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The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World

February 8th, 2013Top Story

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World

By Attila Nagy

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the WorldWhen humanity's not trying to destroy itself, its steadily redefining its boundaries. Every passing year, we create further-flung outposts in places nature never intended to us to inhabit. Here are the loneliest places mankind has made its bed in search of the unknown, the overwhelming, and the great.

The Salomon August Andrée's Station at Danskøya, Svalbard, Norway, c1900

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Library Of Congress


A Buddhist shrine at the Chang La pass, with an altitude of 5360m near Leh in Ladakh, India

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images


The Tektite I habitat, an underwater laboratory, located in Great Lameshur Bay, Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1969

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: OAR/National Undersea Research Program


The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, 1979

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Commander John Bortniak/NOAA Corps


The Hydrolab research station of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands (1970-1985)

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: OAR/National Undersea Research Program


Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, Belgium's zero-emission polar research station anchored on the granite ridge of Utsteinen Nunatak, Dronning Maud Land, East-Antarctica

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: René Robert/International Polar Foundation


The Monte Rosa Hut, at an altitude of 2,795 metres, owned by the Swiss Alpine Club

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: twiga269


The French-Italian Concordia research station in Antarctica, built on an ice plateau 3200m high in one of the most remote places on Earth

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: A. Kumar/ESA/IPEV/PNRA


The NASA Radome at the McMurdo Station, Antarctica

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Alan Light


India's brand new Antarctic Station called 'Bharati'

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Bof Architekten


Summit Station, a small U.S. National Science Foundation research center situated 3200m above sea level, on Greenland

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Brennan Linsley/AP


The Northeast Science Station near Chersky, Northern Siberia, Russia

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Arthur Max/AP


The Mauna Loa Observatory sits on the north flank of Mauna Loa volcano at an elevation of 3396 meters above sea level in Hawaii

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Chris Stewart/AP


The Schneefernerhaus, a former hotel in the Alps, now an environmental research station. It lies immediately below the summit of the Zugspitze at a height of 2650m

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Sir James/Wikimedia Commons


The NOAA Aquarius Reef Base located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, adjacent to Conch Reef

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: NASA/NEEMO


Porer is one of eleven lighthouses available for rent on the eastern Adriatic

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Darko Bandic/AP


The IceCube laboratory at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: Sven Lidstrom/National Science Foundation


The late Mir Space Station (as viewed from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-63)

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: NASA


The recently opened Halley VI Modular Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf, in northwest Antarctica

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: British Antarctic Survey


The International Space Station (ISS) (taken from STS-119 Space Shuttle Discovery)

The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World Photo: NASA


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