When our wombat says he’s off to bed, he’s really on his back squinting at Google Earth on his iPad with the lights out haha..and he’s 2 or 3 hours ahead of me in Oz I reckon.
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So now you’re saying it might not have been British ruled and the British just flew over it during some conflict? Every bone you throw my way is making it less and less clear to me I’m afraid. And I don’t consider myself totally inept when it comes to history and geography. But the most siginificant geopolitical conflicts in the area I can come up with are the two Gulf wars (only one of which the RAF was involved after the Hunter had been phased out) and the Jom-Kippur and 5-day wars, which as far as I know the RAF didn’t take part in at all.
I’m afraid I’m opting out and wait whether the others are better cryptographers than me 
It was a country on my list. Maybe it’s called a different name today ?
You are missing significant historical events. WW2 ended in 1945 and you mention the Gulf Wars starting in the 1990’s - that’s 45+ years you should consider.
Hunters were well out of the picture in the 90’s and for a hefty chunk of the '80’s they were already scrap monkeys.
If our archer loses this to a wombat, a duck or >> cough << an ‘elastic sack’…ahem…it will actually be WW3 I reckon…
I also mentioned The Jom Kippur and the Six Day Wars. And I also already conceded that the RAF had phased out the Hunter in 1980. In addition the first Gulf war was between 1980 and 1988 and not in the 1990s. Furthermore I’m aware that Palestine is today (mostly) called Israel. Doesn’t change anything about the time line: beween 1954 and 1980 the RAF didn’t operate in Israel as far as I know. However Lebanon and Jordan had Hawker Hunters and used them against Israel (which in turn didn’t use Hunters). So if you meant Lebanese or Jordanian Hunters that would contradict your previous statement about the RAF being a clue.
I am happy to lose to the Wombat or the Duck in this case. Gone on too long anyway. Time to get it over with.
Mate - I don’t want to knock a fellow participant - but you are getting a bit ‘salty’ here for what is a ‘guess the location’ quiz.
I can personally assure you that the first Gulf war started to build-up in the summer of 1990 because I was in Bahrain and later Kuwait that very year. Where you got ‘between 1980 and 1988’ from is pure fantasy land.
Well, the naming convention seems to be a matter of where you live.
What today in my country is called the First Gulf War was the war between Iran and Iraq between 1980 and 1988. No fantasy about it.
What you mean was what we call the Second Gulf War (or less frequently the First Iraq War) between Iraq and Kuwait supported by 42 country alliance. The Third Gulf War (or less frequently Second Iraq War) is the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
As I said I’m not a native speaker, so there are seem to differences in labels here I wasn’t aware of.
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I remember the Iran / Iraq conflict as I was a young teenage expat brat near Dhahran in 1983-1984. 4 Saudi F15’s with burners lit scorched over my house in Al Fanateer at 5:30am one morning as I was getting ready for school (it was a fair distance to Ras Al Ghar and schools start early there). I can’t exactly remember but around that time an oil tanker was hit by Iran off the North of Abu Ali island and it gave the living room windows an almighty shake.
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Gosh… I finally got it ! But I still don’t see the relation with Scottish people !
The place is Aden, Yemen. Sight is from Qasr Al-Maashiq, looking west. Now I see the “crater hint”.
Too much difficult, this one 
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“Theduck” deserves a “De Niro” from BA. That was good, very good.
Lots of awesome attempts too, much fun to all who tried.
Monsieur Le Canard, a vous de jouer.
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Standby for a riddle explanation.
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Distinctive fault lines - likely granite / hard rock seen on the left side.
Alpine mountains - not glacially smoothed - with uniform height - estimate c. 2.5k-3k feet above base.
Well connected, rural area with many small roads.
Feature of interest lower-right central. Unlikely military - perhaps scientific, not secured.
Evidence of fluvial (if not glacial) deposits, quite fast run-off - incisive flow shown, some ancient meanders didn’t sustain.
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Aden was in the 50’s and '60’s strategically important to the British Empire before the jet age of travel really took hold. Long-haul flights to the colonies in the Far East such as India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia & New Zealand etc would refuel there (or in Egypt / Iraq / Iran) before continuing East.
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OK, I only could use two out of five hints : the crater and the median distance line between Edinburgh and Singapore… the reason why it’s been so difficult !
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There is a divided multi-lane highway visible, running from lower left to upper central - the orientation of the diamond highway intersection indicates a country that drives on the right, with the steering wheel on the left (USA style).
This territory is quite arid. What appears to be foliage is I think shadow mis-interpreted by AI. That reminds me a bit of the Denver area. I also think the base altitude of the terrain is fairly high. I’d push a first guess towards the Altiplano. I only ever lived near proper mountains once - that was Colorado a while back.
Very well done. That moment when you KNOW YOU WON…that’s actually so satisfying.
Bow River, Alberta. Just North of Morley.
According to google maps that is a rodeo centre.
As to the previous riddle that was next level hard I agree. Was it too hard? I don’t generally consider any puzzle as too hard, just a bigger challenge, but some are definitely beyond me.
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I get the feeling the next one is going to be ‘next level’…maybe a zoomed image of a blade of grass or ‘a random wave on the ocean’ to really confuse everyone haha.
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I need to fly later today to create the next challenge so maybe you could unintentionally influence it…
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