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Seems most appropriate for a world web cam map to begin with a live satellite view of the earth. Live images from space. Allow a few moments for the images to load.

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The camera is located at the SIAG Pyramids Hotel in Giza, about 1.5 kilometers ENE of the Pyramids Plateau. It is placed at the highest point in the area and is over 200 feet above street level. This affords us the best possible view of the Pyramids looking from east to west into the sunset. If we were any closer, it would be difficult to take in the entire plateau in one image. If we were farther away, images would be degraded as a result of the intervening haze.

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This camera is installed on a balcony of a high-rise apartment built in a RiverCity21 of Tsukuda, Chuuo-ku, Tokyo.
The RiverCity21 is a town built as one of the water front development plans of Tokyo in the place that was the site of Ishikawajima shipyard.
Three buildings which you can see in the front are high-rise apartments.
The river which you look at is the Sumida River. A bridge on the right-side end of a screen is the Chuuo Ohasi.
A twin high-rise building in the left screen is the St Luke's Tower.
The bridge which is covered a little by a building under the St Luke's Tower is the Tsukuda Ohashi.
A bridge having two arches in the left screen is the Kachidokibashi.

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Various Cams around the city. One of my favorite sites. Click on the little blue icon to the right marked (320x240) to open the streaming cam in a new window. Crossing streets or driving in this city is truly an adventure.

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Novosibirsk is city that prides itself on size: it is the third-largest city in Russia (the biggest city east of the Urals), has the biggest railway station along the trans-Siberian route, the biggest library in Siberia, and the biggest opera/ballet theater in all of Russia -- even bigger than Moscow's Bolshoy. The red-brick Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky, while not the biggest, is considered one of the finest existing examples of pure Russian Orthodox architecture.
In 1943, the Academy of Sciences opened up its Siberian branch in Novosibirsk, which signalled the beginning of the city's transformation into the educational hub of Siberian Russia. While many research institutes are located within Novosibirsk itself, still many more are clustered in Academgorodok, a small city founded in the 1950's by the Academy, 30 km south of Novosibirsk.

At its height, Academgorodok was home to 65,000 scientists and their families, and was a priviliged area to live in, with well-stocked stores and dachas for the academic elite. Gorbachev's perestroika was initially conceived here, by economists who where then relocated to Moscow to author the economic revolution. In recent years, Academgorodok has fallen on hard times thanks to slashes in government funding, and many of the younger researchers who once populated the town have left.

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Deep in the heart of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya lies a dormant volcano, Mt. Longonot (9,111 ft above sea level) derived from the Masai word O-Loo-Nong’ot, meaning ‘of the valleys’. Straddling the slopes of Longonot and bordering Hell’s Gate National Park to the West, (which a million years ago formed the dramatic outflow of fresh water from Lake Naivasha) lies the Great Rift Valley.
This camera, a gift from the RVA class of 2005, is terrific for watching a great variety of cloud formations. Also watch the 24hr slide show and the archive of unusual shots.

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More great panoramic views from around the Capetown area.

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Great Panoramic sweep of the city of Athens. One of the fine paces to watch a sunrise.

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Two views of the downtown area, provides a nice feel for the city. Sunrise tracking point.

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This is a collection of high quality well positioned cameras along the coast of Southern Italy near Salerno

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This cam features a giant picture of Paris spread out at your feet. The Eiffel Tower can be seen in the distance. Great to watch sunrise and sunset

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This is a great collection of streaming cameras from Sweden. Many cameras to choose from.

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Located on the extreme southern tip of Portugal, these web cams offer several panoramic views of the Portuguese coast. Three camera views, one live stream, and the option to view 24 hour archives featuring high res pics. Also has a kml link to GE. This is a hard to beat combination for great views.

This is an ideal spot for watching the sunrise and sunset, but for those who enjoy the tumult of a wild ocean storm, this location will not disappoint. All views have a truly exotic flavor capturing lush vegetation against the backdrop of the rugged coast.

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Most unusual site. The little pink icons on the map represent parking areas with webcams. click on the icon and a page for the lot opens. Click on the blue numbered tabs above the snapshot for the streaming windows. Much to see!

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It would be hard to find a better spot from which to watch North-Atlantic storms pound the coast with waves. Recently I watched such a storm for a couple of hours and viewed some awesome waves explode over the rocks.

Camera is nicely placed to watch cloud formations and of course the sunrise. The cove was named after the sole survivor of a shipwreck in 1800.

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The pictures are usually updated every 15 minutes by satellite. The first penguins are expected to arrive in middle of October, the last ones will leave in late April.
Great views year round.

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This, to be honest, is one of my 10 favorite places to watch the sunrise. Mykonos has one of the best camera streams I’ve ever seen. Cam uses MediaPlayer and fullscreen view is awesome. Site also has multiple static cams, slideshows of dawn and dusk, and even a google map with locations and information about nearby cargo and passenger ships. Streaming camera is controlled remotely and pans a preset path.

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This streaming cam lets the viewer watch extreme weather conditions from the 'Japanese alps'. I've watched some raging blizzards on this camera.

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Named After William Cameron the British surveyor, the Cameron Highlands at about 5,000 feet above sea level is the highest area on the mainland. Because of the cool temperatures, the highlands have the reputation of producing some of the finest teas in the world.

This camera overlooks the town of Tanah Rata. Because of the remote location, there may occasionally be some difficulty connecting. Have patience. Hit the view box and the camera will open in an independent window.

