Forum Game - Where's That Landmark?

lisab

This small lake is pretty, isn't it? But it's in a place that's famous not for its beauty, but its creepy residents .

So I'm not looking for the name of the lake, per se, but the place where the lake is located.

Borek

Sounds like Crater Lake Monster. That'll put the place somewhere in California

Borek

Seems like this crater lake is on Rapa Nui.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rano_Raraku

Edit: Rapa Nui is Easter Island, for me it was obvious as I have read Heyerdahl book (Aku-Aku) many years ago, but I'm adding it just in case.

lisab

Yes, that's it...those rock statues have always given me the creeps!

turbo

Wow! I have spent a couple hours de-compressing from some legal complications, playing the Landmark forum game and never got close. I have to have some time before getting back to the quasar/cosmology thread because of the difficulty in sorting out "known" things from things which have not properly been examined with epistemology, and personal stuff has intervened. I don't want to question somebody's research with unwarranted criticism.

Andre

well I didn't play but my solution would have been El Junco lake on the Galapalos islands, the creepy "residents" being the Galapalos dragons, creeping over the rocks



Isn't that a coincidence?

Borek

Andre

Modlin Poland

Borek

Yes.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9885472

At first I planned to post this picture:

http://www.pbase.com/smok53/image/77402001

But I was afraid it could be too difficult, so I decided for the one with additional hints. Too many hints I guess

Andre

Could have been. Actually the flat landscape limited the possible location while the building style was not from the Dutch German lowlands. So I googled river Poland and the Vistula looked promising. So I googled Vistula river Poland and there it was.

turbo

You guys are too good at this!

Borek

Funny. The building is an old granary seen from the tower of the Modlin stronghold, and there are two rivers visible - Vistula straight ahead and Narew to the left. Site is loaded with geography and history. Whoever selected this picture to depict just Vistula must have known nothing about the place

Borek

Actually, you are darn good too!

Andre

There we go

Andre

True or false?

The general name of the area is made with zero a's

Andre

The statement is false if you read it straight like this
The statement becomes true if you solve the anagram

hypatia

Azores?