![]() Some have even suggested it's wearing headphones, an illusion created by a country road that leads right into its ear. There is no right answer, and a decade after Hickox put the mysterious head on the digital map - the online world is still weighing in. The face is located on private land in Cypress County and the county's council later renamed it the Badlands Guardian. She figured out how to pin it, and named it "Indian Head" because of its uncanny resemblance to a First Nations chief wearing a traditional headdress. "I was just sort of panning around in that southern Alberta vicinity and I just happen to see it in the hills and I thought, you know, that looks rather strange." I wasn't 100 per cent sure how to use it," Hickox told the Calgary Eyeopener on Thursday. "I'd only just downloaded the Google Earth program there a couple of days before. stumbled upon it 10 years ago on Google Earth while she was "looking for the dinosaur museum in Drumheller." (For the record, the Badlands Guardian is located about 300 kilometres southeast of the Royal Tyrrell Museum.) ![]() ![]() It was a Canadian who first discovered the oddity. It's a hidden wonder, all right, and mind blowing enough to be named one of the most curious places in the world by the new book Atlas Obscura. The Lynn Hickox Badlands Guardian Chinese Discover America The Lynn Hickox Badlands Guardian Posted on Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 Location: Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada I am dedicating this posting to Lynn Hickox who first discovered this geoglyph according to Wikepedia. Thousands of years of erosion have left southern Alberta with a spectacular geological formation that you can only see if you're a bird, a plane or Superman.Įveryone else will have to rely on good ol' Google Maps: Badlands Guardian was discovered by Lynn Hickox on November 2006 while accidently surfing Google Earth on the internet. This story was originally published Sept. It is a magnificent rock formation which was viewed from the air that resembles a human head with full Native American headdress facing westward.
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