Below are the questions with answers in red.
Clue 6
1.
- Exit the photo from the previous clue.
- Zoom out to a height of 50km.
- Click once on the compass so your view is realigned to north.
- Fill in the gap of the sentence below with the word from 'Clue 5 Option B' (this is the 2nd word from the password to access this page) and follow this instruction.
- Move to the _________ern coast of Guatemala.
East.
Guatemala has 2 coasts a Pacific coast with beaches of beautiful black volcanic sand and an Atlantic coast with Caribbean vibes.
Which coast are you now on?
Atlantic.
Did you know?
Livingston - this town on the Guatemalan Atlantic coast is not named after David Livingstone the famous Scottish explorer of the scramble for Africa but rather an American jurist and politician Edward Livingston who wrote the Livingston Codes which were used as the basis for the laws of the liberal government of the United Provinces of Central America (the state from 1821 - 1841).
On a side note - the Scottish did however colonise a part of Central America, setting up a colony in Panama in 1698 to establish and manage an overland route to connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Called the Darien Scheme several factors led to the colony to be abandoned by 1700. Due to the fact 20% of all the money in Scotland went into its backing, its cited as one of the reasons for the Act of Union in 1707 in which the English paid off the debt.
Belizean – Guatemalan territorial dispute - the reason why the border between these 2 countries is dotted is because Guatemala has been claiming Belize since 1821 when it gained independence from Spain but what is now Belize remained separate forming British Honduras in 1862.
Google and border disputes - the borders of countries change depending on which country you view them from. E.g. if you view this border from Belize it would be a solid line because they have no dispute over it. The same is the case for others such as the Crimea viewed from Russia.
2.
During colonial times this area of the world was rife with pirates raiding ports & ships for riches from the New World and European colonial territories.
To combat this the Spanish (who ruled Guatemala from the 16th to the 19th century) built a castle to protect the ports within Lago de Izabal which were the main point for supplying the then Spanish colony.
Study the waterway into this lake from the ocean to find the castle.
- Tips - this castle was built at the most strategic point to easily protect entry into this area.
- Scan up and down the waterway.
- Zoom in to any suspect locations.
Once you think you have found it check you are in the right location by:
- Zooming into under 300 metres height.
- Clicking on to street view mode.
- If the middle of the castle looks like the picture below then you are in the correct place:
The castle is called Castillo de San Felipe del Golfo and is at the point where the Rio Dulce (river) meets Lago de Izabal (lake).
3.
- Stay in street view mode, you will notice there are a series of circles positioned around the castle in the water.
- Click into anyone of these.
- Move around these pictures using the white arrows studying the castle.
- Below, there are 4 pictures 2 of these are of the castle and 2 are of Port Royal in Jamaica (Port Royal was one of the most popular ports of call for thieves and pirates during the 'Golden Age of Piracy” in the late 17th and early 18th centuries).
- Move around on street view and work out which 2 pictures are from this castle and make a note of their numbers (you can spot everything staying in the photos taken from the water, moving between them using the white arrows and zooming in + out).
- Using these 2 numbers - Subtract the lowest number from the highest and use the answer as the password to access the next clue.
Number 2 is one the castle towers on its western end and number 3 is on the wall of its southern side.
3 - 2 = 1
CLUE 7
