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Right about now a remote tropical island looks pretty good to me. I enjoyed this post.
Wonder how much it would cost to buy and renovate this kind of old rig. It would be great to live in such a place :p
Looks like a cool place to visit!
Hey, get me to all that nice place.-smile-
You can see it on Google satellite maps, very high resolution actually.
is the island of LOST!!!
Absolutely fascinating! I want to go there, as I'm sure many others do too. It's best we don't though as it'd get ruined pretty quickly. I'm glad there are sites like this to learn from.
Back before Mac OS X, the Macintosh operating system had a Map control panel. If you typed "Middle of nowhere" in the text box and hit Enter, the map cursor would land on Tristan da Cunha.
It's a paradise.. I would love to visit the island. Hope I can do it one day..
anyone know the coordinates?
37° 6'18.90"S
12°16'39.66"O
How about the Easter Island?
How remote is that?
I am from St Helena! Everyone should see this place!
This is, in fact, a fantastic world!...The island was first sighted in 1506 by a Portuguese sailor, Tristão da Cunha, but he didn´t land due to high clifs all arround the island. I just can imagine what these explorers, such as Livingstone and Magellan (Magalhães), may wonder when they discover places like this. Imagine you start hearing some distant but intense noise in middle of inexplored jungle in Central Africa and finally get a first sight of the Victoria Falls... Feel so envy!
I looked on Google Earth, but couldn't find the oil rig.
Those islands look like my kind of place, wonder if they have a radio station!
They DO have a radio station! Wonder if they need a broadcast engineer!?!?
Great post, very interesting. Thanks
Abandoned oil rig; nice! The responsible company who abandoned it should dismantle it.
Yeah, let's to that to the Artic refuge in Alaska!
I would live there... no problems! Would mean going back a few decades in technology, but id find a way to bring some wind turbines to get me enough electricity to run a few luxuries
Why are there no trees? It isn't that far south.
This is not the remotest place on earth. Go to Google Earth and find this island. Now pan back. You'll notice a little green baloon a bit down and to the right.
dammit, someone beat me to the punch. i was going to say "craphole island!".
When the zombie outbreak happens, this is where i will move. hehehe
If I'm ever featured on America's Most Wanted, this is the place I would run to!
Looks like a cool place to visit, but how long and where would you stay? I didn't read anything about an airport, and even the South Pole gets mail more often than once a year.
I wonder how the diving is?
Any attractive women there?
Tristan da Cunha is not the most remote island in the world! Bouvet is!
Tristan da Cunha is the most remote archipelago in the world.
I'd love to go urban exploring on that oil rig.
That oil rig demands its own post.... let us know if you'd get more pictures!
Right about now a remote tropical island looks pretty good to me. I enjoyed this post.
Wonderful posting, really !
Great post, I wish there were more pictures and meet some people from the island. How much would a boat trip be and how long would it take? Thanks again.
Any attractive women there??
would love to visit one of these places
I thought that that oil rig would be the coolest place in the world to live. Then I found this.
Oh Noes! Oh well... Nothing lasts forever.
Looks like an amazing place to visit, but I couldn’t handle it for more than a couple of weeks, unless there were lots of beautiful virgins.
I have been here! I was sailing across the Atlantic and stopped here for about six hours. It is a fascinating place, I have never seen anything like it. the people are incredibly friendly, and their homes can become a restaurant or a doctor's office whenever the need arises! I visited the school and the kids love to play soccer. We were careful to not buy out the tiny supermarket when we were there-only one chocolate bar per person! the surrounding landscape is also quite beautiful. Very remote, and a long lasting memory!
Right about now I would love to send my wife there, on a one way ticket.lol. Seriously, what an amazing place.
Amazing! it kinda makes me want to visit. Simply to see how it must feel to be sooo remote.
wow, nice review
and a hell of a site, congrats!
I'm from a place not as remote but once shrouded in as much mystery. We have been transformed over the years from a small piece of "escape to paradise" to a busy, bustling, almost completely urban and modern comopolitan destination. The current generation thinks they are living the life. (But)It's a shame for the next generation and a heartbreak for the last one.
Great photos... How do you get there?
What a beautiful place. And for the rock-hopper penguin - Nice hair!
Oil rig was disposed of in February 2007.
http://www.gard.no/ikbViewer/page/iknowbook/ajax/view?p_document_id=52750
This island is a drain on the British economy. It should be decolonised like other former British possessions. Sovereignty could be transferred to Brazil and it could become a Special Adminstrative Island of Brazil i.e. it could have Home Rule with Brazil only in charge of defence and foreign relations. The islanders could keep their British passports or take up Brazilian passports. The islanders could be given free college and university education in Brazil (and free transport annually) as part of the tranfer of sovereignty deal.
What utter nonsense people post on here, if only they check the facts first before making stupid comments like 'It is a drain on resources' Fact: Tristan is and has always been self-sufficient through philately (stamp collecting to the morons on here) and the export of rock lobsters caught in abundance around the islands. What utter nonsense to suggest it's annexed by Brazil, it's British owned for God's sake. One other point, it's the remotest inhabited island in the world, not place. Neither is it tropical, it's too far south and is temperate with a high annual rainfall and almost constant strong winds due to it's location in the infamous Roaring Forties, lot's of ships have floundered here. Having been married to an islander for 35 years, yes she is beautiful, I have extensive knowledge of Tristan and it annoys me when ignorant people post stupid remarks with no regard for the facts. For those interested there is a website with lots of information regarding the island, it's people and history: tristandc.com
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