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This Guy Spends Hours Searching For The World’s Most Depressing Places, And The Results Are Hilarious
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Damien Rudd is a 33-year-old Australian behind the Instagram account called "Sad topographies" where he collects Google Maps screenshots of the world‘s most depressing sounding places. It all began by accident when Rudd was searching for something and suddenly discovered Mount Hopeless in Australia.
"I typed hopeless into Google Maps to find other places called hopeless, then other synonyms for sadness,” Damien told WERTN magazine. "I screen captured the results and soon had the beginnings of my interesting maps collection.”
Rudd now has a pretty big collection of the world’s most joyless locations and he’s put all of these unfortunate names into a book of hand-drawn maps, together with their fascinating etymologies. When asked about his favorite place names, Damien replied: "Probably the ones in Antarctica are the most interesting. There is Shapeless Mountain which was named as none of the exploring party could agree on its shape. So shapeless was Shapeless Mountain that when a later expedition attempted to climb it, they scaled the wrong mountain entirely - which they then, in turn, had given the hilarious name of Mistake Mountain. There is also a Wrong Peak, which earned its funny name under similar circumstances. In 1963 Recoil Glacier was named by a geologist who was said to have "recoiled in disgust" at finding nothing of interest there."
Scroll down, check the funny maps and find out where "to go when you're feeling low," as states Sad Topographies Instagram account.
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Why Me Lord Lane, Chester, USA
Nothing, Arizona, USA
Mistake Island, Jonesport, USA
Mount Disappointment, Victoria, Australia
Maybe the australians thought they would climb it, found nothing there and......well you know the rest
Shades Of Death Road, New Jersey, USA
Failure Canyon, Samak, Utah, USA
Grandmother's Hole, Goa, India
Murderers Creek, Murders Kill Road, Athen, New York, USA
Grumpy Lane, Lake Echo, Canada
Maybe it's a neighborhood with streets named after Snow White characters. I used to live near one like that in California.
Hell For Certain Road, Hyden Kentucky, USA
World's End, Aylesbury, USA
Nasty Pond, Oregon, USA
Lake Of No Return, Osage Township, Ar, USA
Desperation Lake, Alaska, USA
Miserable Island, Banner Township, Illinois, USA
Lonely Island, Ontario, Canada
Hopeless Road, Dandridge, USA
Ugly, West Bangal, India
Kill, Ireland
Hopeless Way, Bunkerville, Nevada, USA
Pity Me, Durham, USA
I've been there, it's in UK, not US. Unless they copied the whole layout
Crying Child Island, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA
Lonelyville, Fire Island, New York, USA
Heartache Rd, East Helena, USA
Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma, USA
