Where On Google Earth?

About 75 km south of Oslo, in the Oslofjord lies Bastøy Island, a minimum security prison with appr. 115 inmates.

It is to my believe the most liberal prison in the world, without armed guards or barbed wire. The main problem is not prisoners wanting to escape, but to keep visitors out of the prison.

And the reoffending rate of inmates who served their sentence here is by 16% the lowest in the world.

This is a fascinating documentary about prison life on Bastøy

Those who wouldn’t escape:

There is a relation with contest #191

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It was hardly to be missed this week: the eruption of the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano on June 4. It was its first eruption since 1960, and spectacular it was:

The smoke plume of this eruption disturbed the air traffic as far as Australia. And the planes in the neighbourhood were grounded.

Those who witnessed the event:

• mccrumplair
• hhgygy
• Milosh, Serbia
• Chris Nason
• Paul Franson
• Bill Close
• Axel
• Alonso Alfaro
• Skip
• Ray Liao
• Andy McConnell
• Matt Manolides
• steven simmons
• Dennis S.
• Sarah G.
• Kallikrates
• Mark Hessenflow
• David Kozina
• Raj
• Pascal Gilbraith
• Sasha Smith
• Lelie
• Adam Macer
• José Miguel Diaz
• Thomas Egan
• Ivar Bonsaksen
• Steve Jaycocks
• Elrober

– Hint –

• LawnBoy
• Andy M, USA
• Michael Kennedy
• Jean Scheller
• ACG
• Linda G
• Michael T
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Marlowe D
• blacbronco
• Tim Sansom

Slept for 51 years.

On June 6, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced ‘iCloud‘, which will be hosted in the new built datacenter facility of Apple near the city of Maiden, North Carolina.

Just a few days before the announcement, the building popped up in new imagery on Google Earth.

Those who safely stored their data:

• mccrumplair
• Chris Nason
• Ivar Bonsaksen
• Raj
• Tim Willmes
• Bill Close
• Matt Manolides
• Sarah G.
• Mark Smy.
• Gr8fulted
• Dan Mack
• Lelie
• Michael McDaniel

– hint –

• Paul Franson
• Pascal Gilbraith
• Sasha Smith
• Steve Jaycocks
• Adam Macer
• Dennis S.
• David Kozina

This cloudy place was last monday in the news

A few miles south of Paris, in the suburb Fleury-Mérogis, lies the Fleury-Mérogis Prison. It houses 3,800 prisoners, which is relatively small when you compare it to the prisons in the USA , but it is Europe’s largest jail complex.

It was built in the years 1962-1968 by leading French architect Guillaume Gillet (prix de Rome, 1946)

Right answers this week from:

• hhgygy
• Milosh, Serbia
• Ivar Bonsaksen
• mccrumplair
• Dennis S.
• Steve Jaycocks
• Paul Franson
• Chris Nason
• Lelie
• Axel
• Adam Macer
• Andy M, USA
• Sasha Smith
• José Miguel Diaz
• Bill Close
• Linda G

– Hint –

• David Kozina
• Andy McConnell