Guess the Picture

You would never guess this, but this is a satellite picture of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. It’s a huge, uninhabited tract of land set aside as an oil reserve, and only recently leased out to oil companies. The satellite photos of the area are absolutely stunning from the abundance of lakes in the region and the way they reflect the sunlight. And at the very top of the region is the small town of Barrow, Alaska, famous for being the northernmost city in all of the United States.

I stumbled on to this while messing around with the new terrain feature in Google Maps.