February 8th, 2013Top StoryThe 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the WorldBy Attila Nagy When 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, c1900Photo: Library Of Congress A Buddhist shrine at the Chang La pass, with an altitude of 5360m near Leh in Ladakh, IndiaPhoto: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images The Tektite I habitat, an underwater laboratory, located in Great Lameshur Bay, Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1969Photo: OAR/National Undersea Research Program The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, 1979Photo: 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)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-AntarcticaPhoto: René Robert/International Polar Foundation The Monte Rosa Hut, at an altitude of 2,795 metres, owned by the Swiss Alpine ClubPhoto: twiga269 The French-Italian Concordia research station in Antarctica, built on an ice plateau 3200m high in one of the most remote places on EarthPhoto: A. Kumar/ESA/IPEV/PNRA The NASA Radome at the McMurdo Station, AntarcticaPhoto: Alan Light India's brand new Antarctic Station called 'Bharati'Photo: Bof Architekten Summit Station, a small U.S. National Science Foundation research center situated 3200m above sea level, on GreenlandThe Northeast Science Station near Chersky, Northern Siberia, RussiaThe Mauna Loa Observatory sits on the north flank of Mauna Loa volcano at an elevation of 3396 meters above sea level in HawaiiThe 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 2650mPhoto: Sir James/Wikimedia Commons The NOAA Aquarius Reef Base located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, adjacent to Conch ReefPhoto: NASA/NEEMO Porer is one of eleven lighthouses available for rent on the eastern AdriaticThe IceCube laboratory at Amundsen-Scott South Pole StationPhoto: Sven Lidstrom/National Science Foundation The late Mir Space Station (as viewed from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-63)Photo: NASA The recently opened Halley VI Modular Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf, in northwest AntarcticaPhoto: British Antarctic Survey The International Space Station (ISS) (taken from STS-119 Space Shuttle Discovery)Photo: NASA Know of any that we missed? Post it in the comments! |
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. --- W. Clement Stone
Friday, February 8, 2013
The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World
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