[ Excerpted from The Internet Tourbus for 12/10/1998 ]

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NORAD Tracks Santa
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Our next stop is at a site you will definitely want to visit on December 24th: "The Annual NORAD Tracks Santa Claus Website" at http://www.noradsanta.org/.

And, yes, I do recognize the anachronism. This is *NOT*, contrary to the page's title, the 44th year that NORAD -- the North American Aerospace Defense Command -- has had a Santa-tracking Web site; this is the 44th year that Santa has been tracked by the United States military. :P

Using the latest satellite data and digitized imagery (and a little bit of Javascript), the Norad Tracks Santa site will show you Santa's Christmas Eve (December 24th) flight around the world. Prior to the 24th, this site will provide you with information about NORAD, how NORAD tracks Santa, and a few extra surprises. I highly recommed that you take a look at the "Vehicle Information" page which provides the technical data for both Santa's sleigh and the CF-18 Hornet (the plane that will escort Santa through Canadian airspace).

By the way, because Santa's journey will take him to many different countries, the NORAD Tracks Santa site is available in English, Francais, Italiano, Japanese, and Espanol. The first page of the NORAD Tracks Santa site is a clickable map of the world. Click on the flag that corresponds to the language that you speak. [If you click on the Canadian, American, British, Australian, or New Zealand flag, you are taken to a page written in English; if you click on the French Flag, you are taken to a page written in Francais; and so on.]

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