Sheep Take Over for Google in Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands, located between Iceland and Norway, had been missing from Google Street View until locals took matters into their own hands. In 2016, Durita Dahl Andreassen from the islands' tourism office fitted five sheep with solar-powered, 360-degree cameras as part of a project called Sheep View 360.
The photos were uploaded with GPS tags and quickly gained attention online for their 'shear brilliance.' Google was impressed enough to loan the islands its backpack Street View camera, and soon the Faroe Islands went live on Google Maps.
This wasn't the first time Google got creative with its camera crew. It had already strapped a camera to a camel named Raffia to capture the Liwa desert in Abu Dhabi, as well as using divers and astronauts to explore other locations.