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Antarctic Sea Ice Melt 2021
-75.250973°,-0.071389° - Maxar
Large chunks of sea ice break away from the coast of Antarctica. This Overview was captured on April 22, 2021. In the 1980s, Antarctica lost 40 billion tons (36.3 billion metric tons) of ice each year. In the last decade, that figure was estimated at a staggering 252 billion tons (229 billion metric tons) per year.
Anhui and Henan Provinces
33.846370°,115.780616° - Airbus Space
Towns and cities are scattered across China's Anhui and Henan provinces, resembling stars in the night sky. Several cities can be seen from this perspective, including Bozhou (center), Huaibei (right), Shangqui (top), and Fuyang (bottom). Altogether, more than 160 million people live in these two provinces—61 million in Anhui and 99 million in Henan.
Sausalito Yachts
37.858514°,-122.482613° - Nearmap
Boats are docked at a marina on Richardson Bay in Sausalito, California. Located just across the Golden Gate Strait from San Francisco, Sausalito is a town of roughly 7,000 residents with a picturesque location that inspired “Sittin’ On The Dock of the Bay,” by Otis Redding—a song he wrote while he staying on a houseboat here in 1967.
Sossusvlei
-24.733333°,15.366667° - Maxar
Sossusvlei is a salt and clay pan located on the edge of the Namib Desert in Namibia. The reddish sand dunes of the desert seen here are among the tallest in the world, with many rising more than 656 feet (200 metres) in height. This image shows approximately 300 square kilometres (116 square miles) of Sossusvlei.
Sete Cidades
37.861671°,-25.793875° - Airbus Space
The Sete Cidades Massif occupies the far western end of São Miguel Island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. Covering 42 square miles (110 square km), it comprises a central volcano and lake-filled caldera with depths ranging from 660 feet (200 m) to 1,600 feet (500 m). In the center of the massif is a village of the same name with nearly 800 inhabitants.
Museum of Pop Culture
47.621500°,-122.348611° - Nearmap
The Museum of Pop Culture (also known as MoPOP) is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. Founded in 2000, it contains exhibits on fantasy, horror cinema, video games, science fiction, music and more. The museum’s unique, 140,000-square-foot (13,000 sq. meter) structure was designed by architect Frank Gehry.
Teton County Farms
47.946884°,-111.559321° - Planet
Farm fields form an interesting grid pattern in Teton County, Montana, USA. In the bottom-left of this Overview is the small town of Dutton, considered the “Wheat Capital of Montana” for its many wheat farms and grain elevators. Just 303 people live in Dutton and about 6,200 total reside in Teton County.
Alderney
49.713007°,-2.205775° - Airbus Space
Alderney is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands, part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is 3 square miles (8 square km) in area and home to just over 2,000 people. A majority of the population lives in Saint Anne, Alderney’s main town and capital.
Bertioga
-23.721107°,-45.866850° - Maxar
Rainforest surrounds a neighborhood of Bertioga, Brazil, roughly 50 miles (80 km) southeast of São Paulo. Bertioga has a population of about 56,000, but its location between resort towns on the Atlantic Ocean causes its population to fluctuate greatly from season to season. Within the municipality is 23,010 acres (9,312 hectares) of the Restinga de Bertioga State Park, a protected area for mangroves, dense rainforest, and restinga — a distinct type of tropical broadleaf forest endemic to eastern Brazil.
Melrose Park
-32.016664°,69.955090° - Maxar Technologies
Melrose Park is a residential community in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The neighborhood is planned with streets in eight concentric octagons and contains 1,975 households.
Clew Bay
53.412910°,-8.243890° - Airbus Space
Clew Bay, a natural ocean bay in County Mayo, contains Ireland’s most extensive display of sunken drumlins. Drumlins are elongated, teardrop-shaped hills formed by moving glacier ice, and sunken drumlins are those now partially underwater. The islands of Clew Bay—approximately 360 altogether—date back at least 20,000 years, when much of Ireland was covered by an ice sheet.
