GoogleEarthing #137
Instructions:
Use Google Earth to find the image below somewhere on the face of the Earth. When you find it, tell us using the comment feature.
Adriaan’s Islands: 8 of 10
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Solved by: John
Location: 58 17 47, N, 6 47 33 W , Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, Garenin, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
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June 13th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Has anyone thought about this one yet? I don’t even have a starting point for this (other than NH). Dwellings of some sort I’d have thought. Medium resolution. Not really narrowing anything down….
June 14th, 2010 at 7:28 am
I find this image drab and depressing so I try not to think about it…. now you’ve made me think about it…. aaaarrrggh!
June 14th, 2010 at 7:46 am
Let me assure you: the image does this place no justice at all.
June 14th, 2010 at 10:36 am
OK, we’ve had tropical, temperate, island in a river, island in a lake, island in a bay, island in a sea…..
We’ve not had atoll (136 isn’t, and I doubt 139 is). And at first glance this looks nothing like one, but….. could they be mud/grass huts on a sandy soil (cloudy day, medium res?)
Or am I clutching at straws again…
June 14th, 2010 at 11:39 am
I think Adriaan is trying to tell us something, so don’t get shackled in your thinking.
June 14th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
“Justice”, “Shackled”…… Why is everything suddenly a clue.. Aaarrgghhhh
June 14th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
“Aaarrgghhhh”
My feeling exactly. I’m only guessing at Adriaan’s testimony.
June 14th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I only tried to tell you that this place is far more beautiful than the picture suggests. And I should know: I’ve been there once (many years ago). I stayed for two nights in the top middle ‘dwelling’.
June 14th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
On the flimsiest of evidence, I’m going to suggest Indonesia.
June 14th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
My guess is a reconstructed viking village somewhere in Iceland, Greenland, Faroer, or somewhere on fringes of Scotland or Ireland.
June 21st, 2010 at 7:15 am
Pacific Island? Huts with thatched roofs?
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:01 am
.. … .-.. .- -. -..
August 3rd, 2010 at 7:53 am
Morse Island? There’s one in Maine, and one in Iowa. Neither match this image.
August 8th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
GoogleEarthing is turning more and more into a detective-game with the deciphering of all these clues….
August 11th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
And the news on this one?
August 11th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Searched all Dot Islands and Dash Island doesn’t seem to exist, also tried Samuel Island after Samuel Morse but no luck there either. Searched where Samuel Morse was born too nothing there. This was before I saw the previous comment though!
August 11th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Oops I mean the August 8th comment*
August 11th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Yes found it!! I’ll post it in a sec!
August 11th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
“Oops I mean the August 8th comment*”
John, was that comment helpful to you? I’m thinking: Clouseau; Poirot; Holmes.
None of those has lead me anywhere. Sigh.
August 11th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
“Yes found it!! I’ll post it in a sec!”
Hurry up, man. It’s been over a minute now!!!!!
August 11th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Carloway, Isle of Lewis on the west coast.
“detective game” did it for me immediately thought of Inspector Morse and his assistant Lewis. Colin Dexter who wrote the Inspector Morse novels was born 10miles down the road from my house!
Guess it’s back to the big concrete battlement thing now…
August 11th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Haha I got over excited and had to triple check it sorry!
August 11th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Wow, excellent deduction ability, John!! Very well done!
August 11th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Thanks! Just realised Carloway is a massive area I think ‘na gearrannan’ is the name of the place!
August 12th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Yes, this is the Gearrannan Blackhouse Village, Garenin, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Very beautiful. Well done John.