Month: July 2016

This location is on the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta which covers parts of both India and Bangladesh. The cultivated area in the northern part of the image is Harinagar, Bangladesh.

Inhabited and cultivated land extends from the north all the way across the delta, while the southern parts of the delta towards the Bay of Bengal are uninhabited and some parts are protected by The Sundarbans mangrove forest World Heritage site (Bangladesh – whc.unesco.org/en/list/798″), as well as India’s Sundarbans National Park World Heritage site (whc.unesco.org/en/list/452). This location was selected because of this sharp visual contrast between the inhabited and cultivated areas and the adjacent uninhabited areas just across the distributary channels.

Harinagar, like many parts of this region, is highly susceptible to flooding and sea level rise. According to this story in Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-refugees-bangladesh/) local residents are at risk of becoming (or have already become) climate change refugees.

One of the more famous species living in the Sundarbans is the Bengal tiger which is diminishing in number. A document evaluating the Bangladesh Sundarbans for World Heritage site status (whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/798.pdf) reported an annual mean of 22 human deaths from attacks by “man-eating tigers” between 1947 and 1983.

Found before the hint:

• hhgygy
• Marisa Boraas
• Phil Ower
• Glenmorren
• Tim
• Garfield
• Wista
• Lighthouse
• Eloy Cano
• Robin
• Ann K.

And after the hint:

• Max_Power
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Steve J
• steven simmons
• Barbie

Watch out for the tigers!

An active stratovolcano with a large caldera lake (named “Heaven Lake”), Mt Paetku sits on the Chinese/North Korea border.

Following the death of Kim Jong-Il in December of 2011, the official, state-sanctioned broadcaster for North Korea, KCNA (Korean Central News Agency), reported some serious things happening on Mount Paetku.

The official line is that Mr. Kim was born there (even though Soviet records show him as being born in Vyatskoye in far eastern Russia while his father was stationed there during WWII). Upon the mountain realizing that he died, KCNA states that a furious snow storm paused and the ice built up on the lake cracked so loud “it seemed to shake the Heavens and the Earth”. They further reported that following the storm’s sudden end, the metal signs that Kim had installed in 1992 on the mountain that spell out”Mount Paektu, holy mountain of revolution. Kim Jong-il. 1992-2-16″ – glowed brightly until sunset.

Those who embraced the glow included:

• Lighthouse
• Eloy Cano
• Robin
• Garfield
• Phil Ower
• hhgygy
• Glenmorren
• Max_Power
• Ann K.
• steven simmons