Google adds 360-degree imagery of Galapagos Islands to Street View
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[QUOTE]Over the last few months, Google has added plenty of stunning tours of [URL="http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/24/4458712/google-street-view-burj-khalifa-dubai"]world-famous locales and buildings[/URL] to Street View. But today the company is offering up one of its best yet. Coinciding with the 178th anniversary of Darwin’s discovery of the Galapagos Islands, Google has added 360-degree images of the islands that let users retrace his historic trip. The imagery was captured back in May by Google's Street View Trekker, but only today are we getting to see the fruits of that visit. Google strapped the Trekker to a boat so it could capture [URL="https://www.google.com/maps/views/view/streetview/galapagos-islands/frigatebirds-over-san-cristobal/TY8w165R2_R7mAMud3O6xg?gl=us&heading=52&pitch=87&fovy=75"]this beautiful shoreline panorama[/URL]. And a partnership with Catlin Seaview Survey allowed the company to place viewers right in the middle of a swimming pack of sea lions.
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The pictures are really cool. I've always wanted to go to these islands and this just names me wish I could go even more.
That's beautiful
Hopefully it's harder to do a hit and run in a boat
I as hoping they would have a full panorama of daphne major so I could look for the ledge the Grants use to access the island when doing their finch studies. But I dont think they have one yet.
" To set foot on Daphne Major, you have to approach a steep cliff in a small boat and then take an acrobatic leap onto a tiny ledge." I want to see it.
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