Unusual pictures google maps coordinates. Places prohibited from showing on Google Maps (24 photos)

Google Maps service, as well as a cartographic program " Google Planet Earth”, without a doubt, are 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 language. 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, looking through the path taken on Google Maps, Derek discovered that it somewhat resembled a letter. And since at that moment he was thinking about how to propose to his beloved, she was born interesting idea: run a path that, when loaded 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 through 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 tourist country, the presence of the 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 german city 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 an interesting find is located, which has been 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. To search suitable places on the maps it took her much less time 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

You can enter more than just coordinates in the Google Earth search bar 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.

Looking at photographs of our planet taken from space, you can find many intriguing and sometimes inexplicable things, especially if you use your imagination while viewing.

AdMe.ru has collected mysterious objects and places that users discovered on Google maps.

Wasteland Guardian

In November 2006, Lynn Hickox discovered on Google Maps a geological formation located in the Canadian province of Alberta that resembled a Native American head with an earphone in its ear. This image appeared as a result of long-term soil erosion, and the wire from the earphone and ear is the road leading to the oil rig, and the derrick itself.

Blood Lake in Iraq

In 2007, near the Iraqi city of Sadr, it was discovered blood red lake. Versions of the origin of the anomaly were very different - from sewage to waste from a nearby slaughterhouse. But the reason for this color of water has never been established. Today the lake looks the same as the others.

Heart shaped island

Galeshnyak Island , belonging to Croatia, was discovered on satellite maps in 2009. The island quickly became popular, not only on the Internet, but also among travelers - the previously uninhabited part of the land turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers from all over the world.

Maze shaped like a fingerprint

A labyrinth in the shape of a human fingerprint, made of limestone tiles, is located in Hove Park in Brighton, UK. It was created in 2006 from a sketch by artist Chris Drury.

"Murder scene" on a lake in Almere, the Netherlands

A satellite image taken in 2009 in the Netherlands was discovered by one of the Reddit users. The scene seemed similar to a murder, and there was a heated discussion on the site about what it really was.

However, no bloody crime was recorded in this photo. Almere resident Jacqueline Quenen identified the cruel “killer” as her golden retriever, who, according to her, loves to swim. And what was mistaken for traces of blood was actually just water that had drained from the dog’s fur.

Building in the shape of a swastika

The building, shaped like a swastika, belongs to the US Navy and was noticed by Google users in 2006. The Navy command stated that the resemblance to this figure was discovered only at the construction stage, when nothing could be changed.

In 2007 $600 thousand was allocated to change the landscape and install solar panels in such a way that they hide the shape of the building. As of 2017, thanks to solar panels, the building no longer resembles a Nazi symbol.

People in dove masks

This street photo was taken in the Japanese town of Musashino in March 2013. This “composition” was built specifically - by the users and the site team Daily Portal Z, having learned that the streets would be photographed for Google, decided to immortalize herself on the map.

Ship overgrown with trees

This abandoned and tree-covered ship was captured by satellite on the Parramatta River near Sydney, Australia. The ship called SS Ayrfield was launched in 1911. It was decommissioned in 1972, and since then the ship has been moored at the mouth of the river.

UFO in Romania

An object similar in shape to a UFO from science fiction films was discovered on one of the abandoned farms near the Romanian city of Timisoara. The discovery gave rise to a lot of rumors about a visit to Earth by an alien ship. In fact, a flying saucer is abandoned water pump, which previously supplied Timisoara with water.

Desert Breath

Strange circles in the Sahara Desert were created in 1997 by the hands of people who are members of the creative association D.A.S.T. The sculpture is made of two spirals emanating from the center, one of which is created from cones that expand as they move away from the beginning, and the second is created from recesses constructed according to the same principle.

According to the creators, the spiral should disappear over time under the influence of erosion. However, even now, 20 years later, it is clearly visible even from space.

Military aircraft cemetery

Davis-Montain Air Baseis located near the city of Tucson in the USA and is perhaps the largest aircraft preservation site in the world - about 4,400 aircraft and 40 spacecraft are laid up here. Every year about 400 pieces of equipment arrive here and the same number are sold or destroyed.

Strange creature from Loch Ness

25-year-old Jason Cook, looking at satellite images Lake Loch Ness, noticed a creature swimming in its waters. And although there is no reliable evidence of the existence of the famous monster, many believed that it was the Google satellite that captured it.

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 what is it, look for yourself.

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 leftovers 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 could 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 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. It is believed 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 Fire, 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 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 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 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 high-tech satellites Google such a 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 will look at the most strange places in 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 scary 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. It is not known for certain what they are doing at this base, 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, which deserves special attention. At coordinates 52.376552, 5.198308 you can see the reservoir of the city of Almer. Pier, trees, 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 Kenen. 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

A creative approach to work is a distinctive feature of Google. Even Google maps contains unusual and funny places, and much more interesting things.

Surprises await users in different parts of the world - virtual walk in your own way or to a neighboring city will turn into an exciting journey if you make it with maps from the popular search engine. According to several secret and interesting objects Let's take a walk right now.

