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by Animats 3708 days ago
That's terraforming. Before humans got there, it was bare volcanic rock.

As for the radio stations, there's a LORAN station, to provide a navigational marker in the South Atlantic. NASA had a tracking station there for Apollo, but it was closed and abandoned in the 1990s. The USAF has a tracking station there now, for communicating with various space assets.[1] As an intercept station, it would be marginal; there's nobody to listen to.

[1] http://www.patrick.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet_print...