What is "outstations"

Usage examples of "outstations".

He dropped all mention of the ill-fated Heron Pool project, the intervention of Skull-Face's agents and the incident at Long Point from his narrative and substituted a perilous voyage as stowaways on a wheelboat which had taken them to the new outstations the Iron Masters were establishing on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.

Gaunt was the same age as the DDO and they had come up through the ranks together, weathering years in foreign outstations, recruiting their sources, and playing the Great Game against the KGB enemy, and they trusted each other like brothers.

At least the studio was in a part of London where a lot of the best voice-over studios were, north of Oxford Street in the garment district which spreads east from Regent Street for a couple of blocks till it runs up against the straggle of the Middlesex Hospital's many outstations of sickness.

He had been telling her about the outstations, particularly the ones on Pluto, of course, but he mentioned Mars and the rest, I suppose.