Awaza, Turkmenistan
39.974626°,52.828381° - Maxar
Luxury resorts line the coast of the Caspian Sea in Awaza, Turkmenistan. Located about 7.5 miles (12 km) west of the city of Turkmenbashi, this special tourist zone constructed its first hotel in 2004 and now has at least 22 hotels and resorts. Due to its remote location and ultra-modern architecture, Awaza has been called the “least-known and most peculiar beach resort in the world.”
Canyon Lake
33.681444°,-117.250389° - Nearmap
Canyon Lake is a city and gated community in southern California, with a population of slightly more than 11,000 people. Constructed as a master-planned community in 1968, it is one of just five gated cities in the state. In 2006, it was featured in “United Gates of America,” a BBC documentary that explored why people live in gated communities and what effects it has on them.
Perth Waves
-31.928646°,115.753307° - Nearmap
The beaches in Perth, Australia, are world-famous for their beautiful white sand and clear blue water. When seen from above, we can also discover the currents and swirls that are created here when the waves hit offshore reefs. While the patterns in the water may be beautiful, they also create powerful undertows that can be perilous for surfers and swimmers.
Lindblad Cove
-63.850000°,-59.450000° - Maxar
We’re excited to launch a new series with Lindblad Expeditions that will focus on some of the most unique places on Earth that you can explore! This is Lindblad Cove, named after Lars-Eric Lindblad, a conservationist and explorer, who led a group of 56 guests to Antarctica in 1966. At the time, Antarctica had only ever been visited by other explorers and scientists. The cove is three miles (5 km) wide and is home to various species of birds, whales, and seals. Every year, Lindblad guests travel to the Cove aboard the National Geographic Explorer, and now two new ships, the National Geographic Endurance and National Geographic Resolution, making this one of the many trips where curious people are guided to the world’s wild, remote places. Check out Lindblad Expeditions to learn more and see where else that curiosity can take us.
Glasgow
55.860916°,-4.251433° - Airbus Space
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference – also known as COP26 – is currently underway in Glasgow, Scotland. The commitments made by world leaders at this year’s conference will have serious consequences on our environmental future. Scientists warn that that future is in jeopardy unless large-scale cuts are made to greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. Some highlights from the conference so far include: India’s pledge to cut emissions to net zero by 2070, a vow by nearly 100 nations to end deforestation by 2030, and the Global Methane Pledge – a plan from the US and European Union to slash methane emissions 30% by 2030.
Lake of the Ozarks
38.201111°,-92.715556° - Maxar
Lake of the Ozarks is a reservoir in central Missouri that was created by the damming the Osage River. It has a surface area of more than 54,000 acres (220 square km) and at least 1,150 miles (1,850 km) of shoreline. The Village of the Four Seasons, shown here at center, is home to about 2,200 residents and a popular tourist destination.
Centuripe
37.616667°,14.733333° - Pio Andrea Peri
Centuripe is a town of about 5,400 people on the island of Sicily, in southern Italy. It is located in hill country, between the Dittaino and Salso rivers, at roughly 2,400 feet (730 m) above sea level. When viewed from this aerial angle, the human-like shape of Centuripe comes into view!
Great Bahama Bank
23.568444°,-76.440111° - Maxar
The Great Bahama Bank is a carbonate platform submerged in the shallow waters around Andros Island in the Bahamas. The limestone that makes up the Bank has been accumulating for at least 140 million years and today is more than 2.8 miles (4.5 km) thick. During the last ice ages, when sea level was roughly 390 feet (120 m) lower, the Great Bahama Bank was dry land.
Delhi
28.614656°,77.057758° - Maxar
Delhi, India contains approximately 16 million residents. The neighborhoods of Santosh Park and Uttam Nagar, both pictured here, are home to some of the city’s poorest people and contain its most built-up and densely populated land. Numerous studies have shown a correlation between the wealth of a residential area and its total number of trees and the amount of green space. This Overview is a particularly striking example of that trend.
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