Category: Reveal

Black Star Square in Accra Ghana has two main entrances – the main obe with Independence or Black Star Gate in the north and a second building/gate with three thin arches in the south. Both would fit the arch theme of the series – but one was less obvious.

The square was completed in 1961 to coincide with a visit by Queen Elizabeth II, visiting to encourage the newly independent Ghana to remain within the Commonwealth.

It hosts all the major national public gatherings, national festivals, military parades, concerts and occasional fashion shows. Seating for 30,000+ surrounds the square.

The image below shows Independence or Blaxk Star Arch in the foreground, Black Star Square full of people and in the background the building we were looking for in front of the Atlantic Ocean.

Found before the hint:

• Lighthouse
• hhgygy
• Phil Ower
• zorro the fox
• Graham Hedley
• Angie CF

After the hint:

• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield

Following the series theme, we visited the Kameido Kenjin Shrine in Tokyo, Japan to find two arched bridges.

The shrine is dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, a 9th-century Japanese scholar. It was built in Tokyo in 1646, damaged by US bombing during World War 2 and rebuilt in modern years. It hosts a wisteria festival each year.

Found before the hint:

• Paul Voestermans
• hhgygy
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• Martin de Bock
• Garfield
• Graham Hedley
• Eloy Cano
• Bas van Limpt
• zorro the fox
• Angie CF

Contest 836 continued the series theme of arches (if you didn’t figure that out yet) with the spectacular Veresk Bridge in northern Iran on the main line between Tehran and Gorgan. The railway line snakes across the mountains and is in use today, despite being opened for use in 1935. The Google Earth image below shows the railway line in the Veresk Bridge area.

The railway is on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, and contain 174 large bridges, 186 small bridges and 224 tunnels, including 11 spiral tunnels. The Veresk Bridge stands 110 meters above the valley, its arch measures 66 meters and the overall length of the bridge is 112 meters.

Found before the twisted hint:

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

After the hint:

• zorro the fox

This week was a visit to the Peace Arch on the longest undefended border in the world between Canada and the United States.

It is co-managed by BC Parks and Washington State Parks. Dedicated in 1921, it’s right on the Canada-US border.

It commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, and symbolizes the long history of peace between the two countries.

Found before the hint:

• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• hhgygy
• Andy NcConnell
• Phil Ower
• Angie CF
• Eloy Cano
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Garfield
• Graham Hedley
• David Kozina
• zorro the fox
• Jeather
• Bas van Limpt

After the hint:

• Robin
• Lighthouse
• Gillian B.

Wolfberg Arch in South Africa was this weeks destination – a beautiful 20 metre wide and high arch accessible by an 8 hour hike! The hint referred to the two ways one can access the arch through the Wolfberg Cracks – the Narrow and the Wide.

https://www.wanderlustmovement.org/wolfberg-arch-hiking-guide/

Found without the hint:

• Graham Hedley
• Phil Ower
• hhgygy
• Angie CF
• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• zorro the fox
• Eloy Cano

Contest #833 was a visit to southern England and the Durdle Door Arch, located near Lulworth.

This location has been used in several music videos, among them Shout by Tears for Fears (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7FKc1JQe4and) Loverboy by Billy Ocean (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyrowWnlNnQ). It’s also a well-used film location with a scene of Wilde starring Stephen Fry filmed here.

Finding this hidden location before the hint:

• Graham Hedley
• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• Glenmorren
• Phil Ower
• Martin de Bock
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Angie CF
• Bas van Limpt
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• chris nason
• Garfield
• ZORRO THE FOX
• Felix Bossert

After the hint:

• Jesus Rodriguez
• Robin

This week, we visited the Aloba Arch in Chad. One of the longest arches in the world, it’s outside the areas more well-known for big arches.

Found before the hint:

• Graham Hedley
• Angie CF
• hhgygy
• Eloy Cano
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• Garfield
• ZORRO the FOX

This weeks location was Landscape Arch, found just north of Moab, Utah in the US. It’s one of the longest arches in the world but is very narrow that access under the arch as well as crossing the arch is forbidden at this time.

Found before the hint:

• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• Martin de Bock
• Glenmorren
• Angie CF
• zorro the fox
• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• Graham Hedley
• David Kozina

After the hint:

• LawnBoy
• Bas van Limpt

The theme of this series has been temperature as we have visited hot and cold spots, plus a few locations related to heat or cold.

This series was to find three locations related to the “inventors” of the three main temperature scales:

1. The Uppsala Observatory, established by Anders Celsius in Uppsala, Sweden

2. The house where Daniel Fahrenheit was born, in Gdańsk, Poland

3. Mount Kelvin on the west side of the South Islamd in New Zealand, named after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. It’s interesting to note that many peaks in the Paparoa Range are named after scientists.

Before the hint:

• Phil Ower – all three
• Paul Voestermans- all three
• Martin de Bock – all three
• hhgygy – all three
• Lighthouse – all three
• Garfield – all three
• Angie CF – all three
• zorro the fox – all three
• Eloy Cano – all three
• Graham Hedley – 1 and 2

Thank you to those who liked this contest and took the time to say so. It is appreciated.

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Those who found this cool spot in the desert, all before the hint:

• hhgygy
• Martin de Bock
• Paul Voestermans
• Phil Ower
• Glenmorren
• Graham Hedley
• Andy McConnell
• Angie CF
• zorro the fox
• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Bas Van Limpt