On Google Maps you can see a red rectangle in front of Norway’s coast. It has been puzzling the net for months, we’ll tell you what’s behind it.
The red rectangle off Norway’s coast is always a topic of discussion on the internet. (Source: TerraMetrics, map data / Google Maps)
- A red rectangle can be seen off the coast of Norway.
- This is a nature reserve.
- Why it is shown in red is unclear. There are several possible reasons.
The world can be discovered with Google Maps, but again and again we come across strange discoveries – such as that of a red rectangle off the coast of Norway.
You can see it for yourself if you enter the following coordinates on Google Maps and then activate the satellite view of Google Maps. The coordinates are “62.76341929153397, 6.504527458824456”.
The red rectangle in front of the coast has been puzzling the network for months. Posts on this topic can be found again and again on discussion platforms such as Reddit – most recently in July and December 2021. What does this mean?
The rectangle is labeled “Malesanden og Huse”. This is a nature reserve where wild birds nest. But why does it appear red in Google Maps? This question cannot be conclusively answered.
Why is the nature reserve colored red?
There are several possible answers: On the one hand, it can simply be a display error, on the other hand, it is also conceivable that Google wants to highlight the status of the nature reserve with the marking. On Bing Maps and Apple Maps, for example, the island can be seen without any red coloring.
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In addition to the red rectangle, there is also a secret code to discover in Norway. Can you decipher the message in Oslo?
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