outpost (n.)

• airhead
• ambience
• ambit
• antipodes
• avant-garde
• backwoods
• beachhead
• boondocks
• border
• borderland
• bridgehead
• brush
• circle
• circuit
• circumstances
• compass
• context
• cordon
• entourage
• environment
• environs
• forefront
• front
• front-runner
• frontier
• garrison
• gestalt
• goalie
• goalkeeper
• goaltender
• guard
• guardsman
• habitat
• hinterland
• jailer
• line
• march
• marches
• marchland
• milieu
• neighborhood
• nowhere
• outback
• outskirts
• perimeter
• periphery
• picket
• pioneer
• point
• pole
• precursor
• railhead
• scout
• situation
• spearhead
• surroundings
• van
• vanguard
• vicinity
• warder
• wasteland
• wilderness
• woods