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  • GNEP
    Super MURCer
    • Feb 2002
    • 5241

    #466
    Majorca?
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    • Fat Tone
      Super MURCer
      • Aug 1999
      • 7579

      #467
      Originally posted by KvHagedorn
      It's somewhere off the Costa Blanca of Spain, but I can't find the particular rock.
      Correct

      Your final clue is 'Roldan'.
      FT.

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      • Goc
        MURCer
        • Sep 1999
        • 852

        #468
        L'Esponja?
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        • KvHagedorn
          Super MURCer
          • Aug 1999
          • 10725

          #469
          La Isla de Benidorm (The Peacock Island)

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          • Goc
            MURCer
            • Sep 1999
            • 852

            #470
            KvH gets it again...
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            • Fat Tone
              Super MURCer
              • Aug 1999
              • 7579

              #471
              Yay! KvH gets it!

              Legend has it that an ancient giant by the name of Roldan created the gap because he had been told his wife would die when the sun set behind Puig Campana’s summit. By creating a great notch in the mountain he could enable her to live for just a little bit longer. The rock removed from the gap was tossed into the sea and became Benidorm Island.

              I can see it from the beach (we are a little further south when on holiday) when it isn't too hazy.
              FT.

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              • KvHagedorn
                Super MURCer
                • Aug 1999
                • 10725

                #472
                ahh.. fascinating. I wonder if anyone has bothered to measure the two? I'm sure the Island is 100 times the size of the gap!

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                • KvHagedorn
                  Super MURCer
                  • Aug 1999
                  • 10725

                  #473
                  Here's one that should not be too difficult. No, I haven't been there (as if I have been anywhere) but would love to visit one day.
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                  • Fat Tone
                    Super MURCer
                    • Aug 1999
                    • 7579

                    #474
                    A church somewhere in England? Although the spire seems a little unusual to me.


                    PS only a few intrepid climbers get up to my gap in the summit, so I guess no-one has yet disproved the legend
                    FT.

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                    • KvHagedorn
                      Super MURCer
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 10725

                      #475
                      Nope, nowhere in England.

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                      • Umfriend
                        Crabby Smurf
                        • Mar 2001
                        • 7308

                        #476
                        Definately France I think, Normandy?
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                        • KvHagedorn
                          Super MURCer
                          • Aug 1999
                          • 10725

                          #477
                          nope

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                          • Goc
                            MURCer
                            • Sep 1999
                            • 852

                            #478
                            Damn... France was my first guess too... Is it at least in Europe? It must be...
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                            • Umfriend
                              Crabby Smurf
                              • Mar 2001
                              • 7308

                              #479
                              It's Ireland, I'm pretty sure I guess
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                              • KvHagedorn
                                Super MURCer
                                • Aug 1999
                                • 10725

                                #480
                                Yes, it is in Europe.

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