Isolated city

[stevep]

Is Honolulu the most isolated city in the world?

[jno]

You seem to have posted the answer to this before you posted the question, which is the opposite of the way most people do things http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/People_and_Places/Question187466.html

[stevep]

One persons answer in research is not always correct - what I am trying to do is canvass for other ideas? That is the reason for this question.

[dotjhawkes]

How can any US city be isolated? It has an airport and phone lines and a port i assume. I don't understand. I bet they even have the internet! I know in my jetsave brochure there is a Pride of Aloha cruise that starts in Honolulu so it can't be that isolated as I could go there if I chose to and not worry about being isolated. Plus, is it a city or an island?

[jno]

in terms of distance from nearest other city, yes, I think you're right, with Perth No 2.

[Narolines]

Definitely a city, dot, on the island of Oahu. And it certainly doesn't feel isolated when you're there - apart from the weather, the very few and very small old preserved areas and a few touches of exotic Pacific flavour it's sadly like any other American city, a characterless jumble of concrete, steel and glass. I suppose it depends what is meant by "isolated" - Honolulu is very well served by internal and international transport and modern technology; much moreso, I should imagine, than a city such as Lhasa or Ouagadougou (neither of which I've ever been to, I hasten to add!).

[stevep]

Yes I did mean isolated as regards distance in a straight line from any other city - with distance being the key point as regards time to get there or to leave and the cost involved as fuel costs keep going up - without getting a special package airfare.

Interestingly enough both Honolulu and second Perth have excellent low cost telecommunications - example would be a half hour conversation from Perth to: the UK, USA, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Hong Kong or Singapore at any time of day on a landline cost $1.98 AUD, $1.49USD or 0.0842GBP. Sure I know that it costs nothing on the Net, but the clarity and regular quality are not there yet.

Perhaps the next question is which country has the cheapest local landline phone costs? In Australia it is 17.5 cents, or 0.132 cents USD or 0.074 pence GBP United Kingdom Pounds for as long as you want to talk via AAPT. No such thing as timed calls locally! http://www.aapt.com.au/homephone/homechat/index.asp