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Watched a stormy sunrise in the Seychelles islands today. Two pop-up motion jpeg windows to pick from. Watch the coastline or the local fish market. I watched both cameras for about two hours. There are some interesting people wandering these beaches.

The fish market is one busy place. I enjoy the fact the same workers are on duty at the same stations every day. This is an active place to work or shop. Notice the bunches of what look like bananas in the background.

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This can be a worthwhile volcano to keep an eye on. Every once in a while quite a bit of steam comes shooting out of the mountain and makes for fascinating viewing.

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The KRAKMON systems consists of a number of geophysical, gas-geochemical and environmental measuring sites on the Krakatau island complex located in the Sunda Strait. All data are acquired continuously and are transmitted to the Pasauran Observatory (Western Java) via digital radio telemetry. In Pasauran, the data are collected and transmitted to a server in Jakarta via VSAT. From here, the data are accessible through internet.

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Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and capital of the canton of Zürich. The city is Switzerland’s main commercial and cultural centre and sometimes called as the Cultural Capital of Swizerland. The political capital of Switzerland being Bern. Zürich is widely considered to be one of the world’s global cities.

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Valkenburg is situated in a beautiful part of the Netherlands which is perfectly suited for walks or (mountain) bike tours through the hilly terrain. Although the municipality Valkenburg aan de Geul only has about 18.000 inhabitants, it hosts about 1 million nights a year. Valkenburg has the oldest still existing railway station building in the Netherlands.

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Skellefteå is believed to have been inhabited from around 1000 AD by the Sami people and possibly partly Finnish people. Archeologists have found that people were living in the area as far back as 8000 years ago.
This view looks south on the E4 motorway.

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The Île de Noirmoutier is an island off the Atlantic coast of France. Parts of the island have been reclaimed from the sea.
The island is most notable for the Passage du Gois, a paved-over sandbank with a length of 4.5 kilometers that connects the island to the mainland. It is flooded twice a day by the high tide. Every year, a foot race – the Foulées du Gois – is held across it, starting at the onset of the high tide.
The Herbaudière is a fishing port located on the west coast of the island. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier was born on this island on July 31, 1796. In 2005 it served as the finish of the Tour de France prologue.

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San Sebastián is in the north of the Basque Country, on the southern coast of the Bay of Biscay. The city is referred to as Donostia in its own dialect of the Basque language. Archeological research has unearthed remains from a small settlement of the Roman age, and in 1014 The monastery of St. Sebastian, in the term of Hernani is donated to the Abbey of Leire by Sancho III of Pamplona.

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Mosjøen was founded in the 1600s or 1700s as local farmers met here to trade. It is the oldest town in the Helgeland region and the second oldest town in Nordland county.
The town is situated where the rivers Vefsna and Skjerva flow into the Vefsnfjord. The town center lies in between these two rivers on flat land near the head of the fjord. In addition to the rivers and the fjord, the town is surrounded by mountains, green hills and forests. The Øyfjellet mountain just west of the town is a well known landmark.

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This is a bit of a departure from the sunrise theme, but this aquarium is an attraction of exceptional interest. The Toba Aquarium is one of the largest in the world and has over 850 types of saltwater and river fish, including frogs, aquatic insects, sea turtles, and coral.

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This telescope, sometimes called GranTeCan, is a 10.4 m reflecting telescope and is undertaking commissioning observations at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma, Spain.
The telescope is sited on a volcanic peak 2,400 metres above sea level and took 7 years to construct. The GTC Project is a partnership formed by several institutions from Spain, Mexico, and the University of Florida (USA) and an initiative from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). The construction of the telescope is estimated to have cost €130 million.

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The city is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean.
Agadir is an important fishing and commercial port, the first sardine port in the world, (exporting cobalt, manganese, zinc and citrus). It is also a seaside resort with a long sandy beach. Because of its large buildings, wide roads, modern hotels, and European-style cafés, Agadir is not a typical city of traditional Morocco, but it is a modern, busy and dynamic town. The word Agadir means in Berber “Fortified Granary”.
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Shiretoko National Park covers most of the Shiretoko Peninsula at the northeastern tip of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. The word “Shiretoko” is an Ainu word meaning “end of the earth”.
One of the most remote regions in all of Japan, much of the peninsula is only accessible on foot or by boat. The forests of the park are temperate and subalpine mixed forests; the main tree species include fir (Abies sachalinensis), Erman’s Birch and Mongolian Oak. Beyond the forest limit there are impenetrable Siberian Dwarf Pine thickets.

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Mount Pelée (French: Montagne Pelée, or “Bald Mountain”) is a dormant volcano on the northern tip of the French overseas department of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Carribean. It is among the deadliest stratovolcanos on Earth.
Mount Pelée is famous for its extremely destructive eruption in 1902 and the destruction that resulted, now dubbed the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century. The eruption killed about 30,000 people, most deaths in the destroyed Saint-Pierre, at that time the largest city in Martinique, due to its deadly pyroclastic flows. The eruption left only two survivors in the direct path of the volcano, one alive because he was in a poorly ventilated, dungeon-like jail cell and the other, living on the edge of the city, escaped with severe burns.

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Neumayer Station is a permanent German Antarctic research base. It is located on Atka Bay and was opened in 1992. This station in the Antarctic was established in 1981 on the Ekström Shelf Ice as a research observatory for geophysical, meteorological and air chemistry measurements, as well as a logistics base for summer expeditions.
Georg von Neumayer, whom the station is named after, was an important promoter of Germany’s research activities in Antarctica. The snow-covered Neumayer Station is located on shelf ice that is 650′ (200m) thick and almost completely flat. All that can be seen from the distance are the towers of the station entrance, which project 6-7′ over the snow.
Nine or at most ten people live and work at Neumayer Station during the Antarctic winter: a medical doctor who also acts as the head of the station, a meteorologist, an airchemist, two geophysicists, an engineer, an electrician, a radio operator/electronics engineer and a cook.

