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Amazing Google Earth timelapse shows Whanganui over the decades

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Google Earth's new timelapse feature shows from above change over the period from 1984.

You can browse any location at g.co/Timelapse, including Whanganui, as below.

Other options including watching as glaciers shrink over the decades, or examples of urban sprawl and deforestation.

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