Few will make it there: Most isolated places on planet Earth
Most isolated places on the planet (Photo: unsplash.com)
On Earth, there are approximately eight billion people, but even with such a large population, we still won't be able to explore everything that our planet has to offer. There are still places in the world where humans have never set foot. And if someone does reside there, it's without the comforts of civilization.
Discover the most isolated places on planet Earth in the material below.
Nauru
This is a tiny state located on a coral island in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, covering an area of 21.3 square kilometers. That's just about seven times smaller than Lviv! As of 2015, the country's population stood at 10,261 people.
Nauru holds the title of the least-visited country in the world, with approximately 200 tourists arriving here each year. The advantage of this is that the island remains free of epidemics.
European researchers have found phosphorus deposits near Nauru, but over time, the phosphate reserves have been diminishing, and today, limestone deposits account for 80% of the entire island.
Nauru (Photo: Wikipedia)
North Sentinel Island
One of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, located to the west of the southern part of South Andaman, covers an area of 60 square kilometers.
Traveling to this island can be genuinely dangerous, as it is inhabited by around 400 members of an indigenous tribe. They have been known to attack and kill anyone attempting to approach the island.
In 2018, the islanders killed an American missionary who was attempting to convert the tribe to Christianity. Currently, the island is under the protection of India, and the authorities have banned approaching it closer than 5 kilometers.
Inhabitants of North Sentinel Island (Photo: Pitt Rivers Museum)
Greenland
You might be surprised, but people do live in Greenland, specifically in its capital, Nuuk. The city is home to around 57,000 Greenlanders, while the rest of the territory remains largely uninhabited.
Even amidst the frozen landscape, there are isolated settlements. One of them houses 345 people. Remarkably, despite the vast distance from civilization, they have internet, and mobile communication, and can make online purchases. However, they have to wait two months for deliveries.
Settlement in Greenland (Photo: hromadske.ua)
Queimada Grande
This island is situated in the Atlantic Ocean, 35 kilometers off the coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It's also known as Snake Island because it is uninhabited by humans, with only snakes occupying it, hence the name.
Recent estimates suggest that around 70,000 snakes inhabit the entire small island. The absence of predators that could hunt the snakes allows them to breed freely.
There are between one to five snakes per square meter (Photo: Wikipedia)
Point Nemo
This is not an island or part of any landmass. It is simply a place in the ocean located at a distance of 2,688 kilometers from the nearest land. It is also called oceanic pole of inaccessibility.
Scientists have chosen this location as a designated crash site for space debris and defunct satellites that re-enter the Earth's atmosphere. The next resident of Point Nemo will be the International Space Station.
Location of Point Nemo (Photo: mazurtravel.com)
