This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a whizz at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not lend a hand.
To fully defox the following geofoxer, identify all twelve locations plus the theme that links them.
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SOLUTIONS
Last week’s wikifoxer letter: J
a1. just room enough island (Phlebas)
a2. jambon-beurre (Electric Dragon, Phlebas)
a3. juno and the paycock (Phlebas)
a4. jagdpanzer iv (Phlebas)
a5. joinery (Jimbob)
b1. jerriais (Electric Dragon)
b2. jegichagi (Nutfield)
b3. jellyfish (Aergistal)
b4. jockey of artemesion (Colonel_K)
b5. jena (Nutfield)
c1. jewish autonomous oblast (Aergistal)
c2. jarrow (Colonel_K)
c3. jineology (Nutfield)
c4. jintan (Electric Dragon)
c5. jenny haniver (Electric Dragon)
d1. jig (Nutfield, Colonel_K)
d2. junkers f 13 (Colonel_K, a_monk)
d3. jethro tull (a_monk)
d4. juniper (a_monk)
d5. joe strummer (Nutfield)
e1. jordanian armed forces (a_monk)
e2. juke joint (Electric Dragon)
e3. jewellery (Nutfield)
e4. jian (a_monk)
e5. jetpack (Colonel_K)
E. KENTISH RIFLEMAN, Dunks Green
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2499862,0.3090409,3a,87.4y,138.21h,95.37t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s6rRcUVT7jKL54QS5wuErPg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-5.368757723581169%26panoid%3D6rRcUVT7jKL54QS5wuErPg%26yaw%3D138.2095289377757!7i16384!8i8192!5m1!1e1?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
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J. UFO WELCOME CENTER, Bowman, South Carolina
… “is permanently closed.”
You missed your chance, extra terrestrials!
A: Broad St in Bath
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cat's+Barbershop/@51.3848595,-2.3605968,3a,75y,343.45h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sRSQ9k4R2f6kVf7FYj6PN-g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0%26panoid%3DRSQ9k4R2f6kVf7FYj6PN-g%26yaw%3D343.44580748448516!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x487181133fc5ad2b:0xd844b1461d2b3d0f!8m2!3d51.3849558!4d-2.3605668!16s%2Fg%2F11g8w8j3vc?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
I : Spean Bridge in Scotland. The Commando Memorial is just to the left there and Ben Nevis is in the background.
https://www.google.com/maps/@56.8985158,-4.9445908,3a,75y,183.49h,90.84t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFOoqodOavamw4waofCxqZA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-0.8352884839245149%26panoid%3DFOoqodOavamw4waofCxqZA%26yaw%3D183.49214101730928!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Rifleman, Bowman, Commando all seem like they’d be part of a theme.
The Indian restaurant on the left in the Broad St view is called The Sepoy Club – Sepoy is a name for an infantryman in the Mughal empire, and lives on as a term for a private in the Indian and Pakistani armies.
G – TRABI-WORLD on Zimmerstrasse Berlin.
N.B. a Trabant was a military role in the middle ages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant_(military)
K – FUSILEER museum, Bury
J – UFO Welcome Center, BOWMAN, South Carolina
C: MATTHIAS church in budapest:
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5017904,19.0347061,3a,75y,328.97h,102.23t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sU5Xff3fufjQMl0T92aM28g!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-12.225765964329085%26panoid%3DU5Xff3fufjQMl0T92aM28g%26yaw%3D328.97242905042526!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
Fisherman’s Bastion in the background, in case it’s still possible a ____man link.
…whose seven towers symbolise the Seven Chieftans of the Magyars, in case it’s a military title link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_chieftains_of_the_Magyars
And the Fisherman’s Bastion, if that’s relevant.
H: It’s a cruise terminal, looks like the UK, let’s start with DOVER… oh…
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1151386,1.312556,3a,75y,160.37h,79.07t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skfU16UDBBZy5tL0s9hC1xA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D10.929809538095597%26panoid%3DkfU16UDBBZy5tL0s9hC1xA%26yaw%3D160.36737169508535!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
On ADMIRALTY Pier.
I believe the building is MARINE Station (now Dover Cruise Terminal 1), completed 1914.
(Features as part of the guided tour of the pier)
Happy 200th foxer, here’s to many more !
Cheers!
Huzzah!
I’ll drink to that!
Happy 200th foxer!
B – HMS CAVALIER at Chatham Historic Dockyard.
F – Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum, Ashland, Nebraska.
I believe the aircraft shown is a B-1A “LANCER”.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.0153656,-96.3201548,3a,44.1y,10.24h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sP_q9WAd5-4n3WA1pVMwFSA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0%26panoid%3DP_q9WAd5-4n3WA1pVMwFSA%26yaw%3D10.24!7i16384!8i8192
L – The Bold DRAGOON, Northampton.
‘Bold’, i looked up so many military ranks, just wasn’t a blooming Bombadier.
D looks like somewhere near an airport to me but maybe the fence is too low. I did look up Bombadier in case i could retrofit that, and it came up with a couple of places at Airports in the UK, but no dice.
I wondered if it might belong to a General (Electric, Motors, Legal& etc) but no luck so far!
D – Ineos Automotive, makers of the GRENADIER 4×4
https://maps.app.goo.gl/6jhHzT5Z2QP1GpQx8