Enter interesting coordinates for Google Earth

[pokerfan]

or other earth imaging programs/servers.

I'll go first:
Latitude: 48.84917
Longitude: -113.70694

[cabraverde]

1. 42deg. 34'05.84" N 75deg.35' 48.73"w

thats the spot I shot a deer 3 years ago with a black powder muzzleloader.
It was yummy, 120# doe.

[pokerfan]

4. Venison makes a fine meal

Mine was Ptarmigan Tunnel in Glacier Park. You hike up this U shaped valley surrounded by vertical cliffs. Once you reach that little lake, the trail zigzags up the north slope until you reach a tunnel, 200' long that takes you to the other side.

It can be reached in a day hike, but for us it was just the first day of a week-long backpack.

[cabraverde]

5. well I would guess you ate well that week

what did you use to shoot it?

[pokerfan]

6. I wasn't hunting - no hunting allowed in National Parks

But cabraverde said he used a black powder muzzleloader so my guess would be .50 or .54 ball.

[cabraverde]

7. oh sorry my mistake

I thought you meant that you shot a deer the first day of your hike. lol...now i see that you put your coordinates from your first day of the hike. silly me.

actually it was a .45 cal muzzle loader (275 grain solid)

[pokerfan]

8. I don't hunt much anymore

Though I probably should. Nothing like a freezer full of elk and venison sausage heading into the winter months. I mostly just take pictures and fish these days.

[pokerfan]

15. And 200 yards from a road!

Smart man.

[cabraverde]

20. yeah except the darn thing ran the other way!

It could have been a nice deer and jumped up in the back of my truck....but NOOOOOOOO it had to go the opposite way and make me give chase. lol.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. Latitude: 27° 7'50.98"S Longitude: 109°20'32.98"W

I've always wanted to visit...

[pokerfan]

26. Easter Island!

Never realized how isolated it is.

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Latitude = 51.3370, Longitude = -2.6726

[pokerfan]

34. Very nice looking estate

Just south of Bristol. Does it have some significance?

[BrotherBuzz]

40. It used to be a Rectory

I lived in it in the early seventies, before it became a 'nice' looking estate. It appears the new owners have a lot of money and have made considerable improvements to the outbuildings, gardens, and orchard.

I was thinking about the old Rectory just the other day when I heard of Sir Edmund Hillary's passing. The rectory was the residence of Doctor Allen Rogers, oral surgeon and professor of physiology at University of Bristol. The Doctor was a friend of Sir Edmond Hillary and was the physician on the Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1956. Besides patching up people and working on an occasional tooth, he did research on man's adaptation (or the lack of it) to extreme cold weather.

[pokerfan]

42. Cool

They should turn it into a B&B or something.

[BrotherBuzz]

43. The Rectory was a B&B a million years ago

During the war it was abandoned and stripped of everything but the slate roof and stone walls. The stable and small apartment above it was the only structure that wasn't stripped or vandalized. Dr Rogers bought the white elephant and used a lot of energy putting it back together; someone else appears to be reaping the rewards of his work.

[rockymountaindem]

9. Is that Iceberg Lake at the Garden Wall in Glacier NP? n/t

[pokerfan]

21. That it is!

This small closed valley has two heads: Iceberg Lake to the west and Ptarmigan Lake/Tuinnel to the north. And it drains towards Many Glacier in the ESE.

I first visited there about 35 years ago.

[rockymountaindem]

29. I hiked there in the summer of '06

It was my last hike of the trip and one I had to convince four people was worth staying an extra day to take so that I could hike up there with my uncle. The weather at one end of the valley was sunny but the way to the lake was covered in clouds, making for some almost surreal lighting effects. Definitely a day to remember.

[puerco-bellies]

10. 36 degrees 57 min 34.90 sec- North 121 degrees 57 min 53.17 sec West

It's the last place I saw my right rotor cuff.

[puerco-bellies]

11. How do you enter Long and Lat in google earth?

Does not work in the fly to bar

[pokerfan]

13. It's working for me

GE is very flexible in how you can enter coordinates in the 'fly to' box.

You can enter it in decimal degress as for example 40.2n 75.5w

Or you can enter it in degrees minutes seconds as 40 20 30n 75 44 30w.

Or you can enter it in degrees minutes.decimal minutes as 40 30.56n 77 10.34w.

Or you can enter it in any other number of ways. You can use just 40 75 to indicate 40 north and 75 east (negative indicates south latitude and west longitude).

