Wednesday, February 18, 2015

 Largest snow maze: Fort William Historical Park breaks Guinness World Records record (VIDEO)

THUNDER BAY, ON, Canada -- It took the help of engineers, surveyors and more than a month of construction, but Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay has shattered a Guinness World Records mark for world's largest snow maze; the official measurement came in at 1,696 square metres, setting the new world record for the Largest snow maze, according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/ .
   Photo: Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay has shattered a Guinness World Records mark for world's largest snow maze. The official measurement came in at 1,696 square metres. The Fort said the nearly 1,700-square-metre maze breaks the previous Guinness World Records' record from 2010 which stood at almost 1,200 square metres. Photo: Matt Vis, tbnewswatch.com ( enlarge photo )

The Guinness World Records' record for the largest ice maze is 1,194.33 m² (12,855.68 ft²) in area, achieved by the Arctic Glacier Ice Maze (USA) at the Buffalo Powder Keg Festival in Buffalo, New York, USA, on 26 February 2010. The maze was created by Roaming Buffaloes, a social networking club for Western New Yorkers. The maze's width was 25.85 m (84.80 ft) and the length was 46.21 m (151.60 ft). The height of the walls was 1.83 m (6 ft). The maze was constructed using 2,171 blocks of each, each weighing 136.08 kg (300 lb).

  Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the largest temporary corn maze is 60 acres (24.28 hectares) and was created by Cool Patch Pumpkins (USA) at their premises in Dixon, California, USA, and verified on 3 October 2014.

    It took the help of engineers, surveyors and more than a month of construction, but Fort William Historical Park in Thunder Bay has shattered a Guinness World Records mark for world's largest snow maze.

   The Fort said the nearly 1,700-square-metre maze breaks the previous Guinness World Records' record from 2010 which stood at almost 1,200 square metres. snowmaze 2

   The new World's Largest Snow Maze measures 1,696 square metres. The official measurement came in at 1,696 square metres, the CBC News canada reports.