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The Atlantic's Google Earth Puzzles
The Atlantic has set some entertaining geographical puzzles, using images from Google Earth. They're challenging, but the last two are multiple choice, so you have a one in three chance of getting it right even if you guess.
So far there have been three:
The first is here.
The second is here.
And the third is here.
The screenshot is one of the images - many of them are beautiful, and all are interesting. Take a guess before you look at the possible answers to get a look at the availability heuristic in action.
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