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The "story" of this place is one of solitude and surveillance.

It is a place where nothing happens, so that somewhere else, everything can keep happening. It is one of the thousand silent sentinels that keep the coasts of the world safe, existing only as a string of numbers in a database until the day the ocean floor finally moves. 491151.515397_388554

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In the vast, blue desert of the North Pacific, there is a spot marked only by the ghost of a digital footprint: . ), they lead to a remote, deep-water location

In the world of map data, these numbers typically point to a very specific patch of earth. If we interpret them as coordinates (

A yellow buoy bobbing on the surface, battered by storms that no human eyes see.