark.dk/broendby-haveby-runde-haver/ https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%B8ndby_Haveby
Dyrehavsbakken, is located approximately 10km North of Copenhagen Denmark.
Interestingly, Copenhagen has the third oldest operating amusement park Tivoli, that opened in 1843 (180 years ago) Here is an overview shot of Tivoli in the center of Copenhagen
I found this randomly while looking at the landscape around Austria, and hadn't realized that i had drifted off into Hungary
https://sopronrally.hu/
Built as a royal hunting lodge in the early 18th century Today, the Palace of Stupinigi houses the Museo di Arte e Ammobiliamento, a museum of the arts and furnishings, some original to the palazzina, others brought from the former Savoy family residences of Moncalieri and Venaria Reale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzina_di_caccia_of_Stupinigi
I only noticed today, due to the Tour de France finishing there, but Rimini has some huge beaches! Also they seem to have constructed some sort of wave breaker, to give calmer waters for visitors (?). It does look amazin from a distance
Slightly furhter north, still in Rimini, but on the other side of "Porto di Rimini" the beaches get even larger!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ndR0t_QIpY
ORP Wicher ORP Wicher (English: Whirlwind) was a Project 30bis destroyer, transferred to the People's Republic of Poland from the Soviet Union in 1958.[2] She was built by the Zhdanov shipyard in Leningrad and originally commissioned into the Soviet Baltic Fleet as the Skoryy ("Rapid") in 1951, and transferred to Poland in 1958 together with a second ship, ORP Grom.
ORP Grom was the lead ship of her class of destroyers serving in the Polish Navy during World War II. She was named after the Polish word for Thunderbolt, while her sister ship ORP Błyskawica translates to lightning
Testsing and development of components and systems for commercial solar thermal power plants. The aim is to make solar thermal power plants more efficient. They also test processes for solar water splitting, the production of solar fuels and the use of solar heat in industrial processes.
More than 2,000 movable mirrors (heliostats) cover an area of around ten hectares in front of Jülich's two solar towers. They catch the sunlight, concentrate it and direct it onto the two solar towers.
In the solar tower power plant, a volumetric receiver at the top of the tower absorbs the concentrated sunlight and uses it to heat the surrounding air to up to 700 degrees Celsius. A steam generator inside the tower uses this to heat water into steam, which drives a turbine that produces electricity via a generator.
https://www.dlr.de/en/research-and-transfer/research-infrastructure/solar-towers-juelich
Source: https://static.snapplanet.io/snaps/A1201701241014610142534530000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/
If there is one thing that I keep noticing, when I look for cool places from above, it is golf courses! There are so many, and they are everywhere! This one is Murasaki Golf Club, with 27 holes, and 108 par.
The largest golf course I could find, is Mission Hill Resort in Shenzhen China. It has 12 courses, with 18 holes. 216 holes in total. Id does, IMO not look quite as good as the one from Murasaki
