St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
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St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
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Re: St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
#2I've always been really interested in these far flung places and used to spend hours on Google Earth scanning the middles of the oceans for islands like this and think about how to visit them.
In particular I've always been fascinated by Tristan da Cunha which has a village and is livable if you can get there:
https://wikitravel.org/en/Tristan_da_Cunha
And Bouvet Island, which is totally uninhabited:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvet_Island
And for whatever reason, one I discovered by browsing Google Earth directly (as opposed to the others which people mention as far flung places), which I can't remember the names of right now, but I can find them on Google maps though they're not labeled: a series of three islands between NZ and Antarctica, closer to Antarctica. Barren islands only potentially visitable for part of the year. The winds and sea in the Southern Ocean sound terrifying. Here's the pin:
Dropped pin Near South Pacific Ocean https://maps.app.goo.gl/PpsVCzE7LXLrZFZe8
We're lucky to be able to see some videos of these places on youtube. When I was little, there were only satellite images and the occasional grainy photo or two online if one did a deep search.
A short documentary of a place called Kurlis came out recently, you should watch it if you're interested. It's about conservation.
This documentary is particularly interesting for me because I used to browse satellite imagery of the place and to see people walking around it it's as amazing as I had imagined. A volcano in the middle of a lake in a remote island???! Thinking about this stuff is also what led me to have a tech career that has been related to conservation of these places (Kurlis from satellite):
Dropped pin Near Severo-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, 694550 https://maps.app.goo.gl/6X54ZqdruRgB5KYW7
Re: St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
#3Is it possible to stuff more purple prose into a single article? For a laugh, try reading out loud in a Keira Knightley accent. Puke.
Re: St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
#4I've always been really interested in these far flung places and used to spend hours on Google Earth scanning the middles of the oceans for islands like this and think about how to visit them. In particular I've always been fascinated by Tristan da Cunha which has a village and is livable if you can get there: https://wikitravel.org/en/Tristan_da_Cunha And Bouvet Island, which is totally uninhabited: https://en.m.wik…
Another isolated but inhabited island is North Sentinel Island. Do not visit!
Re: St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
#5Is it possible to stuff more purple prose into a single article? For a laugh, try reading out loud in a Keira Knightley accent. Puke.
Please don't post this sort of snarky dross to HN, regardless of how bad an article is. The article may not deserve better, but this community deserves better if you're contributing to it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: unfortunately, it looks like you've been doing a lot of this. Could you please not? We're trying for something else on this site.
Re: St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
#6Remote is more than a measure of distance on a map. Among climbers there is a logic about remote places: it took a week to get to the moon and back. There are places on rock faces and up mountians that take longer, that are more remote than the moon. In places like the alaska/canadian/russian north is very possible to be trapped by weather for days, weeks, even months. That is more remote than any island.
Re: St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
#7Another interesting place in Alaska is Whittier where almost everybody in the community lives in a single building:
https://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier...
Re: St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
#8Remote is more than a measure of distance on a map. Among climbers there is a logic about remote places: it took a week to get to the moon and back. There are places on rock faces and up mountians that take longer, that are more remote than the moon. In places like the alaska/canadian/russian north is very possible to be trapped by weather for days, weeks, even months. That is more remote than any island.
Ridiculous!
It would take longer to get to the moon and back if you walked there. There is no place on Earth that you couldn't get to quicker if your budget was the same
Re: St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
#9Remote is more than a measure of distance on a map. Among climbers there is a logic about remote places: it took a week to get to the moon and back. There are places on rock faces and up mountians that take longer, that are more remote than the moon. In places like the alaska/canadian/russian north is very possible to be trapped by weather for days, weeks, even months. That is more remote than any island.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but using the moon as an example is a bit far-fetched, as well as the metric being time. I thinkl it would be fair to say: Using the same amount of resources, how hard is it to reach a given point?
There is always someone who will fly a helicopter into the remote outback...
> is very possible to be trapped by weather for days, weeks, even months. That is more remote than any island.
Except those islands that you can't reach due to weather for days, weeks or, even months...
Re: St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
#10Remote is more than a measure of distance on a map. Among climbers there is a logic about remote places: it took a week to get to the moon and back. There are places on rock faces and up mountians that take longer, that are more remote than the moon. In places like the alaska/canadian/russian north is very possible to be trapped by weather for days, weeks, even months. That is more remote than any island.
Ridiculous! It would take longer to get to the moon and back if you walked there. There is no place on Earth that you couldn't get to quicker if your budget was the same
Try flying a helicopter in the mountains during an alaskan blizzard. All the money in the world wont get you there any faster. And there are sides of cliffs where air rescue is impossible in even the best weather.