Where is this?

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  1. Butch .H
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    Bikini (Atoll)Islands:?:
     
  2. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    That looks like the "Frog" hole on Muroua - South Pacific...? when they were making big bangs down that way.....
     
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    I don't know where Muroua is, but if they serve Marshall Island Iced Tea there, the ice cubes alone will nuke all intenstinal bugs to Kingdom Come. :D
     
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    I guess that's ground zero for:

    MARCH 1, 2004, marked the 50th anniversary of the BRAVO HYDROGEN BOMB TEST, the largest weapon ever tested by the United States, which occured on Bikini Atoll.

    The nearest hamlet according to Google Earth to this "concrete sarcophagus" I spotted , is Runit. Bikini is on another atoll of the Marshall Island group.

    http://www.bikiniatoll.com/
     
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    I've heard the 'Twelve Eye'd Bikinian Groupers' are reportedly delicious in these parts. :D
     

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    Guillermo Ingeniero Naval

    OK. No bombs here.
    I've been there some some weeks ago.
    Where is this?
     

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    That moat looks Spanish. How about a hint, Senior?
     
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    masalai masalai

    The flag above the moat looks to be the Spanish flag, but unless the images are reversed (mirrored), or, is it of a "Spanish possession?" - I am beat for the moment as I cannot get a shoreline match... I guessed near Gibraltar? but there is residues of the Moorish? empire throughout, and a general tolerance of other religions Muslim & Catholic?...

    My wife says I should take here there (she wants to see Europe)....
     
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    tell her to come look at the pic,,,,see,,,,now the money we saved on you "seeing" europe,, we can put in the boat?:confused: :) :D
     
  11. Guillermo
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    Guillermo Ingeniero Naval

    Masalai is almost there.
    Nearby this city there is a disputed tiny small island named after a spice herb, which was the cause of the Romeo-Sierra military operation in 2002.

    Cheers.
     
  12. lazeyjack

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    teneriffe? oh don't mind me I'm jetlagged,
    your wife ? take her to Slovakia, wonderful, just returned from there
     
  13. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    Ceuta some 26 km across the sea, south and a bit east of Gibralta?

    Guillermo the research and digging was fun - please pose another for me as I have none to offer at the moment... :D:D:D
     
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    Las Palmas (Gran Canaria)?
     

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    Guillermo Ingeniero Naval

    Masalai is right, Ceuta it is. :)
    The moat is said to be the only ancient one in the whole world, navigable nowadays.
    I went there in August, about 30 or so years from my last visit. Things have changed a lot, but mainly in the moroccan side. The coast south of Ceuta is been touristically developed in the last years, with first class hotels, condos and marinas. Everything is clean and tidy. I coincided with the King of Maroc while there. A pity he didn't invite me aboard his three masted schooner. :D

    Cheers.
     
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