30 Giant Figures Seen from Google Earth
Wed, Oct 22, 2008
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1. We’re not sure what the lake is called but the image is amazing. It looks just like a man with top hat and cane taking a walk across the countryside, quite literally.
2. A lake in Borborema, Brazil was designed in the shape of a man but we doubt whether the idea was to be seen from space as the regrowth within the lake looks quite old. Still, great idea.
3. Created as part of her Media Arts degree, student Melanie Coles created huge paintings of children’s book character Waldo, or Wally as he’s known outside America, to be placed on various rooftops in Vancouver, Canada, so everyone can play the Where’s Waldo game.
Surely, Melanie must have gained a first for her efforts because the images of her ‘Where on Earth Is Waldo?’ project are dotted all over the internet.
4. Another swanky house with inbuilt smiling face, this time with a body. It looks entirely intentional.
1. 12 Faces of Google Earth >
3. Symbols and Shapes >
5. Casper the friendly ghost trying to make friends and influence people via Google Earth.
6. Likened to the face of Mother Earth, these kilometre-wide pair of Angelina Jolie-style lips can be found in the Sudanese region of West Darfur. The sides of the rocky canyon are about 40 meters high giving it the pout look.
7. Calm down boys! Yes, it’s real, and not only can you touch it, if you book a trip to Sicily (which seems to have a few strange sights for a little island) you can walk and lie all over this babe, too. That should keep some people happy. They’d be desperate, but happy.
8. This fabulous peacock shape was created by the wake of a speed boat, and captured forever on Google Earth.
9. A monkey is on the loose somewhere in Mexico. The design resembles ancient Mesoamerican art, giving a clue to its age, though we’re not entirely sure. UPDATE: Okay, okay, the monkey’s in Peru. Take a chill pill guys.
1. 12 Faces of Google Earth >
3. Symbols and Shapes >
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October 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
The man in a top hat taking a stroll across the countryside must be Mr. Peanut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Peanut
October 24th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Hey…you erased my comment about how the monkey is in Peru (Nazca Lines) and not in Mexico…sneaky.
October 26th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
what !!!! —>A monkey is on the loose somewhere in Mexico. The design resembles ancient Mesoamerican art, giving a clue to its age, though we’re not entirely sure.<—-
this is a false , beacuse , this lines , (the monkey ) is in Peru – Lineas de Nazca
November 12th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
A monkey is on the loose somewhere in Mexico. The design resembles ancient Mesoamerican art, giving a clue to its age, though we’re not entirely sure.
LOL
NAZCAAAAA!!!!!
November 13th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
La figura del mono es parte de una serie de dibujos llamados “Las líneas de Nazca” echo por pre-incas en PERU.
December 10th, 2008 at 3:46 am
The monkey is from the Nazca Lines in Peru.
Not a great valid source of mine but gives a roundabout picture.
January 18th, 2009 at 1:39 am
The image in the 6th picture, the triangle with the concentric lines is found in Nevada, US and represents an aerial view of a target for bomber planes practice. There are some 4-5 others simillar to it, in a radius of some 100 km.
January 24th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
okay…that was slightly wierd and fake , well , some of it actually was.
February 1st, 2009 at 4:21 pm
The one of the palm is an entire almost suburb, not just a hotel.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:05 am
This is cool and not something I would usually use Google Earth for.
March 25th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Would have been nice if you actually linked to the relevant shots on Google Maps.
March 25th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Angie os sooooooo Sexxy :D
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:23 am
I see an elephants head in number 8, in the dark black mass, saw it, before the face.
April 2nd, 2009 at 2:29 am
I saw the elephants head in, number 8 West Coast of Ireland pic.
April 7th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
ying yang in chinese landscape
http://lamok.punt.nl/index.php?r=1&id=411441
April 17th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
ha ha craze
May 4th, 2009 at 12:48 am
The Palm is EPIC! It’s three miles long and 3 1/3 miles wide. I can only imagine what relocating all that sand has done to the environment.
May 5th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
#7 & #8 – I just can’t see ‘em.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Fools, the NAZCA monkey form its the oldest and antique.
Perhaps its the well worked ovr the others,Nazca culture did the best job over the ground for be seen in the air.
As a peruvian im not clapping, juts consider the less resources they had and culture age, miles and miles of years. Pionners!!!!!
some students think thta was Alien intelligence cooperation as signalpad for any ship.
If you investigate and check the lines. you can see have strange animal forms and strange human forms, like aliens and its pets.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Number 6, the triangle with concentric circles in it, is a bombing range target in the Nevada desert. If you zoom into the scene down to about 1000 feet altitude or less, you can clearly see the bomb craters.
triangle 3990 feet per face
circle 1 radius 1000 feet
circle 2 radius 800 feet
circle 3 radius 600 feet
circle 4 radius 400 feet
circle 5 radius 200 feet
May 29th, 2009 at 8:51 am
I actually heard that the water break in the dubai palms has actually created new organism because it is all rocks
June 7th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
The first picture of the Man in hat with cane looks just like the Blythefield Reservoir in Staffordshire, England. I have driven over that bridge many a time!
June 17th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
after all these years we have FINALLY found Waldo!
June 20th, 2009 at 12:28 am
The checker-board “forest” is more than likely a private tree plantation.
June 21st, 2009 at 10:13 pm
coool yaar
July 5th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
I’m not sure what that triangle is but it’s curious that it is exact north.Interestingly enough there is another tringle at 33 44 39 80 N 112 37 57 14 W just NW of Surprise Arizona and is the same size measured with my googleearth ruler.
July 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Picture 6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonopah_Test_Range
August 1st, 2009 at 12:38 am
The smiley face at Versailles is clearly seen in the 17th C maps of the place. Unfortunately the old menagerie is no longer there; it had a rather “masculine” look.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:33 am
cool
September 12th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Very cool; would have been even more cool if the pictures linked to the location on google maps (satellite), or at least listed the global coordinates so we could look at them ourselves.
October 8th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
You missed a very old and famous one from England — The Cerne Abbas Giant,,,, One for the ladies I think,,,,,
October 13th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Several of these images are corn mazes — Arizona Oprah, the Exploding Pumpkin, and the Choo Choo Train, for sure. Corn mazes are a form of agri-tourism wherein a farmer generates revenue by planting a special kind of corn on from one to ten acres of farmland. Mazes are usually planted off-season, so they will be lush and green in the late fall and stand through winter, but are barely recognizable in the summer. They are carefully diagrammed and planted on a grid to make the picture/maze (rather than being cut to shape after they are grown) and the image is usually changed each year. You can find out more — and see lots of aerial photos — at http://www.cornmazesamerica.com/
BTW, they are very successful businesses, too. I know a farmer who makes in excess of $75,000 per year just from tourists visiting his maze, which is only open during the month of October.
November 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
in pic 3 there are 2 heads, and in the forehead of the main head with the ipod headphones is a devil like face too.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:54 am
super cool.
fyi Google Earth was not a Google creation. It was called ‘Keyhole’ before Google bought it.
-M
December 10th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Hey the monkey you say that’s on Mexico, actually is in Peru, its call nasca or something like that, they where made by the incas, for their gods
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
The figures are amazing and the face of native american is really excellent.
December 29th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
On close inspection, Google Earthimagery shows fascinating features, and this site offers a great service to the casual surfer. However, it would be of greater benefit to augemnt the description of each image with citing coordinates of the feature described (especially when small) or, better yet, a kmz file. Some of the smaller features in this page could not be located, and when features shown are not easily found by some viewers they would think the site is publishing phtoshopped images!