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Minka (民家, literally house(s) of the people) are private residences constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society, minka were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non-samurai castes).
Of particular note is the so called gasshō-zukuri (合掌造り, literally “clasped-hands” style), which is preserved in two villages in central Japan, Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture and Gokayama in Toyama Prefecture, that together have been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
This camera is located in the Taira region in the Toyama prefecture. A second streaming camera is located in the Kamitaira region.

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Cabourg is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region of France and belongs to the Paris Basin. The commune is located next to the sea and the back country is a plain, favorable to the cereal culture.
It was from Cabourg that William the Conqueror drove the troops of Henry I of France back into the sea in 1058. Cabourg is famous for being Marcel Proust’s favorite vacation place at the beginning of the 20th century; it is the original of Balbec, the seaside resort in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. Cabourg is under the influence of an oceanic climate, with fresh summers and very mild winters.

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Réunion is an island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 km (130 miles) south west of Mauritius, the nearest island. Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas départements of France.
The Piton de la Fournaise, a shield volcano on the eastern end of Réunion Island, has erupted more than 100 times since 1640 and is under constant monitoring. It most recently erupted on 4 April 2007. The slopes are heavily forested. Cultivated land and cities like the capital city of Saint-Denis are concentrated on the surrounding coastal lowlands.
Réunion also has three calderas: the Cirque de Salazie, the Cirque de Cilaos and the Cirque de Mafate. The last is accessible only by foot or helicopter. In 2005 and 2006 Réunion was hit by a crippling epidemic of chikungunya, a disease spread by mosquitoes.

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Naxos (in Greek, Νάξος) is a Greek island, the largest island in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean. It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture. In 502 BC an unsuccessful attack on Naxos by Persian forces led several prominent men in the Greek cities of Ionia to rebel against the Persian Empire in the Ionian Revolt, and then to the Persian War between Greece and Persia.

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The Cayman Islands are a British overseas territory located in the western Caribbean Sea, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman. It is a major financial centre in the Caribbean.
The Cayman Islands have the dubious honour of having experienced the most hurricane strikes in history. The largely unprotected at sea level island of Grand Cayman was hit by Hurricane Ivan on 12 September 2004, which destroyed many buildings and damaged 70% of them. Ivan was the worst hurricane to hit the islands in 86 years.

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Mindoro is the seventh-largest island in the Philippines. It is located southwest of Luzon, and northeast of Palawan. In past times, it has been called Ma-i or Mait by ancient Chinese traders and, by Spaniards, as Mina de Oro (meaning “gold mine”) from where the island got its current name.

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Ascension Island is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, around 994 miles from the coast of Africa. It is a dependency of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, which is 800 miles to the south east. The Portuguese explorer João da Nova is believed to be the first person to discover the island (in 1501), but did not report it.
A volcanic peak rising from just west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, much of the island is a wasteland of lava flows and cinder cones; no fewer than forty-four distinct craters have been identified. Off the east coast of Ascension is the tiny island of Boatswain Bird Island. It is a haven for sea birds, to get away from the rats, cats and people that came to Ascension Island from Europe and Africa.
The island hosts one of five ground antennas (others are on Kwajalein, Diego Garcia, Colorado Springs and Hawaii) that assist in the operation of the Global Positioning System (GPS) navigational system.

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Mae Hong Son (The City of Three Mists) is nestled in a deep valley hemmed in by high mountain ranges. Mae Hong Son has long been isolated from the outside world and is the most mountainous province in Thailand. Most of the areas are complex mountain ranges and likely still pristine virgin forest.
The name refers to the fact that this terrain is highly suitable for the training of elephants. Former governors of Chiang Mai used to organize the rounding up of wild elephants which were then trained to work in the capital.
Several prehistoric sites are known within Pang Mapha area. The most famous one is the Spirit Cave occupied from about 9000 till 5500 BC by Hoabinhian hunters and gatherers.
Keep in mind, this is a very remote area. The webcam is not always on, but it is well worth the wait.

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is a private university with a history dating from the early days of aviation. Students are enrolled in one of two residential campuses located in Daytona Beach, Florida and Prescott, Arizona or in ERAU Worldwide, composed of over 130 non-residential campuses and online programs.
The University began on December 17, 1925, exactly 22 years after the Wright Brothers‘ first flight, when Talton Higbee Embry and John Paul Riddle formed the Embry-Riddle Company at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio.
On December 25, 2006 at 1:45 p.m. an F2 tornado touched down in Daytona Beach, causing major damage to the campus. Several university buildings were damaged, and both the main administration building and the aircraft fleet maintenance hangar were destroyed. Fifty aircraft were damaged or destroyed totaling an estimated $50 million.

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The French Riviera (French: Côte d’Azur) is one of the most famous resort areas in the world, as much as its Italian counterpart. It extends along the Mediterranean Sea from Menton near the Italian border, including the cities and towns of Monaco, Nice, Antibes, and Cannes.
The Côte d’Azur has been inhabited since prehistoric times. A paleolithic site of a nomad people dating to 950,000 B.C. was discovered in the cave of Vallonet, near Roquebrune-Cap Martin, with stones and bones of animals, including bovines, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus. Other sites were found at the cave of L’Escale, near Saint-Estève Janson (600,000 B.C.), and at Terra Amata (400,000 BC), where a fireplace was discovered, one of the oldest in Europe.

