From: "John Beamish" 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_mystery/

"Those among you who like your skies darkened by black helicopters are
invited to mosey on down to the remote Chinese village of Huangyangtan
which hosts what must be the strangest military installation ever spotted
by the Google Earth Community:"

It's a *very* large scale replica of some earth terrain.  But where?  (The
answer is on the second page).

And why?

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