>tfw my autistic list of historical occupations of remote clay is almost complete
It's almost done lads. It's so close, I'll talk about it.
Antarctica, New Zealand, Russia and USA have various clays with remote, little-known outposts "capitals" sometimes, and I've been cataloging their names. They are simply the main places where people have lived, and do live today.
In yellow are places not permanently inhabited today, but a little history about what's happened there.
Russia famously used Novaya Zemlya (not shown here) for their nuclear testing. we also used Johnston Atoll and ofc Bikini atoll for testing.
France has also used part of French Polynesia for nuclear testing.
Russia is currently enhancing its position in the Arctic, rebuilding many bases such as Nagurskoye.
Meanwhile, the only thing on Peter I island is an automated weather station in the northwest.
Here we see Norway's Automated Weather Station on Peter I Island, near Antarctica. This island is also subject to the Antartctic Treaty.
Meanwhile, half a world away, we have Golomyanniy Weather Station in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. It has operated since 1954.
Or, west of Colombia in the Pacific is their barren Malpelo Island. It has one tiny army base.
In France's Clipperton Island is just one large rock formation where there is supposed to have been a lighthouse - but I have not been able to see this lighthouse (phare in the French, I learned) in modern photos.
Clipperton suffered a romantic tragedy a century ago. There was a guano (literal shit) mine, and Mexico literally forgot about the island and stopped supplying them. All the men died of scurvy etc except for the crazy lighthouse keeper, who apparently had a lighthouse on this rock even though I can't see it, and he took over the island and raped and brutalized the women for a few years. Eventually they managed to kill him and were saved by an American ship, who kept the story to themselves so that the women would not be charged with murder (men still white-knighted in those days).
There is a very similar story from the Russian arctic, I think it may have been on Wrangel island. A leader showed up and became a real tyrant, but this was typical of USSR at the time of course, so there was nothing new there.
This is Russia's recently refurbished "Nagurskoye" station in Franz Josef land. It is near the northwest of that territory, so not far from Svalbard.
I am very interested to know how the other Russian arctic stations will develop, or what their names will be.
Genuinely good thread.
![Rockall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1048818[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/358MkGG.jpg "Rockall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1048818[1].jpg")
Do Rockall please
>Lord Kennet said of it in 1971, "There can be no place more desolate, despairing and awful."[6] It gives its name to one of the sea areas named in the shipping forecast provided by the British Meteorological Office.
>Rockall has been a point of interest for adventurers and amateur radio operators who have variously landed on or briefly occupied the islet. Fewer than 20 individuals have ever been confirmed to have landed on Rockall, and the longest continuous stay by an individual is currently 45 days.[7] In a House of Commons debate in 1971, William Ross, MP for Kilmarnock, said: "More people have landed on the moon than have landed on Rockall."[6]
>In 1956 the British scientist James Fisher referred to the island as "the most isolated small rock in the oceans of the world".[8]
>>52107739
Yes; as you can see in my OP image I have even accounted for its brief occupancy. A Briton very recently stayed on that heap of bird-shit :^) for not quite two months.
I assume that he was Scottish, but I will let you confirm or deny this. As we all know, Rockall is part of Scotland.
![IMRAY(1884)_p0231_ROCKALL[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/riqrmwA.jpg "IMRAY(1884)_p0231_ROCKALL[1].jpg")
>>52107849
Sorry OP I didn't see it on your table
Rockall is in my opinion the best isolated rock
But I also have a question of the French: What are the names of the principal bases of the Iles Esparses?
Here we have the signpost of Tromelin Station, on the side near Reunion. It is base "Serge Frolow"...
>>52107739
Looks like a literal shitty version of Balls pyramid.
>>52107942
Fuck off you cunt
>>52107942
Ball's Pyramid does deserve honorable mention as the most EVIL looking islet on Earth. This is where Dr. Evil, Lord Humongous, the bad guy from Waterworld... they all live here. It is also where the Lord Howe stick insect was saved from extinction.
But I did not focus upon this because it is associated with a permanently populated area. Is it true that the /village/ there is also called Lord Howe? I seem to remember that in a postal address of a resort.
...but I would prefer to have a look at the Macquarie Island ANARE station, Macquarie Island. It is very near the various New Zealand Outlying Islands, accounted for above.
>>52107088
I don't see the Islas Salvajes in your table lad.
(rightful spanish clay under illegal Barbosa occupation)
>>52107489
I speak french and searched the french internet. Like you I found mentions of the lighthouse but no pictures of it
>>52108144
pic related :^)
>>52108181
Merci for looking for the "phare", mon ami, seoul-brother. There is an OLD picture, but not a new one. Perhaps it was destroyed? A mystery.
What can you tell us about the installation on Dokdo/Liancourt rocks? I am most interested in names. I know that some Korean civilians have actually resided there, apart from military.
It is one of the last blanks left in my list! What would you call the "settlement", apart from Dokdo?
>>52108160
Is that one of those goofy North-African things apart from Ceuta/Melilla? No se.
Some time after this thread I'm going to look up the Barbosa meme once and for all, don't know that one either.
>>52108318
Liancourt is the name french explorer gave it but in Korean it's Dokdo and nothing else.
Some fishermen may have used it in the past but due to the geography of the island it isn't really suitable for life.
There's been active korean presence there since after world war 2. First fishermen and later it got expanded with a military base and a bunch of propaganda stuff.
The settlement here is almost purely a political statement in my opinion though there have been rumors of oil presence in the area.
You can visit it by boat from the island of Ulleungdo. It's not really remote at all
Time for some American ABANDONED PLACES.
"Earhart Light"
Howland Island was one of the things we took during guano act, and strengthened leading up to world war II. The female pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared, is thought to have tried to make it here. There was a brief guano mine (like so much of pacific), they put up a lighthouse, and that was it.
This brief period of exploitation followed by Fucking Nothing is something that USA has in common with NZ, more than anybody else. NZ's outlying islands tended to have intense periods of sealing until supply was run out. Aus' Heard/Mac experienced a similar occupancy.
Picture of the Clipperton Lighthouse from here:
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-tyrant-clipperton-island/
It may look developed, but it is an (aerial) nuclear test site and Agent Orange burial ground.
Johnston Atoll is where we put all our nasty shit, pretty much. Now there's sort of a cleanup/monitoring effort. The island and nearby ones were basically manmade.
More "active" areas today are Wake Island and Midway Islands, but I'll skip those unless people want to talk about them.
>>52108644
Yes, exactly. Notice how you can't seem to see this structure on google maps (SOUTHEAST SIDE OF ISLAND), other photo angles today, etc. It's very strange and I haven't found a reason why, maybe I just didn't read wiki well enough.
In case you haven't realized, this is a "breadth" exercise for me (on a defined set of things), and I'm not going too deeply into any one thing. so I'm just skimming articles/searching/learning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Eles_du_Salut
This might interest you OP.
It's the french Alcatraz I guess
>>52108364
No. These are unhinhabited tiny isles and reefs in the Atlantic.
just one bumpu. good night /int/ :)