The Cosquer Cave, an undersea cave between Cassis and Marseille discovered in 1991, has the oldest man-made art in the region: drawings of bisons, seals, horses and penguins, and outlines of human hands, dating to between 27,000 and 19,000 B.C.

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Mount Fuji (富士山,)is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12,388 ft). Along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku, it is one of Japan’s “Three Holy Mountains”.
Mount Fuji is a frequent subject of Japanese art. Amongst the most renowned works are Hokusai‘s 36 Views of Mount Fuji and his One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji. The mountain is also mentioned in Japanese literature and is the subject of many poems.

The volcano is currently classified as active with a low risk of eruption. The last recorded eruption started on December 16, 1707 and ended about January 1, 1708 during the Edo period. This is sometimes called “the great Hōei eruption.” Fuji spewed cinders and ash which fell like rain in Izu, Kai, Sagami, and Musashi.

Mount Fuji is located at the point where the Eurasian Plate (or the Amurian Plate), the Okhotsk Plate, and the Philippine Plate meet. Those plates form the western part of Japan, the eastern part of Japan, and the Izu Peninsula respectively.

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Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. The city is located on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies.
Edmonton serves as the northern anchor of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor and is a staging point for large-scale oil sands projects occurring in northern Alberta and large-scale diamond mining operations in the Northwest Territories.

The first inhabitants settled in the area that is now Edmonton around 3,000 BC and perhaps as early as 10,000 BC, when an ice-free corridor opened up as the last ice age ended. In 1754, Anthony Henday, an explorer working for the Hudson’s Bay Company, may have been the first European to enter the Edmonton area.

The first mosque established in North America—the Al-Rashid Mosque, founded by Abdullah Yusuf Ali—is situated in Edmonton.

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Hyūga (日向市,) is a city located in Miyazaki Japan on the island of Kyūshū. The city was founded on April 1, 1951. Historically, after the Meiji Restoration, Hyūga Province was renamed Miyazaki Prefecture.
The symbols for the city are the sunflower and Osmanthus a shrub like tree. Osmanthus are popular shrubs in parks and gardens throughout the warm temperate zone.

The Miyazaki Pref. Art Museum has a collection of about 2,000 works of art, including Picasso’s “Woman with a Velvet Hat on an Armchair, and Pigeon”, and the Art’s Center possesses Japan’s largest pipe organ, located in the Isaac Stern hall.

This prefecture is also home the the worlds largest indoor waterpark the Seagaia Ocean Dome and is listed on the Guinness World Records. This web camera features a very nice cluster of presets centering around a home weather station

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Vilnius is the largest city and the capital of Lithuania, with a population of 555,613 as of 2008. Vilnius is the major economic centre of Lithuania and one of the largest financial centers of the Baltic states.
Vilnius is considered one of the main centers of the Polish Baroque movement in ecclesiastical architecture. Additionally, Eastern Rite Catholicism has maintained a presence in Vilnius since the Union of Brest. Also, Vilnius has been home to an Eastern Orthodox Christian presence since the 13th or even the 12th century. Many Old Believers, who split from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1667, settled in Lithuania.

A famous Russian Orthodox monastery, named for the Holy Spirit, is located near the Gate of Dawn. St. Paraskeva’s Orthodox Church in the Old Town is the site of the baptism of Hannibal, the great-grandfather of Pushkin, by Tsar Peter the Great in 1705.

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Mount Ararat with an elevation of almost 17.000 ft is the tallest peak in Turkey. This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located in the Iğdır Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey. Ararat is a stratovolcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ejecta, ; the mountain mostly consists of igneous rocks covered by an ice sheet.
It is not known when the last eruption of Ararat occurred; there are no historic or recent observations of large-scale activity recorded. The last eruption will have occurred somewhere in the last 10000 years. It seems that Ararat was active in the 3rd millennium BC; under the pyroclastic flows, artifacts from the early Bronze Age and remains of human bodies have been found.

According to a legend, a Roman emperor ordered a number of Roman soldiers who converted to Christianity (now called ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat) to be crucified on Mount Ararat.

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The Most Serene Republic of San Marino (Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino) is a country in the Apennine Mountains. It is a landlocked enclave, completely surrounded by Italy.
San Marino is the oldest constitutional republic in the world, having been founded on 3 September 301 by Marinus of Rab, a Christian stonemason fleeing the religious persecution of Roman Emperor Diocletian. San Marino’s constitution, dating back to 1600, is the world’s oldest written constitution still in effect.

The Three Towers of San Marino are located on the three peaks of Monte Titano in the capital. They are depicted on both the Flag of San Marino and its coat of arms.

The government of San Marino made United States President Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen. He wrote in reply, saying that the republic proved that “government founded on republican principles is capable of being so administered as to be secure and enduring.”

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Alaska is a US state whose territory was purchased in 1867 from the Russian Empire after Western Union stopped construction of its first electric telegraph line which ran from California, up the coast and across the Bering Strait, then to Moscow and into the European Telegraph network.
With its myriad islands, Alaska has nearly 34,000 miles of tidal shoreline. The Aleutian Islands chain extends west from the southern tip of the Alaska Peninsula. Many active volcanoes are found in the Aleutians. Unimak Island, for example, is home to Mount Shishaldin, which is an occasionally smoldering volcano that rises to 10,000 feet above the North Pacific. It is the most perfect volcanic cone on Earth, even more symmetrical than Japan’s Mount Fuji.

