Where is this?

Discussion in 'All Things Boats & Boating' started by Wynand N, Apr 22, 2007.

  1. Angélique
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

    Hi to my friends & welcome VisaV..!!

    I've been busy and away from these forums for over a week or so. Missed some nice teasers I see. But good to see a nice one running :)

    Here some clues.... The lady was once a part of a ship.... And a wider vieuw at the memorial....

    Sorry no time for play, so no answer from me, see you in a week or so :)

    Good Luck!
    Angel
     

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  2. VisaV
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    VisaV New Member

    Yay! Another hit. And thanks for the welcome Angélique.
    Anyone having luck with the folklore?
     
  3. TeddyDiver
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    TeddyDiver Gollywobbler

    Anyone else wanna quess?

    Visa's quest is still waiting for the winner.. Put your Google to work..
    By the way, it was found a wreck in the Gulf of Finland a few weeks ago when laying a new cable for Google. So if Google finds unknown wrecks so they find this quest too :)
     
  4. Tiny Turnip
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    Tiny Turnip Senior Member

    I'm afraid I've googled this on and off for a couple of hours in the last couple of weeks, to no avail...
     
  5. hoytedow
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    hoytedow Carbon Based Life Form

    Yeah, this one has proven too tough for me, but I learned a lot of trivia searching.
     
  6. VisaV
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    VisaV New Member

    It looks like it's time for more clues.

    This shipwreck lies about 3,5 miles south of the island and is considered to be among the most valuable wrecks in the Baltic. It sank in autumn 1747 and was discovered in 1950's. It carried a cargo of everyday items, such as tobacco, sugar, planks and yarn and quite a bit of more valuable items including golden watches and snuffboxes from London and Paris. The most valuable items on board were probably porcelain form the Meissen factory. Some of the moss used in packing the porcelain was also discovered. More than 600 items have been lifted from the wreck, some of which are on display in a small museum found on the island.

    Happy hunting!
    Hope that this didn't make it too easy. :)
     

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  7. apex1

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    If the given date is true, and I have no doubt, the anchor shown in Angels picture cannot be from that ship! This is a much younger model.

    I don´t know where we are though.
     
  8. VisaV
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    No, the anchor isn't from that ship. There are about 20 confirmed shipwrecks within 10 miles' radius from the island. The sea has claimed many, many lives around there. The memorial is dedicated collectively to all those, who have perished in these rocky waters.
     
  9. Angélique
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

    Hey I'm suprised this one is still running !!

    Septentrional looking pictures, # two shows a memorial with an anchor and Visa from Finland expects Teddy form Finland to know...

    This is the little trick that brought me there...

    Google Translate... English ‘‘memorial anchor’’ = ‘‘muistomerkki ankkuri’’ in Finnish.

    That on Google Images gave a hit on the second picture which gave Borstöllä, and Google Translate told that's Borstö in English.

    Visa calls the woman statue a lady. Maybe he's just courteous here... or it could be that ‘‘lady’’ is how she's commonly called... So tried Google ‘‘Borstö lady’’... and the story was there...

    July 2004 --> 19.07.2004
    This one is off-line now (also the cache version), but I thought it told the story about the in 1747 wrecked Russian three-masted galliot St Mikael. And something about the figurehead 'Borstögumman' / 'Borstö Lady'. ~ PPS - Ahh... :) it's back on-line, I've added the below quote... ~
    But most info to be found is in Finnish, so Visa please give us a little summary of the folklore... and thanks for the nice teaser..!!

    New one is comming soon :)

    Cheers,
    Angel


    PS - Info about the Russian merchant ship St Michael wrecked off the coast of Borstö in 1747.
     
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  10. Angélique
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

    The name of this place is . . . .

    _from_the_sea_.jpg _from_the_land_.jpg _closer_look_.jpg

    Have fun :)

    Cheers,
    Angel
     
  11. VisaV
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    Congrats Angel! Borstö it is. Also once known as Vrakö ('The shipwreck island'). The old name is quite well deserved. Here's a map of known shipwrecks nearby:
    [​IMG]

    And here's a map showing the island itself. The western passage is quite intimidating even if you're used to navigating in the archipelago. The statue is in the southern tip of the island, looking east.
    [​IMG]

    The folklore tale goes roughly as follows (I'm not much of a storyteller, unfortunately):
    "Once upon a time a seaman set sail from the isle of Borstö and promised his wife to return in one year.
    After a year had passed, the seaman's wife rose up on the hill to look for her husband's return.
    As the night came and no ship sailed to the harbour, she came back the next day.

    As the days passed by and still her husband didn't return, she began to worry and spend more and more time on the hill
    looking for the ship to come. In the end she stayed there so long that she turned to wood.

    And there she has been standing ever since, looking at the sea, waiting for her husband, who will never come.
    His ship ran aground in the treacherous waters of the archipelago and was claimed by the sea."

    That story can be found at my deviantArt account. As far as I know, that's the only place it is online in english, but it could've been found :p.

    That is totally true. Luckily, there are some writers, who are collecting those tales and stories and putting them in written form before they disappear.

    And a couple of pictures from the village.
     

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  12. Tiny Turnip
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    That looks like the Lighthouse of Cape Formentor, Mallorca.
     
  13. Angélique
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

    Right Tiny..!!

    Cap de Formentor, the eastern tip of the Formentor peninsula, NE Majorca.

    I had many clues prepaired, but you didn't need one of them..!!

    :) :) Chapeau :) :) !!

    Cheers!
    Angel
     
  14. Tiny Turnip
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    I thought the landscape looked mediterranean, and struck lucky with a google for 'mediterranean lighthouse high cliff' :)

    A bit of an architectural one coming soon...
     

  15. Angélique
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    Angélique aka Angel (only by name)

    I didn't realized that here only the Mediterranean character had to be spotted to find the place...

    _mediterranean_lighthouse_high_cliff_.JPG Well done..!!

    Good Luck with making us a new one :)

    Cheers!
    Angel
     
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