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, -109.21601991017711France 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.
>>2827184i always had some fascination with these islands in the middle of nowhere like south georgia or kerguelen
>>2827224I 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
>>2827184Are you worried a big wave would wash over the island and you'd come out from under it covered in crabs like a cartoon?>>2827302I agree. Are there still wild untamed places in those other countries or just Afghanistan?
Weirdest/remote places I have been:MusandamMarlborough Sounds NZVinalhaven, MEPlaces I long to visit:the Richat StructurePico Cao Grande in Sao TomeAll the weird parts of Venezuela and Colombia's carribean coast
>>2827184>10.302062364452656, -109.21601991017711holy fuck I never knew there was land there
>>2827236I've been to Sark, it's not hard to get there. You can first fly to Guernsey or Jersey and then take a boat.
>>2827302Absolutely 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?>>2827224I'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]
>>2827437at least faklands is "near" south americakerguelen is literally in the middle of nowhere
>>2827456Interesting thread here:https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/colonisation-of-the-kerguelen-islands.389860/
>>2827457thanks, i forgot that forum exists
>>2827302I'm going to karakoram next april, thanks for reminding me about this movie
>>2827184Apparently 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 GreatThere's a town in India called Manali who think this as well.> Kerguelen in particularFlying 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.>>2827473mountains or Mongol?
>>2827738> MongolI'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 Structuresure 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.
