Category: Reveal

Glenmorren provided the location, hint and reveal information this contest.

Information in this post was acquired from thedigtree.com.au and explorebulloo.com.au/attractions/the-burke-and-wills-dig-tree.

On August 20, 1860, a group of 19 men, with camels, horses, wagons, and supplies departed from Melbourne on an exploratory trek northward across Australia. This is known as the Burke and Wills Expedition (after Robert O’Hara Burke and William Wills). Compared to the Aboriginal people who had been living on the land for tens of thousands of years (the National Museum of Australia puts it at about 65 000 years), the party was not as well adapted to surviving in the harsh conditions of the Outback.

Route map can be found at:

Burke and Wills expedition

However, four members of the party (Burke, Wills, Charley Gray and John King) did make it all the way to the northern coast before turning back to the south. They had left a small group at Cooper Creek on December 16, 1860, and returned to the site four months later on April 21, 1861.

Those left at Cooper Creek expected to wait for Burke and Wills to return within three months, but they stayed for four. Eventually they felt that the party must have died en route, so they packed up and left. But before doing so, they buried some supplies and marked a “dig” sign in a tree. That tree is known as the Dig Tree. It turns out that the Cooper Creek group left the site just nine hours before the Burke and Wills party struggled their way into the camp, only to find it deserted.
The Explore Bulloo website says that “The Burke and Wills ‘Dig Tree’ is one of Australia’s national icons and an enduring reminder of our pioneering spirit” and that the tree “is believed that the tree is 200-250 years old.”

The story of Burke and Wills does not end at Cooper Creek, so for a richer and more complete account of the story of the Burke and Wills Expedition and the Dig Tree, these two websites are highly recommended: thedigtree.com.au/the-history and explorebulloo.com.au/attractions/the-burke-and-wills-dig-tree.

Correct responses before the hint:

• Glenmorren
• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• Phil Ower
• Martin de Bock
• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• zorro the fox
• Eloy Cano

After the hint:

• Graham Hedley
• Bas van Limpt
• Gillian B.

This week’s contest location, hint and reveal were from zorro the fox! Thanks for doing the legwork.

Where did our ancestors live ?
Ancestors, I mean a long time ago, a very long time, before C. !
We all know about cavemen living in… caves !
After those caves, human beings lived in their first houses built by them and some were built on stilts over the water (during Bronze Age then Iron Age).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_pilings

It still exists around the world, people living in houses built on stilts over waters, mainly fishing communities.

You were looking for :
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, on the Lake Constance (Bodensee), Germany : This open-air museum presents how these tribes lived 4000-3500 years before our era (and I strongly recommend a visit of it).

For more information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhldingen-M%C3%BChlhofen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_pile_dwellings_around_the_Alps

https://www.uhldingen-muehlhofen.de/de/Freizeit-Kultur/Museen-und-Ausstellungen/Pfahlbaumuseum

Found before the hint:

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

After the hint:

• Bas van Limpt
• Gillian B
• Robin

krenek provided us with the location, hint and reveal – thanks!

Euronews headquarters in Lyon, France, at 45.7347° 4.8157°.

Euronews is a television news network that began broadcasting on 01.01.1993 and covers world news on a 24/7 basis. According to Euronews, the multilingual programs are available to 400+ million homes in 160 countries. (For the record, the WOGE #802 creator, when he was travelling the world, can remember he could always watch Euronews, from any hotel anywhere!)

The owners of the company have changed since 1993: It was founded by 10 public European broadcasters, then changed hands several times and is now mainly owned by a Portuguese company, whose owner is close to Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian dictator-to-be (4 public broadcasters have since withdrawn from the capital of the network).

The company Jakob + Macfarlane is the architect of this “green” building, as it is the architect of the orange one (“orange cube”) located on the same quay (to the North. about 500 meters).

Nota bene: The sport network Eurosport had and has no link to Euronews. (Euronews is basically free when Eurosport is a pay television.)

Before the hint:

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

After the hint:

• Gillian B.
• Chris Nason
• Robin

Paul Voestermans provided this location, agreed with the hint and wrote the reveal.

The subject of this week’s contest was the Ward Charcoal Ovens, the main menu in Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park.
The ovens were in operation from 1876 through 1879, south of the town of Ely in White Pine County, Nevada. The beehive shape was designed as a more efficient version of the open-pit system that originated in Italy. They were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in the USA in 1971.

The Ward Charcoal Ovens served diverse purposes after their function as charcoal ovens ended. They sheltered stockmen and prospectors during foul weather and had a reputation as the hideout for stagecoach bandits.

Today, the ovens continue to represent a unique and fascinating chapter in Nevada’s mining history. The area was under private ownership and management until 1956 when the Nevada State Park Commission was offered a permit to protect the ovens. The area was designated a state park in 1994 when recreational facilities were added to the site.

Found before the hint:

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

After the hint:

• Jesus Rodriguez

The Where on Google Earth game started back on February 12th, 2008 with the location being Ground Zero in New York. Thank you to all the players who have enjoyed the games over the past 14 years!

For contest #800, we visited the island of Inishbee off the west coast of Ireland. The straight walls should have helped in finding the island. Inishbee itself looks to be a series of smaller islands linked by sandbars or drumlins of various widths. Dorinish, just to the south of Inishbee, was owned by John Lennon and Yoko Ono for a period up to Lennon’s death.

Before the 800th hint:

• Paul Voestermans
• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• Graham Hedley
• hhgygy
• Martin de Bock
• Phil Ower
• Eloy Cano
• zorro the fox
• Andreas Meister
• Glenmorren

This week we took the game to Albania for the first time in 799 contests.

The location is known as Ali Pasha’s Castle. Built under Venetian dominion in the late 15th or early 16th century, it provided a stronghold for the Venetians on Corfu to exploit fishing, grazing, olives and timber in and around Butrint. The castle was the centrepiece of numerous conflicts with the burgeoning Ottoman Empire, and changed hands on several occasions. It was destroyed by a retreating French army in 1798 to prevent it falling into the hands of Ali Pasha.

Ali Pasha seized control of the structure around 1804 and carried out a series of defensive improvements including the installation of gun batteries. He used this as his second residence until 1820.

Found before the hint:

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

After the hint

• Andreas Meister

Large Roman settlements often contain 2 things, an “Agora”, or forum, and an “Odeum”, or amphitheater. Built in the mid first century by the Roman emperor Octavian (adopted son and anointed successor of Julius Caeser), this site near the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf which served as the capital city of the Epirus Vetus province contains both.

Those who found the site before the hint were:

• Martin de Bock
• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• Garfield
• Zorro the Fox
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• Graham Hedley
• Glenmorren

and after the hint:

• Andy McConnell
• Andreas Meister
• Bas van Limpt

Castelo de Castro Marim Is one of the interesting locations in this week’s image, in the centre of the town of Castro Marim. Also found in the area to the south of the Castelo is Forte de São Sebastião.

And to the east, towards the Spain-Portugal border are salt production lakes and a fish farm.

Found before the hint:

• Martin de Bock
• hhgygy
• Lighthouse
• Graham Hedley
• Paul Voestermans
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Garfield
• Eloy Cano
• Glenmorren
• Phil Ower

This weeks destination was on the island of Cyprus – the Cyprus Railway Museum near the town of Evrychou. This used to be the western end of the Cyprus Government Railway that went all the way to Famagusta at the eastern end of the island. The 122 km long railway ran in stages from 1905 to 1951 and was never profitable.

The museum in Evrychou opened in 2016, and an original handcar and freight wagon are exhibited in a shed outside.

Found before the hint:

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