Mount Mabu was Discovered on Google Earth
Discovering a new place is one of life's great minor pleasures. a hip club, a fantastic new restaurant, and even a tiny waterfall tucked away in the forest. But when we use the word "new," we usually refer to a location that we have never been personally, not a location that has never been visited before by anyone. The world has already been explored in every corner, right? Well, perhaps not. For instance, it took until 2005 for outsiders to find Mozambique's Mount Mabu, which is totally covered in a rainforest. And Google Earth was the sole tool that helped find it.
The vast 27 square miles of the rainforest made it a significant piece of land that had been overlooked for so long. The mountain and the rainforest were undoubtedly widely known to the people, but scientists and geographers had no notion whatsoever. Due to the region's history of conflict and near total isolation, few outsiders have ventured there.
Only because Julian Bayliss, a biologist, was specifically searching for uncharted territory on Google Earth, did he find it. The forest and the mountain were unmapped and undocumented, resembling some sort of geographical unicorn.
