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Shellebrating Christmas Island's Extraordinary Nature With Street View and Google Earth

posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 24 2018, @12:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-a-few-crabs dept.
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chromas writes:

From Google's blog, The Keyword:

In December, we took the Street View trekker to Christmas Island, a remote tropical territory of Australia just south of Indonesia. With Parks Australia, we joined the island's red crabs as they marched in the millions from the forest to the sea for their annual migration.

Now it's time to shellebrate. Starting today on Google Maps Street View and Google Earth, you can explore Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands' unique wildlife, dazzling ocean vistas and lush rainforests, including the grand finale of the red crab migration—the spawning. The red crabs wait all year for this very moment—and the precise alignment of the rains, moon and tides—to release their eggs at the coastal waters.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday April 24 2018, @01:22PM (3 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday April 24 2018, @01:22PM (#671139) Homepage Journal

    ... open source projects. Perhaps they still do.

    If you're on a tight budget ask for a .cx domain for your code.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @04:28PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @04:28PM (#671213)

      Sadly they got rid of it due to violating the Christmas Island Domain ToS, but it was truly the eponymous troll of the late 90s to early 00s.

    • (Score: 2) by J053 on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:56PM

      by J053 (3532) <{dakine} {at} {shangri-la.cx}> on Tuesday April 24 2018, @08:56PM (#671326) Homepage
      As you can see, I actually have a .cx domain (have had it since the early 90s). I don't think they give them out anymore (the domain registrar changed a few years back), but they grandfathered in existing domain holders. I'm never giving it up (unless for the right price...)!

  • (Score: 2) by goodie on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:43PM

    by goodie (1877) on Tuesday April 24 2018, @03:43PM (#671192) Journal

    Well that looks nice and quiet. But more importantly, it made me want to play old style adventure games. someone must have used Google Street View to create adventure games, haven't they?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @04:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 24 2018, @04:06PM (#671205)

    "shellebrate"? Really morons?

    • (Score: 5, Funny) by janrinok on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:21PM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 24 2018, @05:21PM (#671236) Journal

      We asked Sean Connery about the pronunciation, but he said it sounded OK...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @08:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 25 2018, @08:50AM (#671550)

    SN swallows hook, line and sinker

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