An aerial shot taken from Google Earth.
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I love it. Hmm... looks like mining, flooding, and/or patties? Earth berm around a settlement...

There is quarrying around this location, but that is recent. A few years ago it was surrounded by fields.

bumpity. I don't think I'm getting anywhere. Here is another to chew on. Pete just got a birthday present with this image on a cloth.

Looks like a chemist examining an Erlenmeyer flask.
My guess is of Dr Waksman at Rutgers Univ in NJ.

I get a beer if such a wild guess is right !

You sir... are pretty damn close. Wrong scientist, wrong continent.

That's how close a wild guess can be... wrong continent !

OK, staying with the microbiologists and antibiotics...
My second wild guess is Louis Pasture in Paris, France

Go back to chemistry.

Sorry, chemistry is out of my field, except to move my guess to Germany

No free beer for me :(

:eyebrow:

:right:

Looks like another deadlock,.. Koping, Sweden. Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

OMG Griff, how did you come across "suck-it-up Carly", or should we call him "Woeful Wily" ?

I have heard of a lot of scientists, but never Carl Wilhelm Scheele !
But I'm glad someone built a statue of him. Phooey on phlogiston.
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Where is this?

Yellowstone?

La Brea?

No, and no.

Namafjall Hverir Iceland?

Niland, CA?

Jed Clampet's hunting ground?

Lassen?

No, no, no.

It's not bubbling crude. Well, it's bubbling, and it's crude, but it ain't gonna get you to Beverly Hills.

Are you saying it's not petroleum related or it's not geology related? Or both?

It's not petroleum related.

Is it in Rotorua, New Zealand?

Yay! Yep, that's it! :)

Cool!

Did we get an answer for this?

Nope.

it's just about impossible with no additional clues.

Because of the vegetation, we know it's not in the arctic. It doesn't appear to be mountainous, since the water is so flat. There probably isn't a lot of snow, since the roofs are flat. It's below the tree line in elevation.

Ruts show that vehicles are available in the area, but don't go into the compound itself.

That narrows it down to about a million possible locations.

It would be cool if it were Bin Laden's compound, but I don't think there was water around that.

Yeah, I don't know, but without a "yes" or a "no" or a "you're close" we're just stabbing around in the dark.

glatt, you get this one. ;)

I was thinking it might be the home where the Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest. That was just in the news because Hillary visited her. So I looked that up on Google Earth, and it's not it. But when I looked it up, Burma looks really nice! You get the impression that it's a really backwards place from the news, but I guess that's just the government. It's no North Korea.

And the US is building an embassy just down the road from the opposition leader, only half a kilometer away from her house. I read that she lived on a remote island on a lake, but she's actually on a lake shore drive of mansions. Sweet neighborhood. (University Avenue, on the shore of lake Inya in Yangon)

I thought of Burma Shave and wondered if the name were related to Burma. Well, I'll be, it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave

I give.

Where's this?

Some additional clues:
The site is now derelict, originally built over 70 years ago

A close-up of part of the site.
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That should help identify what the site is and should narrow down where.

Spex: Potemkinstairs in Ukraine

Odessa Steps

dang

Yes. Wow! I didn't think that would be so easy.

I googled famous movie stairs scenes.

Seems like it's an abandoned ww2 artillery emplacement, googling images for that doesn't show anything similar.

It's like a ghetto stonehenge.

Is it ovens for burning folks?

@Quarantine's ruins

The graffiti looked a bit asian, and Google Images turned up this
ancient fort (model) with similar shape, but it's from the Ming Dynasty.

Dagu Paotai or Fort Dagu ?
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Spexxvett: Very close, it is a type of gun emplacement that has a very specific purpose

Lamplighter: Some more graffiti for you from the site :)

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The bunkers arranged in circles look like the place where they store the ammo. There are two spots at the corners of the site where the guns probably sat. The shadows have the sun coming from the right. I'm going to assume the image is in its proper orientation and right is East. That's where the guns would be pointing. Who would point their guns to the East? France would. But I've been doing all sorts of image searched of the Maginot Line, and those fortifications look completely different from these.

I keep hitting dead ends.

glatt: The orientation is the top is north. The guns did predominantly face east, but they were not in France. There were 8 guns here with each set of 4 guns surrounding its own command post. The ammunitions stores are the 4 rectangular buildings around the edge. The concrete areas near the permiter were machine gun posts.

The attached view gives a clearer layout of the site. It measures approximately 190 yards north-south, and 100 yards east-west

I feel like I just put my glasses on.

So it's not France, huh? Is it the Fulda gap? They were focused on the East too, but this looks older than that.

Eastern seaboard of the US?

Not the Fulda gap.

The attached image shows the type of guns used here.

Yeah, there are a fair number of batteries on the East coast, but they don't look like that. They are much more massive.

East coast of England?

Right country, but not on the coast.

Holy cow, there are a lot of HAA batteries in the UK. I'm just about ready to throw in the towel.

The Chadwell Heath Anti Aircraft Battery

http://bigleesminipaintingblog.blogs...t-battery.html

Awesome. How did you find it? Or did you just know?

Pete has had a pen pal from Koping since forever and her recent birthday present featured Carl's unlabeled image which it took some google action to figure out. They have recently migrated to facebook.

I looked for an 8 gun HAA site. Most sites in England are only 4 guns. Thank you for pointing to us it was an HAA site :)

Well done mititelu

Rotarua, NZ? (I've been there to see the boiling mud)

eta: I see i'm a bit late with that answer. Oh well.