Where On Google Earth?

This surely was hard to find. Even when you knew what you are looking for. I wonder how many of you found the location in Google Earth when you found the name in your search engine.

It is the Mahdasht Satellite Receiving Station / Alborz Space centre in Iran.
It was recently in the news when for the first time a group of Western Journalists was invited to visit this place.

It is a ground receiving station for the Iranian Civil Space program

A Special kudos to hhgygy for finding it without the hint and a honorable mention for mccrumplair for identifying the region.

• hhgygy

– Hint –

• Pascal Gilbraith
• steve willis
• mehtab sond
• Ferrucio
• Steve Jaycocks
• Ernesto Posse
• Paul Franson
• mccrumplair
• Sandworm
• ewen
• trull
• Marisa Boraas
• ACG
• Lelie
• Sarah G.
• Alonso Alfaro
• Gerard-Jan
• quiltadel
• Steve Devine

Last week this location was in the news, when for the first time it was visited by western journalists.

Is this one too hard? Next Wednesday a hint will be published

Since 1557 and until 1999, Macau was a Portugese colony at China’s south coast
In 1999, together with Hong Kong, it became a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China.

The contest points at the border checkpoint with China, now a new building, but the original Barrier Gate is still there.

Those who changed their patacas

• hhgygy
• Sandworm
• mccrumplair
• Skip
• steve willis
• alice
• RicardPG
• quiltadel
• blacbronco
• trull
• Paul Voestermans

– Hint –

• Ben Bayer
• Dennis S.
• globcke
• BlackEmperor
• Marisa Boraas
• Derek
• Steve Jaycocks
• Paul
• Ernesto Posse

This is what you get when you enable the ‘borders’ layer

(Click the image for a larger version)

Lake Urmia is the 3rd largest salt water lake in the world. It is situated in the NW of Iran, the Azarbaijan region.
It is drying up fast and becoming increasingly saline.

In the 1970s a causeway across the lake was constructed and left almost finished until 2008, when the remaining 1,5 km was completed with a bridge.

Despite anti-corrosion measurements, the bridge is already heavily rusting.

Those who watched the lake drying out

• quiltadel
• mccrumplair
• hhgygy
• Skip
• Paul Franson
• Sasha Smith
• steve willis
• Ger N
• Paul Voestermans
• RicardPG
• Chris Nason

– Hint –

• Lelie
• Marisa Boraas
• ACG

And this ends again another series, with a clear winner with full marks: mccrumplair.
Congratulations, Axl!

steel bridge + salt water = rust

Bodie is the best preserved ghost town in California.
Originally it is a mining town which housed over 10,000 inhabitants at its glory days. (around 1880)

As from 1880 the decline set in and in 1920 Bodie counted not more than 110 inhabitants.

Hmm, it was not as easy as I thought it would be; only 10 right answers:

• steve willis
• hhgygy
• Paul Voestermans
• mccrumplair
• quiltadel
• Ger N

– Hint –

• Chris Nason
• ACG
• Paul Franson
• Sasha Smith