This is our newest user-submitted optical illusion. Mary sent this photo with following description: “Hello, attached is a picture I have used for a wallpaper. I have no idea where it is from or where this island is located. None the less it is nature at its best”. Here at Mighty Optical Illusions, we are buffeled with this one as much as Mary. Is it for real or just a hoax/photoshopped image? Anyone has more info? If it’s for real, be sure to submit Google Earth co-ordinates. In the mean time check our Google Earth Category for more!
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It isn’t photoshopped or nature.
It’s man made.
I know for a fact that this is a hoax, in fact right behind me not 5 feet away is a poster on the wall of the same crescent. The star has been photoshopped.
Actually this IS a real Island, however it is man made. The Cresent and Star are part of an EarthWork, one of the art pieces made most commonly during the late 70’s early 80’s. (I forget the artist’s name but we studied him just last week, and this is one of his works) There is also another one made by him in Salt Lake, called the Spiral Jetty.
The reason you ONLY see the cresent, is because the star was put in during the season the tide is lowlest, during high tide season the water rises and covers the star leaving only the cresent to be viewed.
Just so you guys all know, off the coast of Dubai, there are several man-made islands that are in shapes that obviously would rarely, if ever, occur naturally… Ever consider that someone bought themselves a star?
http://neddy.blogsome.com/2006/01/13/crescent-star-island/
Here is a link to history about the photo… how many times it has been used and where w/ links provided to check for your self… also they may say who the first guy is to have used it. (?) can’t remember…
check it out
http://www.robertsmithson.com/earthworks/spiral_jetty.htm (link to spiral jetty)
Robert Smithson is the Artist that made the Spiral Jetty, earlier mentioned… but his website doesn’t mention such a feat as the Star & Crescent Moon Islands… Nor do any articles attributed to him.
His site has ‘Earthworks’ which is what he has done regarding landscape changes and art… such at the Jetty… but no island is listed… http://www.robertsmithson.com/earthworks/ew.htm
http://www.worldwindcentral.com/hotspots/index.php?cat=13
This link shows satilite photos of land formations …Natural and Manmade and his Spiral Jetty is listed but nothing is listed about the Star & Crescent Island… (for those of you that have mac and can’t go to Google Earth… this site is helpful for this discussion)
Opinion: Although impressive… the Spiral Jetty and other Earthworks he has done, all fail in comparison to the Star & Crescent Moon Islands. If he did it…wouldn’t he list it as one of much pride?
Rembelle2006
Where did the “Moon and Star on Earth” photograph originate? The above image was uploaded to the flick.com photography site by Ajith Kumar on 1 November 2005. He describes himself as a communication operator working for “Indian Express”, a daily newspaper. Sometime during or before 2005, Wilson Hayes included the image on a webpage entitled “What A Beautiful World.” The same image, with the same title, “The Moon and Star on Earth”, is also found in a collection of beautiful photographs by “Oracle Whimsical” entitled “You only pass this way once,” dated September 23, 2005. A third site, “Secretopinions.com” included it also. I found it at “Gar’Z”, circa 2006, where it was entitled “One of Earth’s Dynamics of Unity – Moon/ Star Lake .” In January 2006, the image was uploaded to a site of predominantly Muslim themed images from Turkey: http://spaces.msn.com/members/onurhoney
ITS OBVIOUSLY A CALDERA, with an obnormaly shaped islands. it is completely belivable.
Google “Molokini Island” before you say that this star is real, or that the island is in Dubai. A few clicks to enlightenment. It’s so easy to find out what it really looks like.
Hey is this island Molokini or not? I wish someone would clear that up…
GREAT photoshop!!
The star is photoshop.
The cresent and Star represent Islam, you can see it on the flag of turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, the older flag of Egypt, ect…
Yes Its Molokini, been there. Did you know on the cliff side there are some rockets embedded into it? Must have been target practice from the near bye army base. nice shot:)
That looks like a turkish flag…
It’s molokini in hawaii and a photoshopped star. There is no reason for the rough white water on the east side of the star. Where would those waves be coming from with a shallow lagoon in the crescent? With waves in the pacific moving from east to west the white water on molokini makes sense but not on the fictishish star. Erosion wouldn’t come from the side of the sheltered bay. The crescent is an old volcano caldera which blew it’s left half off. Molokini is not inhabited, a famous dive site and was once used by the US military as a bombing target.
omg thats amazing
Just to clarify chaps – the star island was photoshopped by a Portsmouth fan for an old Football Forum Pompey-Fans.net.
http://files.myopera.com/GarZ/albums/33829/Moon%2CStar%20on%20Earth.png
http://www.cdaccess.com/samples/photog2/atoll.gif
this is a real place. just a natural illusion.
don’t think it’s real, look at the waves hitting the star from the inner part of the crescent. waves could’t be strong enough to do that in the crescent
How did he get a picture of the star?byw,It’s the background on my computer.0:)
Thats molokini island by maui! ive been snorkling there before. the water looks dif because its the top of a volcano! but the star is not real.
” Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination is all we might yet discover and create..” Albert Einstein
..this beauty is not real,ok!but still..it can be created!
This is definitely photoshopped..by someone with a sense of humor. This exact island setup is part of a massive multi-player online role playing game called Perfect World..I’ve flown over it several times on my skymanta..lol
it looks like the flag of pakistan but fake photo (nice try though)
Okay, I live on Maui… so, um, i KNOW that is one photoshopped pic!!! You really can’t fool anyone there. That Moon shaped island is called Molokini, and that star… um ya, its photoshopped! Get your facts right!!!
It is beautiful!
the moon island is Molokini near Maui in Hawaii…
the star…haven’t found that yet.
I’ve flown over Molokini hundreds of times. I would noticed the star if it were ever there.
MOLOKAI MAUI, WHERE MANY PEOPLE SNORKLE
I have had this as a screensaver for 4 years. It is a special symbol for my husband and I. We have a saying that we had always used.
“Love you to the Moon and Stars”
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL
WANNA GO THERE
I am going here with my friend Chuck. He has his own plane. Thanks Chuck :)
I found out where it is, and it is fake! The star is not there! Coordinates:
20°37′57.48″N 156°29′45.95″W
obviously its fake , what was that girl thinking?