{"id":2112,"date":"2007-08-06T18:36:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T16:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-sightseeing-australasia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:49:30","slug":"google-sightseeing-australasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-sightseeing-australasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sightseeing &#8211; Australasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Taking a tour down under\" id=\"image2116\" title=\"Taking a tour down under\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/08\/australasia_1.jpg\" \/>OK, so my stomach has just about recovered from the pummeling it took in Asia (or was that from my local curry house this weekend?) and I&#8217;ve arrived in the land down under for the next stage of my great Google Earth world tour. My first stop on this visit had to be one of the continent&#8217;s most recognised landmarks, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=Australia&amp;om=1&amp;t=k&amp;ll=-33.856999,151.215354&amp;spn=0.004179,0.005107\">Sydney Opera House<\/a>. It&#8217;s an impressive sight indeed, but I was not half as excited as I was to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/soap-operas.kml\">Ramsay Street<\/a> in Melbourne, the setting for arguably the greatest TV show in history, Neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussies love their sport so I decided to check out the place where many a legend has been manufactured, the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-35.246259,149.104857&amp;spn=0.004936,0.008225&amp;z=0&amp;t=k&amp;hl=en\">Australian Institute of Sport<\/a>. Before I left Oz I had time to check out the world&#8217;s longest man-man structure, the <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/the-dingo-fence.kml\">Dingo Fence<\/a> in South Eastern Australia, which stretches a whopping 5,000 km. The Thais I met on the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-sightseeing-asia\/\">last leg<\/a> of my trip would&#8217;ve loved it here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d always heard New Zealand was a beautiful place, and flying over the country on Google Earth is a breath-taking experience. When I wasn&#8217;t gawping at purple mountains and lush forests I had time to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/kawarau-river-and-bridge.kml\">Kawarau river and bridge<\/a>, which is probably better known as Middle Earth\u2019s Great River Anduin from the Lord of the Rings films. Couldn&#8217;t see Gollum though. From here I rounded off my NZ trip with a visit to some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/spiral-artwork.kml\">spiral artwork<\/a> in a field before jetting off to spend some time in <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesightseeing.com\/gearth\/republic-of-the-marshall-islands-island-week.kml\">Bikini Atoll<\/a>, the place where my favourite garment was born. Think I&#8217;ll take in the sights here for another week or so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so my stomach has just about recovered from the pummeling it took in Asia (or was that from my local curry house this weekend?) and I&#8217;ve arrived in the land down under for the next stage of my great Google Earth world tour. My first stop on this visit had to be one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-sightseeing-australasia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Sightseeing &#8211; Australasia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337310,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/337310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}