Google Maps Street View is used by Britons to plan their holiday routes and destinations – whether this be for far-flung, sun-soaked breaks or staycations.
The website tracks images of street and ocean scenery across the globe, as well as passerbys inadvertently caught in the shots.
Some users, meanwhile, use the website for a spot of wanderlust, honing in on lavish locations and picture perfect holiday spots.
Yet one such destination has been partially masked from view.
Particular governments and business owners can request for their properties to be edited out for specific reasons, and it appears this may have been the case in French Polynesia.
The collection of 100 islands can be found in the South Pacific.
Yet while they stretch for more than 2,000km, only a section of them can be seen.
Google Maps cameras have tracked the entire stretch of islands, owners by the French republic, yet the atoll called Mururoa is particularly hidden.
According to reports, an airstrip, dock and some buildings are said to be masked from view.
Nearly 200 nuclear weapons tests were conducted near the island between 1966 and 1996, so it has a rich heritage.
Yet despite the speculation, it is not clear why some of the images are blurred, yet speculation its nuclear history played a part are rife.
Meanwhile, in a completely separate Google maps discovery, the exact location of the Titanic wreckage has come to light.
The coordinates of the ill-fated liner’s ruins have been pinpointed, ahead of the 107th anniversary of its sinking on April 15, 2019.
History lovers are guaranteed to be interested in taking a look at the vessel’s final resting place. The Titanic sunk after colliding with an iceberg on her route from Southampton to New York, in 1912.
It was the White Star Line ship’s maiden voyage.
More than 1,500 passengers lost their lives, during what is the seventh largest maritime disaster in history.
The Google cameras have pinpointed the remains at coordinates 41.7325° N, 49.9469° W.
For those looking at the scenes, the wreckage can be seen south of the island of Newfoundland.
It is also close to Nova Scotia, Maine and Vermont off the Northumberland Straight.