In 1964, the massive “Good Friday Earthquake” killed 131 people and destroyed several villages, many by the resultant tsunamis. The quake was the second most powerful one on Earth in the past fifty years, measured at 9.2 on the Richter scale.

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Malta is a small and densely populated European microstate, comprising an archipelago of seven islands, making it an island nation.
The Maltese islands were first settled in 5200 BC by stone age farmers who had arrived from Sicily, possibly the Sicani who are thought to be related to the Iberians. During 3500 BC, these people built the oldest religious structures in the world, in the form of the megalithic Ġgantija temples on Gozo.

The origin of the term “Malta” is uncertain, though the modern day variation is from the Maltese language. The more common etymology is that it comes from the Greek word μέλι (meli) (’honey’). The Greeks called the island Μελίτη (Melite) meaning “honey” or “honey-sweet” possibly due to Malta’s unique production of honey; Malta has had an endemic species of bee which lives on the island, giving it the common nickname the “land of honey”.

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Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Three islands are populated: Spitsbergen, Bear Island and Hopen.
Svalbard lies far north of the Arctic Circle. In addition to humans, four mammalian species inhabit the archipelago: the Svalbard field mouse, the Arctic fox, the Svalbard reindeer, and polar bears. Svalbard is also a breeding ground for large numbers of seabirds, including Brunnich’s and Black Guillemot, Puffin, Little Auk, Fulmar and Black-legged Kittiwake. Other seabirds include Arctic Tern, four species of skua, and the elusive Ivory Gull. See also: Flowers of Svalbard.

The Norwegian government has built a “doomsday” seed bank to store seeds from as many of the world’s crop varieties and their botanical wild relatives as possible.

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London is the capital and largest urban area of both England and the United Kingdom. An important settlement for two millennia, London’s history goes back to its founding by the Romans.
Although there is evidence of scattered Brythonic settlements in the area, the first major settlement was founded by the Romans in AD 43 as Londinium, following the Roman conquest of Britain. Since its settlement, London has been part of many movements and phenomena throughout history, including the English Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and the Gothic Revival. The city’s core, the ancient City of London, still retains its limited medieval boundaries.

London is a major international air transport hub. London Heathrow Airport is the busiest airport in the world for international traffic, and is the major hub of the nation’s flag carrier, British Airways.

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Amalfi is a town in the province of Salerno, in the region of Campania, Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno, southeast of Naples. It lies at the mouth of a deep ravine, surrounded by dramatic cliffs and coastal scenery.
In 1206 Saint Andrew’s relics were brought to Amalfi from Constantinople by the Amalfitan Pietro, cardinal of Capua, following the Sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders after the completion of the town’s cathedral. The cathedral, dedicated to St. Andrew, contains a tomb in its crypt that it maintains still holds a portion of the relics of the apostle. A golden reliquary which originally housed his skull and another one used for processions through Amalfi on holy days can also be seen.

During Mass on these holy days, St Andrew’s relics are said to exude a liquid called “St. Andrew’s Manna”. The faithful are anointed with the liquid, and many believe it to be miraculous. View a second streaming camera here.

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Fiji is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu. The country occupies an archipelago of about 322 islands, of which 106 are permanently inhabited, and 522 islets.
Pottery excavated from Fijian towns shows that Fiji was settled before or around 1000 BC, although the question of Pacific migration still lingers. The Dutch explorer Abel Tasman visited Fiji in 1643 while looking for the Great Southern Continent.

The population of Fiji is mostly made up of native Fijians, who are Melanesians , although a few also have Polynesian ancestry, and Indo-Fijians . There is also a small but significant group of descendants of indentured labourers from Solomon Islands.

Fijians were described by the Cook expedition as formidable warriors and ferocious cannibals, builders of the finest vessels in the Pacific, but not great sailors.

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The Tasman Bridge is a five-lane bridge crossing the Derwent River, near the CBD of Hobart, Tasmania. The bridge has a total length (including approaches) of 1,395 meters (4,576 ft) – longer than the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It provides the main traffic route from the CBD (on the western shore) to the eastern shore - particularly Hobart International Airport and Bellerive Oval. It has a pedestrian foot way on each side, but no dedicated lane for bicycles. However, steps to the pedestrian foot way have recently been replaced with on-ramps.

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Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about 603 miles north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia’s cane sugar.

Captain James Cook, reached the Mackay coast on 1 June 1770 , and during this trip the Endeavour’s botanist, Sir Joseph Banks, briefly recorded seeing Aborigines.

Two young men, John McCrossin and Scottish-born John Mackay, assembled a party of eight, including an Aborigine named Duke, and left Armidale, New South Wales in January 1860. After exploring almost to the mouth of the river, which they named the Mackay, the members of the party began the trip back to civilisation. On the return journey, they all suffered from a fever that claimed the life of Duke.

In 1918, Mackay was hit by a major Tropical Cyclone causing severe damage and loss of life with hurricane-force winds and a large storm surge. The resulting death toll was further increased by an outbreak of Bubonic plague.

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Chandigarh also called The City Beautiful, is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states, Punjab and Haryana, and is a union territory of India. The name translates from Hindi to English as “the fort of Chandi”, Chandi being a Hindu Goddess.

Chandigarh is located near the foothills of the Shivalik range of the Himalayas in Northwest India. Known internationally for its architecture and urban planning, Chandigarh is home to numerous architectural projects.

