Midway Atoll

[bobpbx]

Interesting. If you use Google Maps to go to Midway Atoll (Sand Island) and do a street view, you can go almost anywhere on the Island. It's like they gave the Google camera person the freedom to walk around wherever your curiosity takes you.

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[Teegate]

Top Notch!

 

[Leewardian]

A brilliant new book came out from Hard Case Crime, titled Five Decembers, in which Midway (and Wake) play a role. I've read it twice in the past month. Wartime noir but so much better.

For those interested, here's a bit about it: December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to investigate a homicide that will change his life forever. Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U.S. doesn't know it yet, a Japanese fleet is already steaming toward Pearl Harbor.

Really, really cool tale. While reading it the second time I was Google Map-ping all the locations, and also found out about the Midway walkabout.

- Leewardian

 

[manumuskin]

I love Google Earthing small out of the way islands,many arctic ones have substandard coverage at best.