Uninhabited Islands,Any explorers ? :)

[Greenheart]

I know LOTS of uninhibited islanders...

...that WAS what you're looking for, wasn't it?

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[Ben Dockrell 22]

...that WAS what you're looking for, wasn't it?

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Maybe he,s wondering....

"Would they really be upset if i just stood beside them and took my trunks off to show my empathy

 

[bikedaft]

Presumably the search here, is for somewhere remote enough to exclude the probability of being bothered by...anyone?

One place springs to mind...

Of course, you'll have to hurry...clearly there are already yacht and helicopter crews, vying for kingship...

...not sure why, though. Did they have it in mind to start a guano-fertilizer factory?

cracking pic. never seen that one before - any story behind it?

 

[Greenheart]

cracking pic. never seen that one before - any story behind it?

Not sure...here's the link for the pic, possibly not closely related:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...a=X&ei=AaSdT7fxFdDZ8gPtsaGPDQ&ved=0CB4Q9QEwBQ

 

[bikedaft]

Not sure...here's the link for the pic, possibly not closely related:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...a=X&ei=AaSdT7fxFdDZ8gPtsaGPDQ&ved=0CB4Q9QEwBQ

thanks

wonder when we get to see the detailed chart they produced (on that website)?

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

I cant help it i keep thinking "Christmas Pudding"

 

[Kelpie]

cracking pic. never seen that one before - any story behind it?

Uuh, that pic has nothing to do with the story. The yacht shown is not a survey vessel.

I believe that the pic with the yacht was taken during an attempt by Andy Strangeway, the 'island bagger' to land on the rock. He chartered the yacht to make the trip. I know quite a few of the guys who were aboard, including two who made it to the top of the rock. Strangeway himself never actually left the yacht.

 

[Bobobolinsky]

...that WAS what you're looking for, wasn't it?

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Not you sucking gut is it

 

[Bobobolinsky]

There was an island in the Atlantic off Ireland that they abandoned in the 1960's

 

[prv]

I believe that the pic with the yacht was taken during an attempt by Andy Strangeway, the 'island bagger' to land on the rock. He chartered the yacht to make the trip. I know quite a few of the guys who were aboard, including two who made it to the top of the rock. Strangeway himself never actually left the yacht.

Thing is, if they had a helicopter to be able to take the photo, why bother with the yacht?

Pete

 

[SlimRick]

There was an island in the Atlantic off Ireland that they abandoned in the 1960's

Blasket Island?

http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/blaskets.html

 

[Greenheart]

Not you sucking gut is it

No, the young slim fellow in the enormous swimming trunks is NOT me. Sadly, at such times I more closely resemble a beach-ball with an elastic band round its middle.

Re. inhabited rather than uninhibited islands, maybe Samson, among the Scilly Isles, would be a good suggestion? Habitable but uninhabited, and a long-enough voyage from the mainland to feel properly offshore.

Coincidentally, the low-lying islet features a ‘breast-shaped hill’, which apparently has ancient fertility significance. So I daresay Samson is uninhabited AND uninhibited, with visitors stopping long enough to initiate parenthood, if I may put it that way…

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

Blasket Island?

http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/blaskets.html

Do not dolphins live in groups or packs ?

How do the know thats "Fungle the dolphin"

I dont see "Im Fungle the dolphin" tattooed on his forehead ?

 

[WilliamUK]

Do not dolphins live in groups or packs ?

How do the know thats "Fungle the dolphin"

I dont see "Im Fungle the dolphin" tattooed on his forehead ?

Not all... and they identify by their dorsal fin and the marks on their back.
Same fin and marks = same dolphin.

 

[Kelpie]

Thing is, if they had a helicopter to be able to take the photo, why bother with the yacht?

Pete

It was taken from the SAR helicopter which was in the area (I can't remember if it was on training or on a shout). A long-standing former SAR winchman was aboard the yacht so mabe he called in a favour

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

Blasket Island?

http://www.dingle-peninsula.ie/blaskets.html

That was a really interesting read, thank-you for the link SlimRick

 

[Ben Dockrell 22]

Perhaps a caption could read.

Europes most wanted dolphins evade capture one daringly disguised as a small island,the search will go on said a spokeman till this tormoil ends.

 

[westernman]

There are plenty of uninhabited but habitable islands in the Cook Islands.
We arrived at Aitutaki to check in on a Sunday and that seemed pretty much uninhabited until we found pretty much the entire island in the small church.

We never did manage to check in there...... Put that off until Rarotonga which is a bit more lively (but not much).

More information about the Cook Islands at www.ck
which has to be pretty much the coolest web address around.

 

[Greenheart]

Isn't St Kilda free to visit, for anybody a long way off course?

Sorry if it was suggested earlier, here...

 

[BrendanS]

yes, it was sprayed with acetic acid. Porton Down used to place a dozen sheep on the island each spring in the old days, and see how many were left alive by mid-summer. To start with, there were not many. (An old stamping ground for me in the 1960s)


There are many farms with 'anthrax pits' where carcases from casualties were buried deeply (anthrax wasa fairly common animal disease not so long ago.) MAFF used to have maps, but I think they were discontinued and lost in Defra.

Only a few very old farmers can remember where some of the pits are; and the bacillus is understood to last for forty years....

I should probably point out that there are two bits of Porton Down, I worked at the public health part, not the military, and it was the public health part that went and did the annual check, after the military types contaminated it! It was formaldehyde solution they used, far more effective than acetic acid.