Le Corbusier produced a plan for Chandigarh that conformed to the modernist city planning principles of CIAM, in terms of division of urban functions, and a hierarchy of road and pedestrian networks. Hindi and Punjabi are the main spoken languages in this area.

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Republic of Singapore, is an island country located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies slightly north of the equator and is one of four remaining true city-states in the world.

The Fountain of Wealth (Chinese: 财富之泉) is listed by the Guinness Book of Records in 1998 as the largest fountain in the world. It is located in one of Singapore’s largest shopping malls, Suntec City.

During certain periods of the day, the fountain is turned off and visitors are invited to walk around a mini fountain at the center of the fountain’s base for good luck. At night, the fountain is the setting for laser performances, as well as “live” song and laser message dedications between 8pm to 9pm daily.

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The City of Chita is a the administrative center of the Chita Oblast, which is similar to a state. It is located in the middle of Siberia and is about 500 miles east of Lake Baikal.

From the 1930’s through the end of communism, Chita was a closed city. During this period, foreigners were prohibited from traveling to Chita as were many Russians. The basis for the closing of the city was apparently its proximity to China and military installations.

In some circles, Chita is known as the City of Exiles because prominent intellectuals starting with the “Decembrist” were exiled to the city after failed uprisings in 1825. Despite this informal name, the arrival of the Decembrists was a boon for the city. The well-educated exiles made an effort to educate the citizens of Chita and pursue trade. Through these efforts, the City became a major trading portal in Siberia, particularly since the natural resources of the area included timber, gold and uranium.

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In 1604, Tomsk was established under a decree from Tsar Boris Godunov. He sent 200 Cossacks to construct a fortress at the bank of the Tom River overlooking what would become the city of Tomsk. This city on the Tom River in the southwest of Siberian Federal District, Russia, is located near a major center of plutonium production and reprocessing and uranium enrichment in Russia.

Winters in this region are extremely harsh, and in 2006 the city was subjected to hurricane force winds that toppled trees and damaged many buildings. Here are two streaming Axis cameras that open in pop up windows.

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Sausalito (from Spanish: sauzalito “small willow grove”) is a San Francisco Bay Area city and is next to, and largely bounded by, the protected spaces of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Developed rapidly as a shipbuilding center in World War II, the city’s industrial character gave way in postwar years to a reputation as an artistic enclave and as a picturesque residential community incorporating large numbers of houseboats. Today two house boat communities still exist: Gallilee Harbor in Sausalito, Waldo Point and the Gates Cooperative just outside the city limit.

Sausalito was a center for bootlegging during the era of Prohibition in the United States. Because of its location facing the Golden Gate and isolated from San Francisco by the same waterway, it was also a favorite landing spot for adventurous rum runners.

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The Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls stretching south of India’s Lakshadweep islands, and south-west of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.

The Maldives holds the record for being the lowest country in the world, and the surrounding reef is composed of coral debris and living coral. In ancient times the Maldives were renowned for cowry shells, coir rope, dried tuna fish, ambergris and coco de mer. Local and foreign trading ships used to load these products in Sri Lanka and transport them to other harbors in the Indian Ocean.

A tsunami in the Indian Ocean caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused serious damage to the socioeconomic infrastructure which left many people homeless, and irreversible damage to the environment. After the disaster, cartographers are planning to redraw the maps of the islands due to alterations caused by the tsunami.

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The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretches 5,989 feet over the East River, connecting the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn (on Long Island).

Upon completion, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world, the first steel-wire suspension bridge, and the first bridge to connect to Long Island. Construction began on January 3, 1870. The Brooklyn Bridge was completed thirteen years later and was opened for use on May 24, 1883.

The bridge was designed by German-born John Augustus Roebling in Trenton, New Jersey. During surveying for the East River Bridge project, Roebling’s foot was badly injured by a ferry, pinning it against a pylon; within a few weeks, he died of tetanus.

His son, Washington, succeeded him, but in 1872 was stricken with caisson disease (decompression sickness, commonly known as “the bends”), due to working in compressed air in caissons.

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Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The city is the financial and cultural capital of the Netherlands.

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is the biggest airport in the Netherlands, the fifth largest in Europe and the twelfth largest in the world by passengers. It handles about 46 million passengers a year and is the home base of three airlines, KLM,transavia.com and Martinair. Schiphol was in 2006 the third busiest airport in the world measured by international passengers.

The Amsterdam Heliport is a small modern heliport located in the north west of Amsterdam,. It provides parking space outside for four helicopters and hangar space for another three. The heliport was opened in 2005, aiming mainly at VIP transport and airwork. The main user of the heliport is Heli Holland.

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The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world. The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the pre-eminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007.

While the earliest artifacts date to the Middle Neolithic era, there have been documented habitations in Attica from the Early Neolithic (6th millennium BC). There is little doubt that a Mycenaean megaron stood upon the hill during the late Bronze Age.

The entrance to the Acropolis was a monumental gateway called the Propylaea. To the south of the entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike. A bronze statue of Athena, sculpted by Phidias, originally stood at its centre.

Most of the major temples were rebuilt under the leadership of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens (460–430 BC). Phidias, a great Athenian sculptor, and Ictinus and Callicrates, two famous architects, were responsible for the reconstruction.

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The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world. The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the pre-eminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007.

While the earliest artifacts date to the Middle Neolithic era, there have been documented habitations in Attica from the Early Neolithic (6th millennium BC). There is little doubt that a Mycenaean megaron stood upon the hill during the late Bronze Age.

The entrance to the Acropolis was a monumental gateway called the Propylaea. To the south of the entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike. A bronze statue of Athena, sculpted by Phidias, originally stood at its centre.

