Author: Paul

As alluded to in the hint, there has been a theme to the contests since #572. All of these locations were in South America.

It seemed fitting to end our tour of the southwestern tetartosphere to include the northern end of the continent, a group of islands belonging to Colombia.

Those who found it before the hint were:

• Garfield
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• AVE.C@ES.AR
• hhgygy
• Eloy Cano

and after the hint:

• Walter_V_R
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock

This ends contests series #571-580. Congratulations to our winners Phil Ower and Lighthouse, both with perfect 20 scores.

The new KML file is now available by clicking here. Save the file to your hard drive then open with Google Earth.

Built in the late 1890s, The Lord Lonsdale sailed from Hamburg in 1909 on the way to the west coast of Mexico. As customary for the time, before the dangerous trip through the Straights of Magellan, the ship stopped off at Stanley Harbor in the Falkland Islands. While there, it caught fire. The ship was scuttled to put out the fire.

But, you might notice, this is NOT in Stanley Harbor, but Punta Arenas. So, how did the shipwreck get there?

A salvage company bought the steel hull of the ship. They tried to carry it somewhere — no one is quite sure where they were going, but they only got as far a Punta Arenas before they gave up.

In 2007, the US reality show “The Amazing Race” (season 11, episode 4) featured the wreck as a milestone.

Those playing THIS game who located the wreck (all before the hint) were:

• hhgygy
• Martin de Bock
• AVE.C@ES.AR
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• Walter_V_R
• Rob de Wolff

By Jorge Gobbi from Buenos Aires, Argentina – Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Link

Built in 1766, Acho is the oldest bullring in the Americas and the second oldest in the world. It holds a hair under 15,000 people.

Those who found it included:

• Eloy Cano
• Martin de Bock
• Walter_V_R
• hhgygy
• AVE.C@ES.AR
• Paul Voestermans
• Yakubi Dergahi
• Garfield
• Jesus Rodriguez
• Phil Ower
• Glenmorren
• Elizabeth A Montes
• Lighthouse

and after the hint:

• Steve Hoge
• Hilde Lambeir
• Chris Nason
• Rob de Wolf

Jicamarca is a site in the Incoherent Scatter Radar Chain, a group of 6 observatories that include Arecibo, Millstone Hill in Massachusets, AMISR locations in Poker Flat, Alaska and Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, and Sondrestrom in Greenland.

The observatory was, among many other milestones, the site of the first successful detection of VHF radar echoes from Venus. It also mapped in great detail the terrain of the Sea of Tranquility on the moon, data used extensively by Apollo astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin.

Those who found this site included:

• hhgygy
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• AVE.C@ES.AR

And after the hint:

• Walter_V_R
• Martin de Bock
• Yakubi Dergahi
• Jeather
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Elizabeth A Montes
• Jesus Rodriguez
• Rob de Wolff