People will live anywhere.

[Jimlaad43]

I am one of those people that uses Google Earth to pass the time. You know, opening it and randomly zooming in on an island you never knew existed, or cared if it existed, and seen big settlements. It is just quite amazing just how far humans have spread all over the world and the places they have colonised.

Anyway, where have you found people living unexpectedly or what kind of housing was not expected, and share your random Google Earth finds.

 

[Lizard]

Wake Island.

Its basically a beach in the middle of nowhere yet the US built a military base on it.


It would be my perfect holiday though just a hot beach in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Wake Island.

Its basically a beach in the middle of nowhere yet the US built a military base on it.


It would be my perfect holiday though just a hot beach in the middle of nowhere.

Yeah but military bases are kind of acceptable as they want to keep that land and to access it.



Inaccessible island, Tristan Da Cunha
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5489327
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[Bopop4]

^That is the perfect example for the stereotypical desert island.

 

[zedextreme8177]

Kergeulen Islands, I've never actually knew about them until I found it on Google Earth. Seems like a nice place to live, though there's only a small group of scientists there. It's apparently a territory of France IIRC

 

[Wiegert]

Kergeulen Islands, I've never actually knew about them until I found it on Google Earth. Seems like a nice place to live, though there's only a small group of scientists there. It's apparently a territory of France IIRC

Indeed. I didn't even know it existed until a couple of years ago, which is a surprise considering how much Geography I studied back then, plus it's a pretty large archipelago. Some areas even look similar to the Martian surface, but it appears to be too cold and remote for there to be permanent settlements or a larger population anywhere on those islands.

And I took a look at the travel info for those islands a while ago, which I found interesting. Linky




Also, check out Alert in Nunavut, Canada. The northern most permanent settlement on Earth.

 

[lemansfanatic]

The ones that get me are the little shacks deep in the mountains with no paved roads or heat for the icy winters. Watch the Hatfields and McCoys and you will know what people had to do to survive back in those days. Man we are all so fortunate nowadays to just have elictricity and running water. Our forefathers were all much tougher than we know...

 

[sumbrownkid]

The research labs at Antarctica is a marvel also.

Must suck in the winter.

 

[CMvan46]

The research labs at Antarctica is a marvel also.

Must suck in the winter.

Yeah I've seen those. Pretty amazing stuff. I can't imagine being that far away from anything else.

My grandfather worked in Alert Bay (most northerly inhabited place on the planet) during much of the Cold War. Winters are basically 6 months of total blackout. The gloves they were issued have pieces of fur on the back which were used to wipe away icicles from your nose.

 

[Omnis]

People live in Miami. Enough said.

 

[wfooshee]

People live south of Miami!!!

 

[Danoff]

People live in Miami. Enough said.

I was gonna say Alaska, it's a cold, windy, and miserable... and that's the summer.

(pretty though)

 

[Schwartz]

Alert, Nunavut, Canada

 

[Omnis]

I'd rather be in the Bering Sea parasailin with Sara Palin than have to drive through Liberty City or Overtown.

 

[The Bman]

A better question would be how far we advanced. Seriously, we went from hunting and gathering branches just to survive and now we can just relax and communicate from every point in the world.

On topic, I love to zoom into tiny islands and find houses. I zoomed into way more than one island that was only about 4 miles long only to find it is inhabited.

 

[W3H5]

I know a bloke who lived on Guam. I had to look it up to believe it. Far out place.

 

[Jimlaad43]

People live south of Miami!!!

I know, all the islands on the road between Miami and Key West are covered in houses up to the edge.Its pretty ridiculous for every single island on the road to be blanked colonised like that.

 

[a6m5]

This is a very unique approach to google map. I usually use it just to check out freeways and get directions.

I was gonna say Alaska, it's a cold, windy, and miserable... and that's the summer.

(pretty though)

Outdoorsmen's paradise! Until they are eaten alive by bears or mosquitoes!

People live in Miami. Enough said.

Tropical paradise! Until zombies eat your face off!

 

[zedextreme8177]

On topic, I love to zoom into tiny islands and find houses. I zoomed into way more than one island that was only about 4 miles long only to find it is inhabited.

If you think 4 miles is small

I've been there once, and although it's not exactly remote, there's a couple of interesting stuff:
- There's one 4-wheeled vehicle, a pickup truck
- You can go around the whole island in about 12 minutes at a good walking pace.

I wonder how the people there manage to stay without getting bored stiff

 

[TheCracker]

If you think 4 miles is small

Tropico?

People live in Miami. Enough said.

People living in Florida full stop.

 

[Jimlaad43]

If you think 4 miles is small


- There's one 4-wheeled vehicle, a pickup truck

Herm, Channel Islands is small.
Cars and even bikes are not allowed on it.

 

[Omnis]

Figures the guy from Maldives would have us beat in small island communities.

 

[The Bman]

If you think 4 miles is small

I've been there once, and although it's not exactly remote, there's a couple of interesting stuff:
- There's one 4-wheeled vehicle, a pickup truck
- You can go around the whole island in about 12 minutes at a good walking pace.

I wonder how the people there manage to stay without getting bored stiff

It's not as small as this:

If it's real, that is.

EDIT: And yes, I am aware that there are smaller islands but this one is actually quite nice.

 

[Anathema]

It's not as small as this:

If it's real, that is.

This is beast if it's real.

 

[ZohsixGT5]

No beach though. Might as well be on a docked ship.

 

[White & Nerdy]

I was gonna say Alaska, it's a cold, windy, and miserable... and that's the summer.

(pretty though)

O hai.

 

[terminator363]

It's funny 'cause it's true.

 

[dxm8975]

What I found surprising to read is especially that even the small gathering of archipelargoes or islands on the pacific ocean are populated by a thin group of people regardless of the remote distance from other large continents like the Australian continent... and to look up that a minority of folks live at the island of Saint helena (which is around 2,000 kilometers off the African continent) where Napoleon was exiled to in the head of 19th century.