The 20 Loneliest Outposts At the End of the World
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, c1900
Photo: Library Of CongressA Buddhist shrine at the Chang La pass, with an altitude of 5360m near Leh in Ladakh, India
Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty ImagesThe 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
Photo: René Robert/International Polar FoundationThe Monte Rosa Hut, at an altitude of 2,795 metres, owned by the Swiss Alpine Club
Photo: twiga269The French-Italian Concordia research station in Antarctica, built on an ice plateau 3200m high in one of the most remote places on Earth
Photo: A. Kumar/ESA/IPEV/PNRAThe NASA Radome at the McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Photo: Alan LightIndia's brand new Antarctic Station called 'Bharati'
Photo: Bof ArchitektenSummit Station, a small U.S. National Science Foundation research center situated 3200m above sea level, on Greenland
Photo: Brennan Linsley/APThe Northeast Science Station near Chersky, Northern Siberia, Russia
Photo: Arthur Max/APThe Mauna Loa Observatory sits on the north flank of Mauna Loa volcano at an elevation of 3396 meters above sea level in Hawaii
Photo: Chris Stewart/APThe 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
Photo: Sir James/Wikimedia CommonsThe NOAA Aquarius Reef Base located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, adjacent to Conch Reef
Photo: NASA/NEEMOPorer is one of eleven lighthouses available for rent on the eastern Adriatic
Photo: Darko Bandic/APThe IceCube laboratory at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
The late Mir Space Station (as viewed from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-63)
Photo: NASAThe recently opened Halley VI Modular Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf, in northwest Antarctica
Photo: British Antarctic SurveyThe International Space Station (ISS) (taken from STS-119 Space Shuttle Discovery)
Photo: NASA
No comments:
Post a Comment