Talk:Gruinard Island: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 07:48, 5 August 2013

	United Kingdom portal This article falls within the scope of WikiProject UK geography, a user-group dedicated to building a comprehensive and quality guide to places in the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you wish to participate, share ideas or merely get tips you can join us at the project page where there are resources, to do lists and guidelines on how to write about settlements.UK geographyWikipedia:WikiProject UK geographyTemplate:WikiProject UK geographyUK geography
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Scottish Islands Start‑class High‑importance

	Scottish islands portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Scottish Islands, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of islands in Scotland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Scottish IslandsWikipedia:WikiProject Scottish IslandsTemplate:WikiProject Scottish IslandsScottish Islands
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Military history: Technology / Weaponry / British / European Start‑class

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history

Start

This article has been rated as Start-class on the project's quality scale.

This article has not yet been checked against the criteria for B-class status:
Referencing and citation: not checked Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: not checked Grammar and style: not checked Supporting materials: not checked	To fill out this checklist, please add the following code to the template call: \| b1<!--Referencing and citation--> = <yes/no> \| b2<!--Coverage and accuracy --> = <yes/no> \| b3<!--Structure --> = <yes/no> \| b4<!--Grammar and style --> = <yes/no> \| b5<!--Supporting materials --> = <yes/no> assessing the article against each criterion.

Associated task forces:
/
	Military science, technology, and theory task force
	Weaponry task force
	British military history task force
	European military history task force

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on April 24, 2012.

Operation Dark Harvest

If anyone can find refs to it, it would be interesting to include "Operation Dark Harvest", where the SNLA claimed it had taken anthrax off the island, and was going to use it in biological attacks.--MacRusgail (talk) 17:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've found a Time Magazine article on it. Lurker (said · done) 11:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The area of the island is 520 acres but only about 16 acres were actually decontaminated; this was in the vicinity of where the anthrax air bomb was detonated. The actual method of application of the formaldehyde was applied using a complex matrix of irrigation pipes; the seawater was pumped up using Coventry Climax fire pumps and mixed with the formaldehyde using modified fertiliser injectors from greenhouse hydroponics set ups. As to Dark Harvest it sounds like a typical conspiracy theory; there would be a lot easier ways of obtaining anthrax spores than trying to cultivate them from spores obtained from the island. Certainly by the time the decontamination was carried out the spore level was very low, and within another dozen years they would have been virtually undetectable.

G maps

An anon IP writes: "Gruinard Island is deliberately blurred on Google Maps". It seems to be missing from G maps and of poor quality on Google Earth - but the same is true of nearby Pabay and probably co-incidental. It's not as if there is likely to be anything visible anyone might wish to obscure. Ben Mac Dui 17:50, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Two years later it's still very much low-res on Google Maps, as opposed to anything nearby. I think it's fair to say that this is not coincidentially. -- DevSolar (talk) 07:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you need more detail try Bing or Ordnance Survey. Ben Mac Dui 07:48, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Revision as of 07:36, 5 August 2013 edit DevSolar (talk \| contribs) 411 edits →G maps ← Previous edit		Revision as of 07:48, 5 August 2013 edit undo Ben MacDui (talk \| contribs) Autopatrolled, Administrators 44,250 edits →G maps: If you need more detail try Bing or Ordnance Survey Next edit →
Line 20:		Line 20:

	:Two years later it's still very much low-res on Google Maps, as opposed to anything nearby. I think it's fair to say that this is not coincidentially. -- [[User:DevSolar\|DevSolar]] ([[User talk:DevSolar\|talk]]) 07:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)		:Two years later it's still very much low-res on Google Maps, as opposed to anything nearby. I think it's fair to say that this is not coincidentially. -- [[User:DevSolar\|DevSolar]] ([[User talk:DevSolar\|talk]]) 07:36, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
			::If you need more detail try Bing or Ordnance Survey. [[User:Ben MacDui\|<font color="#6495ED">Ben</font>]] [[User talk:Ben MacDui\|<font color="#C154C1">Mac</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Ben MacDui\|<font color="#228B22">Dui</font>]] 07:48, 5 August 2013 (UTC)