25 Weird and Wonderful Things Caught on Google Earth Camera

Google Earth is a crazy but awesome application that allows us to spot just about anything on Earth and while it is used by people for various purposes, sometimes, unexpected things crop up that shock and awe researchers like these 25 dreadful Google Earth images that might shock you and find them hard to believe.

1Ambrym Vanuatu Volcano

While volcanoes have been studied by geologists, none have yielded really close up photographs of what goes on inside. This is the Ambrym volcano considered one of Vanuatu’s most active volcanoes that can be seen on Google Earth. The volcano with a 12 meter caldera contains lava lakes like the one in the image and if ever it erupts, you could be sure of capturing the eruption on Google Earth. 

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2Wreckage of the Costa Concordia

In 2012, the Costa Concordia ship was carrying around 4500 passengers when it hit a rock off the coast of Tuscany’s Isla Del Gioglio. The accident killed 32 people and capsized the ship in shallow water. It was Italy’s worst maritime disaster since World War II. Today the 144,500 tone ship is being slowly taken apart by scavengers and workers grabbing anything they get. 

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3Yodok, North Korean labor camp

Regardless of how much the country denies, Google Earth does not. Yodok is North Korea’s most famous labor camp where prisoners of all age and social levels are sent here to do manual labor as part of their sentences. 

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49/11

Well, although we don’t like bringing it up and may all those who lost their lives rest in peace, that deplorable and dastardly terrorist attack was captured on Google Earth as well. You can see smoke billowing from the twin towers of the trade center. 

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5US Navy Building

No this isn’t a picture of some German Nazi HQ as you may have thought. It is an image captured by Google Earth of the US Navy building in California constructed in 1967. One wonders as to the credentials of the architect r his social leanings as it is hard to believe the claim put forward that the builders did not realize what shape it would take after construction. Didn’t the man realize the swastika shape on the blueprint in the first place?

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