Hawkwindia

[K Henderson]

AA said...

>Actually, if we can just find the country with the world's
>lowest popoulation, move all hawkfans there, we could make
>We could rename it "Hawkwindia".

>Candidates:
>
>2.  Greenland
>        pro - low population, but lots of land
>                no fear of vinyl records melting in the sun
>                potential 3-month long sun festival.
>        con - too cold.
>              95% of land under icecap

Hey, Greenland is my favourite place in the world...flying over the
Jakobshavn glacier into Illulassat on Disko Bay cannot be matched for scenery.

And there's nothing like listening to Hawkwind tapes on your
walkman/headphones while camping on the Greenland Ice Sheet, and having the
music accompanied by the amazing (loud) sounds of katabatic winds blowing
over your tent.  Actually, it was more dramatic in the Himalayas, as there
it's dark at night and you feel 'smaller.'

Greenland is also the most ancient of all land masses, rocks as old as 3.8
billion years...certainly appropriate ground for Hawkwindia to claim.

The main downside to Greenland is that the beer is really expensive.  Well,
at least the beer that comes from Denmark (Tuborg)...the beer at the
American Thule base is really cheap (they have different priorities there),
but we'd have to kick them out anyway.  I suppose we'd brew our own and call
it The Golden Brew or Kadu Lager.

My vote would be for Heard Island, in the southern Indian Ocean.  Nobody has
ever really lived there for any great length of time, and often times, it
goes several years without ever being set foot upon by humans.  There are
several downsides, like the worst weather on the planet, and the fact that
the (very small) island is an active volcano (Big Ben).  The Australians
administer the island, so we'd have to have the OzHawks put in a claim with
the gov't down under.  And it's considered a national park to them as well
as a World Heritage site.  But I'm convinced that the thousands of penguins
that live there could all be made into serious Hawkwind fans in no time.
Hardly any bands ever tour there.

Keith H. (FAA)

P.S.  I'm hoping to go to Heard Is. within the next five years or so, so I
could perhaps put in a claim for Hawkwindia if that happens.  :)