Where is this?

[Leo Lazauskas]

Originally Posted by apex1

Nono Leo ASIA !!!

Ahh, North Australia. I see.

Is it the hills in North Korea behind from which a million Chinese jumped up and said "Boo" to MacArthur?

And what kind of weird checkerboard do you play on?

[apex1]

NO Leo, wrong!

[bntii]

Hong Kong?

[apex1]

Originally Posted by bntii

Hong Kong?

Tätäää


Hong Kong yes. Kai Tak airport has shocked more people than any real catastrophe I´m sure. Landing in Kai Tak was always a real nightmare, even for the frequent flyers and the pilots too.

read: http://www.swiremariners.com/kt13.html

and look: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...6y5EHAo5qRsfrA

or google Kai Tak approach

Your turn Thomas...................

[hoytedow]

What a hair-raising photo!

[Ad Hoc]

I have landed at that airport several times in the past. Was quite fun. I recall almost being able to read the newspaper print of an old chap sat in his apartment reading the daily, as we came into land...was that close!!!

[apex1]

Originally Posted by hoytedow

What a hair-raising photo!

That was the normal approach! Every time! Yes John, one could almost smell his coffe too!

[hoytedow]

Off Cape Khamis, Algeria?

[hoytedow]

Or is it the East Ground, where a U-boat met its fate?

[bntii]

No to both!

[bntii]

This U-Boat found its way onto a famous shoal.



Where is it?

[Raggi_Thor]

From my friend Mr Google:

German Submarine Driven onto Goodwin Sands by HMS Gypsy & 3 Ramsgate Smacks
probably 1917
German accounts of this 1917 event state that during midnight operations, submarine U-48 ran aground on the dangerous Goodwin Sands and was found the next dawn by destroyer HMS Gypsy and several armed drifters. The title Dawson gives his etching gives the British ships a less opportunistic and more actively defensive role.

[bntii]

The very place!

Interesting shoal these Goodwin sands.
An island submerged? They have a particularly shifting nature and are known as the "ship swallower".
http://uk-shore.com/blog/2008/05/goodwin-sands-history
Warned of by lighthouses built since the Roman times.

This submarine U-48, is seen from time to time as the sands shift.

[apex1]

This was a quickie here.

We had the Goodwin Sands already mentioned here, though just in one sentence:
Where is this?


And another nice reading:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24685...-h/24685-h.htm

[Guillermo]

Ok, ready again.
Let me take my previous turn.
What's its name and where is this fort?

Clue: A 22 m motor cruiser I designed was built at the boatyard close to it in the image.

Cheers.