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  • 2019-06-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Just a fairytale: No, this is not a photo of a castle built on a rock (en)
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  • A photo has been shared hundreds of times in multiple posts on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest which claim it shows a castle built on top of a tall, thin rock in the sea. The claim is false; the image has been doctored from a photo of a limestone islet in southern Thailand called Ko Ta Pu with another photo of a German tourist attraction called Lichtenstein Castle. The misleading image is contained in this Facebook post, published on June 6, 2019, by a Facebook page called Latest Nature which has more than 200,000 followers. The post has been shared more than 600 times. Below is a screenshot of the misleading Facebook post: Screenshot of the misleading Facebook post The doctored image shows a castle on top of a V-shaped rock which towers steeply over the water. A door with a ladder leading down to a boat on the water can be seen carved into the lower part of the rock. The misleading post’s caption states: Castle on the rock.. with a shocked emoji. The same image has been shared with a similar caption on Twitter here and on Pinterest here with thousands of saves. Reverse image searches on Google for different parts of the doctored image found it has been created by merging separate photos of two tourist attractions in different countries. The rock in the image is actually an islet in Thailand’s Phang Nga province called Ko Ta Pu, located here on Google Maps. Ko Ta Pu is also known as James Bond Island because it appeared in the 1974 film The Man with the Golden Gun, according to this article on travel website Atlas Obscura. Here is a still from the film on its IMDB page which shows the island. The Atlas Obscura article contains a photo of the islet which matches how it appears in the misleading post. Below is a comparison of screenshots from the misleading post (L) and the image on the Atlas Obscura website (R): Comparison of screenshots from the misleading post (L) and the image on the Atlas Obscura website (R) Below is a Google user image tagged at Ko Ta Pu on Google Maps: The castle seen in the doctored image is the 19th-century Lichtenstein Castle in southern Germany, located here on Google Maps. This is its official website. Atlas Obscura has also published an article about Lichtenstein Castle here . Below is a screenshot comparison between the castle part of the misleading image (L) and one of the photos of Lichtenstein Castle from the Atlas Obscura article (R): Screenshot comparison between the castle part of the misleading image (L) and one of the photos of Lichtenstein Castle from the Atlas Obscura article (R) Below is a Google user's image tagged at the location for Lichtenstein Castle on Google Maps: (en)
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