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  2. List of isolated islands and archipelagos - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most isolated islands and archipelagos on Earth in terms of distance to another landmass. Many of these islands are of volcanic origin via tectonic plates such as Bouvet Island while others appear from hotspots such as the Azores which was created by the Azores hotspot. This list includes islands that are more than 500 ...

  3. Extremes on Earth - Wikipedia

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    The most remote airport in the world from another airport is Mataveri International Airport (IPC) on Easter Island, which has a single runway for military and public use. It is located 2,603 km (1,617 mi) from Totegegie Airport (GMR; very few flights) in the Gambier Islands , French Polynesia and 3,759 km (2,336 mi) from Santiago, Chile (SCL; a ...

  4. Tristan da Cunha - Wikipedia

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    Tristan da Cunha English, also locally called Tristanian, is spoken on the isolated island in the South Atlantic. It is the smallest and most isolated native-speaker community of English. It is a form of South Atlantic English, and shares similarities with Saint Helenian English. Tristanian has several notable unique phonetic and phonological ...

  5. How the 242 residents of the world’s most remote inhabited ...

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    How about one of the most remote places on Earth? Tristan da Cunha, a group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, is the most isolated inhabited archipelago on the planet, meaning it is ...

  6. The Most Breathtaking Places in the World (If You Can Get to ...

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    This Danish territory is the world’s largest island — 860,000 square miles — but most of it is inaccessible to visitors, and there are only about 58,000 residents.

  7. Bouvet Island - Wikipedia

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    Bouvet Island (/ ˈ b uː v eɪ / BOO-vay; Norwegian: Bouvetøya [3] [bʉˈvèːœʏɑ]) [4] is an uninhabited subantarctic volcanic island and dependency of Norway.It is a protected nature reserve, and situated in the South Atlantic Ocean at the southern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, it is the world's most remote island.

  8. Dazzilng Pics of Some of the Most Remote Places on Earth - AOL

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    Dazzilng Pics of Some of the Most Remote Places on Earth. Kris Scott. April 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM ... a United Kingdom territory that is also sometimes called the "world's most isolated settlement." ...

  9. List of uninhabited regions - Wikipedia

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    Devon Island, in the Canadian North, is the world's largest uninhabited island. Northeast Greenland National Park, which is the world's largest terrestrial protected area, has had a census population of 0 for many years since the only mine in the region closed. Nevertheless parts of this remote area can see seasonal use: 31 people and about 110 ...