Located 120m inside a sandstone mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, 1,300km from the North Pole, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the most highly secured, robustly guarded seed bank in the world.
DSTL Porton Down is one of the most sensitive and secret experimental sites in the UK. The site is based around a technology park conducting scientific and military... Culham Science Centre, Abingdon,Oxfordshire.
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Orford Ness is now one of Britain's most protected natural landscapes. For decades, however, it was the hidden nerve centre of secret military research. Orford Ness is Britain's answer to Area 51.
The whole continent is almost entirely covered by ice sheets, permanent layers of frozen water. Oh, and yes, sorry, Google Maps uses a close variant of the Mercator map projection, so it hardly show areas around the poles, you only can see the "peeled" version of the Antarctica (see the small world map on the right).
If you are browsing around Google Maps and, for some reason, looking at islands in the East Siberian Sea, you will come across something peculiar — a nightmarish black blob covering up what should be a landmass named Jeannette Island.
Nigger Head was the name of a small island in the northern part of Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 30 km north of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia.
It refers to the phantom island Frisland which was commonly shown on maps of the North Atlantic Ocean during the 16th and 17th centuries. Frisland never existed, however, cartographers believed that the island was real because of a map published in 1558 known as the Zeno map. An image of the Zeno map is featured above.
Mystery Island is a deserted tropical island in the island nation of Vanuatu. The official name of the island is Inyueg, and it's located in the southern part of the archipelago that makes up Vanuatu. It's a small island off the shore of Tanna, the southernmost island of Vanuatu.
The winter ice on the surface of Antarctica's Weddell Sea occasionally forms an enormous hole.
Seven countries (Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom) maintain territorial claims in Antarctica, but the United States and most other countries do not recognize those claims.
Antarctica is a protected area and the only demilitarised continent in the world. Military forces and installations are forbidden, and all of Antarctica has been designated for peaceful and scientific purposes.
The Google cameras have pinpointed the remains at coordinates 41.7325° N, 49.9469° W. For those looking at the scenes, the wreckage can be seen south of the island of Newfoundland. It is also close to Nova Scotia, Maine and Vermont off the Northumberland Straight.
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada.
The wreck of the Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 metres; 2,100 fathoms), about 370 nautical miles (690 kilometres) south-southeast of the coast of Newfoundland.
Antarctica is important to Australia. We have sovereignty over 42 per cent of the continent, including sovereign rights over adjacent offshore areas (Figure 6.1). The Government is spending an additional $2.2 billion to protect Australia's significant Antarctic interests.
The territory's history dates to a claim on Enderby Land made by the United Kingdom in 1841, which was subsequently expanded and eventually transferred to Australia in 1933. It is the largest territory of Antarctica claimed by any nation by area. In 1961, the Antarctic Treaty came into force.
The Australian Antarctic Territory (AAT) covers nearly 5.9 million square kilometres. That's about 42% of Antarctica.
A gaping hole opened in the middle of the sea ice on the Weddell Sea, eventually expanding to nearly 13,000 square miles in size. It was the largest ice break observed in that region for decades. The following winter, another hole formed, this time exposing a whopping 20,000 square miles of ocean water.
The secret ecosystem was found more than 1,600 feet below the surface. A never-before-seen ecosystem lurks in an underground river deep below the icy surface in Antarctica.
Winter ice on the surface of Antarctica's Weddell Sea sometimes has an enormous hole called a polynya.
Get stuck on a desert island (On purpose)
Mystery Island is a tiny, uninhabited islet in Vanuatu's Tafea Province, officially charted under the indigenous name Inyeug.
Local Currency & Tipping Customs
The official currency of Mystery Island is the Ni-Vanuatu Vatu. The Australian dollar is often accepted throughout Vanuatu, including on Mystery Island, but even if it's accepted the change is not always available in Australian dollars.