Ever wondered where our beach volleyball stars hail from?

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Californian golden boys Jacob Gibb and Casey Patterson celebrate at last year’s Gstaad Major. Photo credit: Andreas Langreiter.

In our never-ending quest to be beach volleyball’s coolest and most caring and comprehensive event organizer the world has ever seen, we have conjured up this piece of magic, using Google Maps.

Yes, behold our smart Major Hamburg map, which details every single team competing at this week’s event at the Am Rothenbaum Stadium.

As you can see, partnerships have come from far and wide across the globe to be a part of this spectacular first stop on the Swatch Major Series, from the south Pacific island of Vanuatu to Kazakhstan and from Tenerife to northern Norway.

Feel free to zoom in and out of the map at your leisure, where you can hone and explore the beach volleyball hotspots of Rio de Janeiro or the Californian coastline, or simply browse the scattering of stars that sprinkle throughout central Europe.

For the map click here