The Badlands Guardian which is also known as Indian Head is considered to be a geomorphological feature which is situated near Medicine Hat, south east of Alberta, Canada.
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It is a magnificent rock formation which was viewed from the air that resembles a human head with full Native American headdress facing westward.īadlands Guardian was discovered by Lynn Hickox on November 2006 while accidently surfing Google Earth on the internet. Mrs Hickox who lived in a small Canadian town had brought about this awareness by posting her discovery on Google Earth forum using the nickname `Supergranny’, stating that she was navigating for direction to a dinosaur museum when she suddenly came across this discovery of the Badlands Guardian.ĭue to man-made structures, Badlands Guardian seems to be wearing earphone where these earphones seem to be road and an oil well which were recently installed and are expected to vanish once the project tends to get abandoned. It is said that its scale is quite larger than that of Mount Rushmore. The image can be traced on 50° 0’38.20”N 110° 6’48.32”W with the use of Google Earth. The formation is presented in one aerial and three satellite images acquired over the past 70 years by the Alberta Department of Lands & Forests and Google Earth. Instance of Hollow Face Illusion Badlands Guardian Badlands Guardian is part of WikiProject Geology, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative. It receives little but intense showers of rain. The area covered by the Badlands Guardian is an arid land. Several names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program, As it Happens and out of fifty names which were submitted, seven were recommended to the Cypress County Council. The precise location of the Badlands Guardian on Google Earth is at the coordinates (50 0’38.20N, 110 06 48.32W). The suggested name `Guardian of the Badlands was altered and came to be known as `Badlands Guardian’.The rock formation measures 255 metres wide and 225 metres long on land which has been leased by local ranchers.
The head seems to be a drainage feature which was created through the process of erosion of soft clay rich soil due to wind and water. Its arid badlands have been formed by infrequent though intense rain, sparse vegetation together with soft sediments while the head could have been formed during the short time of fast erosion after the intense rainfall. The Badlands Guardian images seems to be a convex feature but is actually concave which is a valley formed by erosion on a stratum of clay.
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Winner of RTNDA National TV Short Feature Award This is instance of the Hollow Face illusion and its age could probably be considered at a minimum of hundreds of years. The Badlands Guardian is considered to be the only one of the several geological and landscapes which have been discovered with the use of Google Earth images. So let's take a look at 10 bizarre places caught by Google Maps and at 10 impressive photos taken by GoPro cameras and check out for ourselves what amazes us more - mystery or coolness.Dal Hunter, Reporter of Medicine Hat’s Chat TV did a short feature in 2006 on the Badlands Guardian which became the winner of the RTNDA National TV short feature award during that year.īadlands Guardian was also described as a `net sensation’, by the Sydney Morning Herald while the PCWorld magazine referred the formation as a geological marvel. Combining satellite, aerial and street level imagery, Google Maps has over 20 petabytes of data, which is equal to approximately 21 million gigabytes.
It's impossible to take this kind of photos with the help of usual cameras, so GoPro shots are notable for their coolness, especially for those photographers, who are into extreme sports. The complete location id is given in the video. Many of these photos are absolutely unique because they can catch the coolest moments, from parasailing above a volcano to turning the darkness into light with a single shot. They gave us so much food for entertainment and for thought about all the mysteries our world contains.īut if you're not really into looking at our planet from above but still want to see something interesting, go ahead and watch photos captured by GoPro cameras. After all, there are plenty of weird places on this planet, from unique natural formations that resemble human faces to man-made structures that have a very questionable look, if you see them from above.Īpart from helping us quickly find any location in the world, we want to visit, the chance to see these bizarre places is one of the reasons why we love Google Maps and why we should be thankful to its creators. Sooner or later, you are bound to find something so bizarre that you won't even want to know how it got to the maps. People say that if you want to see something strange, go to Google Maps and explore some random locations there.
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