Everyone can now virtually visit Quttinirpaaq National Park in Nunavut thanks to Google Street View

Google Street View has gone the most north ever — to Quttinirpaaq National Park in Nunavut. And it's taken every one along for the ride.

With treks along the ocean shoreline and climbs up to lofty ridges, the resulting imagery is spectacular — a digital reflection of one of the world’s most rural locations. Canada’s Arctic is one of the most incredible and remote places on earth. We’re proud to be able to show the world this spectacular landscape and share a part of Canadian culture few people have ever seen.

Featuring wilderness and isolation at its most extreme, Quttinirpaaq (pronounced 'koo-tin-ir-pa-ak'), as the Inuktitut (the local Indigenous language) name suggests, really is the 'top of the world.' Located at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island in the High Arctic, it is a vast landscape that offers thrilling adventure to those who are fortunate enough to explore it.

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Get to tour the new Batcave with Google Street View

The new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice might not be a hit with the critics but if you’re just a fan of Batman and all the cool gear he has, Google’s addition into the promotion bandwagon for the film might excite you. You can take a tour inside Bruce Wayne’s mansion and Batman’s lair through Google Street View. Google Maps even shows the real-world location of the lake house, which is in Orion Charter Township, Michigan. Some of the things you can see as you look around include his super-computer command station, the armored Batsuit, and different weapons as well as the defaced Robin suit on display.

Source: Google Maps | Via: SlashGear

Google Maps hack creates urban jungle out of Street View

If you’ve wondered what our cities would look like post-apocalypse, a new hack for Google Maps gives you a peek of what that world would be like. Urban Jungle Street View gives you a look into concrete jungles filled with vegetation and whatnot. Einar Öberg designed the experiment with the use of Google Street View’s depth data. It helped him plot the grasses and trees on the road and have ivy crawling up buildings. It can supposedly work in any location but you would probably see greater effects in city centers.

Source: CNET

Google Street View documents conservation work for Canada's polar bears

Google partnered with Polar Bears International to bring its Street View cameras to Churchill, Manitoba. The area is said to house one of the biggest polar bear populations in the world. Not only we get great shots of polar bears wandering around the tundra but the conservationists plan to compare future images with the current Street View image to see how the bears’ environment is changing due to climate change. You can view the images over here.

Source: The Verge