Réunion Island Webcam

Réunion is an island located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 km (130 miles) south west of Mauritius, the nearest island. Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas départements of France.

Réunion Island

The Piton de la Fournaise, a shield volcano on the eastern end of Réunion Island, has erupted more than 100 times since 1640 and is under constant monitoring. It most recently erupted on 4 April 2007. The slopes are heavily forested. Cultivated land and cities like the capital city of Saint-Denis are concentrated on the surrounding coastal lowlands.

Réunion also has three calderas: the Cirque de Salazie, the Cirque de Cilaos and the Cirque de Mafate. The last is accessible only by foot or helicopter. In 2005 and 2006 Réunion was hit by a crippling epidemic of chikungunya, a disease spread by mosquitoes.

Six more live Réunion cameras located here.

Cabourg, France Webcam

Cabourg is a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region of France and belongs to the Paris Basin. The commune is located next to the sea and the back country is a plain, favorable to the cereal culture.

Promenad Marcel Proust

It was from Cabourg that William the Conqueror drove the troops of Henry I of France back into the sea in 1058. Cabourg is famous for being Marcel Proust’s favorite vacation place at the beginning of the 20th century; it is the original of Balbec, the seaside resort in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. Cabourg is under the influence of an oceanic climate, with fresh summers and very mild winters.

Gokayama, Japan Webcam

Minka (民家, literally house(s) of the people) are private residences constructed in any one of several traditional Japanese building styles. In the context of the four divisions of society, minka were the dwellings of farmers, artisans, and merchants (i.e., the three non-samurai castes).

Gokayama

Of particular note is the so called gasshō-zukuri (合掌造り, literally “clasped-hands” style), which is preserved in two villages in central Japan, Shirakawa in Gifu Prefecture and Gokayama in Toyama Prefecture, that together have been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

This camera is located in the Taira region in the Toyama prefecture. A second streaming camera is located in the Kamitaira region.

Webcams at Neumayer-Station

Neumayer Station is a permanent German Antarctic research base. It is located on Atka Bay and was opened in 1992. This station in the Antarctic was established in 1981 on the Ekström Shelf Ice as a research observatory for geophysical, meteorological and air chemistry measurements, as well as a logistics base for summer expeditions.

Neumayer Station

Georg von Neumayer, whom the station is named after, was an important promoter of Germany’s research activities in Antarctica. The snow-covered Neumayer Station is located on shelf ice that is 650′ (200m) thick and almost completely flat. All that can be seen from the distance are the towers of the station entrance, which project 6-7′ over the snow.

Nine or at most ten people live and work at Neumayer Station during the Antarctic winter: a medical doctor who also acts as the head of the station, a meteorologist, an airchemist, two geophysicists, an engineer, an electrician, a radio operator/electronics engineer and a cook.

Mount Pelée, Martinique Webcam

Mount Pelée (French: Montagne Pelée, or “Bald Mountain”) is a dormant volcano on the northern tip of the French overseas department of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Carribean. It is among the deadliest stratovolcanos on Earth.

Mount Pelée

Mount Pelée is famous for its extremely destructive eruption in 1902 and the destruction that resulted, now dubbed the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century. The eruption killed about 30,000 people, most deaths in the destroyed Saint-Pierre, at that time the largest city in Martinique, due to its deadly pyroclastic flows. The eruption left only two survivors in the direct path of the volcano, one alive because he was in a poorly ventilated, dungeon-like jail cell and the other, living on the edge of the city, escaped with severe burns.

Shiretoko National Park Cam

Shiretoko National Park covers most of the Shiretoko Peninsula at the northeastern tip of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. The word “Shiretoko” is an Ainu word meaning “end of the earth”.

Shiretoko

One of the most remote regions in all of Japan, much of the peninsula is only accessible on foot or by boat. The forests of the park are temperate and subalpine mixed forests; the main tree species include fir (Abies sachalinensis), Erman’s Birch and Mongolian Oak. Beyond the forest limit there are impenetrable Siberian Dwarf Pine thickets.

In 2005, UNESCO designated the area a World Heritage Site, advising to develop the property jointly with Kuril Islands of Russia as a transboundary “World Heritage Peace Park”.

Agadir Maroc Webcam

The city is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean, near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Souss River flows into the ocean.

Agadir

Agadir is an important fishing and commercial port, the first sardine port in the world, (exporting cobalt, manganese, zinc and citrus). It is also a seaside resort with a long sandy beach. Because of its large buildings, wide roads, modern hotels, and European-style cafés, Agadir is not a typical city of traditional Morocco, but it is a modern, busy and dynamic town. The word Agadir means in Berber “Fortified Granary”.

This group of three camera locations offers exceptional views of the coastal area!