The village of Ushguli in the remote Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. With pristine landscapes and ancient stone towers, it feels as if stepping back into medieval times.

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Kirkjufell, Iceland putting on a light show...

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This is the ancient, and very remote city, of Ait Benhaddou, Morocco [OC]

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South Bend Indiana by Matt Dunlap

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Centuripe, Sicily, Italy. A city built strategically in the hills located about 45 minutes from the central east coast

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Headed to dive the underwater tunnel on Gato Island, Philippines [OC]

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The world's tallest natural arch in far western China - a place so remote it was rediscovered only 20 years ago.

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This is Point Nemo, the spot farthest away from any land in the world. You are closer to astronauts aboard the ISS than humanity

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Longyearbyen, Norway

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A lone cottage in the Black Valley within the Kingdom of Kerry, Ireland.

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Nevada State Highway 140 [OC]

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beautiful view my village in Kashmir

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Highway 163 in Mexican Hat, Utah

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Nuuk, the Capital of Greenland.

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Hokkaido, Japan

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Alaska, United States

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Flying over the Northern mountains in 🇨🇳! Not a pleasant trip !

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Somewhere in the arctic

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Near Winslow, AZ

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The Highlander Castle, Eilean Donan looking sensational here on the Isle of Skye...

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Johnston Atoll is an unincorporated territory of the United States. It was controlled by the U.S. military for 70 years and is currently a National Wildlife Refuge. Located several hundred miles from Hawaii

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If you drive northeast in Alberta until the gravel road ends at a gate past Fort McKay, take a boat up the Athabasca for four hours and hike 30 trail-free km west into the Birch Mountains, you too can lay eyes on this desolate burnt bog 👍

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An Ærial View of the Namib Desert Courtesy of the European Space Agency

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A tiny village in Norway [OC]

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It's a remote place when the sign says it is: Warning sign when leaving the small town of Iron Knob towards Lake Gairdner in the South Australian Outback.

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Somewhere around the border of Colorado and Wyoming

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What do you know about Dominica 🇩🇲 nature isle?

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South Coast Wilderness Walks

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Good luck locating this one!

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Dempster Highway, Yukon Territory. No amenities next 350km.

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Knowles Canyon, Lake Powell, UT, USA is only accessible by boat. Honestly all of south-central and southeast Utah could be on this thread.

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Adak Island, Aleutians

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On the Dempster Highway near the Arctic Circle, Yukon, Canada

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Mt. Rainier as seen from the overlook on the northwestern edge of Summit Lake

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Rural Kansas

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View from Bering Hill on Alaska's Adak Island [OC]

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Quite possibly the most remote beach in the world! Kvalvika beach, Lofoten, Norway

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British Columbia, Canada

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This house on Molokai's north shore can only be reached by helicopter [OC]

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Tottori, Japan

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The Kerguelen Islands, aka The Desolation Islands, Southern Indian Ocean.

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De Na Zin Wilderness/ Bisti Badlands - taken by me using Fujifilmxt20

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In Alaska’s famous Denali National Park, 6,000 feet atop a rocky granite cliff, called a nunatak Sheldon Chalet sits high above the 35-square mile snowy Don Sheldon Amphitheater. This is about as remote as you can get in Alaska for a 'house' so we know it's super remote - accessible only by chopper!

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The true geographic center of the United States (next to the flag), ~20 miles north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Unlike the monument in Belle Fourche itself, this is not a tourist trap nor a major destination [OC]

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Lake Scranton, PA, USA.

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[OC] Unnamed lake Near my house in Central India!

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Treehouse thing in a forest in Pitcairn island

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Clipperton Island, a remote pacific atoll with a rich and disturbing history

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Flat Tops Wilderness Area. Do you ever wake up just wishing you were in the mountains?

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Bankund glacier, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India

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Anchicaya Valley, Valley del Cauca, Colombia [OC]. Historically a very dangerous place. Now an amazing place for birdwatching and wildlife watching but rarely visited.

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Little Diomede, Alaska. Located in the middle of the Bering Strait it is 2.43 Square Miles and home to about 119 people. It is accompanied by the larger Big Diomede about 2 miles to east across the Russian border.

