February 8th, 2013Top StoryThe 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the WorldBy Attila Nagy
The Salomon August Andrée's Station at Danskøya, Svalbard, Norway, c1900
A Buddhist shrine at the Chang La pass, with an altitude of 5360m near Leh in Ladakh, India
The Tektite I habitat, an underwater laboratory, located in Great Lameshur Bay, Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1969
The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, 1979
The Hydrolab research station of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands (1970-1985)
Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, Belgium's zero-emission polar research station anchored on the granite ridge of Utsteinen Nunatak, Dronning Maud Land, East-Antarctica
The Monte Rosa Hut, at an altitude of 2,795 metres, owned by the Swiss Alpine Club
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 NASA Radome at the McMurdo Station, Antarctica
India's brand new Antarctic Station called 'Bharati'
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 2650m
The NOAA Aquarius Reef Base located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, adjacent to Conch Reef
Porer is one of eleven lighthouses available for rent on the eastern AdriaticThe IceCube laboratory at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
The late Mir Space Station (as viewed from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-63)
The recently opened Halley VI Modular Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf, in northwest Antarctica
The International Space Station (ISS) (taken from STS-119 Space Shuttle Discovery)
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