Most of the major temples were rebuilt under the leadership of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens (460–430 BC). Phidias, a great Athenian sculptor, and Ictinus and Callicrates, two famous architects, were responsible for the reconstruction.

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The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided gorge carved by the Colorado River in the United States state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park — one of the first national parks in the United States.

The Grand Canyon is a massive rift in the Colorado Plateau that exposes uplifted Proterozoic and Paleozoic strata, and nearly two billion years of the Earth’s history have been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layer after layer of rock, for six million years, while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted.

In September 1540, under orders from the conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado to search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, Captain Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, along with Hopi guides and a small group of Spanish soldiers, traveled to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Afterwards, no Europeans visited the Canyon for over two hundred years.

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Majorca is the largest island of Spain. It is located in the Mediterranean Sea and part of the Balearic Islands archipelago.

Majorca has been inhabited since antiquity. Burial chambers and traces of habitation from the Paleolithic period (6000–4000 BC) have been discovered. The island was occupied by the Romans in 123 BC under Quintus Caecilius Metellus. It flourished under Roman rule, during which time the towns of Pollentia (Alcúdia), and Palmaria (Palma) were founded. The local economy was driven by Olive cultivation, viniculture, and salt mining. Majorcan soldiers were valued within the Roman legions for their skill with the sling.

Famous Majorcans include writer and philosopher Ramon Llull and Junípero Serra, the Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California.

Frédéric Chopin and George Sand, romantically involved, rented space from a monastery for a short time.

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Corsica is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia.
Corsica, like all the other Mediterranean islands, was home to indigenous animals of the Pleistocene Epoch. After the proliferation of man in the Mesolithic, these began to disappear.

The extinct species are Cynotherium sardous, Megaloceros cazioti, Prolagus sardus, Bubo insularis and Athene angelis. Birds were especially hard-hit. Some species that disappeared were Haliaeetos albicilla and Aquila heliaca.

An unusual feature of the island is the herbaceous fragrance of the dense Corsican brush — lavender, honeysuckle, rosemary, cyclamen, myrtle and wild mint. Napoleon left Corsica as a young man, and although he never returned, when exiled on the nearby island of Elba, he claimed he often enjoyed the aroma of Corsica on the west wind.

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Kalmar is a city in Småland in the south-east of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. From the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, Kalmar was one of Sweden’s most important cities.

The area around Kalmar has been inhabited since ancient times. Diggings have found traces of stone age gravefields. The oldest sources of there being a town are however from the 11th century. According to a medieval folk tale, the Norwegian patron Saint Olav had his ships moved to Kalmar. The oldest city seal of Kalmar is from somewhere between 1255-1267, making it the oldest known city seal in Scandinavia.

Geographically Kalmar is the main route to the island of Öland thanks to the Öland Bridge which can be seen in the background. It became a fortified city, with the still mighty Kalmar Castle as the center.

In the 12th century the first foundations of a castle were established, with the construction of a round tower for guard and lookout. The tower was continuously expanded on in 13th century. In the 1540s, first King Gustav Vasa, and later his sons Erik XIV of Sweden and John III of Sweden would organize a rebuilding of the castle into the magnificent Renaissance castle it is today.

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Kópasker is a small village in northeast Iceland, situated on Öxarfjörður. The district between Tjörnes mountains in the west and Jökulsá (Glacier river) in the east is known as Kelduhverfi; Kópasker is the town of the community.

There are many streams, which come up under lava fields and they give the district its name. Keldur means quagmire. Jökulsá runs to the sea in Öxafjörður. It falls into one of the deepest and most terrifying gorges in Iceland, Jökulsárgljúfur.

A geologically young land, Iceland is located on both the Iceland hotspot and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which runs right through it. This combined location means that geologically the island is extremely active, having many volcanoes, notably Hekla, Eldgjá, Herðubreið and Eldfell. Iceland is one of two places on Earth where a mid-ocean ridge rises above sea level, making it an easily accessible site to study the geology of such a ridge.

Today, Iceland has some of the world’s highest levels of economic and civil freedoms.In 2007, Iceland was ranked as the most developed country in the world by the United Nations’ Human Development Index.

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Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km and currently has just over five million inhabitants. It is also the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

Sicily is directly adjacent to the Italian region of Calabria, via the Strait of Messina to the east. The early Roman name for Sicily was Trinacria, alluding to its triangular shape. Sicily has been noted for two millennia as a grain-producing territory.

The original inhabitants of Sicily were three defined groups, the most prominent and by far the earliest of which was the Sicani. Historical evidence has been discovered in the form of cave drawings by the Sicani, dated from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, around 8000 BC, and is correlated with extinction of dwarf hippos and dwarf elephants.

Mount Etna, located in the east, is the only volcano on mainland Sicily and is the tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world.

Sicily has its own unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, cuisine, architecture and language.

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Lampedusa belongs to Italy and is the largest of the Pelagie Islands, situated 205 km from Sicily and 113 km from Tunisia. Lampedusa is also known as being the gateway from Europe to Africa.

The Isola dei Conigli (literally ‘Island of Rabbits’), which is close to the south coast of Lampedusa, is one of the last remaining egg-laying sites in Italy for the Loggerhead Sea Turtle, which is endangered throughout the Mediterranean. Next to Parise Cape is a small beach accessible only by sea, through a low grotto.

Historically, Lampedusa was a landing place and a maritime base for the ancient Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs. The Romans established a plant for the production of the prized fish sauce known as garum. As a result of pirate attacks by the Arabs, the island became uninhabited.

