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Archive for December, 2007

King George Island and the first person born in Antarctica

December 11th, 2007 by Eduardo Manchón

King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands has stations from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, South Korea, Peru, Poland, Russia and Uruguay. Look at how many houses, it has to be one of the most populated place in Antarctica

In King George Island there is an airport and even a Russian Church built in […]

Research stations in Antarctica

December 4th, 2007 by Eduardo Manchón

I always wondered how were research stations in Antarctica. I found some with good satellite images.
Rothera Station (UK)

Troll station (Norway)

Casey Station (Australia)

Marambio Island station (Argentina)

One of the best shots I have seen in Antarctica is this one made from the Belgrano station (Argentina)

After browsing a little bit I realized that Antarctica is more interesting […]

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Yes, Panoramio is mirrored for right to left languages
Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi were available some time ago, but without mirroring they were not really usable, so we decided to pull them back until we could mirror the site. Now it is ready.
It took more time […]