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Flying Over Africa with National Geographic
By Nick on September 7, 2008
I recently learned about Google Earth’s National Geographic layers, and set off on highly detailed exploration of Africa.
The small red airplanes represent photos and commentary by photographer, Mike Fay. The yellow rectangles show areas which have been written about in National Geographic. Here’s one of Mike’s flyover pictures of a typical African village:
Here are a family of elephants on the move in Chad:
Some parts of Africa are inhabitable, like these sand dunes:
Where possible, people live as close to the water as they can:
Which is also where you’ll find the hippos:
I even got to see some monkeys on my travels, like Fanni, the crazy one:
I did my shopping at this very active market:
Some people were deligted to see me!
Well, I really enjoyed my virtual flight over Africa, but I’d have to go back again and again to see everything that National Geographic has brought to Google Earth. I hope you can take a virtual trip there, too!
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
4:25 pm on September 8th, 2008
Fantasic Nick, love it, you reallly have done the research on this post, It is brilliant well done.
4:22 pm on September 13th, 2008
[...] week, I took a virtual trip to Africa. The inspiration for that visit came from one of the most interesting Google Earth articles [...]
4:23 am on October 3rd, 2009
Whatever became of Asa and Osa Johnson and their twin airplanes with the animal paint jobs ?
9:31 pm on February 24th, 2010
I really like these pictures! I love elephants so the elephant picture!