The nearest permanently inhabited place is Alert in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, which is located from the Pole.

After mocking his costume and survivor's guilt, Moonstone drugs Penance and proclaims that, in her capacity as a psychiatrist, she is going to have Penance permanently committed to the nearest corrupt maximum security hospital she could find.

The nearest inhabited area lies 303. 2 km, or 163. 7 nmi, east at Hirta, the largest island in the St. Kilda group, which is populated intermittently at a single military base.

It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying from the nearest land, South Africa, and from South America.

Its nearest inhabited neighbor is Anacreon, 8 parsecs ( 26 light years ) away, and it lies approximately 10, 000 parsecs from the capital of the First Galactic Empire, Trantor, near the galactic center.

It is the nearest inhabited locality to Cape Sorell and is literally the ' gateway ' to the south-west wilderness-as boats, planes and helicopters utilise Strahan as their base when travelling into the region.

However, Giraut is forced to grow up much more quickly than most of his friends, because one day his friend Aimeric, who was, before coming to Wilson and becoming a jovent, an economist in the Caledon culture of the nearest inhabited planet, Nansen ( orbiting Mufrid ), is called upon by the government to return to his home planet on a mission to regulate the effects of the springer on Caledonian economy.

A tributary of the river Teesta flows past the valley and the town of Lachung, the nearest inhabited centre.

The nearest inhabited islands are Skiathos to the west and Alonissos to the east.

It is located north of Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islands, South-southeast of Bokak, and north of Utirik, the nearest inhabited atoll.

As of 2010 the airport is within walking distance of the nearest continuously inhabited area, its runway approximately from the University of Greenland campus.

Kitadaitō is 400 km from the nearest major inhabited land mass.

This shepherds bothy, two miles from the nearest road, is only inhabited occasionally.

As Jamestown was the nearest English settlement and they had no record of being attacked by Tuscarora, the likelihood that origin of those fair-skinned natives was the Lost Colony is high.

The Carey Mission, as he named it, was 100 miles from the nearest White settlement.

The telegraph station at the water stop located at the site of present-day Beemer was named after the nearest significant settlement, Rock Creek, and used the call letters " R C ".

Morganton is also mentioned several times in John Ehle's novel The Land Breakers, where it is identified as the nearest established settlement at the time and the one that the characters of the novel go to for supplies.

Speculation has led to a romantic Indian myth ; to the mistaken belief that it was 96 miles to the nearest Cherokee settlement of Keowee ; to a counting of creeks crossing the main road leading from Lexington, S. C, to Ninety-Six, S. C .; to an interpretation of a Welsh expression, " nanty -

Since Rankin was the nearest settlement on a rail line, it became the center for the oil services industry for the nearby oil fields.

The isolation of the missions — the nearest Spanish settlement, San Juan Bautista, Coahuila was over away — made it difficult to keep them adequately provisioned.

According to this account, Apaches stole McCarty's horse, forcing him to walk many miles to the nearest settlement, which happened to be Jones's home.

In early 2009, the family is reported to have accepted a payout of £ 1. 5m payout and said that " the settlement was the nearest they could get to an admission of guilt from Israel ".

It is best known as the settlement nearest to the caves in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden, caves in the sheer desert cliffs and beneath, in the marl terrace.

As a result, what came to be known as the Nag Hammadi library ( owing to the proximity of the find to Nag Hammadi, the nearest major settlement ) appeared only gradually, and its significance went unacknowledged until some time after its initial uncovering.

The Jesuit success was facilitated by the fact that the nearest Spanish settlement was 100 miles away and the Yaqui were able to avoid interaction with Spanish settlers, soldiers and miners.

Tuturau, near modern Mataura, was the nearest Maori settlement.

The Monument was nearly inaccessible for many decades ( a three-day horseback ride from Blanding, Utah, the nearest settlement ), as reflected by the visitor log kept by the Monument's superintendents.

At the time the station was built, the area was fields and the nearest large settlement was at Harrow on the Hill about 1. 5 miles to the south.

The very first settlement in the nearest neighbourhood had been established by a Slavic tribe called Golensizi around the 7th century on a naturally defensive hill over the valley of the river Bładnica and ravine called Piekiełko about south-east of the town centre within borders of modern Międzyświeć.

It was found in 1898 in the largely rural township of Solem, Douglas County, Minnesota, and named after the nearest settlement, Kensington.

Glass lay mutilated and alone, more than 200 mi ( 320 km ) from the nearest settlement at Fort Kiowa on the Missouri.

Because it is kilometres by road from the nearest settlement ( Kununurra ), a complete residential camp has been constructed on site.

The nearest settlement was the village of Llangynwyd located on the hillside about two miles south of the present-day town centre of Maesteg.

The nearest settlement is the town of Menai Bridge.

The nearest settlement ( apart from the lighthouse on Saint Tudwal's Island West ) is Machroes.

The nearest settlement is the small village, Achosnich.

At the time, the settlement of Moradabad was most likely the nearest settlement to the Domab area.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

Information beyond nearest neighbor is carried second-, third-, and fourth-hand as a distortable rumor.

`` Be sure the man nearest you is awake.

To state fully what the Bible means as my daily spiritual food is as intimate and difficult as to formulate the reasons for loving my nearest and dearest relatives and friends.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

At present the nearest airport is the Jaipur International Airport, about 132 km away, with daily flights to the major cities in India.

Its nearest neighbor is Howland Island, to the north.

After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.

It is isolated from the nearest Dravidian-speaking neighbour population by a distance of more than.

The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.

The chessboard is placed with a light square at the right-hand end of the rank nearest to each player, and the pieces are set out as shown in the diagram, with each queen on its own color.

Tau Ceti is noted for being the nearest Sun-like star at a distance of 11. 9 light-years.

Alpha Centauri is a triple star system that contains Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun.

The Putney End is the southernmost stand in the ground, nearest to Putney and Bishops Park.

The family enclosure is located in the corner nearest to the Hammersmith end.

* Chamber: The cylindrical, conical, or spherical recess at the nearest end of the bottom of the bore into which the gunpowder is packed.

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field ( DOF ) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

The nearest Met Office weather station is Slapton, about 5 miles South south west of Dartmouth and a similar distance from the coast.

The nearest bridge across the Dart is in Totnes, some away by road.

The distance from the front edge of the circle to where the discus has landed is measured, and distances are rounded down to the nearest centimetre.