Remoteness

Remoteness

See also Isolation.

Repentance (See PENITENCE.)

Reproof (See CRITICISM.)

Antarctica

continent surrounding South Pole. [Geography: NCE, 113–115]

Dan to Beersheba

from one outermost extreme to another. [O.T.: Judges 20:1]

Darkest Africa

in European and American imaginations, a faraway land of no return. [Western Folklore: Misc.]

end of the rainbow

the unreachable end of the earth. [Western Folklore: Misc.]

Everest, Mt.

Nepalese peak; highest elevation in world (29,028 ft.). [Geography: NCE, 907]

Great Divide

great ridge of Rocky Mountains; once thought of as epitome of faraway place. [Am. Folklore: Misc.]

John O’Groat’s House

traditionally thought of as the northern-most, remote point of Britain. [Geography: Misc.]

Land’s End

the southwestern tip of Britain. [Geography: Misc.]

moon

earth’s satellite; unreachable until 1969. [Astronomy: NCE, 1824]

North and South Poles

figurative ends of the earth. [Geography: Misc.]

Outer Mongolia

desert wasteland between Russia and China; figuratively and literally remote. [Geography: Misc.]

Pago Pago

capital of American Samoa in South Pacific; thought of as a remote spot. [Geography: Misc.]

Pillars of Hercules

promontories at the sides of Straits of Gibraltar; once the limit of man’s travel. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 110]

Siberia

frozen land in northeastern U.S.S.R.; place of banishment and exile. [Russ. Hist.: NCE, 2510]

Tierra del Fuego

archipelago off the extreme southern tip of South America. [Geography: Misc.]

Timbuktu

figuratively, the end of the earth. [Am. Usage: NCE, 2749]

Ultima Thule

to Romans, extremity of the world, identified with Iceland. [Rom. Legend: LLEI, I: 318]

Yukon

northwestern Canadian territory touching on the Arctic Ocean. [Geography: Misc.]