October 24, 2002
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The third stop in Oissubke's worldwide journey -- Gough Island, a tiny, eerily beautiful, nearly uninhabited island in the middle of the South Atlantic. Only the sturdy and the brave dare call it home. [Plenty more inside].
posted by oissubke (25 comments total)
 
Only the sturdy and the brave dare call it home.

You mean de Nederlander!

De ondergang van de Nederlander? Het eens zo vanzelfsprekende Nederlanderschap
komt op verschillende manieren onder druk te staan.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 9:32 AM on October 24, 2002


posted by oissubke at 9:32 AM on October 24, 2002


Dang it. I missed frist prost because Mefi's stupid line breaking make that list take forever to get right. Oh, well, there are the links anyway. :-)
posted by oissubke at 9:34 AM on October 24, 2002


It's too bad the Gough Islanders haven't figured out the difference between a forward and a backward slash - most of the page and all of the image links are broken on that site. Damn Windows!
posted by Mars Saxman at 9:45 AM on October 24, 2002


oissubke: you might try composing your entire post in a text editor offline, then paste it in.
posted by malphigian at 9:45 AM on October 24, 2002


You might try composing your entire post in a text editor offline, then paste it in.

That's what I've been doing, but Mefi took the line breaks in the bulleted list to be [BR]s, so I had to take them all out. The list was about three screenfuls on the first preview. :-)
posted by oissubke at 9:50 AM on October 24, 2002


Very Cool!
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 9:55 AM on October 24, 2002


Grrr... none of the images are showing up.
posted by silusGROK at 10:01 AM on October 24, 2002


Sorry about the image problems. I didn't realize right off that they had done the site in Word. If anyone can find some other nice images of Gough, please do post them.
posted by oissubke at 10:09 AM on October 24, 2002


Here are (hopefully working) links to the images in the first "scenery" link:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Wow, some of those are really gorgeous... Great post!
posted by Johnny Assay at 10:28 AM on October 24, 2002


Someone once emailed a friend with a question about their blog software, and after looking at the blog, it turned out the person was sitting on a tiny island's weather research station, bored out of their minds. I couldn't even find the island on a map, or in google, and they had entries talking about eating puffins for fun. I never did figure out if it was real. I should dig up the old email.
posted by mathowie at 11:11 AM on October 24, 2002


I couldn't even find the island on a map, or in google, and they had entries talking about eating puffins for fun.

That must have been whatshisname from Fenwick Island.
posted by oissubke at 11:44 AM on October 24, 2002


Its always been a dream to travel to all the World Heritage sites. Impossibly difficult but that's what dreams are. How does one travel to Gough? It reminds me of King Kong's island.
posted by stbalbach at 12:03 PM on October 24, 2002


Great post, oissubke. By the way, in case anybody was wondering, "Gough" rhymes with "scoff."
posted by languagehat at 12:26 PM on October 24, 2002


"Gough" rhymes with "scoff."

Great. For the past two years I've been mentally pronouncing it "Gow".
posted by oissubke at 12:37 PM on October 24, 2002


For another beautiful tiny island, check out the Palmyra Atoll. As a bonus, it's cursed.
posted by hammurderer at 12:37 PM on October 24, 2002


it reminds me of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island....(i think that's the one--with the civil war and a balloon, etc)

and keep it up oissubke! where's next?
posted by amberglow at 1:35 PM on October 24, 2002


yeah until recently i used to pronounce "trough" as "trow" and "cough" as "cow"! not the last bit really :D
posted by kliuless at 1:59 PM on October 24, 2002


May I suggest Kerguelen Is?
posted by skinsuit at 9:34 PM on October 24, 2002


[Derail]:
GHOTI = "fish"
In line with this week's critique of English pronunciation, dare I bring up George Bernard Shaw's plea for spelling reform with the word 'GHOTI"

GH as in "rough"
O as in "women"
TI as in "nation".

Divided by a bloody irrational language, indeed!

[/Derail]
posted by dash_slot- at 10:18 PM on October 24, 2002


excellent post oissubke.

number 7 looks like a fine place for my subterranean island base (w/optional volcano).
posted by lescour at 10:35 PM on October 24, 2002


Will the optional volcano be in the shape of an evil skull???
That would be cool.

/me hopes
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 10:41 PM on October 24, 2002


i swear that worked on preview. ahem.

my SUBTERRANEAN ISLAND BASE (W/OPTIONAL VOLCANO).
posted by lescour at 10:43 PM on October 24, 2002


Thanks for that lescour. :-) or should that be ;-)

skulks off to finish minor details on evil plan
posted by Dick Paris at 11:30 PM on October 24, 2002


Palmyra Atoll, rainforest of the sea.
posted by Zootoon at 9:07 AM on October 27, 2002


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