Author: Andrew

This week we went cold in the heat of the UAE desert. The location is the Gulf and Modern Ice Company in Dubai, UAE.

Before the hint:

• Martin de Bock
• Graham Hedley
• Garfield
• Angie CF
• Glenmorren
• Paul Voestermans
• Eloy Cano
• hhgygy
• Phil Ower
• zorro the fox
• Lighthouse

After the hint:

• BAs van Limpt

Signy Island holds the record for the highest temperature in the Antarctic (defined as all land and ice shelves south of 60S. This record temperature of +19.8C was set on January 30, 1982!

Signy Island is home to a British Antarctic Survey station, opened in 1947 on the site an old whaling station from the 1920s.

Found before the hint:

• Phil Ower
• Martin de Bock
• Graham Hedley
• Glenmorren
• Angie CF
• ZORRO the FOX
• Garfield
• hhgygy
• Lighthouse
• Eloy Cano
• Paul Voestermans
• Bas van Limpt

After the hint:

• Gillian B

It’s a simple idea – focus the sun’s energy on a small target to generate heat.

In the case of the world’s largest one, the Odeillo Solar Furnace near the commune of Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via in the Pyrenees of southern France, it’s 10,000 mirrors focusing the sun’s energy onto an area roughly the size of a cooking pot, which reaches temperatures above 3,000 degrees Celsius (5,430 degrees Fahrenheit). Two sets of mirrors do this – in a structure built in 1970.

Those focusing in on the right spot before the hint:

• Paul Voestermans
• Phil Ower
• zorro the fox
• Martin de Bock
• hhgygy
• Andreas Meister
• Lighthouse

After the hint:

• Angie CF
• Garfield
• Graham Hedley
• Gillian B
• Robin
• Eloy Cano

Contest 822 took us north to the Mendenhall Glacier on the outskirts of Juneau, Alaska, a popular tourist spot. It’s one of the few glaciers you can easily reach from a city on a short drive. Of course, first, you’ll have to either get a car to Juneau or rent one there, because there is no road that connects Juneau with the rest of Alaska or Canada.

The glacier’s shink rate is increasing quite rapidly. From 1500 until 2000, the terminus of the glacier had retreated about 2.5 miles. From 2000 to 2021, that rate had increased to about 160 feet per year, but from August 2021 to August 2022, the terminus had moved back 800 feet.

Found while they could before the hint:

• Glenmorren
• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Garfield
• Graham Hedley
• Lighthouse
• Eloy Cano
• Phil Ower
• ZORRO THE FOX
• Andreas Meister
• Angie CF

After the hint:

• Ashwini Agrawal

This week the location was the Furnace Creek Visitor Centre in Death Valley, California, USA. It’s one of the hottest places on earth!

On July 10, 1913, the ambient air temperature recorded was 57.6 °C (134 °F). The ground temperature on this site on July 15, 1972 was measured at 93.9 °C (201.0 °F).

Found before the hint:

• hhgygy
• zorro the fox
• Martin de Bock
• Andreas Meister
• Eloy Cano
• Garfield
• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• Angie CF
• Graham Hedley
• Phil Ower
• Glenmorren

After the hint:

• LawnBoy
• Bas van Limpt
• Joël
• Gillian B

This weeks contest location was the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism in Berlin, Germany.

The momument was built in May of 2008, designed by artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. It commemorates not only those persecuted under the Nazi regime, but also those persecuted under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code, which furthred the criminalization of homosexuality until it was repealed in 1994.

Those finding it before the hint:

• Graham Hedley
• Martin de Bock
• Phil Ower
• zorro the fox
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Gillian B
• Ashwini Agrawal
• hhgygy
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Bas van Limpt

After the hint:

• Angie CF