Contest #377 Answer: 12° 34′ 56″ North 12° 34′ 56″ West

This week’s contest was an attempt to drive our contestants to “think outside of the box” (or, more appropriately, at the corners of the coordinate box). The site was chosen entirely based on the interesting coordinate sequence. The inspiration for chosing this location came from a recent perusal of a website called confluence.org dedicated to documenting and photographing points on the earth where integer coordinates meet (like, for example, 47°N 9°E)

The site, interestingly enough since it is in the north western quadrasphere, is in Senegal Africa. Specifically, the area just south of the Nikolo Koba national park.

Those who found it (all before the Wednesday hint):

  • Lighthouse
  • Garfield

Contest #377

When Andrew and I took on doing this job, we knew we had a bunch of really strong players, but we had NO idea of some of the difficulties we would face to make Where On Google Earth both fun and challenging. This is a serious nod of respect towards you guys, but it means that we have a leaderboard with WAY too many first places entries for this late in a series. So…

We may be wrong, but we think this one may be REALLY hard. Hard enough to be discouraging for some folks, and we really don’t want to lose any of our regular players. As a result, we are going to do things a little differently for just this contest.

If, and only if, we have no correct guesses by Sunday at 0:00 GMT, we will publish a special, no-cost clue. If the clue does get published, guesses after that clue until the usual Tuesday at 0:00 GMT clue will still get 2 points, with 1 point for any after the regular Tuesday clue.

Here’s your target:

Woge Contest #377

Contest #376 Answer: Socompa Volcano, on the border between Chile and Argentina

Socompa volcano, located on the border between Chile and Argentina

The debris avalanche that occurred here over 10,000 years ago is one of the best preserved examples.

It is about 10 times bigger than the one that happened whenMount St. Helens erupted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socompa


Those who dug themselves out included:

  • Walter_V_R
  • Paul Voestermans
  • hhgygy
  • Eloy Cano
  • steve willis
  • Phil Ower
  • Lighthouse
  • Chris Nason
  • Felix Bossert
  • Garfield
  • krenek
  • mehmet durmus