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From: Paul Saffo
Date: 2026 Jan 10, 11:23 -0800
Elegantly analyzed! I failed in my guess ( got as far as thinking it felt like somewhere around Kiel, but no further), but when I saw your pics, I slapped myself upside the head in one of those "oh, of course" moments! And having lived for two years in Cambridge during grad school, I felt esp dumb having missed it and the Great Bight!
The photo also perfectly frames the North Sea's Atlantis the lost Late Pleistocene Doggerland.
Btw, noting the Frisian Islands in the photo, I assume most folks on the list are familiar with Erskine Childers' novel "The riddle of the Sands." If not, it is an absolute classic! Sailing, navigation/piloting and spy stuff set amongst the Frisian sand islands in the years before WW-I. Read it and you will never see the word "kedging" in the same way ever again.
So Frank, I still think it was diabolical of you to invert the image, but nonetheless, what a fun puzzle!
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