They could be used to monitor traffic patterns from a distance or to report back on oil pipelines that have been deployed through uninhabited zones.
Three months ago the area was an uninhabited war zone where Taliban fighters roamed freely.
A major eruption in June 1997 killed 19 people, and the southern two-thirds of Montserrat, including the capital, became an uninhabited exclusion zone.
Though Chernobyl town itself was relatively untouched by the accident, Prypyat is now a ghost town at the center of a largely uninhabited exclusion zone with a radius of 30 km (19 miles).
When analysing the relation of settlement pattern to soil conditions, the proportion of areas with good-excellent agro-ecological suitability proved 1.5 2 times higher in the permanent zones than in the deserted and uninhabited settlement suitability zones.
The Shimmer zone is uninhabited by people, and it features some unusual foliage, but the first sign of big trouble is an attack by a crocodile that emerges from a pond — and turns out to harbor, shark-like, multiple rows of teeth.
Then we crossed back over the gray zone — still eerily uninhabited — and he grew passionate as he described his idea to build a tribal center on the unused land.
After Japanese coast guard ships telegraphed warnings to the Chinese vessels, two or three moved beyond territorial waters but the others remained within the 12 nautical mile zone around the uninhabited islands that are controlled by Japan, said Yasuhiko Oku, an official with the Japanese coast guard in Tokyo.
Middle to upper elevation Waipā riparian zones, unmanaged and uninhabited by people, provide an environment where nonnative invasive plants such as Psidium cattleianum Sabine and Psidium guajava Linnaeus have spread rapidly, in part because they are food sources for horses, pigs, rats, and birds, which eat the fruits and disperse seeds from these plant species.
Almost a year after the earthquake that killed 185 people in New Zealand's second largest city, much of the central business district remains in the "red zone", cordoned-off and uninhabited but for the work crews that pass through the security gates each day in their hundreds.
As the Antarctic continent remains largely uninhabited there is no official time zone either.
