scopemobile
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Post by scopemobile on Feb 17, 2017 10:03:59 GMT
saw this on google maps, on north east of the island, friday island is lying to the n.e. there is a squarish inlet just south of the tip , on bottom end of the inlet and a few hundred metres inland is a patch of bad pixels, any ideas, is it a satellite passing under the google camera?. john.
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Post by Dragon Man on Feb 17, 2017 13:39:42 GMT
John, you are going to have to be more specific. Friday Island. Hmmm . . . I can find the Friday Island in Australia, but I doubt that is the one you mean so I googled it and it says another Friday Island is on the Thames River. OK, so I searched the whole length of the Thames (took me over an hour ) and I still couldn't find it. I re-googled and it says Friday Island is above 'Bell Weir Lock', just short of 'Old Windsor Lock'. I found Bell Weir Lock (finally!) but no Old Windsor Lock and still no Friday Island. You might need to give either a map of the spot you mean or a photo of the pixelation you are asking about. Pixelation is usually (but not always) when they want to blot out a Government (Military) area that they don't want to make too public.
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Post by Dragon Man on Feb 17, 2017 14:07:47 GMT
Phew!!! OK here we go I re-googled Friday Island and found a Friday Island facebook Group, and it has a map, but not a very good map. Here is the Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pages/Friday-Island-River-Thames/132466886790532From that map I went back into Google Maps and found the exact spot but it shows 2 islands, not one, and neither of them are marked or named, so one of them must be Friday Island. Here's the two Islands: www.google.com.au/maps/place/Old+Windsor,+UK/@51.4630856,-0.5701795,431m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x48767a68d210af59:0xcfe20353fe00711d!8m2!3d51.462058!4d-0.580836 Now, I zoomed into both Islands and no matter how far I zoomed in there is no pixelated areas. I checked where you said: "lying to the n.e. there is a squarish inlet just south of the tip" but where it gets even more confusing is you also say "and a few hundred metres inland". Those islands aren't even 50 metres wide! So, I'm still confused Anyway, here's close ups of both islands: THE LOWER ISLAND OF THE TWO THE UPPER ISLAND OF THE TWO
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Post by davy on Feb 17, 2017 14:12:01 GMT
On the glen morangie ,lol
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Post by Dragon Man on Feb 17, 2017 14:28:43 GMT
Good Grief, I just found a third Friday Island, this time in southern New Zealand
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scopemobile
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Post by scopemobile on Feb 17, 2017 15:07:50 GMT
thats it ken, the light is on the main island of the group. enderby island, rose island, and friday island lie in a north easterly direction from the square shaped bay you see on the mainland. the anomaly is at the lower end of the bay. sorry about the lack of directions, john.
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Post by Dragon Man on Feb 18, 2017 7:11:07 GMT
Ahhh, yes John, now I see the place you mean. HEREFirstly, how on Earth did you spot this tiny light on a small non-descript island way down in the Far South Pacific sub-arctic Ocean in the first place? LOL!!! Secondly, here are the answers to some of your questions in your first post. 1. It isn't 'pixelated' out. 2. It isn't a few hundred metres inland. Answers: 1. It is floodlighting at Blake Research Centre for Ocean Acidity Studies. 2. It is only 15 metres from the water's edge. Also, the lighted area is only 5 metres wide and the illuminated area from the lighting is in a clearing between trees about 20 metres x 20 metres. Among the light is about 4 small buildings. Here is a close-up of the area which includes Google map's 10 metre Scale at the bottom of the Map. I placed the scale next to the bright light source to show its size of only 5 metres, and the distance from the light edge to the waters edge (which is actually under the tree) showing it is only 15 metres. At the Blake Research Centre they are doing studies of the acidity in the water and the Kelp because this location lies right on the junction between Subantarctic climate and southern ocean climate. The Centre is also used as a pest control centre to rid the islands of feral pests (cats, rats, etc) which are reducing numbers of native birds and animals. Sorry John, no strange conspiracies, or satellites passing over.
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Post by fondofchips on Feb 18, 2017 7:52:57 GMT
Ahhh, yes John, now I see the place you mean. HEREFirstly, how on Earth did you spot this tiny light on a small non-descript island way down in the Far South Pacific sub-arctic Ocean in the first place? LOL!!! Secondly, here are the answers to some of your questions in your first post. 1. It isn't 'pixelated' out. 2. It isn't a few hundred metres inland. Answers: 1. It is floodlighting at Blake Research Centre for Ocean Acidity Studies. 2. It is only 15 metres from the water's edge. Also, the lighted area is only 5 metres wide and the illuminated area from the lighting is in a clearing between trees about 20 metres x 20 metres. Among the light is about 4 small buildings. Here is a close-up of the area which includes Google map's 10 metre Scale at the bottom of the Map. I placed the scale next to the bright light source to show its size of only 5 metres, and the distance from the light edge to the waters edge (which is actually under the tree) showing it is only 15 metres. At the Blake Research Centre they are doing studies of the acidity in the water and the Kelp because this location lies right on the junction between Subantarctic climate and southern ocean climate. The Centre is also used as a pest control centre to rid the islands of feral pests (cats, rats, etc) which are reducing numbers of native birds and animals. Sorry John, no strange conspiracies, or satellites passing over. Just pesky light pollution, it pops up everywhere grrr!
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scopemobile
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Post by scopemobile on Feb 19, 2017 10:58:47 GMT
that was a great piece of investigating ken. the reason i was looking at these islands off antarctica was their desolation and formidable terrain ,there are a few ,some have research stations on them, and workers and scientists would be on duty [marooned]for maybe a year at a time. extrapolate up to an 8 year round trip to mars, now thats what you would call scarey [ a quote from mell gibson there ]. i cant imagine someone doing a dummy run on one of these islands for 8 years and keeping their sanity, and thats without the added bonus of chromosome damage from 24/7 radiation. john.
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Post by Dragon Man on Feb 19, 2017 11:35:03 GMT
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Post by davy on Feb 19, 2017 11:59:32 GMT
Book me up,, I could do with a rest 😃
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Post by ChrisV on Feb 20, 2017 3:15:52 GMT
It'd be a really, really dark site when they turn off those flood lights. Probably pours down all year though.
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