# Can anyone identify this location from an album cover? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 22, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516 "2012-09-22T18:11:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/41 "2012-09-24T07:43:19Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I’m sold. Me too. Nice work **Fubaya**. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/42 "2012-09-24T12:20:01Z")
Amazing. Well done, Fubaya! ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/43 "2012-09-24T12:23:50Z")
I _said_ they were eucalypts 😃 Seriously though, well found. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/44 "2012-09-24T12:35:54Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > I _said_ they were eucalypts 😃 > > Seriously though, well found. Yes, once you said that I did think I’d spotted a couple of gum trees there. You were the first to suggest Australia too! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/45 "2012-09-24T12:55:50Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I think it’s Wilpena Pound in Australia. \ [Comparison of some of the peaks in those two images](http://imageshack.us/a/img696/9021/snap2uh.jpg). Very nicely done, **Fubaya**. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/46 "2012-09-24T13:26:49Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I’ve found an email address for the record company (although their [website](http://home.btconnect.com/smoke/shinkansen.htm) doesn’t inspire too much confidence that they’re still very active), so I’ve asked them. In the meantime, further speculation welcome… 🙂 And in fact I just checked my email and found a nice reply: > [@](#): > > Now, that’s a question I’ve never been asked before… > > And, sadly, I don’t have an answer, beyond “Australia”. It was an image from a photo-agency that the band liked… it was the one-and-only time we used an agency photo, but that means I don’t have any details about when or were it was taken, other than that the title was something like “Western Hills, Australia” . I’ve just emailed back to tell him that the power of crowdsourcing narrowed it down from “somewhere in the world” to a specific road in Australia in less than 36 hours. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/47 "2012-09-24T15:34:37Z")
I just can’t wait til the ladies find out about this… “You may have heard of me, I’m kind of a big deal. I’m the one who identified Wilpena Pound in a photo on the internet” (a ‘fwump’ sound as their clothes fall off). If I know anything about women, it’s that this scenario is 100% accurate. No one tell them it was really pain old dumb luck. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/48 "2012-09-24T16:11:26Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I think it’s Wilpena Pound in Australia. On first glance it doesn’t look anything like it, Wilpena Pound looks like a jagged [crater](http://www.above-australia.com/photo_2351940.html), but check out how these ridges match. > > [The large version I posted earlier](http://www.nature-free-pictures.com/images/wallpaper/nature-225.jpg) > > [An image of Wilpena Pound I found](http://thesentimentalbloke.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Wilpena-Pound1.jpg) > > [Comparison of some of the peaks in those two images](http://imageshack.us/a/img696/9021/snap2uh.jpg). The general fingerprint of the peaks matches, and so do the details on the peaks and when there is enough detail the faces of the mountain under the peaks match too. When you zoom in on the first image, you can sort of see what appears to be the same horizontal lines in the closest mountains. > > I found it by image searching “dingo fence mountain” Kudos on the detective work. Why “dingo fence mountain”? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/49 "2012-09-24T16:27:53Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I just can’t wait til the ladies find out about this… > > “You may have heard of me, I’m kind of a big deal. I’m the one who identified Wilpena Pound in a photo on the internet” (a ‘fwump’ sound as their clothes fall off). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/50 "2012-09-24T17:24:37Z")
Working my way through this thread, my first thought was “what the heck is that fence??” It seems to be a very fine mesh topped with barbed wire(?). I have never seen anything like that in North America, or in occasional visits to Britain. Dingo fence? I see some pics on google that look like chicken wire… ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/51 "2012-09-24T17:34:44Z")
> [@md2000](#): > > Working my way through this thread, my first thought was “what the heck is that fence??” It seems to be a very fine mesh topped with barbed wire(?). I have never seen anything like that in North America, or in occasional visits to Britain. Really? The fence didn’t register as anything unusual to me. I’ve seen plenty of similar fences in the British countryside. Admittedly most are just barbed wire ([like this](http://image1.masterfile.com/em_w/02/91/24/600-02912435w.jpg)) rather than a combination of mesh and wire, but there are plenty that look very similar albeit usually with larger square mesh ([example](http://www.lancashirefencing.co.uk/images/farm-fencing-lancashire_1.jpg)). ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/52 "2012-09-24T20:13:20Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > And in fact I just checked my email and found a nice reply: > . > > I’ve just emailed back to tell him that the power of crowdsourcing narrowed it down from “somewhere in the world” to a specific road in Australia in less than 36 hours. 🙂 LOL! I hope you told him where to find us! He’d probably make a good Doper! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/53 "2012-09-24T20:48:45Z")
Wow. I’m impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/54 "2012-09-24T20:58:38Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Kudos on the detective work. Why “dingo fence mountain”? Because it was an odd chicken wire type fence and just to see if that was common there, I searched “Australia fence” because the last posts mentioned Australia. That search clued me into dingo fences but those can apparently be many different styles so I threw in “mountain” to see if they used one certain type in the mountains that might match ours. I was really trying to confirm Australia as a possibility based on the fence. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/55 "2012-09-24T21:05:09Z")
Dayum. Nice sleuthing. ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/56 "2012-09-24T21:05:54Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Really? The fence didn’t register as anything unusual to me. I’ve seen plenty of similar fences in the British countryside. Admittedly most are just barbed wire ([like this](http://image1.masterfile.com/em_w/02/91/24/600-02912435w.jpg)) rather than a combination of mesh and wire, but there are plenty that look very similar albeit usually with larger square mesh ([example](http://www.lancashirefencing.co.uk/images/farm-fencing-lancashire_1.jpg)). That’s the point. A lot of fences use 4" square mesh or lines of wire to hem in cattle and horses; or very short runs of “chicken wire mesh” around chicken enclosures. many top that with barbed wire to keep out other animals, usually 2-legged. Typically in smaller fields, there is an inside run single thick strand of electrified wire. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an extended stretch of chicken wire as a fence. I suspect it’s fragile and expensive for cow control. My first thought was “rabbit fence?” but IIRC they gave up on that in Australia? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/57 "2012-09-24T21:19:32Z")
So is the album any good? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/58 "2012-09-24T22:02:53Z")
> [@bup](#): > > So is the album any good? There’s one in every crowd. Doesn’t know what’s important. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/59 "2012-09-24T22:30:40Z")
> [@bup](#): > > So is the album any good? It is. It’s a career retrospective, though, so I wouldn’t recommend listening to the whole 36 tracks in one go. One review I read said that would be like trying to understand the concept of a bakery by eating its entire stock of pastries in an afternoon… But that’s not important right now. BTW **Fubaya** , that image search where you found the original pic included one copy with the file name “australie.jpg” - a clue we all missed. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516/60 "2012-09-27T22:44:53Z")
> [@Fubaya](#): > > I just can’t wait til the ladies find out about this… > > “You may have heard of me, I’m kind of a big deal. I’m the one who identified Wilpena Pound in a photo on the internet” (a ‘fwump’ sound as their clothes fall off).\ Do they try to cover up, but it’s too late, you’ve seen everything? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-location-from-an-album-cover/635516.md?page=4)