Author: hhgygy

The Kazungula border is a unique, near-quadripoint where the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe nearly meet in the middle of the Zambezi River.
While often described as a 4-country meeting point, it technically consists of two close tripoints separated by 135-150 meters.
The Kazungula Bridge spans the Zambezi River near the quadripoint. The bridge itself directly connects Botswana and Zambia.
Its construction began on 5 December 2014 and was completed in December 2020. The bridge was officially inaugurated on 10 May 2021.

Those who found the bridge before the hint:

• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• Martin de Bock
• Graham Hedley
• Paul Voestermans
• Phil Ower

And those who found the near-quadripoint:

• Bernd
• krenek

Bruère-Allichamps is located 7 kilometers north of Saint-Amand-Montrond on the RD 2144, which is the axis linking Bourges (44 kilometers to the north) to Montluçon (56 kilometers to the south).

The commune is one of seven communes claiming to be the center of France, and, historically, the first. A Roman milestone, formerly present in the area, has been erected in the center of the village and serves as a monument to mark the supposed center of France.

According to the calculations of the French geographer Adolphe Joanne (1813-1881), who wrote in his Geographical Dictionary, “The geometric center of France, as far as one can be determined, is located in the southern part of the Cher department, in the village of Bruère-Allichamps, 7 km northwest of Saint-Amand-Montrond.”

Those who found the center of l’Hexagone without a hint:

• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• Phil Ower
• Lighthouse

And after the hint:

• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans
• krenek
• Graham Hedley

MAP – Museums at the Park in Sint‑Niklaas, Belgium consists of four museums, of which this week’s contest was specifically about the Mercator Museum, a compact but renowned museum dedicated to the history of cartography, with a strong focus on Gerard Mercator, the Flemish cartographer whose 16th‑century innovations transformed navigation and mapmaking. Its most valuable pieces are Mercator’s original terrestrial globe from 1541 and celestial globe from 1551, along with early editions of his atlases that introduced the modern concept of a unified “atlas”.

The museum explains the significance of the Mercator projection and shows how it shaped both early navigation and today’s digital mapping systems. Visitors can explore a carefully curated collection of historical maps, globes, and instruments that illustrate how different eras imagined and measured the world.

The museum stands as both a tribute to Mercator’s legacy and a broader introduction to the evolution of global mapmaking.

Those who found it before the hint:

• Eloy Cano
• Graham Hedley
• Martin de Bock
• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans

And after the hint:

• krenek
• Zorro the Fox