Month: September 2014

The area around the Spratly Islands in the South Chinese Sea is a disputed area.
It is controlled by the Chinese, in fact the Chinese are currently building artificial islands here, but the ownership is also claimed by various other countries: Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan.

Those who reclaimed their own island:

• Garfield
• Walter_V_R
• Lighthouse
• Paul Voestermans
• steve willis
• hhgygy
• mehmet durmus
• Phil Ower
• krenek
• Eloy Cano

– Hint –

• Ashwini Agrawal
• Chris Nason

Is this a potential new conflict area?

Kisimul Castle is a small medieval castle located on a small island off Castlebay, Barra, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It gets its name from the Gaelic cìosamul meaning “castle island”

It was abandoned in 1838, but nowadays it is leased by Historic Scotland for an annual rent of £ 1,- plus a bottle of whisky

Right answers from:

• hhgygy
• Garfield
• Lighthouse
• Walter_V_R
• Phil Ower
• Paul Voestermans
• steve willis
• Eloy Cano
• Ozgur ONGOCMEN
• krenek
• mehmet durmus

– Hint –

• Chris Nason

Yes, it is a castle on a island

Hart Island is the location of the largest potter’s field in the world.

About 900,000 bodies are buried here in mass graves and still about 1,500 a year are added.
In 1977 most of the burial records were destroyed in a fire

Right answers from:

• Walter_V_R
• mehmet durmus
• Eloy Cano
• steve willis
• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• Phil Ower
• krenek
• Paul Voestermans

– Hint –

• Ashwini Agrawal
• R Hays
• Mik
• Gillian B
• donaaronio
• Farid, France
• Paul Franson
• rob de wolff
• Bill Close

You are looking down at 900,000 buried bodies…