Google Earth - Religious Sites

[Bishka]

Does anyone on here use Google Earth? Do you know of any coordinates for religious sites?
They don't have to be to a specific faith/belief etc.

 

[Tez]

A quick google brought these up:

Ancient Landmarks

Nazca Lines: -14.73, -75.14
Giza Pyramids/Sphinx: 29.975, 31.13
Teotihuacan (Pyramid of the Sun): 19.692, -98.844
Stonehenge: 51.18, -1.82 (thanks Henrik)
Angkor: 13.41, 103.865
Machu Picchu: -13.147, -72.495
Rapa Nui (Easter Island): -27.11, -109.35
Chichen Itza: 20.68, -88.56
Troy: 39.955, 26.24

Natural Wonders

Uluru (Ayers Rock): -25.35, 131.03
Arizona Meteor Crater: 35.03, -111.02

Science and Space Stuff

Arecibo: 18.345, -66.755
Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope: 34.078, -107.618
Cape Canaveral: 28.45, 80.58

Esoteric and Mysterious Places

Mormon Temple (Washington, D.C.): 39.014, -77.066
Washington Monument: 38.89, -77.035
House of the Temple (Scottish Rite Masonic Temple): 38.914, -77.036
George Washington National Masonic Memorial: 38.807, -77.066
Mont St Michel: 48.636, -1.511
Rennes-le-Chateau: 42.935, 2.262
Loch Ness: 57.3, -4.46
Devil's Tower: 44.59, -104.715

Places in History

Trinity (Atomic Bomb) Test Site: 33.678, -106.476
Hiroshima: 34.395, 132.455
Chernobyl: 51.385, 30.125

Religious Landmarks

The Vatican: 41.902, 12.457
Mecca: 21.42, 39.825
Jerusalem: 31.78, 35.215

Military

Groom Lake (Area 51): 37.24, -115.81
The Pentagon: 38.87, -77.506
Pine Gap: -23.738, 133.855

Hope that helped . I do have google Earth but I havent got round to installing it yet lol.

- Tez

 

[michel]

A quick google brought these up:

Ancient Landmarks

Nazca Lines: -14.73, -75.14
Giza Pyramids/Sphinx: 29.975, 31.13
Teotihuacan (Pyramid of the Sun): 19.692, -98.844
Stonehenge: 51.18, -1.82 (thanks Henrik)
Angkor: 13.41, 103.865
Machu Picchu: -13.147, -72.495
Rapa Nui (Easter Island): -27.11, -109.35
Chichen Itza: 20.68, -88.56
Troy: 39.955, 26.24

Natural Wonders

Uluru (Ayers Rock): -25.35, 131.03
Arizona Meteor Crater: 35.03, -111.02

Science and Space Stuff

Arecibo: 18.345, -66.755
Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope: 34.078, -107.618
Cape Canaveral: 28.45, 80.58

Esoteric and Mysterious Places

Mormon Temple (Washington, D.C.): 39.014, -77.066
Washington Monument: 38.89, -77.035
House of the Temple (Scottish Rite Masonic Temple): 38.914, -77.036
George Washington National Masonic Memorial: 38.807, -77.066
Mont St Michel: 48.636, -1.511
Rennes-le-Chateau: 42.935, 2.262
Loch Ness: 57.3, -4.46
Devil's Tower: 44.59, -104.715

Places in History

Trinity (Atomic Bomb) Test Site: 33.678, -106.476
Hiroshima: 34.395, 132.455
Chernobyl: 51.385, 30.125

Religious Landmarks

The Vatican: 41.902, 12.457
Mecca: 21.42, 39.825
Jerusalem: 31.78, 35.215

Military

Groom Lake (Area 51): 37.24, -115.81
The Pentagon: 38.87, -77.506
Pine Gap: -23.738, 133.855

Hope that helped . I do have google Earth but I havent got round to installing it yet lol.

- Tez

Wow! That is useful.

You might also be interested in this site, which although is called Googlesiteseeing has a disclaimer that reads googlesiteseeing.com is not sponsored by or affiliated to Google Earth (although it is possible to load the siteseeing into Google Earth).

Legalese........There is most likely a very good reason for the disclaimer, but it beats me!

 

[Tez]

Lol, just in case anyone is interested I found Area 51. Google calls it a lake but you can see the runway coming out of it etc... Also if you zoom in there are loads of hangars and other weird things..

- Tez

 

[Shadow Wolf]

When I get GoogleEarth on my computer, I'm gonna have to check all those out. I thought it was exciting enough just to get a birds eye view of your own home town.

 

[michel]

When I get GoogleEarth on my computer, I'm gonna have to check all those out. I thought it was exciting enough just to get a birds eye view of your own home town.

But it's a figment of your imagination; area 51 does not exist.

 

[Aqualung]

I've never been able to find the lines that look like a spider or other animals. Does anybody know where those nazca lines are?

 

[michel]

I've never been able to find the lines that look like a spider or other animals. Does anybody know where those nazca lines are?

http://www.crystalinks.com/nasca.html

The Nazca Lines are an engima. No one has proof who built them or why. Since their discovery, the Nazca Lines have inspired fantastic explanations from ancient gods, a landing strip for returning aliens, a celestial calendar created by the ancient Nazca civilization -- putting the creation of the lines between 200 BC and 600 AD, used for rituals probably related to astronomy, to confirm the ayllus or clans who made up the population and to determine through ritual their economic functions held up by reciprocity and redistribution, or a map of underground water supplies.


There are also huge geoglyphs in Egypt, Malta, United States (Mississippi and California), Chile, Bolivia and in other countries. But the Nazca geoglyphs, because of their numbers, characteristics, dimensions and cultural continuity, as they were made and remade through out the whole prehispanic period, form the most impressive, as well as enigmatic, archeological group.

Location

The Nazca Lines are located in the Nazca Desert, a high arid plateau that stretches between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the pampa (a large flat area of southern Peru). The desolate plain of the Peruvian coast which comprises the Pampas of San Jose (Jumana), Socos, El Ingenio and others in the province of Nasca, is 400 Km. South of Lima, covers an area of approximately 450 km2, of sandy desert as well as the slopes of the contours of the Andes. They cover nearly 400 square miles of desert. Etched in the surface of the desert pampa sand about 300 hundred figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes most clearly visible from the air. Nazca Plain

 

[Aqualung]

come now, I need the lattitude and longitude!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Just scan the Nazca Desert. I found the Kokomo Municipal Airport by doing that, and I discovered the runways look like a giant cross.

 

[Tez]

I found a really good site for finding places, most of the posts have links on the top so that you can zoom to the place google Earth (I love when it does that).

Here You Go

I knew I shouldn't have installed it, its very additive, lol.


- Tez