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What about a civilian marine search and rescue operation, instead of relying on the British and US navies? Given the confluence of shipping routes in that part of the world, is there not some capacity there? What about a night sky observatory? You will not get much clearer skies than in an archipelago as remote as that one. What about a marine plastics recycling operation? We have all this polluted water and all these plastics floating in great maelstroms. There is the capacity to serve both an ecological and an economic purpose. What about a filming location? There would be plenty of interest in going to a new place. The audio-visual sector has taken over some very unlikely places, including in my old constituency when I was an MEP, and I suspect in the former constituencies of some of the Northern Irish Members who spoke earlier. What about the wider issues of sports and culture? I can see people wanting to go for an annual regatta around the archipelago, as they do in other places.