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WORDS BY ANTONY “YEP” COLAS • IMAGES BY GOOGLE

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SEARCHING THE WORLD FROM

THE COMFORT OF HOME … IS

THIS THE GROOVIEST, EASIEST,

SAFEST AND MOST ECO-FRIENDLY

WAY TO EXPLORE THE PLANET?

OR IS GOOGLE EARTH’S IMMENSE

POWER A SANITISED, SLIGHTLY

SPOOKY SIGN OF OUR DEMENTED

TIMES? WE’RE NOT SURE, BUT

WE KNOW THIS: OUR PLANET’S

SHORELINES MAKE FOR SOME

FASCINATING AND OFTEN

BEAUTIFUL VIEWING, EVEN WHEN

SEEN FROM CYBER SPACE.

Opposite KIRIBATI, CHRISTMAS. Kiribati is one of the least known archipelagoes of Micronesia. It’s extremely diffi cult to get there except by cruise liner, sailboat or Google Earth.

Left MALDIVES, GAADHDHOO. Southern Maldives pass with well-known left, Tiger Stripes and the right, Antiques.

Below BALI, BELANGAN. Among Bali’s Bukit Peninsula worldclass lefts, Belangan plays second fi ddle. But a major set was breaking when the satellite snapped the shot, and, well, it doesn’t look that bad.

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