The first prince of Lampedusa and Linosa was Giulio Tomasi, ancestor of the famous writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who received the title from Charles II of Spain in 1630. Giuseppe Tomasi is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958, translated as The Leopard) which is set in Sicily during the Risorgimento.

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Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, and overlooks the city of Trapani, and the dramatic Punta del Saraceno, providing spectacular views.

The ancient name of Erice was Eryx, and its foundation was associated with the eponymous Greek hero Eryx. It was not a Greek colony, but was largely Hellenized. It was destroyed in the First Punic War by the Carthaginians, and from then on declined in importance.

In the northeastern portion of the city there are the remains of ancient Elymian and Phoenician walls indicating different stages of settlement and occupation in antiquity.

There are two castles, Pepoli Castle, which dates from Saracen times, and the Venus Castle, from the Norman period, built on top of the ancient Temple of Venus, where Venus Ericina was worshipped. According to legend, the temple was founded by Aeneas.

It was well-known, and an ancient cult was celebrated there. In his book On the Nature of Animals, Aelian writes that animals chosen for sacrifice would voluntarily walk up to the altar to be killed.

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This hill is one of the most sacred sites in India. Thiruvannamalai as the region is known has been home to many yogis seeking spiritual liberation. This area is held to be so sacred that even gazing at the hill is said to confer spiritual benefit. Picture below catches the hill covered by a cloud bank at sunrise.

Every full moon night, tens of thousands of pilgrims worship Shiva by circumambulating the Arunachala hill barefoot. The circumambulation covers a distance of about 14 km.

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Vágar is one of the 18 islands in the archipelago of the Faroe Islands and the most westerly of the large islands. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Faroese, of Norse and Celtic descent.

The Faroe Islands are dominated by tholeiitic basalt lava which was part of the great Thulean Plateau during the Paleogene period.

The early history of the Faroe Islands is not well known. Irish hermits (monks) settled in the sixth century, introducing sheep and oats and the early Irish language to the islands. Saint Brendan, who lived circa 484–578, is said to have visited the Faroe Islands on two or three occasions (512-530 AD), naming two of the islands Sheep Island and Paradise Island of Birds.

Due to the rocky terrain and relatively small size of the Faroe Islands, its transportation system was not as extensive as other places of the world. Vágar Airport has scheduled service to destinations from Vágar Island. The largest Faroese airline is Atlantic Airways.

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Reichenbach im Kandertal is a municipality in the district of Frutigen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The canton of Bern is the second largest of all Swiss cantons.

The canton of Bern is mainly drained by the River Aar and its tributaries. The whole area is in general very mountainous, with steep cliffs, many glaciers, and countless waterfalls.

The earliest evidence of human settlements in the Aare valley dates back to the Neolithic period. This settlement was partially fortified in the 2nd century BCE. It is thought to have been one of the twelve oppida of the Helvetii mentioned by Caesar.

From her inauspicious beginnings as a Celtic settlement in pre-Roman Central Europe, the city of Bern grew to become an aristocratic city republic and a major power in the Old Swiss Confederacy.

Features two streaming airport cameras from the Flight Group Reichenbach.

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Fethiye is a city and district of Muğla Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. Modern day Fethiye is located on the ruins ot the ancient city of Telmessos.

Fethiye Museum, very rich in ancient and more recent artifacts, displays and testifies to the successive chain of civilizations which existed in the area, starting with ancient Lycia.

The combination of a favorable climate, warm sea, more than a thousand kilometers of shoreline along the Aegean and Mediterranean waters, and abundant natural and archeological points of interest makes this stretch of Turkey’s coastline a popular national and international tourist destination.

Among the archeological points of interest are two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – the ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos in Halicarnassus and the remains of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, which can still be seen today.

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Budapest is the capital of Hungary, and is considered an important hub in Central Europe. Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with a unification on 17 November 1873 of right-bank Buda and Óbuda with left-bank Pest.

Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement, was the direct ancestor of Budapest, becoming the Roman capital of Lower Pannonia. Magyars arrived in the territory in the 9th century. Their first settlement was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241-42. The re-established town became one of the centers of Renaissance humanist culture in the 15th century.

The city ranked as the most livable Central/Eastern European city on EIU’s quality of life index (2009). The headquarters of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the first foreign office of the CIPA will be in Budapest.

Among sights to see are the neo-Gothic Parliament, containing amongst other things the Hungarian Crown Jewels, and Saint Stephen’s Basilica, where the Holy Right Hand of the founder of Hungary, King Saint Stephen is on display.

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital (jointly with Las Palmas) of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. Santa Cruz is located in northeast of the Spanish island of Tenerife off the northwestern coast of Africa.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife has been occupied by humans for the last 2000 years as evidenced by numerous archaeological sites. The area was known to the Guanches, the first inhabitants of the island, as Añazo. Later, it became one of the most important ports of the Atlantic and the Canary Islands, a status it retains to this day.

Santa Cruz, being the center of the Tenerife Metropolitan Area, is the logical hub for the island’s motorway network. The 85 km. long TF1 Motorway links the south of the island including Playa de las Américas and other southern resorts and towns with its capital.

TF5 Motorway links Santa Cruz with the Puerto de la Cruz, La Orotava and the northern side of the island, passing right through La Laguna before entering Santa Cruz. Tenerife North Airport lies on the TF5 Motorway on the outskirts of the city. The Santa Cruz harbor is one of the busiest in Spain. More traffic cameras here.