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Port of Los Angeles
33.731097°,-118.248826° - Nearmap
Cargo ships dock at one of the many shipping container terminals in the Port of Los Angeles, California. Also known as “America's Port,” it has been the busiest container port in the United States for at least 20 consecutive years, handling 9.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo in 2020. The port handles 20% of all incoming cargo for the USA.
Calgary
51.045833°,-114.057500° - Planet
Calgary is the third-largest city in Canada and largest in the province of Alberta, with about 1.4 million inhabitants. The city is located at the transition of the Canadian Rockies foothills and the Canadian Prairies, serving as a popular base for adventure-seekers venturing into the four Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. Calgary’s city center sits at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers.
Azadi Tower
35.699444°,51.337778° - Maxar
Thousands of activists have gathered in Tehran, Iran recently to protest the death of a young woman detained by the country’s “morality police.” The 22-year-old woman died last week after being arrested for not complying with Iran’s strict rules on head coverings for women. This Overview shows Azadi Tower in Tehran, which became a symbol of freedom during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
Windsor Castle
51.483333°,-0.604167° - Maxar
Today, Queen Elizabeth II was buried at Windsor Castle, in the English county of Berkshire. She was interred at St. George’s Chapel alongside her husband, Prince Philip, following a state funeral at Westminster Abbey and a procession across central London. Windsor was her majesty’s primary residence as a princess during World War II, her preferred weekend destination throughout her reign, and a refuge during the pandemic.
Mount Whaleback Iron Ore Mine
-23.365360°,119.675400° - Maxar
The Mount Whaleback Iron Ore Mine is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It measures nearly 1 mile (1.5 kilometers) wide and more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) long. Nearly all of mined iron ore is used to make steel, and it is thus a major component in the construction of buildings, automobiles, and appliances such as refrigerators.
Etna
37.755000°,14.995000° - Planet
Smoke rises from Mount Etna, an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy. At 11,014 feet (3,357 meters), it is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe. Over a six-month period in 2021, Etna erupted so much volcanic material that its height increased by approximately 100 ft (30 m).
Qarhan Playa
36.826290°,95.273682° - Google Timelapse
Numerous saltwater evaporation ponds have been built in China’s Qarhan Playa since the early 1990s. Located in Qinghai Province, Qarhan was once a single unitary lake and is now an expansive salt flat covering 2,261 square miles (5,856 square km). It is heavily exploited for its valuable reserves of salt, potash, lithium, iodine and other minerals.
Great Pyramids of Giza
29.979234°,31.134201° - Maxar
The Great Pyramids of Giza are located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Dating back to 2580 BC, the Great Pyramid, the largest structure at the site, is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one to remain largely intact. With an estimated 2.3 million stone blocks weighing 2 to 30 tons each, the 481-foot-tall (146-meter) pyramid was the tallest structure in the world for more than 3,800 years.
Rhine River Drought
51.233333°,6.783333° - Planet
Hot, dry conditions caused water levels on the Rhine River — Western Europe’s most important waterway — to reach a record low this summer. Many points along the river dried to less than half of normal depths, too shallow for ships carrying important cargo to pass. This Overview shows low water levels of the Rhine flowing through Düsseldorf, Germany, in August 2022.
Austin
30.270565°,-97.738784° - Nearmap
Austin is the capital and fourth-most populous city of Texas, with just under one million inhabitants. It has been one of the fastest growing cities in the USA since 2010 and is experiencing a skyscraper boom, with recent construction on new office, hotel and residential buildings. This Overview focuses on Downtown Austin, along the Colorado River, with the Texas State Capitol Building at center.
Pakistan Flooding
29.824510°,70.787425° - Planet
Severe floods have inundated Pakistan this summer, caused by heavier than usual monsoon rains and melting glaciers. The Indus River, shown here, has overrun its banks in several provinces, turning into a lake 62 miles (100 km) wide at some points. Experts say around one-third of the country is under water and that the flooding, linked to climate change, is the worst in Pakistan’s history.
Crowds at Buckingham Palace
51.501716°,-0.141411° - Wikipedia Commons by SAC Matthew 'Gerry' Gerrard RAF/ © MoD Crown Copyright 2016
This Overview shows a crowd at Buckingham Palace in London, England during Queen Elizabeth II’s official 90th birthday celebrations in 2016. The Queen passed away yesterday, September 8th, at the age of 96 after more than 70 years on the throne. Her reign is the longest of any British monarch and the longest recorded of any female of state in history.
Naypyidaw
19.747500°,96.115000° - Google Timelapse
Naypyidaw, the capital city of Myanmar, was constructed on undeveloped land between 2002 and 2012. It became the capital in 2006, replacing Yangon as a more centrally located and less congested location for government offices. The city is divided into a number of zones, including military, diplomatic, ministry, hotel and residential, with about 924,000 inhabitants.
São Martinho do Porto
39.513000°,-9.134000° - Maxar
Calm waves roll into São Martinho do Porto — a village in Portugal with a shell-shape bay surrounded by a sand beach. The bay formed when a strip of land along the coast was eroded and then divided by the Atlantic Ocean. Because the opening to the ocean is still relatively small (825 feet or 250 meters), the waves that roll into the beach are almost always calm.
San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds
37.504215°,-122.036887° - Maxar
Salt ponds are seen on San Francisco Bay in northern California, USA. Here water is channelled into large ponds and exits through natural evaporation. The salt that remains can then be collected. The massive ponds get their vibrant reddish colors from the algae that thrive in the extremely salty water. Approximately 80% of this wetlands area – approximately 16,500 acres – has been developed for salt mining.
Australia Burn Scars
-19.733361°,121.245694° - Google Timelapse
Burn scars have, in recent years, begun covering more of the landscape around Eighty Mile Beach in Western Australia. This area, located within the Great Sandy Desert, is hot, dry and subject to frequent thunder and lightning storms. This, combined with global warming, has caused wildfires to increase in both frequency and intensity.
Llancanelo Lake
-35.629583°,-69.084883° - Google Timelapse
Llancanelo Lake, in the south of Mendoza Province, Argentina, has almost completely dried up since the mid-1980s. At its peak, it covered an area of 250 square miles (650 square km) and sustained a habitat of about 150,000 aquatic birds. Its near disappearance has been caused by a lack of inflow from the Malargüe River and a loss of water through evapotranspiration and runoff.
Ganges Delta
22.326515°,90.993407° - Google Timelapse
Islands of the Ganges Delta, in Bangladesh, change shape over the years as the Meghna River drains into the Bay of Bengal. Hatiya, the largest island seen at top, is frequently subject to cyclones, monsoons, floods and destructive ocean waves. Despite these risks, islands like these are densely populated; in fact, more than 125 million people live on the Ganges Delta.
Chengdu
30.660000°,104.063333° - Google Timelapse
Chengdu, China has surged in population in the last few decades, from 8.2 million in 1980 to over 21 million today. It is one of several emerging megacities to boom under China’s “Go West” policy, which boosted economic development and migration to its previously underdeveloped interior. Chengdu’s metropolitan area has expanded outward with a series of concentric ring roads, spanning 1,760 square miles (4,559 square km).
Louvre Abu Dhabi
24.533289°,54.397739° - Maxar
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is an art museum located on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The 24,000-square-meter (260,000-square-foot) structure has a "floating dome" design made of 7,850 aluminium stars of varying sizes, which tessellate over eight layers to create a perforated roof that allows sunlight through to the spaces below. It uses the Louvre name through an agreement with France and has a stated intent to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western art.
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