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Comment by Ewen | August 16th, 2008
sophienhohe the largest manmade hill in the world.Tagebau Hambach lignite open cast mine. germany
Comment by Skip (Austin, TX) | August 16th, 2008
Tagebau Hambach, lignite mine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Next to this is the largest artificial hill in the world… but ofcourse you can read all that on wikipedia.
Cheers,
-Skip
Comment by brian t | August 16th, 2008
It’s the Hambach open cast mine near Hambach, Rheinland, Germany. It’s a source of Lignite (low quality brown coal) which is commonly burned for electricity generation.
Comment by Willem | August 16th, 2008
Niederzier, Garzweiler, Germany, Mining area
Comment by Milosh, Serbia | August 16th, 2008
Tagebau Hambach lignite mine, between Cologne and Aachen, Germany
Comment by Keith M | August 16th, 2008
An open pit lignite (coal) mine in Germany called Tagebau Hambach.
Comment by David S | August 17th, 2008
Its a “surface” or “strip” mining operating between Elsdorf and Niederzier in Germany.
Wikipedia tells me the darker green part on the northwest corner is the “Sophienhöhe” – the largest artifical hill in the world. I had no idea!
The image was pretty clearly a mine of some sort, and the highly irregular field arrangement seemed to indicate europe, the color of the crops looked like what I’d seen when looking at the netherlands from the air, so I started there and worked my way out in a circular pattern.
Comment by PK | August 17th, 2008
The Hambach opencast coal mine, Germany.
Home of that monster excavator.
Comment by ACG | August 17th, 2008
Largest open pit mine in Germany, just west of Koln. Approximately 50 54’N 6 30’E.
Comment by Linda Holland | August 17th, 2008
This is the Lignite mine between Elsdorf and Julich near Cologne in Germany. I recognised it because I used Google Earth when I went to Cologne last winter.
Approx 50 54 40.08 N 6 29 41.82E
Comment by Pan | August 18th, 2008
It’s Pan…
Lignite (coal) mine near Hambach, Germany.
This was VERY hard…I was focused on the huge mines in Western England for the longest time.
Thank you for the fun!
Comment by RDaneel | August 18th, 2008
Karel went to his home region again, right? This looks like a huge mine between Elsdorf and Niederzier, Germany, west of Cologne and close to the Dutch border.
Comment by Andy McConnel and Aaron Predeek | August 18th, 2008
Just west of Koln,Germany