Author: Andrew

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Wanted: 2 new game admins

WANTED: 2 new game admins

Paul and Andrew have been co-game admins for the past 5.5 years, and would like to return to being players.

If you are interested to taking on this role, comment on this post.

Tasks:
– find a contest location to be published Friday
– find a hint to be released on Tuesday
– assemble reveal post to be published Friday just ahead of new contest, including verification of which players found the contest and when they found it to assign points
– keep leaderboard stats up to date

We recommend two users to allow job-sharing and “taking a break” from time to time.

Andrew/Paul

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Contest #650: Brecqhou Fort, Island of Brecqhou which is part of Sark and also Guernsey

With a perfect score of 20, Graham Hedley is our series champion.

Last in this series of islands around the world was the small island of Brecqhou, just west of Sark. Brecqhou Fort was built by the billionaire Barclay brothers Work on Brecqhou, began in 1993 when they bought the Channel Island.

Found the right island before the hint:

  • krenek
  • Walter_V_R
  • Paul Voestermans
  • Lighthouse
  • Graham Hedley
  • Martin de Bock
  • Garfield
  • madone
  • hhgygy
  • Eloy Cano
  • BurningSoul
  • Phil Ower
  • Luís Filipe Miguel

After the hint:

  • David Kozina
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Contest #649: the island of Hirta, St. Kilda, United Kingdom

Beating the end of the island series, this week we visited the island of Hirta, part of St. Kilda in the United Kingdom.

The actual location in the picture shows the World Heritage Site – for cultural and natural reasons.

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/387

Recent research indicates that the archipelago has been occupied on and off for over 4000 years. The landscape including houses, large enclosures and cleits – unique drystone storage structures found, in their hundreds, across the islands and stacks within the archipelago – culminates in the surviving remains of the nineteenth and twentieth century cultural landscape of Village Bay.

The St Kilda Wren and St Kilda Fieldmouse live here and are not found anywhere else.

With nearly one million seabirds present at the height of the breeding season, St Kilda supports the largest seabird colony in the north-east Atlantic, its size and diversity of global significance making it a seabird sanctuary without parallel in Europe.

Found before the hint:

  • hhgygy
  • Walter_V_R
  • Martin de Bock
  • Lighthouse
  • Phil Ower
  • Luís Filipe Miguel
  • Graham Hedley
  • Garfield
  • Paul Voestermans
  • Eloy Cano
  • madone
  • Luciano P.
  • Walter Schirra

After the hint:

  • Chris Nason