Author: Paul

One of several lakes in the Serra da Estrela region of Portugal, Covão dos Conchos sits near Long Lake. When engineers wanted to create a lake here by damming the stream, they envisioned the water flowing from this lake to Long Lake. Although this lake is higher in elevation than long lake, there is a area between the two that is higher than either one.

Since water doesn’t usually travel uphill very well, they came up with the idea of a long water tunnel fed by this funnel.

Those who found the holy lake before the hint included:

• Eloy Cano
• hhgygy
• Garfield
• Phil Ower
• Lighthouse
• Lelie
• Junebug
• Ann K.
• RicardPG
• joe9000

None after the hint

They had to find some way to get the water where they needed it to go…

Tucked along the Ara canal linking the Han River to the Yellow Sea, this was once a complex of landfills that made up a contender for the largest waste disposal facility in the world, both in size and daily intake.

Starting in the early 2000’s, the South Korean government made the decision to make better use of the land. They converted some of the landfills for scientific research into creating energy from trash, created gardens and ecological parks, and built a world-class golf course. They are reducing the intake in to the remaining main landfill, with plans to cover it with a large dome (for collecting the released greenhouse gasses) and continuing research on the best ways to create energy from the trash that comes in and the trash that is already there.

It basically went from this:

To this:

Those who found the gem in the trash heap included:

• Felix Bossert
• Garfield
• Phil Ower
• Lighthouse
• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• mehmet durmus
• Eloy Cano
• Steve Hoge
• Luís Filipe Miguel
• Ann K.
• Lelie
• rob de wolff
• steven simmons
• Junebug
• joe9000

and those who had to wait until the renovations were done (after the hint):

• Robin
• Chris Nason

This place is going through a really significant transition in terms of use. Here’s what it looked like in 2003:

Well, this contest started out with this reveal:

In December of 2015, scientists at the USGS and NASA noticed a crack in the Nansen Ice Sheet (also known as an Ice Shelf). Nansen is named after Mount Nansen, which, in turn, was named after Fridtjof Nansen, a noted polar explorer who, later in life, was the League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an office that eventually won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.

“The front of Nansen Ice Shelf… looks ready to calve off into a tabular iceberg,” wrote Ryan Walker, a researcher at NASA Goddard, on a blog for NASA’s Earth Observatory. “There’s a huge crack, miles long and sometimes over a hundred yards wide, which runs more or less parallel to the front of the ice shelf.”

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However, best laid plans of mice and men… it seems that the picture also contains “Inexpressible Island”, where part of Scott’s “Terra Nova Expedition” got stranded and wintered in 1912.

What Campbell’s part ate…

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There were still a few others that found this via the Drygalski Ice Tongue.

Basically, we gave the points if you found the spot, regardless of why…

Those who found the iceberg before it fell include:

• Lighthouse
• hhgygy
• steve willis
• Garfield
• Robin
• Phil Ower
• Maureen
• Junebug
• steven simmons

And those who needed a hint:

• Ashwini Agrawal
• Pierre Bourque
• Ann K.
• JF
• Chris Nason

And … thus ends yet another series. Congratulations to perennial favorites Phil Ower and Lighthouse, both with just 1 point away from perfect. That’s quite a streak for Lighthouse — this is the 8th continuous series with you sharing top spot!

The original target of this contest is named after a Nobel Peace Price Laureate. Well, named after a mountain that was named after a Nobel Laureate. It’s a place that’s likely to not be there soon.

Apparently, the thing most people that got it are focusing on is a different part of the picture where a group of people spend a particularly miserable winter in 1912.