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Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite ...
Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay [4] Wedding Cake Island, a small island off the coast of Coogee; Windang Island, a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra; Woodford Island, in the Clarence River immediately upstream of Maclean; Yellow Rock Island, at junction of Bellinger and Kalang Rivers near Urunga
The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia was a part of the worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first confirmed case in Australia was identified on 25 January 2020, in Victoria , when a man who had returned from Wuhan , Hubei Province, China , tested positive ...
Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the Southern Ocean A map of Heard Island and McDonald Islands. Heard Island, by far the largest of the group, is a 368-square-kilometre (142 sq mi) mountainous island covered by 41 glaciers [22] (the island is 80% covered with ice [2]) and dominated by the Big Ben massif.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The island lies around 120 km (75 mi) south-east of Esperance. [7] [8] The island is 6.5 kilometres (4 mi) long, has an area of 1,080 hectares (2,669 acres), and is approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) off shore from Cape Arid. [3] The island is the largest in the Recherche Archipelago. [9] Goose Island is just off the north coast of Middle Island ...
The area around the Ashmore and Cartier Islands has been a traditional fishing ground of Indonesian fishermen for centuries, and continues to be. [citation needed] In the 1850s, American whalers operated in the region. [4] Outside of fishing, the islands were historically used as sources of guano, beche-de-mer, trochus and tortoiseshell. [13]
Climate map of Australia. By far the largest part of Australia is arid or semi-arid. A total of 18% of Australia's mainland consists of named deserts, [20] while additional areas are considered to have a desert climate based on low rainfall and high temperature. Only the south-east and south-west corners have a temperate climate and moderately ...