Do you want to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before?ย Sorry, I might got a bit carried away by my Star Trek fanaticism. But so yeah, do you want to go where ALMOST no one has ever gone before? Well, then read ahead as we have compiled an article with 10 of the most remote places on earth. Destinations that are far away from everything โ true adventures in other words! ๐
1. Pitcairn Islands
Pitcairn Islands is located far out in the Pacific Ocean, in the middle between New Zealand and Peru. The population of 56 are all the offspring after a group of seamen who committed mutiny on the ship HMS Bounty in 1789. The island is open to tourists, but there’s no easy feat to get there! First you gotta get yourself to Tahiti. Then you need to jump on a local airplane to Mangareva โ which departs once per week. From here you got to take a boat to Rikitea where you can board the freight ship Claymore โ which departs once every third month! Thereafter, after a 32-hour boat ride, you will arrive Pitcairn Islands.
See you there!
Visit Pitcairn Islands | Official Website
Pitcairn Islands | Wikipedia
2. ย Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha is an island group that consists of the four islands:ย Tristan da Cunha, Nightingale, Inaccessible, and Gough Island. The latter two has been listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list. The island group is a part of Great Britain, which becomes quite evident when you hear the official name of the capital: Edinburgh of the Seven Seas. To get here you need to fly to Cape Town, and thereafter get on a fishing boat (which go out occasionally). The boat trip takes about 5-6 days.
Tristan da Cunha | Wikipedia
3. Easter Island
Because people generally hear quite a lot about the Easter Island, many do not realize how far away and deserted it actually is. Easter Island closest neighbour is Pitcairn Island (no. 1 on the list), which is a whopping 2,075 kilometres away from Easter Island. The closest country on the continents is Chile, which is 3,512 kilometres away. It is yet a worthwhile trip as the enormous Moai statues are truly breathtaking.
Easter Island | Wikipedia
4.ย Nauru
Nauru is the world’s least visited country and is a tiny paradise island also known under the name: Pleasant Island. With just about 160 visitors a year it is a good chance that you will experience a tropical paradise clinically cleansed for other tourists. It is the world’s smallest republic, but there’s still quite a bit of things you can do here; swim, snorkel, relax on the beach, or watch Australian football with the locals. ๐
Nauru | Wikipedia
5. Grise Fiord
Grise Fiord is a Canadian Inuit village with 100 inhabitants. It’s located on Ellesmere Island, which again is part of Nansen Sound, and it is Canada’s most northern permanent settlement. The place got its name from the Norwegian polar explorer Otto Sverdrup who thought that the walruses in the area sounded like pigs (gris = pig, in Norwegian).
Grise Fiord | Wikipedia
6.ย Kerguelen Islands
Kerguelen, also known as Desolation Islands, is located in the Indian Ocean and is one of the most remote places on Earth. Closest neighbour is 450 kilometres away which is the non-inhabited island group called Heard Island and McDonald Islands. You need to travel a whole 3,300 kilometres to get to the closes inhabited place.
The island group is mostly populated by sea birds, penguins, seals and every now and then a scientist.
Kerguelen Islands | Wikipedia
7. Kiribati
The island state Kiribati is located in the Pacific Ocean, close to equator and comprises 32 atolls spread over 3,500,000 kmยฒ. The island paradise is about 5 hours away from Hawaii with plane, and therefore far out in the ocean. Kiribati used to be separated by the International Date Line, which meant that there was different days in the island kingdom. This was changed in 1995, where Kiribati was pulled to the east of the International Date Line, and now can call itself: world’s most western country.
Kiribati | Wikipedia
8.ย Macquarie Island
Macquaire Island lies between New Zealand and Antarctica, and is populated by a dozen scientists who runs the Australian base on the island. The scientists is a immensely minority here though, because this is where the whole world’s population of royal penguin is located, which at its peak counts over 2,000,000 (2 million!) penguins on the island.
Macquarie Island | Wikipedia
9. Kaffeklubben ร
Directly translates as: The Coffee Club Island (another silly Scandinavian who has had fun with place names). This island is on the utmost northern tip of Greenland and is Earth’s most northern land area. The island is named after the coffee club in the Mineral Museum in Copenhagen (Denmark). The island is not inhabited, so if you want to meet people then you should rather visit Ittoqqortoormiit โ the most remote settlement on Greenland.
Kaffeklubben Island | Wikipedia
10.ย Socotra
The island and island group Socotra is a part of Yemen and lies 240 kilometres east of the Horn of Africa. Socotraย is often described as “the most alien-looking place on Earth” and a third of the island group’s plants and species are endemic to Socotra, meaning that they don’t exist elsewhere. Here you can, among others, experience some utterly strange trees with equally strange names, such as “Dragon’s Blood Tree” and “Cucumber Tree”.
Socotra | Wikipedia
That concludes the list of some of the most remote places on earth. Will you put any of these on your bucket list?!ย
Other remote โ though not as remote โ places to visit are the beautiful Maldives, Svalbard & Mauritius, be sure to read the 7 tips for budget travel to the Maldives, 7 Bucket List Things to Do in Svalbardย and the 8 Bucket List Things to Do in Mauritius.
And, wherever you may go, be sure to be a sustainable traveller.ย
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