Wasteland Guardian

In the late fall of 2006, Lynn Hickox was looking at Google Maps and accidentally discovered unusual place. The woman was surprised by the similarity of the relief to the head of an Indian. It seemed that the aborigine was wearing a national headdress and had an earphone inserted into his ear.

In reality, the find turned out to be a geological formation in one of the provinces of Canada. The soils in this area are soft and clay. For a long time - at least a hundred years - they were subject to winds and erosion, as a result of which the image appeared. What users mistake for a wired earphone is just the road to the oil rig and the oil well itself.

The dimensions of the “head” are impressive - its length and width are the same, amounting to 255 meters. Its coordinates are 50°00′38″ N. w. 110°06′48″ W. d.

Lake-heart

This amazing place can only be seen from above or on Google maps. It is located on private land in Ohio, adjacent to Columbia Station.

The heart-shaped lake is filled with clear turquoise water. Romantics and lovers are happy to pay for flights and aerial photography to admire this beauty.

The owner of the land makes good money on such air excursions.

Galeshnyak

Since we are talking about hearts, we need to remember one more interesting places on Google map, discovered in 2008. This is the Croatian island of Galeshnjak - a place of pilgrimage for lovers from all over the world.

Why is it so attractive to couples? First of all, the shape of the heart. It is symbolic that an Internet user found this amazing place on Valentine's Eve. The community instantly dubbed Galeshnyak “the island of love.”

Until then, the uninhabited part of the land became a center of tourism. The local community took advantage of the situation by organizing engagement parties at the heart center. A Moscow couple was the first to celebrate their engagement here.

Sandy

Its shape resembles a black sausage, and this island became famous when scientists officially recognized it as non-existent. First things first. Unknown island in Pacific Ocean discovered by the Australians. It was located in a northwest direction from New Caledonia and occupied an area of ​​about 60 km 2.

In 2012, a few months after the discovery of the new island, Google put it on its maps. And in November of the same year, a group of scientists went there to study Sandy in detail.

Imagine the surprise of the scientists when, on the site of land, they saw ocean waters. The following spring, Sandy Island was officially declared a "mistake" with the explanation that Australian travelers had mistaken a cluster of pumice for land.

Blood Red Pond

There are not always official explanations for strange places on Google Maps. A good example is the bloody reservoir near the city of Sadr, in Iraq.

The unusual pond was discovered in 2007, its coordinates are 33.396157° N. w. and 44.486926° E. d. There were no official explanations about the red water, but unofficial versions dozens were exaggerated.

Residents said that local slaughterhouses drained animal blood into the reservoir; others explained the bloody tint to the drain as waste or bacteria living in the water. Over time, the redness disappeared - the water in the lake acquired a normal shade.

Labyrinth as an imprint

Anyone can see this amazing place if they come to Brighton, Britain. In Hove City Park there is a labyrinth designed like a fingerprint.

The walls of the building were made of limestone slabs in 2006. And Internet users found the labyrinth using Google maps.

German cross

Users noticed the swastika on Google maps in the same 2006. The building, shaped like a German cross, is operated by the US Navy.

Users were outraged by the similarity with fascist symbols and demanded clarification. The Navy command apologized for the unpleasant situation and explained that the similarities were discovered during the construction process.

A year later, work began on the installation of solar panels - in this non-standard way, the owners decided to change the shape of the building.

Overgrown ship

The ship captured satellite imagery near Sydney. The ship was moored at the mouth of the Parramatta River and was overgrown with trees. Later his story became known.

It turns out that the ship SS Ayrfield set off on its maiden voyage in 1911. It was in operation until 1972, after which it was decommissioned. The SS Ayrfield has remained motionless on the river ever since.

American planes also have a cemetery. Its coordinates are 32 08’59.96° N. w. and 110 50’09.03° E. d., area – 10 km 2. The aircraft burial ground is located at the closed US military base Davis-Monthan.

The only way to see this place is to use Google Earth. Several thousand decommissioned aircraft and spaceships rest on the territory of the cemetery, including legends. According to unofficial data, the total value of scrap metal is estimated at $35 billion.

Desert Circles

Two spirals emanate from the center. One spiral consists of cones, the further they are from the center, the wider they are. The second spiral is recesses installed according to the same principle as cones. From above, the sculpture looks like circles. And everything would be fine if it weren’t for its location.

The sculpture is located in the Sahara - it was built by employees of TO D.A.S.T. back in 1997. They expected that in a few years, under the influence of wind and erosion, nothing would remain at the site of the composition. More than 20 years have passed, and the strange circles are still there today, clearly visible from space.

Darfur lips, kiss of the Earth – whatever they call them. Indeed, it is not every day that you come across giant lips in the middle of the desert. Their proportions are close to ideal: length – 2.5 km, width – 1 km. And even the color from above seems pink-red.

The lips are not an art object, but natural hills in the Darfur plateau in Sudan. You can only view and appreciate their perfect beauty from the air. On the Internet, unusual hills often become the basis for jokes and witty comments.

Strange places on Google maps

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