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The US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provides public access to their GEOnet Names Server (GNS), from which some Google Earth data is drawn.

With Google Earth's Geographic Features layer turned on, the following will be seen at low altitudes at 0° North 0° East:

It comes from a larger Geonames set at that location:

These errors have been reported to the Geonames server support group. In any case, they should be blocked or corrected in Google Earth.

IDs = 6244402 and 6244408, Golfo de Fonseca and Golfo de Chorotega, Nicaragua
ID = 9132535, Playa Santo Cristo, Colombia
ID = 6255040, Sierra San Felipe, Mexico
ID = -1506412, Pacific Ocean, French = L'océan Pacifique, Russian = Tikhiy Okean, Spanish = Océano Pacífico
ID = 9223986, Saiyan, Pakistan
ID = 9136844, Pribrezhnyy, Russia
ID = 9132569, Punta La Colorada, Colombia
ID = 196151, CONVENTIONAL NAMES MASTER, apparent end of database