This Site is dedicated to all those families of the people that have tragically disappeared on flights in and around New Zealand. I only hope that from all the effort in building this site and from all the effort of those taking part in this venture, that it will bear fruit in bringing ‘closure’ to their memories!
Gavin Grimmer
Hi Martin,
This time I’ll deal with the 1895 photo showing a large tunnel on the southern face.
You know, after 7 years, you’d think that I would have learnt all the “tricks” on
Google Earth, but as I’d said, “If I can’t do something, I’ll keep thinking until
I dream up some way of doing it”, and here is a great example:
After attempting to find the tunnel off the 1942 photo using Google Earth (the one
the same as on page 290 in your book) and then stumbling on the fact that it was
an illusion, I then thought I’d this time try to locate what was on the 1895 photo
on page 141 and 142 to see if this was an illusion also.
What I needed to do was find some way of overlaying the 1895 photo over a present
day photo to see if I could pinpoint the exact spot.
To cut a long story short, I found that if I worked out the exact spot the 1985 photo
was taken from, I could then take a ‘snapshot’ of Google Earth of North Head in 3D,
and after a lot of trial and error to get the right angle, this is what I got:
I then overlaid the original copy of the photo over the open sea, due to the sea
being flat:
From there I overlaid the original copy of the 1895 photo over the top of it, and
by incorporating the “fade function”, I was able to stretch it to near on the correct
size:
