Can You Guess The 11 London Landmarks From Google Satellite View?

Can You Guess The 11 London Landmarks From Google Satellite View?

Ever wish you were a bird — or Jason Hawkes — so you could soar high above London? Well, the next best thing is surveying the topography via Google Maps. Question is: how much of London do you recognise from up here?

1. Easy peasy...

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2. Slightly trickier, still pretty easy

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3. And you'll ace this one...

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4. Clue: it's not a swimming pool

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5. Clue: it is a swimming pool... BUT WHICH ONE?

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6. It's very famous... just not from this angle

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7. We're not in Kansas central London anymore...

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8. Whoever designed those gardens was expecting an aerial photographer...

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9. There are 17 clues in this one...

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10. Zero points for saying  "bridge"

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11. There's a good chance you've eaten here before...

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Answers

1. London Eye
2. Tower of London
3. All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (we'll accept Wimbledon)
4. British Museum
5. Tooting Bec Lido
6. Harrods
7. No. 1 Croydon (we'll also accept NLA Tower, 50p Building, the Weddingcake, the Threepenny bit or the Bandersnatch Building).
8. BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir/Neasden Temple
9. Stockwell Bus Garage
10. Hammersmith Bridge
11. Spitalfields Market

How did you do?

1 or less: never took off
2-3: fall from grace
4-6: you may believe you can fly, but no one else does
7-8: eagle-eyed
9-10: high flyer
11: you are clearly an actual bird

Last Updated 18 December 2023

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