Contest #126
I made it a bit harder this week. However this site has somehow a relation with a current event.
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Ailsa Craig
Comment by hhgygy | February 19, 2010
hhaiti
Comment by vizard | February 19, 2010
Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai
Comment by Romey | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde, Scotland
Comment by Ivar Bonsaksen | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig off the shores of Scotland.
That’s where they get the stone to make all of the curling bricks in the world.
Comment by Joel Zirmer | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig Island, Scotland
Comment by Milosh, Serbia | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig, off Girvan, Scotland. Located in the outer Firth of Clyde.
Comment by ACG | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig, Scotland. The only place to get proper curling stones.
Comment by Exsanguinator | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig, off the coast of Scotland.
Supplies blue hone granite for curling stones.
Comment by David Kozina | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig, Scotland Known for its high quality curling granite. Nice clue.
Comment by Dennis S. | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig, Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailsa_Craig
Known for being the only source for the blue granite used in curling.
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/curling/news?slug=dw-curling021810&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
Comment by Andy McConnell | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig, Scotland, UK
Origine of granite for Curling stones.
Curling is a (winter) Olympic dicipline.
Comment by Willem | February 19, 2010
Ailsa Craig.
Comment by Galileo | February 19, 2010
Fukutoku-Okanoba volcano, near Tokyo?
Comment by Brian | February 20, 2010
it is Ailsa Craig which is where most of the granite used in curling was quarried
Comment by Gareth Wilson | February 21, 2010
That’s Alisa Craig due west of Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Not sure what the relation to a current event is, may be that the granite is used in curling stones for the Winter Olympics.
Comment by Pascal Gilbraith | February 22, 2010
Ailsa Craig, UK
Comment by Max_Power | February 22, 2010
Where, traditionally, granite was quarried for the manufacture of curling stones.
Comment by Max_Power | February 22, 2010
madeira
Comment by ewen | February 22, 2010
Ailsa Craig in the Firth of Clyde. 55 15′ 05″N, 5 07′ 0″W
Comment by Malcolm | February 22, 2010
Ailsa Craig, is there anything worse than to watch Curling?
Comment by OTazMan | February 22, 2010
Lighthouse on Ailsa Craig, UK
Karel, mind putting me as Andy M, USA in the rank since to further differentiate me from Andy McConnell? Plus, this way I can represent, like Milosh, Serbia!
Glad I did not troll too much news based on your hint
So the curling rocks are from here? I have to admit, those curling rocks are beautiful. I am just now getting introduced to curling during these Olympics. Looks like fun…
For some reason, I started looking for this around the UK. Saw this, along the way. Neat! It’s an airplane and a ghost plane with a HUGE contrail: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=53.415934,-10.192818&z=16
I think that came out that way due to the optical sensor in the imaging equipment. It’s built to focus on the ground, but since the plane is so high it is defocused. There must be separate color sensors which are composited to create the imagery. This defocusing must cause this chromatic aberration.
Comment by Andy M, USA | February 24, 2010
Navassa Island off the southwest coast of haiti
Comment by Jason Postier | February 24, 2010