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Crested Butte, Colorado. As once said by a local politician, “Crested Butte is one square mile surrounded by reality.

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Tombstone Park, Yukon

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Me riding the world's northernmost swing (Longyearbyen, Svalbard islands, Norway)

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Remote cabin about 2 hours on ski from a road. Svartavatnet, Vikafjell (Norway) about 7h ago [OC][2000x1500]

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I just discovered this sub, and I must share with you one of our camping places from back in the day. Tents are on Bezimeni vrh top which translate s to Nameless Peak, at around 2500m altitude, on the Mt. Durmitor in Montenegro

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Akshayuk Pass Baffin Island (taken on day two of my solo through-hike)

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I love swings and remote islands. This is me in Edinburgh of the Seven Seas (Tristan da Cunha, southern Atlantic, 2019)

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Hello! I enjoy making 3D renders of old maps and I have recently finished this one: Kerguelen Islands in 1970. I thought you'd like to see it.

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Green Mountain Falls, Colorado. See the sky with a beautiful rainbow.

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This is the Rio Negro right in the Amazon Forest. The nearest town is more than 400km away, no roads, only boat accessible. It took me 6 days of slow boat travel from Manaus, Brazil, to get there. IG: @leandro_reichert

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The epicentre of the 'Tunguska Event' of 1908-June-30__ , by the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Yeniseysk Governorate, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (Река Подкаменная Тунгуска, Енисеиская губерния, Красноярскии краи, Россия) - - [1200×0900]

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Port Wild, Elephant Island, where Shackleton's crew waited to be rescued [OC]

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California's Lost Coast , the most remote and undeveloped stretch of coastline in the state

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Two times collapsed road that used to deserve a mine in my province.

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Me standing over the southernmost tree in the world, on Isla Hornos, Chile. There are seven distinct trees here, growing like a normal tree but horizontal for several meters due to the crazy wind.

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[OC] Altai, Kasachstan - This road was built by Austro-Hungarian WW1 POWs.

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Trinity Church in Antarctica. A Russian Orthodox church located on King George Island near a Russian research base. One of 8 churches on Antarctica. More pics in comments

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Tamanrasset, Algeria: a town pretty much at the pole-of-inaccessibility of the Sahara Desert (or at least it appears roughly so on a map). [2048×1152]

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Nice work place! Nice mood!

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Tsagaan Gol Valley, in the rugged Altai mountains of far-western Mongolia, close to the Chinese and Russian borders. People, primarily ethnic Tuvans, do live in these remote areas. [OC]

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Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada is the size of Taiwan and has a population of 0

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Montana isn't really brought up when we talk about traveling through the US, but it was one of my favorite state. You feel like you have the whole country to yourself, and it looks like it hasn't changed for decades. [OC]

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I went to Yellowstone in winter, and while the geysers were impressive, for some reason this delicate, icy sunrise scene the first morning is what most struck me. [OC]

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I never really felt like fishing... then I got to see Mount Hood early in the morning. Suddenly, staying out at 5AM didn't seem like a bad idea. [OC]

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Europeans usually go to Sequoia after going to Yosemite. I drove from one to the other with my van, and was lucky enough to get greeted with this when we arrived <3 [OC]

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My brother is visiting the North Pole. View from an ice breaker.

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As a foreigner I had never heard of Olympic National Park, and the sheer variety of scenes made it one of my favorite. During the fall I was mostly alone. [OC]

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A lot of people spend hours waiting for sunset in that one bridge in Zion National Park, but to be honest I like this view much better, it's at the end of a short hike. If you're lucky, you're almost alone. [OC]

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North Cascades and that whole part of Washington State was just a marvel to drive around. During the fall we barely saw another soul, all we had was that moody landscape. [OC]

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A lonely bus stop near Shelek, Kazakhstan [OC] [2025x693]

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Mount Rainier was one of my favorite mountain in the US, but the subtle pink/purple glow really made it shine that day. [OC]

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Empty road near Silver Springs, NV before sunset

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Lone adobe house in the middle of the desert, Southern Arizona

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Most magical camping spot I've ever experienced - Kol Suu Lake (Kyrgyzstan) (OC)

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Sometimes the best views are in the hardest to reach places. OC [4928×3264]

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Japan is full of very touristy things to do, and most of them are worth it, but sometimes you just need to take a car, a backpack, and drive to a bamboo forest and look up. [OC]

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Glacier National Park in a van is quite the experience, especially during fall. The clouds were so thick, the mountains seemed to float in the sky. [OC]

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The empty stretch. Moab, UT [3024x4032][OC]

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Secret Spot in Norcal - Does anyone know where exactly this is?

