I can’t believe I looked at and still missed two of the raging marsupial’s locations - the wedding island near Cozumel and the Caspian Sea one. I spent chuffing AGES looking for them too…
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Oh no is that another subtle clue that I missed it…
Haha - I’ll say this as it is a Sunday evening…if you are looking at a longitude East of the de-salination plant at Ras Al Ghar from one of my previous puzzles, you are too far East.
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Ok my friend I’ll throw you a bone - a fishy one which I hooked doing a spot of “fly fishing…” and that’s related to the hook & line clue in the riddle.
PS - did you by any chance do a BN-2 Islander livery ? I seem to recall crediting an Archer374 on my credits page for one of my YT vidz.
Thanks, but I’m afraid it doesn’t really help me. I’m not a native speaker and it sounds like some sort of either cultural reference or pun I’m not really sure what it means.
I’m afraid your riddles can be really hard for non-native speakers.
Yes, I did two Loganair liveries for the Islander.
Excellent - I featured G-BEDZ in a YT video. Nice one. Back to the fishy clue thing, it’s a film reference (pretty obscure one too…) but never mind, even if you ignore the riddle completely, there’s already plenty of clues now to find some prime search areas.
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Frankly the clues confuse me more than anything. Especially the relevance of the RAF Hunters. As you said they are also a clue, they make even less sense to me, since RAF aircraft have no business being anywhere near the Middle East since WW2 ended.
Hi there Archer, a fair few countries became independent from the British even after WW2 finished - I listed them below & the answer is indeed one of them. Good luck ! The year mentioned for each was when independence was declared. Consider the years the Hawker Hunter was operating, consider the half-way clue and you’ll get there pretty fast I think. Good luck to you !
Antigua & Barbuda 1981, Bahrain 1971, Barbados 1966, Belize 1981, Botswana 1966, Brunei 1984, Cyprus 1960, Dominica 1978, Eswatini (Swaziland) 1968, Fiji 1970, Ghana 1957, Grenada 1974, Guyana 1966, India 1947, Palestine 1948, Jamaica 1962, Jordan 1946, Kenya 1963, Kiribati 1979, Kuwait 1961, Lesotho 1966, Libya 1951, Malawi 1964, Malaya (Malaysia) 1957, Maldives 1965, Malta 1964, Mauritius 1968, Myanmar 1948, Nauru 1968, Nigeria 1968, Oman 1970, Pakistan 1947, Qatar 1971, St Lucia 1979, St Kitts & Nevis 1983, St Vincent & Grenadines 1979, Seychelles 1976, Sierra Leone 1961, Soloman Islands 1978, Somaliland (Somalia) 1960, South Yemen 1967, Sri Lanka 1948, Sudan 1956, Tanganyika 1961, The Bahamas 1973, The Gambia 1965, Tonga 1970, Trinidad & Tobago 1962, Tuvalu 1978, Uganda 1962, UAE 1971, Vanuatu 1980, Zambia 1964, Zanzibar 1963 & Zimbabwe 1980.
Yes of course there were. But on the route between Edinburgh and Singapore there weren’t many left after 1950, and most of them were the wrong climate and topography since the picture clearly shows trees and mountains.
So the countries roughly between Edinburgh and Singapore are:
Bahrain 1971, Cyprus 1960, Jordan 1946, India 1947, Pakistan 1947, Sri Lanka 1948, Kuwait 1961, Malta 1964, Oman 1970, Palestine 1948, Somaliland (Somalia) 1960, South Yemen 1967, Sudan 1956, Qatar 1971, UAE 1971
India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Jordan and Palestine are out. Too early
Kuwait, South Yemen, Malta, Sudan and Somalia are out. Wrong climate and/or topography
Oman, Qatar, UAE and Bahrain are out. Wrong climate and/or topography and are all east of Ras Al Ghar
So that leaves Cyprus where I can’t find it.
Unless of course you wanted us to fly around the planet the other way.
I like your reasoning, though I’m not entirely sure there are trees (at least in any quantity) in the photo clue ? Also, your reasoning on a few of the dates is a bit off.
There is a real-world location out there to find. It’s now a question of who can get there first.
Don’t fly around the planet the other way…(done that a few times IRL and the headwinds suck), although my son did get to have his 1st birthday twice crossing the International Dateline Westbound.
How is that? The Hunter was in Service between 1954 and around 1980 with the RAF.
I just left out everthing that’s too far off the route (like the rest of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas as well as East Asia). If your picture is from anywhere there, I’m probably too obtuse for your riddles since the clues simply don’t line up in my mind 
Oh man, now you’ve added a list to the thread, you probably made @Baracus250’s day! 
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Ok, that’s quite a few extra bones I’ve thrown your way Archer, however there is one more that might help…this is all just for fun after all.
Hawker Hunters conducted operations & exercises in many countries whilst operated by the RAF. Some of those countries were quite likely British ruled back then, many (if not all) would have been or still are…British or NATO allies…perhaps even target clients for Hawker’s Sales Director ?
All we know here is that Hunters flew over this place at the time they were operational in the RAF, in what was a pretty significant geopolitical event back then. And they were roughly half-way to Singers when they were there.
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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