Author: Cara Giaimo / Source: Atlas Obscura
A few years ago, Google Street View expanded the boundaries implied by its its name and began adding entirely street-free places: remote outposts that most people will never get to visit. By clicking around, you can now explore a South Pole penguin rookery, the shooting set for Diagon Alley, or Stonehenge. At times, the “floating eye” aspect of these endeavors can be somewhat dissonant. (Remember when they added many acres of Canada’s Quttinirpaaq National Park and never acknowledged the guy who actually had to carry the giant backpack?) But if you want to see a place where it really works, grab your little yellow avatar guy and stick him on Tern Island.
Back in the summer of 2013, Google enlisted employees from NOAA and the U.S….
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