Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Question - 214

Connect all the visuals. The bottom left visual shows the results of a border dispute (the borders prior to and after the dispute are shown using a color code).

Answer: The birds are Guanay Cormorant, the most important producer of Guano. The map shows the War of the pacific between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru was primarily over Bolivian attempts to tax Guano harvesters of Chile. The extreme right shows a Guano mine and the person is Colonel Bat Guano from Dr. Strangelove. Swapnaa and Shweta were the only ones to get this. Bravo.

2 comments:

swapnaa said...

War of the Pacific. Those seabirds produce guano (basically poop) which was very valuable as a fertilizer and also used in explosives. The hill seems to be a guano deposits quarry kinda thing, but I have no clue who the guy is.

Unknown said...

war of the pacific.....Atacama border dispute.... border dispute between Chile and Bolivia

Guanay cormorant or Guanay shag found on the pacific coast of peru and chile