[OT]: What is this on Google Maps?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:59:15AM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> The recent thread on "Crap in Google Earth" (GE is interesting, but
> bloated and not particularly useful AFAICT) got me thinking about an
> "artifact" I discovered a few weeks ago in Google Maps while
> researching an article on Global Warming.
> 
> I'm really not sure what it is, but I have a couple theories:
> 
> - It's the largest "Golden Ticket" produced by Willy Wonka
> - It's the remnants of a _huge_ construction project from some ancient
> society in Greenland.
> 
> Lol.  At first I thought it might just be some imaging artifact - part
> of the satellite itself perhaps.  Considering the scales involved
> though, I'm not so sure.  Whatever it is, it _appears_ very large
> (approx. 40km long by 15km wide) and "emerging" from the ice.  Looks
> kinda like an Construction-Orange I-beam.
> 
> To check it out plug this into Google Maps:
>   70.546862, -40.067139

Looks like land mostly obscured by clouds.  Of course some satelite
pictures have odd colour maps, so who knows what it really looks like.

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Len Sorensen
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