Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Aug 5 2007, 12:23 PM) [snapback]490877[/snapback]</div>

OK, a few more clues.

Every American has at least heard of this place

It has no real relevance other than it's geographical location

It is a National Monument in the Southwest US

Here is a happy tourist "assuming the position"
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Martin Gundel @ Aug 5 2007, 10:40 AM) [snapback]490905[/snapback]</div>

Too many clues. Four Corners.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=16&om=1

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Aug 5 2007, 02:02 PM) [snapback]490915[/snapback]</div>

Yeah, I figured it was a give-away after the clues, but I'm going to be out of touch for a bit and didn't want to leave it hanging.

 

I don't think this needs any hints - most will not recognize it and have never heard of it but it should be instantly recognizable to some.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Aug 6 2007, 07:39 AM) [snapback]491156[/snapback]</div>

If most will not know it, I think that is a good case for some hints, to get us started searching!!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChristoB @ Aug 6 2007, 07:51 AM) [snapback]491220[/snapback]</div>

Ok. It's one of the most famous corners in all of motor racing. There is a huge elevation drop starting at the left-right combo (traffic goes from bottom to top in the picture).

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Aug 6 2007, 07:57 AM) [snapback]491223[/snapback]</div>

That scrub oak and golden hillside puts it in California, at the Laguna Seca racetrack, near Monterey.

No time to scrape up a landmark - it's an open field for the first comer. How about something from someone's who's never posted one yet?

MB

 

Here's one, the significance has to do with the terminal building in the center of the photo...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tleonhar @ Aug 6 2007, 04:00 PM) [snapback]491448[/snapback]</div>

Found it http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=14.5...p;z=15&om=1
and I beat airportkid in finding an airport!

It is Ninoy Aquino International Airport, serving Manilla in the Phillipines. Is this Terminal 3 that was built ten years ago and has yet to open?

Here is the next image.

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That's a great pick, Toups, but I know it so have to bow out.

For a fascinating account of the region your landmark is part of, read Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert" - it's amazing how much politics and bureaucratic turf wars have altered entire landscapes more than nature herself at her worst (although this particular landmark was not the result of any upper-management back-stabbing - that I know of).

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 6 2007, 08:27 PM) [snapback]491595[/snapback]</div>

Well, I have to thank my wife for that one. She ran across it when we were searching for what turned out to be the "Four Corners."

 

I was thinking Monument Valley but havn't been able to locate

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tleonhar @ Aug 6 2007, 10:07 PM) [snapback]491649[/snapback]</div>

Hint, although you might be somewhat warm, this item has an area named after it but is managed as part of another area.

It used to be fairly inaccessible until 1963.

 

Rainbow Bridge National Monument

 

while surfing the globe, i found this interesting looking city
lots of vowels - i wouldn't even attempt to pronounce the name
most of us would need a lot of frequent flyer miles to get here

edit: i'll be out teaching tomorrow morning, so a few more hints:
friendly, americans do not need a visa to visit ; but, you need a visa to visit adjacent countries
high altitude city
average daily temperature is below freezing
the local cheeze isn't made from cow's milk

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Martin Gundel @ Aug 5 2007, 10:40 AM) [snapback]490905[/snapback]</div>

Y'know, it's interesting that this humble geographic landmark gets all the attention, while its more impressive cousin to the east goes almost entirely unnoticed. Four corners is the common point of only four states; the common joint of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas at the confluence of the Ohio & Mississippi is the common point of FIVE states. But everyone flocks to this tiny, bald survey medallion planeted in the desert and gets all four limbs in all four states in an ecstasy of touristy Kodak moment contortion, and no one pays any attention at all to the more impressive eastern junction.

Perhaps it's our quadruped, land-based physiology that leads us to embrace the lesser landmark: we can get our two hands and two feet into all four states at once easily on the dry dust of the desert, whereas attempting a similar contortion in the middle of the Ohio & Mississippi Rivers would not only require a canoe, but a fifth appendage that fully half the human race hasn't got. Still, it is interesting that the five point junction never warrants even passing mention in the geography textbooks. Wonder why that is ...

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ger

 

Re: pewd's image.
I spent some time scouring Argentina by air today, because I just feel that must be where it is... Or at least, somewhere in S. America.
I found many cities with a similar overall look and feel (down to the coloring of the image at 1000 ft.) But not this one... oy.

 

wrong hemisphere

what does 'ger' refer to?