ich habe bei googlemaps ein wenig rumgeschaut und bin im Iraq gelandet.In der nähe von Bagdad bin auch einen "roten" See gestoßen, was kann dass sein?
RoterSee?
Hier sind Merkwürdigkeiten von google Maps aufgelistet
http://www.softmall.org/fusion/readarticle.php?article_id=17
Zum roten See steht in den Kommentaren:
Jon Z Swanson, CPT, AR, with the Office of the Speechwriter for the Commanding General in the Combined Arms Center at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, says:
Referencing the Iraq map of Baghdad...the area that is displayed in the screenshot and link to Google Maps is the northern end of Sadr City.
I was posted there at FOB Eagle (about a km east of that screenshotted area) from Mar 2004 - Mar 2005 with the 1st Cav Division, and that canal is what used to be known as the "Army Canal" to the Iraqis.
The canal is indeed filled with raw sewage and trash. It's possible that it appears red in the photo due to either camera/film problems or someone may have dumped something in that particular section of the canal that day that changed the color. It's normally a nasty combination of grey/green.
Interesting bit of trivia about that canal by the way - the entire eastern half of Baghdad eventually dumps all its waste water sewage into that canal as it moves south, and then the canal joins up with the Tigris River outside of the city. Now guess where most of the people who live along the river south of Baghdad get their water supplied from?
Struppi.