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Minamitori-shima (#21335;#40165;#23798;) or Marcus Island is an isolated island in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located at 24?18#8242;N 153?58#8242;E#65279; / #65279;24.3?N 153.967?E#65279; / 24.3; 153.967Coordinates: 24?18#8242;N 153?58#8242;E#65279; / #65279;24.3?N 153.967?E#65279; / 24.3; 153.967.

The Japanese meaning of the name is "Southern Bird Island". It has an area of 1.2 square kilometres. It is the hottest place in Japan.





Marcus Island LORAN-C Mast (1st)
411.5 m (1,350.07 ft)

I had to change the aircraft warning lights on the mast

montanajoe

....love the life size picture,,,[;)][;)][:0]

retroxler58

With exception to the aircraft warning mast... There's nothing there above sea level...
What is the light warning aircraft of...? Seagulls... ?? Ground fog... ?? Clouds... ???? Hot AIR... ?????

andrewsw16

Compared to that Diego Garcia looks like a huge paradise. [:D]
I guess for entertainment you could go swimming, fishing, or beachcombing. You could hold bicycle drag races on the runway. [:D]

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retroxler58 " With exception to the aircraft warning mast... There's nothing there above sea level...
What is the light warning aircraft of...? Seagulls... ?? Ground fog... ?? Clouds... ???? Hot AIR... ?????"



It was Coast Guard's LORAN station transmitting tower , but you right there were no night time flights any where near .

and during a typhoon the engineering bldg. was flooded { I had just left }

andrewsw16

They better keep some of those up and running and not put all their navigational eggs in the GPS backet. A few selective laser shots by a PO'ed country and you will see GPS accuracy go down the toilet or quit altogether. I used to have a C-182 with a Loran, back in the 80's, before GPS. It was pretty darned accurate and reliable.

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andrewsw16"Compared to that Diego Garcia looks like a huge paradise."


the USCG personnel were assigned to the station for one year tours. As part of this assignment, the crewmen were also granted four weeks of shore leave with the option of taking it all at once or in two weeks halves. This provision was obviously granted to keep the crewmen from going insane. The almost mythical C-130s charged with carrying a departing crewmen along with the rest of the manifest were called "Freedom Flights."

Whereas some people would immediately draw names such as Siberia, or the summit of Mt. Everest, or even Antarctica, I would personally have to say that I believe Marcus Island is one of the most isolated places on the earth--if not the most isolated. The island is very small, and surrounded by nothing but the flat mirror-plane of the Pacific in all directions. That plane extends for thousands of miles until finally reaching even a semblance of populated landmass. Though the island bears many trees--and a limited amount of fauna (including a gawdawfully huge brand of arachnid called a "Fillmore" after a USCG cook who kept one as a pet)--the soil is mostly a kind of semi-barren coral sand which can't support much else.

The photos show the island belying a certain beauty and a sense of tropical heaven.

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andrewsw16"They better keep some of those up and running ."


As far as I know they are all decommissioned and everything dismantled.
the 1 I was at in Alaska was burned to the ground by the USCG.

jeffb1911

How many people are stationed there?

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jeffb1911"How many people are stationed there?"


Around 23

p3skyking

Never been to Minamitori but the hottest place I found was the Club New Yorker on Okinawa.[}:)]

andrewsw16

The "Fire Empire" club or "The Nipa Hut", Angeles City, Philippines. Pretty much a tie. Those were places where the customers got frisked for weapons at the door. Great live shows. [;)][:D]