So, just a few hours ago I took a trip to the SINK, when I noticed a map posted on the wall. It's of an undisclosed location, which looks to be a bay kind of location, with a big illuminated dome in it. I couldn't help but think the dome was none other than Big MT, I looked and looked but the map wasn't big enough to show any definite location.
So with this image fresh in my mind I started watching a show following the Iditerod(wrong spelling, biggest dog sled race in the world) when all of a sudden a map popped up, it looked exactly like the image I just saw in the SINK.
So being curious/skeptical, I switched to New Vegas. I studied this map very well, I can't be for sure, but it stood out so much that it made me create this thread.

I'm still looking over a map of AK, but DAMN AK is huge and I'm still trying to find that exact area that was shown on tv.

So, whatcha think? In my mind Alaska seems like a very likely place for a giant research center to be, especially if you don't want anyone to find it.
I'm going to keep looking, but let me know if this makes sense to you.

The wikia states that all DLCs are far north of Vegas, so it very much could be.

Damn nuclear winters, though.

Why don't you post pics for everybody else to see?

Il try, but I'm on iPod touch so it's hard(for me).

I'm stil trying to find the exact location in AK, but there's ALOT of bays/ coves which look similar to the one I saw.

Go chck the map in the SINK, it really looks like their trying to give minor clues as to where Big MT is.

I love finding stuff like this, just sayn.

My bet- iowa ;-]

Big MT is located near the Mojave, Joshua Graham talks about how it was an obstacle that the NCR had to travel around in Honest Hearts, and Ulysses mentions that he walked to the Big Empty from the Divide.

Yeah I just got to Graham and he just told me about all thats stuff.

Joshua Graham said that the NCR had to travel around the Divide, are you sure you're not mixing up the big MT with the divide, or does he say that if you complete OWB before talking to him?

No, because he says they had to go around both of them. Both Big Mountain and the Divide were obstacles for NCR forces traveling to the Mojave.

Pretty sure the NCR doesn't know about Big MT..

I'm sure they do know about the Big Empty, but they just think like most people in the wastes that nothings there.

I have a feeling Big MT Is far up nort but not all the way up in Alaska. could of been some place like in Washington state. Because the NCR controls that whole area.

Well, before it came out, Sawyer had his location on twitter set as "Big MT, mojave", so that should settle it right there. Plus, Im pretty sure ulyssess said it was near the divide. Also, Big MT being located in the mojave makes a lot of sence because thats where the cazadors and night stalkers came from.It wouldnt make any sence if those things came all the way from big mt in alaska, or in another norhtern state, all the way to the mojave.

Id like to contradict that statement. many animal species migrate. They could of migrated form Big MT to the Mojave. So really Big MT could be anywhere on the west coast. was there ever an exact location for the Divide?

Roughly between Death Valley and Vegas or thereabouts. The Divide is the fictional location of Hopeville. ultimately it IS in California, with close proximity to the Vegas region of the Mojave.

Oh i was unaware of the location. i have honestly only completed one DLC so far but am working on OWB i finished H H. Thank you

I am a little late to this discussion but would like to put my two cents in. My best guess using Ockam's razor is Los Alamos, NM. Close to NV and has deep history with cutting edge research.

NCR is to the left of Vegas, New Mexico is far far right of Vegas. Graham explicitely states that Big Mountain was an obstacle for the NCR to pass, so it is someplace west of Vegas, likely in California itself.

An hour or two on Mapquest might be the answer. My guess right now I would say it's 150-200 miles to the northwest of New Vegas, halftway to New Reno.

Its not in Alaska, i thought it was south of Vegas, but since you get teleported there it could be anywhere. Somewhere next to the Divide, but that doesnt give much clue about where it is. Could be south or north of the Divide, cause it deffinently aint west of it. I also looked Hopeville up on the map, and compared to hopeville in New Vegas, it doesnt make sense. Am i doing a mistake?

Yes, Hopeville doesn't exist. In real life, Hopeville's rough location is just desert and sand in real life.

The Divide is around the Death Valley Natural Park, mentioned by Joshua Graham, which perfectly intersects Las Vegas and Shady Sands (the NCR capitals) approximate location of Mt Whitney, California - we assume Mt Whitney because that's where Vault 13 is; it makes perfects sense. I would therefore say that Big Mountain is to the south of the Divide because unless the Divide is pretty [censored] big there'd be nothing stopping reinforcements from Los Angeles going straight past it, and we know that Big Mountain is a hazardous area that NCR troops avoid.

EDIT: http://i42.tinypic.com/34ysab9.png

I'd imagine Hopeville was huge. Not only did it have Hopeville, which was apparently the size of Vegas, judging by all the space it occupies, and it had the Ashton missile silos. I'd imagine IRL Hopeville would have been a desert metropolis.

Hopeville sounded more to me like nothing more than a town, I assume that what's more deadly is the huge chasm and it's dangerous weather - which once we get out of the canyon we see no longer affects us. If it was just a ruined old world town giving the NCR smack then I pity there chances. The way I see it the chasm cuts a line down most of the part and Big Mountain could have been near the Mojave Natural Reserve on the map, thus explaining why the NCR doesn't just send re-inforcements from it's most populated settlement straight up to Vegas.

I don't think so. we have no idea how huge Hopeville was, that canyon wasn't ALWAYS there. We have no idea how much of Hopeville sank and crashed into that canyon and broke. But given that it had hotels with helipads and rooftop pools, and a tall building with a Saturnite billboard, I imagine it as a heavily populated city.

Edit: Also, we can't say the 'Mojave Natural Reserve' is there in the Fallout world Pre-War. Hopeville's presence proves that people were expanding into new cities, confirming the Fallout intro's point of 'too many people, not enough space'.