Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 30 2007, 09:16 PM) [snapback]532753[/snapback]</div>

I have no idea what it is, but it looked Saudi in some indefinable way (the jet black road macadam maybe), so I scouted Jiddah on a hunch and there it was ---
Mystery Shore Object, Jiddah, Saudi Arabia

I'll see what I can find in Google, but if Mojo thinks it's a tough find, I may not fare so well.

I still haven't got anything to post, so the field's open while I try to discover what it is I found!

MB

This has to be what it is - an amazing fountain

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Oct 31 2007, 01:57 AM) [snapback]532797[/snapback]</div>

Im amazed that you found that without the name.
Someone recently suggested that we provide an ID with the link.
BTW that area in the Red Sea is the absolutely most amazing snorkeling in the world. Its like watching a fireworks show.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Oct 31 2007, 12:03 AM) [snapback]532799[/snapback]</div>

I did - I just had to find it first!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Oct 31 2007, 02:14 AM) [snapback]532801[/snapback]</div>

Since Im the only one awake ,Ill go again.[attachmentid=12274]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Oct 31 2007, 06:09 AM) [snapback]532857[/snapback]</div>

Boy you ain't kidding. I checked all Bush's permanent airbases in Iraq I could find & this isn't one of them, and a cursory flyover of Syria, Jordan and Lebanon didn't spot it either. It's a military airbase (at least a shared use airfield) - those are ordnance bunkers at its southern extremity.

The Middle East is quite a few acres, too many to search with flyovers (even for something about 6 square miles big) - any clues you can think of that wouldn't give the game away but would cut down on the airtime?

MB

 

H3 airfield Western Iraq

I'll post in a moment

 

Next one

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Oct 31 2007, 10:04 PM) [snapback]533239[/snapback]</div>

Looks very similar to a diamond mine in Australia but no match.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Oct 31 2007, 11:04 PM) [snapback]533239[/snapback]</div>

Hint: SW USA

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 1 2007, 07:04 AM) [snapback]533359[/snapback]</div>

Took awhile to fine THE mine - it's not the biggest in the country ---
El Chino open pit Copper mine east of Silver City, New Mexico

Field's open ---

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Nov 1 2007, 10:35 AM) [snapback]533392[/snapback]</div>

Heres a mine that most people in the US and the world have heard references about repeatedly.[attachmentid=12282][attachmentid=12283]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 1 2007, 03:22 PM) [snapback]533534[/snapback]</div>

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 1 2007, 07:49 PM) [snapback]533685[/snapback]</div>

Another giveaway clue, sir - it's a Uranium mine in Nigeria - putative source of the infamous "yellowcake" that so marred a famous whore's State of the Union speech.

I can't figure out the mine's name, though.

Well, again, I leave the field open (one of these days I'll have to cut off a piece of the world to stick in here, but not tonight).

MB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Nov 1 2007, 10:27 PM) [snapback]533701[/snapback]</div>

Arlit ,Niger
Looks like the entire city is the mine

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Nov 1 2007, 08:41 PM) [snapback]533708[/snapback]</div>

Actually, not until Mojo's picture, but "mine" and a pile of what looks like bright yellow "crumbs" could only be one thing, especially with the clue that the world had heard "repeatedly" about this mine. I have seen gold ore and it looks decidedly metallic, very uncakelike.

MB

 

Field still open?

Every picture tells a story...

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Anyone still playing? Need a hint?