I saw this comment was downvoted and I figured you were trolling or something, but then I looked and there's a legit mystery there.
There are two big masses of lights, one off the coast of Peru and one off the coast of Argentina, that aren't connected to any landmasses whatsoever. Look 250 km W of Barranca (which is north of Lima on the Peruvian coast), and for the rest, start with the Falklands and look for a cluster 100 km north, one 150-200 km northwest, and one 100 km west.
The cluster off of Peru might be displaced from the Ecuadorian islands to the north -- the shape looks vaguely similar to the islands Isabela, Fernandina, Santiago, Santa Cruz, and San Cristobal (at around 0 deg N, 90 deg W).
I suspect the cluster near the Falklands has been displaced about 300 km to the southeast -- the "ring" just north of the Falklands matches the area around Comodoro Rividavia, the western cluster matches Isla Wellington, and the northern inverted-Y shape seems to roughly follow highways 26/40 in the western part of south Argentina.
EDIT: I moved around a bit more and noticed there are lots of faint streaks off of the coasts of South America, including a fairly big blob just east of Rio. I don't know whether it's browser-specific or something screwy on the backend.
EDIT 2: while most of my local area (Denver) looked sane, I noticed a bright cluster near Hereford, CO (around 41 N, 104 W) and that's just pure farmland. The map shows [0] in the middle of a fairly heavily light-polluted area.
Interesting. I'd definitely believe that for some of those clusters (particularly the inverted Y). Not sure it fits with the cluster near Peru, and definitely not the one in northeastern Colorado.
The one in NE Colorado is likely oil extraction from the Niobrara shale formation.
The street view is from 2007. If you switch to aerial view (from 2016) you'll see many identical looking installations which are likely oil wells installed during the previous 10 years.
There are two big masses of lights, one off the coast of Peru and one off the coast of Argentina, that aren't connected to any landmasses whatsoever. Look 250 km W of Barranca (which is north of Lima on the Peruvian coast), and for the rest, start with the Falklands and look for a cluster 100 km north, one 150-200 km northwest, and one 100 km west.
The cluster off of Peru might be displaced from the Ecuadorian islands to the north -- the shape looks vaguely similar to the islands Isabela, Fernandina, Santiago, Santa Cruz, and San Cristobal (at around 0 deg N, 90 deg W).
I suspect the cluster near the Falklands has been displaced about 300 km to the southeast -- the "ring" just north of the Falklands matches the area around Comodoro Rividavia, the western cluster matches Isla Wellington, and the northern inverted-Y shape seems to roughly follow highways 26/40 in the western part of south Argentina.
EDIT: I moved around a bit more and noticed there are lots of faint streaks off of the coasts of South America, including a fairly big blob just east of Rio. I don't know whether it's browser-specific or something screwy on the backend.
EDIT 2: while most of my local area (Denver) looked sane, I noticed a bright cluster near Hereford, CO (around 41 N, 104 W) and that's just pure farmland. The map shows [0] in the middle of a fairly heavily light-polluted area.
[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Avondale,+CO+81022/@40.966...