Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[D.B.Moody]

Not too far from your recent Natural Bridge posting. It brought to mind the Blackfriars Bridge underpass picture with a picture of Blackfriars Bridge in it: a mountain lake named Mountain Lake: Must be that meta thing @Andres Falconer mentioned.

Okay, from 2010, another lake:

 

[Pkrd]

Wakatipu?

 

[D.B.Moody]

Yes, but an obscure view taken on the road into Queensland. Beautiful lake in a beautiful country. You're up @Pkrd.

EDIT: make that Queenstown.

 

[Pkrd]

I'm pretty sure we don't have a road to Queensland...

Here's a shot from two weeks ago for you movie buffs

 

[Konadog]

Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier?

 

[Pkrd]

Wrong hemisphere

 

[Andres Falconer]

Are we looking at Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand?

 

[Pkrd]

Are we looking at Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand?

We are. That is Mount Ngauruhoe to the right, better knows as Mount Doom.

You're up.

 

[Andres Falconer]

I tried googling volcanoes that look like Mt. Fuji. I also thought Lord of the Rings. Then the location in your profile gave it away

Seemingly random, but I swam in this pond in mid summer, many years ago. It was cold AF. Not my picture, though. I'll throw in some bread crumbs if needed.

 

[Miraculix]

Ireland?

 

[Andres Falconer]

Wrong hemisphere

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Don't recognise the vegetation, but the rocks look vaguely like some I've seen on a TV series filmed in South Africa.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Don't recognise the vegetation, but the rocks look vaguely like some I've seen on a TV series filmed in South Africa.

Right hemisphere. Very different longitude.

 

[Andres Falconer]

I’ve shared images from this part of the world before. And @Northern_Brewer’s post about lakes at altitude in Scotland during a climate summit brought this to mind. Because this place is oddly reminiscent of the images of the Cairngorms, and there is a perverse connection to climate change, too.

 

[dirkomatic]

Patagonia somewhere?

 

[Andres Falconer]

It does look like it could be Patagonia. But no. Right continent. But not Argentina nor Chile. This is in a country known for much warmer weather, though not at this altitude.

 

[dirkomatic]

Serra de Mantiqueira in Brazil?

 

[McMullan]

Bolivia?

 

[Andres Falconer]

Serra de Mantiqueira in Brazil?

Serra da Mantiqueira is the correct mountain range. Can we get more specific? We're looking at a peak that shares the name with the Brazilian equivalent to West Point.

 

[dirkomatic]

Ok... Found the pic with that huge clue.

Itatiaia National Park looking at Pico das Agulhas Negras

 

[Andres Falconer]

Ok... Found the pic with that huge clue.

Itatiaia National Park looking at Pico das Agulhas Negras

Yep, I couldn’t think of a more subtle clue… Itatiaia is the first National Park created in Brazil (back in the 1930s, I believe), modeled after Teddy Roosevelt’s initiatives of the time. It is mostly located in Rio de Janeiro state, but given the high altitude of the Mantiqueira plateau, the landscape is positively not tropical. Brazilians would describe it as lunar. That unnamed pond/lake may well be the among the highest bodies of water in the country. It occasionally snows there, but that’s an increasingly rare sight. Agulhas Negras was once thought to be the highest peak in a country not known for tall mountains. The Covid and Climate-denying current President of Brazil is a graduate of Agulhas Negras Military Academy and was a mid-ranked officer before being expelled from the a army for subversion and terrorism, in a well-known case that was hushed and had charges quietly dropped. Tellingly, he is one of the heads of state that was not in Glasgow this week.
You’re next, @dirkomatic!

 

[dirkomatic]

I've been here. It was a long time ago... I don't know many interesting facts about it and this is a screen capture from Google Maps.

 

[dirkomatic]

And here is a view toward this location from the bridge in the distance

 

[dirkomatic]

If it's not obvious, this is in the US

 

[D.B.Moody]

If it's not obvious, this is in the US

Well actually it is obvious if you drive across the Missouri River from St. Louis County into St. Charles County. The second picture is the casino in St. Charles, Missouri, from the I70 bridge. We drove across that just a couple of weeks ago. The first picture is toward the bridge from Frontier Park just across the road and the Katy Trail from Schaffley Bankside, which replaced Trailhead Brewing. This is Scahffley's third location. Schaffley Pale Ale is what I usually stock when my home brew is unavailable.

 

[dirkomatic]

Well actually it is obvious if you drive across the Missouri River from St. Louis County into St. Charles County. The second picture is the casino in St. Charles, Missouri, from the I70 bridge. We drove across that just a couple of weeks ago. The first picture is toward the bridge from Frontier Park just across the road and the Katy Trail from Schaffley Bankside, which replaced Trailhead Brewing. This is Scahffley's third location. Schaffley Pale Ale is what I usually stock when my home brew is unavailable.

There you go. @D.B.Moody provided more factual information than I ever could.

You're up!

 

[D.B.Moody]

Sticking with river towns, this is from 1991. City and country, please.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Niagara Falls, NY, USA. But the picture may have been taken from Niagara Falls, Canada.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Spot on. You're up @Andres Falconer.

 

[Andres Falconer]

I plan to make it to Niagara - and across the border - later this month. Not been there. But when you asked to name the country it reminded me that the cities on both sides share the same name.

Not my picture but I’ve been there and it is beautiful. If you follow an intuitively obvious clue you should get this one quickly.