Where in the world is … (answers)

December 17th, 2008 · No Comments · GEO, GIS and GEO technology, GPS, Maps

If yesterday’s quiz left you a little stumped, here are the answers!

1) This is the largest in a chain of islands in the Tyrrhenia sea; and the legendary home of the sorceress Circe.
– Isola Ponza, Italy

2) Throughout 2008 this active stratovolcano has been sending plumes of ash and water vapor over a nearby town, a town that was evacuated in 1994 due to danger from the volcano

– Tavurvur volcano, Papua New Guinea

3) Part of an island chain named by Captain Cook for the day on which he discovered them, forty-nine days after Easter Sunday.
– Hamilton Island (part of Whitsunday Islands), Australia

4) This is the crater of an extinct tuff-cone volcano, now used as a memorial cemetery.

– Punchbowl Crater, Punchbowl Memorial Cemetery, Hawaii, USA

Updated Imagery:

Americas:
– USA: Anchorage (AK), Santa Rosa (CA), Thousand Oaks (CA), Newberg (OR), Bee Cave (TX), El Paso (TX), part of South Dakota, Manhattan, Long Island
– Mexico: Tijuana, Juarez, Aguascalientes, Queretaro, Cuernavaca, Puebla,
– Canada: Gibsons (BC)
– Cuba: Havana
– Haiti: Port-au-Prince
– Guatemala: Guatemala City
– Honduras: Tegucigalpa
– French Guiana: Cayenne
– Brazil: Brasilia, Sao Paulo
– Uruguay: Montevideo

Europe, Middle East, & Africa:
– Italy: Parma, Perugia, Foggia, Lucera, Viste Peschici, Isola Ponza, Isola d’Ischia
– Hungary: Budapest
– Romania: Bucharest
– Ukraine: Kiev, Odessa
– Bulgaria: Sofia
– Montenegro: Podorica
– Cyprus: Nicosia
– Azerbaijan: Baku
– Iran: Tabriz, Tehran, Mashhad
– Turkmenistan: Ashgabat
– Kuwait: Kuwait City
– UAE: Abu Dhabi, Dubai
– Saudi Arabia: Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca
– Yemen: Sana
– Jordon: Amman
– Morocco: Casablanca
– Niger: Niamey
– South Africa: Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban