Looking at St. Martin from 1984 to the present with the updated Google Earth timelapse feature is pretty fascinating. It’s certainly not perfect, I think the data is pretty infrequent in the early years and part of what we can see is the improvement in the quality of satellite imagery. Still, we can also see major changes pretty clearly: a huge increase in the size of Pond Island an the ring road sandfill, the airport expansion and the development of Orient Bay, to name a few.