Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

The picture has yellowed, to continue a theme.

 

So, the hint didn't help, you mean? You want me not to be cute with the clues?

This is about a uranium mine, and is near the end of the line.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Nov 2 2007, 05:06 PM) [snapback]534148[/snapback]</div>

This game has whole days with not a flicker of attention, then eight posters bang into each other in a flurry of activity, then it goes dead again. Weird. Say, where'd Wildkow go - I haven't seen him in Fred's for some time.

The only "story" I can see at first glance is that the old airport got outgrown, and the terrain is lumpy enough it was cheaper to relocate a new airstrip a couple miles away rather than enlarge the existing strip. The lack of maintenance facilities at either strip indicates low traffic, so it wasn't traffic that outgrew the strip but size and type of aircraft: jets now serve where D-18s and DC-3s used to fly in the weekly groceries. The lack of roads leading out of the settlement but an expensive jet capable airport indicate a military outpost of some kind in some inhospitable area - perhaps a CIA rendition outpost where they can dump dead detainees off the edge of the earth without a public fuss.

Clues would be nice.

MB

 

"Jet-capable airport"? I don't think it's even paved.
"Without a public fuss" is closer to the heart of the story, but may not help you find it.
Think yellow, and go from there.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Nov 2 2007, 08:08 PM) [snapback]534169[/snapback]</div>

No luck here.I did see a uranium mine that looked something similar in Canada.

 

White Horse, Yellow _____

 

You're getting warmer....

"Think yellow, and go from there."

There's also another animal on the yellow <strike>brick</strike> uranium road.

 

The Whitehorse reference was only to get you as far as Yellowknife, and can be ignored otherwise. "The end of the line" is a word play on the name of the place, and a cryptic reference to its fate, due to the effects of radiation. The story is not at all well known, which is part of my reason for posting this, and it leads all the way back to The Manhattan Project. The "other animal" is mentioned in the 'yellow brick road' movie, and is not a feline. It will give you a good idea of where to look.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Nov 2 2007, 11:42 AM) [snapback]533929[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=65.211111,-1...p;z=13&om=1
Deline ,NW territories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deline,_Northwest_Territories

Heres a strange place Id never heard about.
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Good one, mojo. Here's the story of Deline on the Great Bear Lake and its connection to the uranium used in The Manhattan Project. "A Village of Widows" at the bottom of the page is poignant.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 3 2007, 04:52 PM) [snapback]534441[/snapback]</div>

Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah

All that salt made it relatively easy to find.

I found a clump of earth not yet seen in this game, the world's record holder as of today (so far as I can find) - but not for long ---

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Nov 3 2007, 08:07 PM) [snapback]534468[/snapback]</div>

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.366667,69...p;z=12&om=1
Nurek Dam it is the tallest dam in the world as of 2005

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Solar 1 near Barstow, CA

I'll post in a moment

Here you go.

 

Clue #1 Not in North America

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Nov 4 2007, 06:56 PM) [snapback]534733[/snapback]</div>

Im not making progress .I see buses .The suns reflection on the water .White stuff hanging from the walls.
The house boats make me think its a canal or bay.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Nov 5 2007, 03:00 PM) [snapback]535028[/snapback]</div>

I think the white stuff near the walls is an artifact of the reflection and satellite movement?
Appears to not be high latitude. An old fort of some kind, but looks like new sand volleyball courts? There is no land mass immediately to the south (size of waves indicate a decent fetch), so I don't think it's a canal.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Nov 5 2007, 06:29 PM) [snapback]535107[/snapback]</div>

Clue #2 It is in a major port city in Europe