NOTES toward a COSMOLOGY

Vostok Station & Lake Vostok

78°27′S, 106°50′E

// East Antarctic Plateau — Russian research station; subglacial lake beneath ~4 km of ice

Mariana Trench & Challenger Deep

11°22′N, 142°35′E

// Western Pacific — deepest known oceanic trench; Challenger Deep at ~10,935 m

Kola Superdeep Borehole

69°23′N, 30°36′E

// Kola Peninsula, near Zapolyarny, Murmansk Oblast, Russia — deepest artificial hole on Earth

Putorana Plateau

69°N, 95°E

// Central Siberia, north of the Arctic Circle — basalt trap 800 × 500 km, near the geographic center of Russia

Tibesti Mountains

21°N, 17°E

// Central Sahara, northern Chad — shield-volcano range with hot springs

Atlantic Abyssal Plain

30°N, 40°W (approx.)

// Floor of the North Atlantic — vast, largely unmapped abyssal terrain

Clarion-Clipperton Zone

0°–20°N, 110°–160°W

// Central Pacific — abyssal seabed-mining region between Hawaiʻi and Mexico

Wright-Patterson AFB

39°49′N, 84°02′W

// Greene/Montgomery County, Ohio — United States Air Force base, headquarters of Air Force Materiel Command

False Cape State Park, Virginia

36°36′N, 75°53′W

// Atlantic coast of Virginia, south of Virginia Beach — undeveloped barrier-island state park

Castel Gandolfo & the Vatican Observatory

41°44′N, 12°39′E

// Alban Hills, Lazio, Italy — papal summer residence; Specola Vaticana headquarters

Tonopah & the Mizpah Hotel

38°04′N, 117°14′W

// Central Nevada, high desert on US 95 — silver-mining town; Mizpah Hotel built 1907

Tonopah Test Range

37°47′N, 116°47′W

// Southern Nye County, Nevada — restricted USAF/DOE test range, ~625 sq mi

Mosquito Range, Colorado

39°15′N, 106°10′W

// Central Colorado — north-south range between the Arkansas and South Platte drainages

Marfa, Texas

30°18′N, 104°01′W

// Presidio County, Far West Texas — high desert plateau, elevation 1,475 m

Hessdalen Valley

62°47′N, 11°11′E

// Holtålen, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway — narrow north–south valley at ~750 m elevation

Uintah Basin, Utah

40°05′N, 109°30′W

// Northeastern Utah — structural basin between the Uinta Mountains and the Tavaputs Plateau

Manzano Mountains, New Mexico

34°36′N, 106°22′W

// Central New Mexico — small range south of Albuquerque, immediately east of Kirtland AFB

Mount Shasta, California

41°24′N, 122°12′W

// Siskiyou County, far Northern California — stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 4,322 m

Asheville, North Carolina

35°36′N, 82°33′W

// Buncombe County, western North Carolina — Blue Ridge Mountains, elevation ~650 m

Holloman Air Force Base / Alamogordo

32°51′N, 106°06′W

// Otero County, New Mexico — Tularosa Basin, adjacent to White Sands

Fátima, Portugal

39°37′N, 8°40′W

// Cova da Iria, Ourém municipality, central Portugal — Marian apparition site, 1917

Roswell, New Mexico

33°23′N, 104°31′W

// Chaves County, southeastern New Mexico — high plains town on US 285; site of the 1947 incident

Area 51 / Groom Lake

37°14′N, 115°48′W

// Lincoln County, southern Nevada — detachment of Edwards AFB on the Nevada Test and Training Range

Rendlesham Forest

52°05′N, 1°27′E

// Suffolk, England — pine plantation adjacent to the former RAF Bentwaters / RAF Woodbridge twin-base complex

Mount Rainier, Washington

46°51′N, 121°45′W

// Pierce County, Washington — active stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 4,392 m

Aurora, Texas

33°03′N, 97°31′W

// Wise County, North Texas — small town northwest of Fort Worth on State Highway 114

Maury Island, Washington

47°22′N, 122°26′W

// Puget Sound, King County, Washington — small island connected to Vashon Island by an isthmus

Phoenix, Arizona

33°27′N, 112°04′W

// Maricopa County, Arizona — capital of Arizona, Salt River Valley

Stephenville, Texas

32°13′N, 98°12′W

// Erath County, North Central Texas — small city southwest of Fort Worth

Belgian UFO Wave (Eupen / Wallonia)

