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Posted 13 December 2005 - 07:07 PM

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Restarted the thread because people were using up their topic attachment limits.

Rob has honors for the next challenge.
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 07:42 PM

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name the circled ship.

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Posted 13 December 2005 - 08:18 PM

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Yokosuka Japan,

USS Kitty Hawk CV63

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Posted 13 December 2005 - 08:31 PM

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roger that A.M.G.

only forward homeported CV in the US Navy.

so much for thinking that would be difficult....

cheers,

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Posted 13 December 2005 - 08:41 PM

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Here is a link to all things Kitty Hawk.

http://www.chinfo.na...-kittyhawk.html

How did you narrow in on this Martin?

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Posted 13 December 2005 - 08:51 PM

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Posted 13 December 2005 - 09:06 PM

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Gora Srezannaya
54.1166667 159.7333333

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Posted 13 December 2005 - 09:22 PM

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You need to name the city and mountain this feature is in/on.
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Posted 13 December 2005 - 10:36 PM

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It's one of these, but I'm not up to searching through all of them....

http://www.deuceofclubs.com/mts/m.htm

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Posted 13 December 2005 - 10:58 PM

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You are right! It is one of them.

This will help...
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 09:21 AM

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University of Montana, Missoula. Nice rotation to get the "M" upright.

Give me a little while to get another site going; didn't think I'd actually guess one!
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 09:42 AM

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Name that town.
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Posted 14 December 2005 - 10:17 AM

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How did you narrow in on this Martin?

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I assumed (correctly, luckily) that it was a US carrier. My first guess was to go look at the Hawaii bases given Rob's background, I then looked at west coast bases (SanDiego, Everett...nada...) so I went to east coast, Norfolk, dry docks in Conn. & Mass, still nothing that matched the landmarks. I was still ignoring the ship itself and just looking for the correct naval base. I found a list of international bases. I knew the sat. coverage for Guam was terrible thanks to Nick's volcano challenge so I ruled that out right away and went to Japan. Yokokuma was the first one I checked. No high res imagery though....the image came from somewhere other than Google probably but the landmarks matched so I just did some research on which carriers were stationned there. I quickly learned alot about the kitty Hawk and the previous carrier stationed there, (USS Independence I think...) and that was going to be my next guess if for some reason it was a trick question and the photo was older than 1998.

How did you find my rotated Kamchatka volcano so quick?

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Posted 14 December 2005 - 12:22 PM

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How did you find my rotated Kamchatka volcano so quick?


The tell-tale purpleish relfectance led me to the Aluetians. There aren't many volcanoes in Google Earth that have that purdy purple tint and I knew from flying around that most all of them are in the Alaska/Russia area. Then it was just a matter of minuites until I found the one with the volcanic lake.

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Posted 14 December 2005 - 12:42 PM

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You need to name the city and mountain this feature is in/on.

University of Montana, Missoula. Nice rotation to get the "M" upright.


You missed the mountain! No biggee. It is called Mt Sentinel, and it's located in my home town (Missoula, MT).

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