(International) Guess the Location 2 a.k.a. Part Deux (see rules post 1)

M.T. Cranium

Not Quebec. So far the correct country not guessed.

Keedowah

San Diego ?

M.T. Cranium

No but correct country now. It might narrow the search to consider what the ships in the harbour might be loading.

martyos121

Mobile, Alabama? I’m thinking it’s coal they’re loading, but that guess isn’t based on an awful lot.

M.T. Cranium

No to Mobile, probably close as to what they are loading (two items at two different locations in the picture, I think). Loading and not unloading is a clue too.

I will give another clue without posting another view, if you turned around and looked east, you would be looking along a pathway with housing on your right, a short expanse of water on your left and a lift bridge over a canal cut into a breakwater for these ships to exit, so this view we have is a protected harbour with open water back behind the perspective (to the east).

Three More Big Sleeps

Crude oil, MT? Somewhere accessible to the Gulf of Mexico? Louisiana? Looks too hilly to be on the delta, so I'll go for Baton Rouge over New Orleans.

josip

That looks like a grain silo on the left?

martyos121

I've found a couple of locations that fit the latest clue, so I'll go for Pascagoula?

M.T. Cranium

Okay here's a big clue, no guess within 1000 km so far, the water you see is not salt water.

josip

I'm telling ye lads, it's great lakes

martyos121

You’re dead right josip, it’s Duluth, Minnesota on the north shore of Lake Superior.



That was a great one to play MT, solid clues and a really cool location.

M.T. Cranium

Sorry, I was a bit late getting back to the thread ... but as you can see it is Duluth. Interesting ports around there, including Superior, WI at the south end of the harbour. That's where the Edmund Fitzgerald loaded up (I think).

martyos121

Won’t be able to post a pic until tomorrow evening, so if anyone has one in the meantime, fire away.

martyos121

Right, no idea if this will be difficult or not, but there should be enough to work with in this:

K.Flyer

Kastellet, Copenhagen?

martyos121

K.Flyer wrote: »

Kastellet, Copenhagen?

Nope.

martyos121

First clue: it’s a major port for both passengers and freight in its country, but it doesn’t quite crack the country’s top 5 most populated cities.

M.T. Cranium

Gdansk?

martyos121

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Gdansk?

Nope, not Gdansk.

M.T. Cranium

Nantes? (can you tell I am not looking at google earth just going with your clue)

martyos121

M.T. Cranium wrote: »

Nantes? (can you tell I am not looking at google earth just going with your clue)

Not Nantes, but I’ll give a more helpful clue then:

The primary sailing route out of the port leads into an archipelago, and eventually into a larger sea.

I was going to veer into some historical clues, but if you’re trying to solve it with Google Earth, it’s only fair I go with geography.

josip

Turkuu, Sweden (just to annoy the Finns) ?

martyos121

josip wrote: »

Turkuu, Sweden (just to annoy the Finns) ?

That’s it josip. Funny thing about that is it was actually the Finnish capital for a little while back in the 1800s after the war, but the Emperor of Russia felt it was too Swedish so he gave that status to Helsinki.

josip

josip wrote: »

Turkuu, Sweden (just to annoy the Finns) ?

It is too, but it is in Finland....... Why say Sweden?

josip

When Swedes hear that you're going on the booze cruise to Turku, some of them will mutter that we're still kind of in Sweden when we're there.
Which also seems to rub the Fins in Stockholm the wrong way for some reason...

josip

Thanks Deja Boo

Deja Boo

josip wrote: »

Why don't my imgur bb links work any more?





I'm wrapping the URL

https://imgur.com/FrltwCq

with




tags

shall try from here

hmmm, nope not working here... must be an imgur post link rather than an image link?

K.Flyer

josip wrote: »

Thanks Deja Boo

Port Chalmers, New Zealand.

K.Flyer

Keedowah

Fortaleza San Felipe, Dominican Republic?