Lots of interesting things to look at in this area. Desert sand art, a BIG hand, and, what I was really trying to find but had to settle for this, a giant statue over a main road leading into the town of these giant creatures kissing.
Contest #692
Contest #691 – National Dinosaur Museum, Nicholls, ACT, Australia
Located in a suburb of Australia’s capital Canberra, The National Dinosaur Museum was built in 1993. The museum contains both animatronic, dinosaur models, as well a huge exhibit of fossils and full and partial dinosaur skeletons.
Those who dug this site up before the hint were:
- Glenmorren
- Martin de Bock
- Graham Hedley
- hhgygy
- Garfield
- Phil Ower
- Paul Voestermans
- Eloy Cano
- Lighthouse
- Kiribatian Jacob
- Hilde Lambeir
And after the hint
- Gillian B
Contest #691 – Hint
In the garden, encounter Stan (no, not that “Stan”, the animatronic one).
Contest #691
Contest #686 Hint
Ĉi tiu loko estas dediĉita al tio, kio estas festata la 17an de decembro
Contest #686
Contest #684: Shangchuan Island, Jiangmen, China (relevent to Día de Navarra, Spain)
Celebrated on December 3rd in the Navarre autonomous region in Spain, Día de Navarra occurs on the anniversary of the death of the region’s patron saint, Saint Francis Xavier.
St Francis Xavier was remarkable in how far he went to spread Christianity. His travels included significant time in India, Japan, and the island nations surrounding China. He was about to travel to China itself when he fell ill and died on December 3, 1552 on this island (which now is part of China). A chapel was built on the site of his death in the mid 1800’s and that chapel was renovated on the 600th anniversary of his birth in 2006.
One of our contestants gave us a link to the outstanding old picture of the chapel:
No one found the site before the hint. After the hint, we got correct responses from:
- Martin de Bock
- Paul Voestermans
- Ashwini Agrawal
- Hilde Lambeir
- hhgygy
- krenek
- Eloy Cano
- Gillian B
- Phil Ower
- Lighthouse
- Wista
- Kiribatian Jacob
- Jesus Rodriguez
- Robert
- Garfield
Contest #684 Hint
He was born in Spain, travelled throughout India and Japan, and died here. The church was built in 1869, rebuilt in 2006. If you want the post-hint point, you must give approimate coordinates (within 10 minutes each direction) to the actual location.
Contest #684
Sorry about being late today.
