Outpost

Outpost may refer to:

Places

• Outpost (military), a detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main force or formation, usually at a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
• Outpost (civilian), in civilian terms denotes an outlying frontier settlement or colony in a remote or sparsely populated location, on the frontier of civilization or on or across political boundaries of the state, far away from the home or country
• Border outpost, an outpost maintained by a sovereign state on its border, usually one of a series placed at regular intervals, to watch over and safeguard its border with a neighboring state
• Human outpost, artificially-created, controlled human habitats located in environments inhospitable for humans, such as on the ocean floor, in space or on another planet
• Outpost Estates, Los Angeles, California, a canyon neighborhood
• Outpost Islands, Nunavut, Canada
• Israeli outpost, usually refers to an unauthorized or illegal Israeli settlement within the West Bank, constructed without the required authorization from the Israeli government in contravention of Israeli statutes regulating planning and construction

Entertainment

• Outpost, 1944 animated film
• The Outpost (1909 play), a 1909 play written by James Francis Jewell Archibald
• Outpost (1981 video game), an arcade game
• Outpost (The Samples album), 1996
• Outpost (Robert Rich and Ian Boddy album), 2002
• Outpost (Freddie Hubbard album), 1981
• Outpost (Buckethead album), 2014
• Outpost (board game), from TimJim games
• Outpost (chess), a strategic element in chess
• Outpost (film), a 2008 horror film directed by Steve Barker
• The Outpost (opera), a 1900 short opera by Hamilton Clarke, played as a companion piece for The Pirates of Penzance
• Outpost (video game), a 1994 Sierra On-Line video game
• Outpost 2, a 1997 computer game by Dynamix
• Outpost Gallifrey, a Doctor Who fan website
• Outpost Kaloki X, a city-building video game for the Xbox 360
• The Outpost (Resnick novel), a 2001 science fiction novel by Mike Resnick
• The Outpost (Prus novel), by Bolesław Prus
• The Outpost (film), a 1995 Hungarian film
• The Outpost, another name for the 1995 film The Hills Have Eyes III
• The Outpost, a fictional place in the role playing game Neuroshima
• Outpost Records, a former Geffen Records imprint

Other uses

• Cyberian Outpost, an online vendor of discount computerware
• Outpost Magazine, a monthly magazine published by Americans for a Safe Israel
• Lunar outpost (NASA), a planned, Moon-based inhabited facility
• Outpost Firewall Pro, a software package
• Outpost for Hope, a missing persons website
• Outpost Harry, a remote Korean War military base
• Outpost Island Mine, a gold mine in Canada
• Outpost Snipe, a remote World War II military located Egypt
• Outpost Societies, secret, early 20th century Istanbul societal organizations
• Outposts of tyranny, a term used in 2005 to characterize some governments
• Outpost.com, a name formerly used by Fry's Electronics

See also

• The Last Outpost (disambiguation)
• Southern Outpost, a record label