Google has launched an ambitious project to bring the internet to rural areas by sending balloons into the stratosphere above New Zealand...

Balloons are floating in the stratosphere above, Canterbury, New Zealand; and it has nothing to do with earthquakes for a change.

http://huttriverofnz.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/google-has-launched-an-ambitious-project-to-bring-the-internet-to-rural-area-sending-balloons-into-the-stratosphere-above-nz/