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Google Earth has always been a hugely powerful tool that helps to educate, inform and amaze. We could get lost for hours exploring new places on Google Earth and rediscovering old haunts.

In itself, Google Earth can be an interesting tool. It allows users to check out far-off and unfamiliar places, to see what they look like in 2D or 3D, and even investigate local points of interest.