Repost!
In celebration of Where On Google Earth’s 600th contest since the first one way back on February 12th, 2008, Paul and I would like to offer the players of the game a chance to help us set the weekly challenge.
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As players, you know the kind of contests you like and now you can help us set contest #600.
Andrew / Paul
24 08 56.31 N
23 11 24.66 E
eye alt 35716 ft
A Mars colony? in the Sahara Desert?!
Probably not a great nor convenient place to visit, but looks cool from above.
600 =>
sculpture “THE EARTH IS FLAT” = https://www.visitherning.com/ln-int/jorden-er-flad-earth-flat-gdk1093839
SV link = https://goo.gl/maps/fkvhYXj4NyN2
image = could be something like this capture = https://i.postimg.cc/cJJMyCpk/woge-600-idea.jpg = not identified by google or bing or yandex
…or something even closer?!
at 56.131198° 9.020148°
My suggestion is Portmeirion, located in North Wales. No need for coordinates, just enter the name. Built by eccentric architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925-1975, was intended as an homage to Italian coastal villages, but it’s purpose and meaning remain elusive, also was the set for 60’s cult spy series The Prisoner. Used now as a trust/hotel and tourist destination, the gardens are also amazing. I partly grew up a few miles from Portmeirion, so many happy memories of family outings. You could play on the Prisoner theme for the clue.
50°15’37.49″ N 4°54’40.98″ E
Dinant, Belgium: The Charles de Gaulle Saxophone Bridge
Spanning the river Meuse in Belgium, this charming bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to each of the European countries within the European Union.
Why saxophones?
It was here, in the Belgium city of Dinant, that Adolphe Sax—the inventor of the saxophone—was Born
By the way: I still love this contest – you do it always very well, it makes so much fun !
Second suggestion, 53° 4’57.48″N, 4° 0’5.61″W, Pen Y Gwryd Hotel, Snowdonia National Park, North Wales. Considered the heart of British mountaineering, and spiritual home of the 1953 Everest expedition. Located in Snowdonia, where all training took place including the oxygen cylinder testing. Tenzing Norgay and Edmond Hillary’s signatures are found on the ceiling along with scores of hanging antique climbing boots, each room a shrine to expeditions all over the world. A link – https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2015/snowdons-pen-y-gwryd-hotel-a-little-piece-of-everest-history/
51°40’20.89″ N 4°41’41.38″ W
Tenby Museum and Art Gallery is the oldest independent museum in Wales
Tenby (Dinbych-y-pysgod) is a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, with 4 km sandy beach, and the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, the 13th century medieval town walls, including the Five Arches barbican gatehouse
OK my candidate is the Hindu temple Pura Luhur Poten at the foot of the Bromo volcano at 7°56’0.25″ S 112°57’16.02″ E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Bromo
This is a location that won me a nice bottle of home-made pálinka (Hungarian brandy) at a Google Earth location finding contest many years ago.
Best regards and keep up the good work guys
György Horváth
my second idea for the 600th:
https://i.postimg.cc/C5yV8MKy/woge-600-idea-b.jpg
at 50.078192° 14.421074°
600 years ago took place
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
in the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Town_Hall_(Prague)
built in the 1300s
that’s a symbol of independence
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my picture is not identified by google or bing or yandex!
46°59’01.03″ N 8°35’04.05″ E
TSB: Treib-Seelisberg-Bahn (little electrical train), Swiss
Vierwaldstädtersee
from Treib to Seelisberg 6-8 min, 900 people/hour
7°30’00.7″N 134°37’27.4″E
The Palau National Capitol Building –
Opened in late 2006, the Palau National Capitol in Ngerulmud was largely financed using a Taiwanese loan, under the “checkbook diplomacy” phenomenon between the PRC and ROC that has been especially widespread with the pacific island nations.
The building has purportedly been suffering from mold infestation due to a faulty ventilation system, not too long after opening.
Image: https://s8.photobucket.com/user/1962guitarman/media/Scotts%20Terra%20Nova%20hut_zpsm9kdkzz7.png.html
Significance:
Scott’s Hut – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%27s_Hut
77°38’9.82″S – 166°25’2.78″E
Additional:
The difficulty in this contest is the fact that the shadows point to the north due to the 24 hour daylight on Antarctica. You would expect the shadows pointing south. Second difficulty is that you’ll have to zoom in to get the image as it is. I guess this would be a good one to split the top of the list.
51° 33′ 46″ N, 1° 46′ 17″ W
Swindon, UK, Magic Roundabout
Traffic flow around the inner circle is anticlockwise, and traffic flows in the usual clockwise manner around the five mini-roundabouts on the outer loop
Mana Island, 17°40’34.25″ S 177°06’21.33″ E
Nigel the lonely gannet dies as he lived, surrounded by concrete birds
Nigel lived for years on his own on uninhabited Mana Island off the north of the country, surrounded by concrete replica gannets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/02/nigel-lonely-new-zealand-gannet-dies-concrete-replica-birds
Here is my suggestion for Woge #600:
Sin Cowe Island, Vietnam Coordinates 9.884485°, 114.329502°
Sorry, I just found out that this island is part of a reef: #363….
Mt Tuam Victoria, BC, Canada
Salt Spring Island
48°43’38.11″ N 123°29’02.77″ W
Omni-Directional Beacon (ODB) for Victoria airport. It’s used for flight navigation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range
10°14’02.85″ N 61°37’38.93″ W
Trinidad – La Brea Pitch Lake
Fondly called the “Eight Wonder of the World” by villagers is located on Trinidad’s south-western coast, the La Brea Pitch Lake, is still a source of amazement and mystery.
It is the largest commercial deposit of natural asphalt in the world – one of only three in known existence – and holds approximately 10 million tonnes of asphalt
I hope I’m not too late?
I would suggest:
Rujm el-Hiri is an ancient megalithic monument consisting of concentric circles of stone with a tumulus at center. It is located in the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights, in the middle of a large plateau covered with hundreds of dolmens.
Made up of more than 42,000 basalt rocks arranged in concentric circles. The establishment of the site, and other nearby ancient settlements, is dated by archaeologists to the Early Bronze Age II period.
Since excavations have yielded very few material remains, Israeli archeologists theorize that the site was not a defensive position or a residential quarter but most likely a ritual center, possibly linked to the cult of the dead. However, there is no consensus regarding its function, as no similar structure has been found in the Near East.
Coordinates: 32.908705°N 35.800705°E
It’s been a while since I’ve played, but I do look in from time to time. While working on the current puzzle, I ran across this oddity and thought you might like it. Sorry, this form doesn’t seem to allow pasting of images, but I’ve included a link to an article about it.
32°11’50.19″N 119°49’40.12″E
https://designyoutrust.com/2018/08/an-aerial-view-of-the-90-meter-long-puffer-fish-tower-in-east-china/123456/