Marree Man
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Marree Man
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#2My parents went on a joy-flight over Lake Eyre and Marree Man a few months ago... the lake was full for the first time in years after flooding in Queensland and it was was the highlight of their whole trip. Funnily enough they had never heard of Marree Man until the trip - it’s certainly something of an enigma here in Australia.
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#3Interesting. Why do people assume this could not have been done without GPS? Maps have long been created by triangulation, is there any reason that process could not be used backwards to create a terrain feature from a map?
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#4Google maps satellite view for those curious. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marree+Man/@-29.5335821,13...
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#5My family in South Australia has lived a 10h drive from this their entire life and no idea it existed. I should really visit.
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#6My family in South Australia has lived a 10h drive from this their entire life and no idea it existed. I should really visit.
Ah .. very australian. I live in middle europe and there are many places just "10h" drive away I have never visited and probably never will ..
But aside that, I doubt it will look spectacular close up.
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#7My family in South Australia has lived a 10h drive from this their entire life and no idea it existed. I should really visit.
Ah .. very australian. I live in middle europe and there are many places just "10h" drive away I have never visited and probably never will .. But aside that, I doubt it will look spectacular close up.
A 10h drive in Central Europe can get you far :). Australia is a vast emptiness as soon as you leave the coast. Also I’m hoping I can get the geoglyph in frame with a drone though I haven’t done the math to see whether that’s possible within the confines of the law in terms of altitude (120m max altitude in Oz).
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah .. very australian. I live in middle europe and there are many places just "10h" drive away I have never visited and probably never will .. But aside that, I doubt it will look spectacular close up.
A 10h drive in Central Europe can get you far :). Australia is a vast emptiness as soon as you leave the coast. Also I’m hoping I can get the geoglyph in frame with a drone though I haven’t done the math to see whether that’s possible within the confines of the law in terms of altitude (120m max altitude in Oz).
Yes, I know ... been to your emptiness before, thats why I said, "very australian". Distances are relative, I know. Here I think long before doing a 2 h drive ..
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#9Interesting. Why do people assume this could not have been done without GPS? Maps have long been created by triangulation, is there any reason that process could not be used backwards to create a terrain feature from a map?
In fact, such lines were recreated without the help of GPS or flight: https://westerncourier.com/41241/news/students-recreate-nazc...
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#10Google maps satellite view for those curious. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Marree+Man/@-29.5335821,13...
The satellite image looks slightly different from the Wikipedia image. In the satellite image you can clearly see an ear, and the man is looking to the left. In the wikipedia image, it seems as if the man is wearing a mask and looks to the right. The band over the head is not visible in the satellite image.