Checking my clustr map the other day, I found a small red dot to the West coast of Portugal which means I’ve had some traffic from there. It looked like it was out in the ocean (Atlantic ocean, to be precise) and really quite far out! I first wondered whether it was someone on a ship using satellite DSL or whatever (is that technically possible?).
On closer inspection just now, it looks like the traffic originated from Ponta Delgada, or in any case one of the Azores isles, a
Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km (930 mi.) from Lisbon and about 3,900 km (2,418 mi.) from the east coast of North America.
I never realised the Azores existed. Well, I have some sort of memory that they do - I’ve definitely heard the name before and if pressed, I may even have subconsciously stored a memory somewhere that they are Portuguese. Either way, these clustr maps are quite a fun thing, though I’d like to be able to zoom in more (it would be great to see in detail where from within the UK I have traffic 
).
Excerpt from my clustrmap (check out the small red dot to the West of Portugal, out in the Atlantic Ocean):
Ponta Delgada:
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i have been looking at it seems you can acutally make the make so you can zoom in. if you go to the Clustrmaps website and the info is there. Als it is possible to use the internet on a boat in the middle on the sea.
I’m a Canadian living in Taiwan, so I guess I show up as an oddity on your clustermap as well. I started reading you when I was in Quebec.