Where On Google Earth?

This one is related to Contest #217

The Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge spans the Bothe Koshi River and is the main route for the mountaineers on their way to the Himalaya and Lhasa.

It connects the Tibet Friendship Highway to the Sino-Nepal Highway

Those who crossed the border

• hhgygy
• Emil Schierle
• mehmet durmus
• Steve Hoge
• Farceur
• rob de wolff
• steve willis
• mccrumplair

– Hint –

• Sandworm
• TitouPinkRider
• Deniz Yorukoglu

A friendly place at the border

This part of North Dakota is recently ‘enriched’ by numerous oil fracking sites. Thanks to the controversial rock fracturing technique the number of oil rigs in this area had exponentially grown since 2008.

I did want to show you an animation of the increasing number of tracking sites in this area, but the video seems to be off line at the moment. Sorry for that.

Those who cracked this contest

• Sandworm
• Emil Schierle
• steve willis
• Farceur
• Ernesto Posse
• mccrumplair
• hhgygy
• Deniz Yorukoglu
• mehmet durmus
• rob de wolff
• Paul Voestermans

– Hint –

• Steve Hoge
• ACG
• Steve Jaycocks
• Paul Franson

It is not near an old town

(sorry for the delay, the ‘automatic publishing feature’ didn’t work)

Question this week (apart from the location): what is going on here (the dot-pattern)?

You can click the picture for a larger version

This used to be the place where Rio de Janeiro dumped its waste. It is the largest landfill in Southern America and one of the largest in the world.

It closed down recently after 34 years in operation.
It was featured in the documentary ‘Waste Land’

Note: I prepared this contest on wednesday, June 6. On the same day Google Earth updated the imagery of this site, which I did not notice until some of you alerted me when the contest was live.

To give everyone a fair chance, I decided not to update this contest with the new imagery.

Those who dumped their waste

• hhgygy
• steve willis
• Sandworm
• Ernesto Posse
• mccrumplair
• Deniz Yorukoglu
• TitouPinkRider
• Farceur
• CuriousJM

– Hint –

• ACG
• Paul Franson
• Aaantoine
• Steve Jaycocks
• Dennis S.
• mehmet durmus
• Emil Schierle
• Marcel
• Bill Close
• Sasha Smith
• Shelly
• Paul Voestermans
• Jellicle
• Marisa Boraas

One of the largest in the world, until it closed last week.