Every Friday at 1300 hours, Tally-Ho Corner’s cleverest clogs come together to solve a ‘foxer’ handcrafted by my sadistic chum and colleague, Roman. A complete ‘defoxing’ sometimes takes several days and usually involves the little grey cells of many readers. Don’t be shy. All are welcome to participate.
To fully defox the following geofoxer, identify all twelve locations plus the theme that links them.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s cluster foxer:
90 (theme defoxed by Viscount)
a1. I-90 (Viscount, Phlebas)
b1. Italia 90 mascot (AbyssUK, Electric Dragon)
c1. Type 90 MBT (Colonel_K)
a2. Joe 90 jet air car (Colonel_K)
a3. FN P90 mag (Phlebas, Viscount)
Voyages of Tim Severin (theme partially defoxed by ylla)
d1. Ulysses (Colonel_K)
e1. Moby Dick (AbyssUK)
e2. Brendan (phlebas)
e3. Jason and the argonauts (Electric Dragon)
e4. Sinbad (ylla, Phlebas)
The flight of John Wilkes Booth (theme defoxed by Electric Dragon)
b2. Garrett’s Farm (AbyssUK, Colonel_K)
b3. Potomac River (Colonel_K)
a4. Home of Dr. Mudd (Electric Dragon, ylla)
b4. Home of Samuel Cox (AbyssUK)
a5. Surratt House (Colonel_K)
Hobart, Tasmania (theme defoxed by Electric Dragon)
c2. Errol Flynn (Colonel_K)
d2. Salamanca Place (AbyssUK)
c3. Mona (Colonel_K, Electric Dragon)
d3. HSC Francisco (AbyssUK)
d4. Derwent (Electric Dragon)
MPs involved in the ongoing Tory leadership race (theme defoxed by Viscount)
c4. Kemi Badenoch (gusdownnup, Viscount)
b5. Tom Tugendhat (Viscount)
c5. Suella Braverman (Colonel_K, gusdownnup)
d5. Jeremy Hunt (AbyssUK)
e5. Penny Mordaunt (Colonel_K, ylla)
B – LONDON CANAL MUSEUM
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5342464,-0.1199377,3a,75y,267.66h,93.99t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sxlIb7zyelqxJhIddthVTyg!2e0!5s20190701T000000!7i16384!8i8192
F – Head of the Perito Moreno glacier, Argentina (link to Google Maps)
E. TOWER OF LONDON
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5084367,-0.0780511,3a,75y,71.41h,103.95t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipP-sWs3x7Xh8Xu0er3pUXbvb16JNtBiOS1ZRvbh!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipP-sWs3x7Xh8Xu0er3pUXbvb16JNtBiOS1ZRvbh%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya60.760986-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352
Google Maps has this as The Royal Menagerie, but it might be a bear moat or something. May also be one of the towers inside the walls.
Glaciers are made of ice, and the Canal Museum was built to store ice – could this be the space used for the ice rink? 😀
A – Langbrygga, Brevik, Norway (link to Google Maps)
‘a former export centre for ice and timber’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevik,_Norway
After literally looking up every Holland casino I find.
L) In Leeuwarden – building on the right is called World Trade Center
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1997798,5.7745227,3a,86.6y,315.38h,89.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sOuUISqEt5jopeeATVQClKw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Leeuwarden is the start and end point of the Elfstedentocht – an ice-skating tour, which fits in with ylla’s theme suggestion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht
Yes, I wasn’t entirely serious at the time, but I’d just tracked down that link too!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfstedentocht#/media/File:Elfstedenrijder_Auke_Hettema_Heliconweg_FEC_Leeuwarden.JPG
K – Vivekananda Heritage Museum, Chennai, India (link to Google Maps). Originally built as an ice house: link to Wikipedia.org.
Someone just put up Vivekanandar Illam for K, but deleted it – it’s right and it was formally known as Ice House
https://www.google.com/maps/@13.0495138,80.2805176,3a,83.1y,145.87h,83.31t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNT2-xL-lupRdjYdArQUOtohRLmXjJu4cjMk4Sa!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNT2-xL-lupRdjYdArQUOtohRLmXjJu4cjMk4Sa%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya57.795868-ro-0-fo100!7i6080!8i2756
Sometimes that seems to happen when it takes a second for moderation to kick in – it might reappear…
I looked up Ice Factory Historic and there’s one in Grimsby that resembles H a lot.
ETA: Yup. H. GRIMSBY ICE FACTORY
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5771856,-0.0709156,3a,90y,260.03h,113.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAGPU6isyt9am6ol5Rtc3Pg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
(Had to switch to 2012 view)
J – ICEHOTEL in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
D – Museum ship KRASIN in St Petersburg – a historic icebreaker.
G – LA PLAGNE Bobsleigh (etc) track, venue for the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.521933,6.6798589,3a,75y,282.02h,84.16t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sbfdB9XhyMqt_rm9epcX68Q!2e0!5s20210601T000000!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en
Here’s the matching street view, from 2018
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5216472,6.6801684,3a,75y,268.33h,101.18t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sU9Xg7VZcrjkwcT4DaN2mbw!2e0!5s20180901T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
I – was taken outside of the Globe Theatre at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
https://www.google.ca/maps/@53.7926832,-3.0555268,3a,60y,93.07h,108.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shsQqYGdH5sP-tGeHJhtysw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Something to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Ice_Show ?
I think more likely is the Ice Blast, which is the tower right of shot
https://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/ice-blast/
Aha!
C. Is Trotsky’s house/hideout in Mexico City… where he was famously killed with an ice pick. I’d recognise that brickwork anywhere!