If you prefer to put the N or S it doesn't matter if you put the N or S before or after the appropriate part of the coordinates nor does the case matter.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=144985&page=vc&vc=1&PHPSESSID=#Post144985

[puerco-bellies]

18. Thanks, I was adding commas etc

cool.

[Inchworm]

12. My ass

it moves :)

:hi:

[Fox Mulder]

14. 50.813878 N, 2.47545 W

Make sure East is pointing up.

;)

[pokerfan]

16. LOL!

[Fox Mulder]

17. Well...

something was pointing up, right?

:rofl:

[Kutjara]

22. Let me guess without looking:

...The Cerne Abbas Giant?

[Fox Mulder]

24. Yep.

:D

[Kutjara]

25. I knew the coords were in the UK...

...and that's pretty much the most ribald geographic feature in the country. :)

[pokerfan]

19. 17°36'34.29" S 177° 2'2.56" E

Tom Hank's island from Cast Away (2000).

I would have assembled the raft on the beach on the eastern end and avoided the reef. <g>

Of course, it's also about 1700 miles from its purported location as described in the film.

[Esra Star]

23. 29 16 42.4 N 82 07 00.47 W

I'm guessing this is John Travolta's place.
Bit of a give away.

[billyskank]

27. I already did this before.

50 48 50.06N 2 28 29.8W

Rotate to point E roughly upwards and zoom in.

[pokerfan]

28. eerily similar to post #14

[billyskank]

30. He was controlling my brain remotely.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. Enjoy this one before it's submerged thanks to global warming...

37°49'17.18"N 75°59'30.30"W

Do a close up and check out the photos. Sadly, it's mostly freeper-occupied...

[pokerfan]

32. 52°12'27.14"N 117°14'4.14"W

More evidence of global warming from my neck of the woods. That's the tip of Athabasca Glacier. Over my lifetime, I have watched this glacier retreat. It used to almost reach the highway.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

48. There are a number of pics of markers

from various decades. Too bad they don't have actual photos from those years. People need to see this...and understand what's happening to our world.

[pokerfan]

54. Indeed

My father first took me there almost forty years ago. I climbed nearby Mount Athabasca (52°10'59.29"N 117°11'34.56"W) a few years back and the changes I've seen are extraordinary.

I began this thread with a link to Glacier Nat. Park. Glacier National Park might soon need a new name. Glacier Nat. Park fun fact: The once aptly named park had over 150 named glaciers in 1850. Today it has 26.

Check out some before and after photos:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11996943/

[stuntcat]

41. sweet

sweet graveyard they got. I haven't been to google earth since they had people's photos up. the coordinates people are posting rock :headbang:

[Orsino]

33. 49°24'5.73"N 7°32'0.93"E

This an Army satellite communications station in Germany, where I worked for several years.

The medical center at the top of the hill is the one that receives many/most of the serious casualties from Iraq, etc. The Air Force's European headquarters is a few miles away, across the Autobahn; it was a pleasant (mostly downhill) run over there to shop in the BX, but I would usually grab a bus or cab for the uphill journey home. From up on the mountain, you could get a great view of Ramstein's Fourth of July fireworks displays.

[deucemagnet]

35. 47°9'S, 126°43'W

You should find something besides ocean there.

Click here if you give up!

[Aristus]

37. Ah! Very good!

I actually feel better NOT having seen anything there...


I mean, if there had been a city there, that would be creepy...

[deucemagnet]

38. It's actually marked on Google Earth,

if you use the place name in the search.

[Aristus]

39. Hmm. I tried that. Didn't work

I'm hovering over the Eastern Seaboard.

[Aristus]

36. Here's one of my favorites:

19° 56′ 56″ S, 69° 37′ 59″ W

Largest representation of a human figure on Earth.

[pokerfan]

45. Is that part of the Nazca area?

Chariots of the Gods and all that stuff?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

49. Wow!

I've been wondering if I could find some of these on Google Earth! Thanks for the coordinates!

[pokerfan]

44. 16°43'44.23"N 169°31'56.90"W

Buddy of mine spent four years of his life on this South Pacific atoll in the 1990s.

[baldguy]

46. 38.264417 N, 105.950732 E

Then go to 33.719771 N, 79.277344 E and zoom out a little

[pokerfan]

47. OK

[stuntcat]

50. 39°02'56.11''N, 125°46'33.90''E

click the picture links :scared:

[pokerfan]

53. Maybe they can host the next Olympiad

[XemaSab]

51. Dunno about the yellow stripe here, but this looks cool. Anyone know what it is?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.342396,44.446971&spn=0.00812,0.018046&t=h&z=16&om=1

[XemaSab]

52. I answered my own question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shaheed_Monument