![]() ![]() Kargath- buried by an avalanche it has been rebuilt nearby with updated architecture and fortifications in the area near Apocryphan's Rest. Hammertoe's Digsite- the dwarf camp south of the site now contains an Alliance flight path. Google Earth Community Page about the discovery of the feature.Ĭoordinates: 50☀0′38.20″N 110☀6′48.32″W / 50.0106111°N 110.1134222°W / 50.0106111 -110.Comment by 605216Areas affected in Cataclysm:Īngor Fortress- from just south of here all the way to the SW corner of the Badlands is a swath of destruction (named Aggramar's Hammer), with charred desert and the tops of mountains sliced off and glowing with lava.Ĭamp Boff- NW of here is a small Horde camp with a flight master just past this camp is a new dig site into an underground area that appears very similar to Uldaman.Ĭamp Cagg- NE of here is a small Alliance camp with flight master.3D diagram of Badlands Guardian topography, prepared by Lutz Perschon for CBC Radio.Photo of the Badlands Guardian taken from a paraglider.Archived from the original on Apr 22, 2012. "In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth". "Top 10 Google Earth Finds: A Face in the Clay". ^ As It Happens 3D rendering by CBC Radio.Archived from the original on Jan 16, 2009. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. It resembles a human head, wearing Native American headdress-and also appears to be naturally adorned with. The Badlands Guardian, for example, a natural geologic formation near Alberta, Canada, was often visited by online aviators. Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know. ^ a b c Sydney Morning Herald Article by Stephen Hutcheon: "Gran's canyon is a net sensation" November 13, 2006."Atlas Obscura names Alberta's 'Badlands Guardian' curious, hidden wonder". Old Man of Hoy, a rock pillar off Scotland that resembles a standing man.Old Man of the Mountain, (former) rock profile in New Hampshire (collapsed on May 3, 2003).Marcahuasi, a plateau in the Andes, near Lima, Peru with numerous rock formations with surprising likenesses to specific animals, people, and religious symbols.Inuksuk, traditional Native Arctic peoples' stone "marker statuaries" in Alaska and Arctic Canada."Face on Mars", photographed by Viking 1 in 1976.Pareidolia, the phenomenon of perceiving faces in random patterns.Apophenia, the tendency to perceive connections between unrelated things.It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time magazine. PCWorld magazine has referred to the formation as a "geological marvel". The Badlands Guardian was also described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a "net sensation". They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. In 2006, suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. The apparent earphones are a road (Township Road 123A) and an oil well, which were installed in the early 2000s and are expected to disappear once the project is abandoned. Additional human-made structures have been said to resemble a pair of earphones worn by the figure. ![]() Viewed from the air, the feature has been said to resemble a human head wearing a full Indigenous type of headdress, facing directly westward. The feature was discovered in 2005 by Lynn Hickox through use of Google Earth. The Badlands Guardian is a geomorphological feature located near Medicine Hat in the southeast corner of Alberta, Canada. Badlands Guardian in 1938, before the creation of the road that resembles the earphones ![]()
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