The group moved into the area in 1883, a year after Lake and a scouting party had looked for a suitable colony site.

"They'll be meeting us at the colony site in a few minutes."

The cemetery on the old colony site still serves as the final resting place for some of the colonists.

Most of the females return to the same colony site every year.

That there was a storm centered over the colony site.

The captain is barely able to convince the crew to stop at the colony site to pick up the scientists.

He continued on, feeling his way cautiously; it would be so easy to get lost in this still unfamiliar colony site.

In 1850, his father was killed while examining a colony site in California.

There are several disadvantages to the Moon as a colony site:

At such speeds it may take five, ten generations to reach a good colony site.