{"id":569787,"date":"2021-06-21T17:06:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569787"},"modified":"2021-06-21T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T21:06:34","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-heart-shaped-pond-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-heart-shaped-pond-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Heart-Shaped Pond In Zimbabwe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-heart-shaped-pond-in-zimbabwe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569787&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-scaled-e1624307816693.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/penelope.coleman.90\/posts\/4087889441291994\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show \u201cGod\u2019s Hand,\u201d a heart-shaped pond, in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image actually shows a water-filled quarry in Crimea, not a pond in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image shows what appears to be a light blue, heart-shaped pond at the base of a cliff. \u201cLook at \u2018God\u2019s Hand,\u2019\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption. \u201cThis pond named \u2018God\u2019s Hand\u2019 is found in Buchwa, Mberengwa District, Midlands province.Zimbabwe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is, however,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=God%27s+hand+pond+zimbabwe&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&#038;oq=God%27s+hand+pond+zimbabwe&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3.5324j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\">no evidence<\/a> a pond called \u201cGod\u2019s Hand\u201d that is shaped like a heart exists in Zimbabwe.\u00a0Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found a near-identical photo on the stock image website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/sunrise-over-heart-shaped-blue-quarry-lake-fluxing-limestone-kadykovsky-quarry-balaklava-crimea-one-of-the-lowest-points-of-crimea-is-in-sevastopo-image361890579.html\">Alamy<\/a> explaining the pond is in a quarry in Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSunrise over heart shaped blue quarry lake. Fluxing limestone Kadykovsky quarry, Balaklava, Crimea,\u201d the photo\u2019s caption on Alamy reads. \u201cOne of the lowest points of Crimea is in Sevastopo.\u201d<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/20\/fact-check-image-show-zambezi-river-zambia-woman\/\">(RELATED: Viral Image Claims To Show The Zambezi River In Zambia Forming The Shape Of A Woman)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An aerial view of the quarry can be viewed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/44%C2%B030'51.0%22N+33%C2%B034'09.0%22E\/@44.5153585,33.5654643,2331m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d44.5141667!4d33.5691667?hl=en\">Google Maps<\/a>, and further proves the pond is not in Zimbabwe.\u00a0Other images of the quarry can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-photo\/blue-heartshaped-lake-kadykovsky-quarry-balaklava-1509009998\">Shutterstock<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainetrek.com\/blog\/nature\/picturesque-abandoned-quarry-near-sevastopol\/\">Ukraine Trek<\/a>, a Ukrainian travel blog. Both websites also state the pond is located on the outskirts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Sevastopol\">Sevastopol<\/a>, a coastal Crimean city that has been administered by the Russian Federation since the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-crimea-moscow-russia-26d1c8cbf518562bf137e3febd55b164\">annexation of Crimea<\/a> in 2014, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe quarry was developed in the last century, and then after it was abandoned, it was slowly filled with water and turned into a giant rusty funnel with a blue-green lake below sea level,\u201d reads a description of the quarry on <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainetrek.com\/blog\/nature\/picturesque-abandoned-quarry-near-sevastopol\/\">Ukraine Trek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims to show \u201cGod\u2019s Hand,\u201d a heart-shaped pond, in Zimbabwe.Verdict: False The image actually shows a water-filled quarry in Crimea, not a pond in Zimbabwe. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280901,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-scaled-e1624307816693.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Heart-Shaped Pond In Zimbabwe?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Water-scaled-e1624307816693.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Heart-Shaped Pond In Zimbabwe?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}