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Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever... by mikeyouse on Sunday July 09, 2017 @02:46PM (#14731066)
Yep, they tried really hard to make it sound like it was some far flung place and showed a lot of cleverly oriented pictures to make their case, but this is where the festival was meant to be located:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Exuma,+The+Bahamas/@23.635...

Zoom out a bit to see exactly how 'remote' it really was.

Edit: Meh, mobile GMaps is messing with the link, but their property was on the north side of the island a few hundred yards from a marina.

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Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever... by slap on Sunday July 09, 2017 @03:40PM (#14731302)
Exactly, they advertised it to be on an island “once owned by Pablo Escobar” implying that it was on Norman's Cay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%27s_Cay) but Norman's Cay is 100 miles away. Just lies...
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Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever... by krisoft on Sunday July 09, 2017 @02:56PM (#14731111)
This is the actual beach they would have been on: https://goo.gl/maps/VN5r6NPas512

I found it by comparing the stylized ground maps they released with the satellite imagery.

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