*Shadow of moon is the moon in the sky of it — Wan as the face of a wizard, and far! Never there shines from the firmament high of it Grace of the planet or glory of star. All the year round, in the place of white days on it — All the year round where there never is night — Lies a great sinister, bitter, blind haze on it: Growth that is neither of darkness nor light! Wild is the cry of the sea in the caves by it — Sea that is smitten by spears of the snow; Desolate songs are the songs of the waves by it — Down in the south, where the ships never go.* - Henry Kendall Floating on the opposite side of the Earth Somewhere in the Indian Ocean Closest city would be Augusta, Western Australia First sighted by the Dutch East India Co. 1622 But I'll set my sextant For the Courbet Peninsula The desolation islands, of Kerguelen Port-aux-Francais Population: 50-100 Wailing of monstrous beasts From a voyage of Sinbad The Elephant Seal Twice the weight of a Walrus 6-7x a Polar Bear I could journey like Poe's Pym of Nantucket Escaping shipwreck, mutiny, cannibals Heading south from savages Fate unknown; if I'd find Hollow Earth Hope for ship repaired By Kipling's engineer McAndrews Or travel by primitive wood craft Like Verne's sequel with Jearling Avoiding compass deviation So as not to be shipwrecked On the lost Ice Sphinx Maybe see the ghostship Of Biddle's post WWII battle A gold bullion carrying Nazi U-boat Maybe an adventure from home Like Mitchell's Mr. Furnance Seeking a professor's daughters hand With a tutor's tales of - Androids composing sonnets And computing vulgar fractions Perpetual motion machines Solution to squaring the circle The Tachypomp - successively Stacked smaller trains To achieve infinite speed And most importantly A tube through hollow Earth From the Kerguelen Islands To somewhere near my place in America And I just may be lonely enough To take that sojourn Through Al Stewart's Loneliest Place on the Map For love, or a Wikipedia entry