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Medicine Hat’s Saamis Teepee

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Wednesday, 12th July 2006

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Here in Medicine Hat, Canada, you couldn’t possibly miss the Saamis Teepee. Designed for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and moved here in 1991, it stands over 65 metres high – making Medicine Hat the proud owner of the world’s tallest teepee.

You just couldn’t make this stuff up could you?

Thanks to Allison.

6 Responses to 'Medicine Hat’s Saamis Teepee'

  1. Esquif says:

    If you zoom out and move a little bit to the north there is this giants circles

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  2. Don Sucha says:

    The circles are part of Canadian Forces Base Suffield, Canada’s largest military base (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFB_Suffield). If you zoom in and out and pan around, you can see bomb and artillery craters ect. Ironically, CFB suffield also contains a wildlife reserve which is one of the few remaining areas of wild prairie grassland.

  3. rob says:

    Someone tell me, how the heck do they draw those circles? They are massive!

  4. Tim says:

    They look like canals or something.

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  5. jojo says:

    those circles are roads.

  6. Pat says:

    those circles are fields of crops. They use an irrigation system that is secured at the centre of the field and then rotates resulting in round areas. Some places use irrigation that moves across the field in a straight line.

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