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I have a new live-in job working here in Havari, in the East Fjords of Iceland.

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Secluded shack

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Khodovarikha Lighthouse, Russia

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Here is Troll, Antartica right now.

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[OC]Milne Inlet, Baffin Island Canada

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Kunkhan Monastery (look very closely at the center of the photo), at least 100 meters above the valley floor near Markha, Ladakh, India. June 2012. [4000x3000] [OC]

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Fon Mountains, Tajikistan [OC] [4608x2592]

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Nubian Desert in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert... might as well be another planet

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Tajik mountains [OC]

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Wadi Shab, Oman

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Little free, unlocked shelter in the middle of nowhere in the Scottish Highlands. The location is only told by word of mouth. I ve been the 4th person to visit within several months.

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My brother is visiting the North Pole. View from an ice breaker.

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[OC] The Oa, Isle of Islay, Scotland (my family live on this island and I am visiting for Christmas).

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Stewart Island, New Zealand - a ferry or plane ride from the bottom of the South Island

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One of the many sub-colonies that make up the main colony of approximately 8000 breeding pairs of emperor Penguins. Snow Hill, Antarctica 🇦🇶

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Margaret Lake, Glacier National Park [OC]

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The island of Adak, Alaska. This place was once a flourishing naval base, now it has quite the ghost town vibe.

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Dora lake, CO

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Road to Mt. Kailash, Tibet

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I go to unusual and remote places for work - here's the Sahara Desert, North Sudan. More in comments.

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A Nepali Village in the Morning [OC]

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Another shot from the North Pole. Ice breakers in action.

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Male, Maldives. So remote yet so densely packed.

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Route 50 Nevada - America’s Loneliest Road

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Approaching Grizzly Lake in Tombstone Territorial Park, Yukon [OC]

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Not the most remote in terms of distance from civilization, but Death Valley certainly feels desolate and wild

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Igloo Mountain, Fireweed, and Me. Alaskan Arctic, north of the Brooks Range near Eagle Creek. 2004. [OC]

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Not remote in the sense of very far away but nearly nobody knows this beautiful spot in Berlin, Germany [OC]

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Highway 21, Middle of Nowhere, Southwestern Utah

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Mono Lake, California, 8/30/18 [OC][6000x4000]

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Frying Pan Tower - Middle Of The Ocean - [3840x2160][OC]

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These are the cliffs [and birds] above our house in the East Fjords, Iceland. [OC]

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Lonely border road between Palestine and Jordan.

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Construction side in Nepal, 6 days away by foot from the road.

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World's Highest Village connected by motor-able road

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Panorama of glacial moraines, now empty, as seen from the summit of Larke Pass, Ghorka District, Nepal [OC]

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Kyrgyz nomads in the lunar landscape of Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor [898x581] [x-post from /r/RuralPorn]

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Living on a wooden boat in the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve in the Amazon rainforest

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The Milky Way over remote Princess Louisa Inlet [OC]

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Sybille Canyon in Southeastern Wyoming [6016x4000] [OC] [OS]

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Straight road in the the Atacama Desert near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

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Ilimanaq, Greenland. Some 200 kilometers north of the polar circle. Pop. 40.

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Walking the road between Lake Manasarovar and Hor'qu in Tibet [OC]

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A penguin colony on the Kerguelen Island, South Indian ocean, France

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Halfway from Muscat to Salalah. 500km of desert in both directions. One of the most remote places I've ever been.

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Swedish research station in Antarctica.

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Between Moab, UT and Telluride, CO [OC]

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[OC] Looking back at the view from the Abuma Yemata Geh Church, Gheralta, Ethiopia.

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View from my remote office. Vahalla Range, West Kootenays, British Columbia, Canada. [OC]

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The border between Kazakhstan and China [OC]

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Another shot from the North Pole. Ice breakers in action.

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