from the Instagram account Sad Topographies – a genuine collection of melancholic locations harvested from Google Maps.
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from the Instagram account Sad Topographies – a genuine collection of melancholic locations harvested from Google Maps.
Yay for sadtopographies!
‘Disappointment Island’ Tenerife was already taken.
in cheerier google maps news, the south yorkshire police operations complex has a fantastic address:
https://www.google.ie/maps/place/Letsby+Ave,+Sheffield,+South+Yorkshire+S9,+UK/@53.395609,-1.3986883,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x487977c3772a9353:0xa4b1e940b7ae6f81
letsby avenue? doesn’t anya follenfritt live there?
There’s a Misery Hill in Dublin
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Misery+Hill,+Dublin,+Ireland/@53.3443858,-6.239576,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48670e92d26f3251:0xba40720996db036f
Then there’s this place in Killester, possibly named by a well-meaning Liverpool fan:
https://goo.gl/maps/3HKH9UJY8tA2
And there’s:
– Kill
– Down
– Borris-in-Ossory
nobber
Isn’t Terror Lake where the Simpsons were sent when they wer ein the witness relocation programme?
Shhh, they’re now The Thompsons.
Now when I stamp on your foot, you say “ow”
There is a cartographer’s legend that Lac du Poison was translated as Poison Lake in the US
There’s a few good ones in Ireland.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bastardstown,+Co.+Wexford,+Ireland/@52.1883418,-6.542402,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x48681ffb46b6fa17:0x2600c7a819bbfad2
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Faggot+Hill,+Co.+Cork,+Ireland/@52.0179595,-8.48802,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4844982be69234a1:0xdb9778630f377966
Ah here, my post has been blocked!
B*stardstown, Co.Wexford
F*ggot Hill, Co.Cork
Cape Tribulation Australia
How’s this for a road trip:
https://www.google.mk/maps/dir/Kissing,+Germany/Petting,+Germany/Fucking,+Austria/Wedding,+Germany/@50.152878,9.7920596,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m26!4m25!1m5!1m1!1s0x479e997d0b497391:0x41e48add78be870!2m2!1d10.972609!2d48.3027069!1m5!1m1!1s0x47767df707a81f7d:0x41d25a40937aba0!2m2!1d12.8162263!2d47.9127713!1m5!1m1!1s0x4775d4854dbcba19:0x802456ee60b72a17!2m2!1d12.8633177!2d48.0673299!1m5!1m1!1s0x47a8517f9595adcf:0x21c1863686e8ac40!2m2!1d13.338931!2d52.5560732!3e0?hl=en
Here’s hoping the software doesn’t censor that url
You forgot Split, Croatia.
“You’ve triggered our crude filter and a human needs to look at it.”
Let it go, it’s genuine!
Been living on Disappointment Island for a few decades now. Grand spot but never lives up to the hype it generates.
Carlow. Just Carlow.