Oil Spills
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Author's Game Description
Find some of History's great or otherwise notable oil spills.
Map by user Varidon, and Modified by E Pluribus Anthony in the Wikimedia Commons
Category: Geography Games
Created by tickman, 25 Mar, 2008
Tags: disaster, environment, History, oil
2 ratingsPlayed 28 times | 0 Fav's
slaaty 3 months ago
BoboLo 1 year ago
A tough game! Some of the clues were easy, but others were hard and counter-intuitive.
tickman 1 year ago
I took the 14 "large" spills from the list and filled in others that I'd heard of (e.g., Exxon valdez, Santa Barbara), or which had unusual names, or just filled in a big blank space on the map. There were many more to choose from, but some areas (Persian Gulf) would've been packed full of dots.
tickman 1 year ago
List of oil spills:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills
Map:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Color_world_map.png
The map is in the public domain.
| Highscores — Oil Spills | Place 1 - 7 | |||
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| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 1 | bix21 | 100% | 0:41.5 min. | 11 Mar, 2009 |
| 2 | BoboLo | 100% | 0:56.1 min. | 27 Mar, 2008 |
| 3 | emili | 100% | 0:57.2 min. | 27 Jul, 2009 |
| 4 | slaaty | 100% | 1:16.9 min. | 23 Jul, 2009 |
| 5 | Larkspur | 39% | 3:17.2 min. | 26 Jan, 2009 |
| 6 | Rolle | 36% | 5:01.7 min. | 27 Mar, 2008 |
| 7 | Alcyone | 33% | 2:19.3 min. | 12 Jan, 2009 |
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Prince William Sound is 3/4 dot width to the NE of your dot. On this scale map, that's a lot of miles. I didn't check all of 'em - just knew that one.