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Contest/Game - Identify this picture

639K views 5K replies 130 participants last post by  obelisk 
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It has been a while since I've seen a thread like this - the rules are simple: attempt to identify the location of the last posted picture in the thread. Once the picture poster confirms the first correct responder that person then gets to add a (sailing-related) picture to the thread and the game continues.

Since I'm no good at this type of guesswork my only chance of getting a picture into the thread is by starting it off with the following picture:


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#1,205 ·
About bloody time .... the most famous rounding mark in Australian blue water racing.

All yours RG..

ps - check out the video Paulo posted in the Syd - Hob thread.
 
#1,216 ·
I had a similar thought, checked out the Azores but no joy.... Don't see anything on Ascension that fits either, though... Looks too rocky
 
#1,223 ·
Sooo. Naples has a prominent peninsula, and Gaeta less so, both are US naval euro bases.. but I can't find the landmarks shown so perhaps I'm on a goose chase....
 
#1,230 · (Edited)
I think tdw should get it, since I opened up google maps to "Toulon" and saw the promontory right away and it took longer to zoom in to it than I thought with the slow connection. Saint Mandrier-Sur-Mer


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Wiki: Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In World War II, Saint-Mandrier was fortified with two turrets, each mounting a pair of 340mm naval guns taken the French battleship Provence. This fortress controlled the approaches to Toulon, and the range and power of these guns was such that a considerable Allied naval force was required to destroy them. Part of the fleet, and the first to engage the battery, was the Free French battleship Lorraine, sister ship to the Provence and mounting the same type of gun. The Allies termed the battery 'Big Willie', and dedicated a battleship or heavy cruiser to shelling it every day; eventually USS Nevada silenced the guns on August 23, 1944, although the fortress would not be taken until 28th.[1][2]
At first I thought it might have been those in "The guns of Navarone" but I gather that those were in Greece and based on the artillery at Leros.
 
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