Thread 2827184

What are the whackiest off the grid places you'd love to visit, and sometimes find yourself /trv/ing to on Google Maps?

Clipperton Island always makes me nervous. Seems like my idea of hell being on a flat beach in the middle of the Pacific surrounded by crabs. Looks like 1 wave would spell the end of you.

Apparently the atoll has closed off the entrance, and created a lagoon in the middle which manages to trap rainwater (salt water sinks to bottom?). People stranded on fishing boats have survived there for around a month or so.

The place is so small it's a cunt to find on a map.
10.302062364452656, -109.21601991017711

France have claimed the waters around it, and apparently Apparently nearby there's underwater manganese mining potential worth billions. Think Trump spoke about it the other month.

>>2827184 (OP)
i always had some fascination with these islands in the middle of nowhere like south georgia or kerguelen

>>2827224
I have always wanted to go to small islands like Sark and St Pierre and Miquelon but it seems to be a hassle to get there.

Sao Tome and Principe, it's not as remote as those places, I just think it looks cool from the photos and nobody goes there

mountain tribes in places like kyrgyzstan, tajikistan, afghanistan

>>2827184 (OP)
Are you worried a big wave would wash over the island and you'd come out from under it covered in crabs like a cartoon?

>>2827302
I agree. Are there still wild untamed places in those other countries or just Afghanistan?

Weirdest/remote places I have been:
Musandam
Marlborough Sounds NZ
Vinalhaven, ME

Places I long to visit:
the Richat Structure
Pico Cao Grande in Sao Tome
All the weird parts of Venezuela and Colombia's carribean coast

>>2827184 (OP)
>10.302062364452656, -109.21601991017711
holy fuck I never knew there was land there

>>2827236
I've been to Sark, it's not hard to get there. You can first fly to Guernsey or Jersey and then take a boat.

>>2827302
Absolutely love this movie. Always wanted to go and see Chitral Valley (paki pagans who larp as descendant of Alexander the Great).

Anybody know of any other random shit in this part of the world?

>>2827224
I've spent hours looking at these place. Kerguelen in particular. Feels like the final possible place you could kinda live on which isn't populated. Always wondered why France never made it a Falklands-tier colony.


Foula is another interesting one. Britain's remotest island. So remote that it kept the Julian calendar, and even managed to fuck that up, kek.

>Foula remained on the Julian calendar when the rest of the Kingdom of Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752.[8] Foula adhered to the Julian calendar by keeping 1800 as a leap year, but it did not observe a leap year in 1900. As a result, Foula is now one day ahead of the Julian calendar and 12 days behind the Gregorian, observing Christmas Day on 6 January Gregorian and New Year on 13 January Gregorian.[22][3][23]

>>2827437
at least faklands is "near" south america
kerguelen is literally in the middle of nowhere

>>2827456
Interesting thread here:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/colonisation-of-the-kerguelen-islands.389860/

>>2827457
thanks, i forgot that forum exists

>>2827302
I'm going to karakoram next april, thanks for reminding me about this movie

>>2827184 (OP)
Apparently Clipperton has a volcanic chimney called "trou sans fond" (bottomless hole) in the lagoon. Its bottom has never been reached because it's filled with deadly sulfuric gases. The lagoon water has a high concentration of E. Coli which makes it hardly drinkable (although accounts of a crew stranded there in the 60s apparently say that it was drinkable).
There's also a story of tyranny and murder by hammer amongst stranded mexicans living there in the 1910s ("les oubliés de Clipperton").

>>2827437
> who larp as descendant of Alexander the Great
There's a town in India called Manali who think this as well.

> Kerguelen in particular
Flying from SYD - JNB I thought we were going to fly over these islands. But we flew just to the north of it. Still looked out of the window just in case but still couldn't see them.

>>2827473
mountains or Mongol?

>>2827738
> Mongol
I'm quite interested in doing some sort of Mongolian Empire tourism. I don't understand why it isnt that popular. Riding horseback through the vast expanse of the steppe, raping and murdering nomads as we terrorise every town. I just finished the Genghis Khan book by Jack Weatherford, and now listening to the Fall of civilisations podcast about the Mongols (although it's shit, too heavily produced).

>>2827353
>Richat Structure
sure it would be cool to go here so you can tell bitches you've been to the eye of the sahara, or lost city of Atlantis, but there are similar structures all around the world. It's a 50 zillion year old volcano that's collapsed on itself. I recently went to a day safari at Pilanesberg South Africa, which they say is the same.

I want to visit Pitcairn Islands. There are very few opportunities per year and it's not guaranteed you can make land.

>>2827184 (OP)
Lake Télé in the Republic of the Congo
>extremely remote, takes several days of hiking through dense jungle to get there
>area isn't even explored properly
>lake is completely round, no inlets or outlets, geologists don't know how it even formed
>100,000 gorillas live in the area, largest concentration of gorillas in the world
>supposed home of the legendary dinosaur-like cryptid Mokele-Mbembe

>>2827738
I'm Indian, and no, nobody from Manali thinks that. Manali is very popular winter tourism destination in India, it is in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Very beautiful place.
Stop spreading lies about my country

>>2827346
>>2827437
central asia is still home to a lot of nomadic people
roaming around, living in yurts, hunting with eagles etc. among some of the most incredible mountain scenery in the world
every few years they have the World Nomad Games, an olympics type event for traditional central asian ethnic sports
horseback wrestling, horseback archery etc
next one is in September 2026 in Kyrgyzstan and i'm gonna try and go

Most place like that is probably Lakes of Ounianga in Chad for me.

I also have a Google Maps list of some rare/remote places, mostly villages. Its not perfect but it is what it is:

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Good luck getting URL from above url key. Cant even paste parts of URL even if I replace dots with something else and remove. Stupid system thinks post is a spam otherwise.

>>2828904
To use code append it to maps(dotdotdot)app(dotdotdot)goo(dotdotdot)gl

I lived in a tent on Marie Byrd Land for seventy days and honestly even that didn’t feel particularly remote until you were in the air above the camp.

>>2828905
jewgle tells me that's a scam link that directs me to any website you want.

>>2830121
No it doesn't. Are you sure you wrote the URL correctly? You can see it in this screenshot.

i'd kind of like to go to tristan da cunha
even though it seems like it's pretty well developed, supplied by cargo ships and visited by cruise ships and so on
also i kind of imagine living in places like that is a bit like lord of the flies. which was close to being true in the pitcairn islands

>>2830121
>>2830182
goo gl is Google's link shortening service which can be used to shorten any link and can redirect anywhere, the URL when appended with that prefix is I believe google maps exclusive.