You'd better get petrol here,where we're going is the last outpost of civilization.
FORTY years ago singapore, now home to the world's busiest port, was a forlorn outpost still garrisoned by the British.
Chivers gathered all of the dispatches related to a single remote beleaguered American military outpost and stitched them together into a heartbreaking narrative.
An Afghan National police member, recently graduated from local police academy, appears at a small police outpost June 14, 2010 in rural Dand District, just south of Kandahar, Afghanistan.
A mounted sentinel stationed in advance of an outpost.
The new Russian scientific outpost in the Arctic region, North Pole 35, will operate for two years.
It is the newest outpost of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (known as MINUSTAH from its initials in French).
Soldiers manning a remote outpost in northern Helmand have been forced to go foraging for food between attacks by the Taliban—or the Tali-tubbies, as these British squaddies call them.
The army and the people guard the island outpost together.
I walked 600 meters uphill on an ammunition drop to the observation post that overlooks the military outpost there.
One of the great investment Banks of the 19th century, Barings, began life as a London outpost for the family's West Country wool business, operating as both merchant and banker.
The British had come upon the Germans in some skirmishes at an outpost.
The plan was to use the moon as an outpost for testing out the technologies needed to send humans to Mars.
Their new outpost was on the crest of a hill.
This is now the eastern outpost of the City of London, the traditional square mile of Banks, brokers and insurers around the bank of England.
The soldiers at the outpost let out a brief cheer, but there was no time to celebrate.
The small coastal town of Broome, in northwest Australia, is an outpost in the vast Outback.
It's not as though 2011 is a remoter outpost in the hinterland of the future than, say, 1971 was.
The soldiers trenched an outpost.
Proof that the moon is dynamic and not a dry, desolate world offers hope for a possible future astronaut outpost where water on site could be used for drinking or making rocket fuel.
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