50°38′N, 6°02′E

// Eupen and Wallonia, eastern Belgium — initial sightings in the German-speaking community near the Dutch and German borders

Dulce, New Mexico

36°56′N, 106°59′W

// Rio Arriba County, northwestern New Mexico — seat of the Jicarilla Apache Nation

Yamashita Treasure Tunnels, Philippines

14°35′N, 121°00′E

// Multiple sites across Luzon, Philippines — alleged WWII Imperial Japanese gold-cache tunnel complexes

Bermuda Triangle

25°N, 71°W (approx. center)

// Western North Atlantic — region bounded approximately by Miami, San Juan, and Bermuda

Devils Tower, Wyoming

44°35′N, 104°43′W

// Crook County, northeastern Wyoming — Bear Lodge Ranger District, Black Hills National Forest

Trindade Island, Brazil

20°31′S, 29°19′W

// South Atlantic — Brazilian island ~1,200 km east of Vitória; Brazilian Navy station

Hudson Valley, New York

41°25′N, 73°55′W

// Lower Hudson Valley — Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, and Orange Counties, New York / Fairfield County, Connecticut

Brown Mountain, North Carolina

35°56′N, 81°56′W

// Burke County, western North Carolina — Pisgah National Forest ridge between Linville Gorge and Lake James

Bonnybridge, Scotland

56°00′N, 3°53′W

// Falkirk Council Area, Central Lowlands of Scotland — small town in the so-called 'Falkirk Triangle'

Kecksburg, Pennsylvania

40°10′N, 79°28′W

// Westmoreland County, southwestern Pennsylvania — unincorporated community near Mount Pleasant

Pascagoula, Mississippi

30°22′N, 88°33′W

// Jackson County, Mississippi Gulf Coast — small city on the Pascagoula River

Allagash Waterway, Maine

46°35′N, 69°15′W

// Aroostook County, northern Maine — Allagash Wilderness Waterway

Apache–Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona

34°27′N, 110°27′W

// Navajo County, eastern Arizona — Mogollon Rim country between Snowflake and Heber-Overgaard

Westall, Melbourne, Australia

37°57′S, 145°09′E

// South-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria — Clayton South / Westall area

Ariel School, Ruwa, Zimbabwe

17°53′S, 31°15′E

// Mashonaland East Province, ~20 km east of Harare — primary school in farming community

Catalina Channel / USS Nimitz strike group

31°25′N, 117°15′W

// Pacific Ocean, off Baja California — operating area of Carrier Strike Group 11 during November 2004 workups

O'Hare International Airport, Chicago

41°58′N, 87°54′W

// Cook County, Illinois — primary international airport serving Chicago

Dyatlov Pass

61°45′44″N, 59°27′32″E

// Northern Urals, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia — eastern slope of Kholat Syakhl ('Dead Mountain')

Kyshtym Region / Mayak Production Association

55°43′N, 60°33′E

// Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia — Ural Mountains nuclear-industrial region; closed cities of Ozyorsk and Kyshtym

Sterlitamak Crash Site, Bashkortostan

53°37′N, 55°57′E

// Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia — region southwest of Sterlitamak in the Southern Urals foothills

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Mount Adams, Washington

46°12′N, 121°29′W

// Yakima and Skamania Counties, southern Washington — stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 3,743 m; second-tallest peak in Washington

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Sedona, Arizona

34°52′N, 111°45′W

// Yavapai and Coconino Counties, central Arizona — Verde Valley, Red Rock country, elevation 1,372 m

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Tularosa Basin / Trinity Site

33°41′N, 106°28′W

// Otero, Doña Ana, Sierra, and Socorro Counties, south-central New Mexico — closed basin between the Sacramento and San Andres mountains

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Mount Diablo, California

37°52′N, 121°54′W

// Contra Costa County, Northern California — isolated peak of the Diablo Range east of the San Francisco Bay, 1,173 m

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Joshua Tree, California

33°51′N, 116°18′W

// San Bernardino County, southern California — high desert at the junction of the Mojave and Colorado deserts, elevation 800–1,200 m; gateway to Joshua Tree National Park

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The Devil's Sea / Dragon's Triangle

25°N, 142°E (approx. center)

// Western Pacific — region of the Philippine Sea south of Japan, approximately bounded by Tokyo (Honshu), Iwo Jima, and Guam