The recent Brexit decision has seen the ‘Boris Johnson in a helicopter’ meme crop up again across social media, but for me the view out the door was what caught my eye – I could have sworn it was somewhere in Hong Kong.
I managed to spot the location on Google Maps with my first guess – Boris Johnson was off the western shore of Sham Shui Po, looking down on the Yuen Fat Wharf, Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Fish Market, and Nam Cheong Station.
I was then able to replicate the angle of the original photo using Google Earth.
Quite the bit of detective work, eh?
Footnote
Boris Johnson visited Hong Kong in October 2013 – here you can find a selection of related photoshop memes, along with the original helicopter photo.
Oh yes. The former Mayor of London took a flight over the territory in 2013. It apparently inspired him to put forward a proposal to build a new airport on reclaimed land in the Thames Estuary rather than get a new runway built at Heathrow or Gatwick.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/437458/Flying-high-London-mayor-soars-over-Hong-Kong-to-see-Boris-Island-airport-dream-in-action
Wikipedia says the Thames Estuary Airport has been an on-again off-again plan since the 1940s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Estuary_Airport