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The nearest islands are over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi) away from the center. [1] [11] This location has been chosen for its remoteness and limited shipping traffic so as not to endanger human life with any falling debris. [1] Mir, a space station operated by the Soviet Union, and later by Russia, from 1986 to 2001. It was deposited in the ...
SaxaVord Spaceport, previously known as Shetland Space Centre, [1] is a UK spaceport located on the Lamba Ness peninsula on Unst, the most northerly of the inhabited Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland. The site is near the RAF Saxa Vord radar station and the settlement of Skaw, adjacent to the Saxa Vord distillery.
Space Centre Australia secured land for main site facilities for space launch, located 43km east of Weipa, close to RAAF Scherger in 2023. [90] Final approvals may come under Mokwiri Aboriginal Corporation. [90] Previously a Cape York Space Agency was established by the government to develop a facility for Ukrainian Zenit launches at
Major Swedish islands: Gotland; Öland; Värmdö; Major Finnish islands: Åland; Hailuoto; Major German islands: Fehmarn; Rügen; Usedom/Uznam (Germany and Poland) Major Polish islands: Aestian Island (artificial island in the Vistula Lagoon) Usedom/Uznam (Germany and Poland) Wolin; Major Russian islands: Beryozovye Islands
Komandorski Islands; Kudomin Islands; Near Islands; Rat Islands; Semidi Islands; Shumagin Islands; Alexander Archipelago; Archipelagoes of Patagonia. Guaitecas Archipelago (Archipiélago de las Guaitecas) Guayaneco Archipelago (Archipiélago Guayaneco) Chonos Archipelago (Archipiélago de los Chonos) Diego Ramírez Islands (Islas Diego Ramírez ...
This is a list of islands of Switzerland. Switzerland is a landlocked country, hence all Swiss islands are located in lakes or rivers. This list also includes islands in artificial lakes (*). In these cases, the water levels may drop by a few metres at some periods of the year, thereby turning some islands into peninsulas.
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It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited islands – Alderney, Herm, Jethou, Lihou and Sark – and many small islets and rocks. The bailiwick has a population of 63,950, [4] the vast majority of whom live on Guernsey, and the island has a land area of 24 square miles (62 km 2). [6]