Each year NORAD join in the Christmas festivities with their Track Santa website.
The tradition began in 1955 when a misprint in an ad inviting on children to call Santa resulted in the telephone number of The Commander-in-Chief's hotline being published!
Instead of creating a major incident they chose to join in the fun and have been running the service every Christmas since.
Nowadays NORAD use Google Earth to track Santa's progress across the globe. You can view progress on the NORAD site or if you have Google Earth (free download) you can download a .kml file.
Drop by the NORAD Santa website on Christmas eve to participate in the fun with your children young or old!
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Posted by mfraser on Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:24 am
Sorry, the Google Earth Plug-in is not supported on your browser or platform.
Posted by mostdom on Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:47 am
News Team Wrote:
...resulted in the telephone number of The Commander-in-Chief's hotline being published!
"War office!
"hello, is that santa!"
"Eh! What!???"
"For christmas I want...!"
Dom
HERE LIES PND May it rest in peace.
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Posted by Darren on Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:24 pm
mfraser Wrote:
Sorry, the Google Earth Plug-in is not supported on your browser or platform.
What OS and browser are you using? The standalone Google Earth app is available for Linux so if I'm guessing correctly you can use that?
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Posted by Darren on Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:40 pm
Norad have started tracking Santa and in a new move are even tweeting this year @NoradSanta.
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Posted by mfraser on Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:24 am
"War office!
"hello, is that santa!"
