12 of the most remote places and communities of the earth
12 of the most remote places and communities of the earth
from East Greenland to Northern Alaska we explore some of the most remote places in the earth
whether they are astronomical distances, inhospitable climate or extreme terrain that define these remote and hostile countries, they all have one thing in common: they are on my wish list. That and the fact that people live there.
It is highly unlikely that I will actually make it into many of these remote empires-I certainly did not come to ITTOQQORTOORMIIT on my 2019 trip-but I bow to the most remote places on the ground.
1. ITTOQQORTOORIIT, GRÖNLAND
Ittoqqortoormiit is located on Liverpool Land, a peninsula in the east of Greenland and one of the most remote cities in the country. It was first inhabited by 80 Inuit settlers in 1925.
Agatha Kadar/Shutterstock The colorful houses of Ittoqqortoormiit in Greenland
Today, the shrinking population of 345 spends their time to hunt whales and polar bears for meat and trade, while it probably also decides which color their houses should paint.
2. Kerguelen Islands
This French overseas area in southern Indian Ocean is also known as a desolation of Iceland, which gives them an idea of how remote it is: Really remote.
Armand Patoir/CC BY-SA 4.0 The" islands of devastation "are among the most remote on earth
It is more than 3,300 km from the next populated place and thus one of the most remote places on earth. The population fluctuates depending on the season: about 45 in winter and about 110 in summer.
3. Pitcairn island
The British really don't know what to do with this island of unruly residents. With only 50 inhabitants, it is the most thinned national jurisdiction of the world.
Claude Huot/Shutterstock Pitcairn Island is one of the most remote places in the earth
This remote island should be known for her fantastic history of mutiny or the fact that it was one of the first areas that gave women the right to vote (1838 about 80 years before the rest of the United Kingdom). Unfortunately, everything was overshadowed when it received the record for the highest number of sex offenders per capita.
4. Tristan da cunha
This island, which is known to its 293 inhabitants as Tristan, is part of the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world and is 2,000 km away from the closest inhabited land: St. Helena, which is quite remote.
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Tristan is also 2,400 km from the next mainland, South Africa. The majority of Tristan's population lives in the main settlement of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas. What a name!
5. Oimjakon, Russia
This is one of the coldest places on the planet. It has an extreme subarctic climate that dropped to a temperature of -67.7 ° C (-90 ° f) on February 6, 1933, which makes it a candidate for the north pole of the cold (coldest place on earth).
https://www.shutterstock.com/photos Oymyakon is one of the coldest places in the earth
The 500 people who live there "enjoy" days from three hours in December to 21 hours in June thanks to the northern situation. To put it, this place is brutal. Only a certain kind of people can live in one place like this: Russians.
6. Chang Tang, Tibet
Chang Tang is a huge high plateau that extends over 1,600 km above the Tibetan plateau. The inhospitable country is inhabited by about half a million changpa, but they are difficult to recognize. The Changpa are nomads that thanks to the almost arctic climate in which they survive, know everything about need.
Dream time Nobody in Chang Tang
When the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin Chang Tang crossed, he reported that he hadn't seen a single person for 81 days. In 2009, the joint research center of the European Commission appointed the Tibetan Plateau to be the most remote place in the world after creating a map that shows the most strongest and least connected places on earth.
7. District Mêdog, China
This was the last district in China, the street access when the Chinese government announced the completion of a motorway to the Mêdog district in December 2010.
Hallorf Zcool/Shutterstock Mêdog County is one of the most remote places on earth
China is known for having the largest population in the world. However, Mêdog has only 12,000 inhabitants in the entire district - a tiny number compared to the rest of the country. Until the highway was opened (and by motorway we mean a single -lane road that is open nine months a year), the only access was to cross a rather challenging mountain range.
8. The South Pole
The South Pole is part of the only land mass of the earth, on which the sun opens for six months and then goes down for six months. There is only one day and night every year, but a very long day and a very long night.
Mesa Studios/Shutterstock The Amundsen-Scott-Südpolstolstation
Not only that, it also gets pretty cool, as the temperatures can drop to -73 ° C (-100 ° F). To be 2,835 m (9.301 ft) above sea level does not help!
The Amundsen-Scott-Südpolstolstation has been occupied continuously since its construction in 1956-surprisingly, since it is probably the most remote place on earth.
9. Easter island
The Easter Island is the only place on this list that I actually visited. Located 3,512 km off the Chilean coast, only 163.6 km2 in size and inhabited by 7,750 inhabitants, the Easter Island is roughly as a population of this size can be.
The Moai of the Easter Island attract tens of thousands of visitors
The mythical history of the island and an army of Moai statues fascinate the around 100,000 tourists who visit you every year. In view of this large number, the authorities have started to set up mechanisms to facilitate the flow of visitors. In this sense, the Easter island may not be one of the most remote places on earth.
10. Barrow, Alaska
Dream time An abandoned whaling boat in Barrow
Barrow is the northernmost city in the United States and famous for her long polar night (yes, singular). The sun goes down in November and does not open again for about two months - perfect for vampires. According to the US Census Bureau 2017, the population is 4,438. Compared to some others on this list, it is practically a spacious metropolis.
11. Longyearbyen, Spitzbergen
This Norwegian city has not much to offer, apart from the fact that it is the northernmost settlement with more than 1,000 permanent inhabitants.
Aleksandr Lutcenko/Shutterstock The remote city of Longyearbyen
It is a miracle that the city is still standing when you consider that the Germans almost destroyed them during the Second World War because of their mining farmer. It was named after John Munro Longyear, the owner of the coal mining company, and was simply known as Longyear City for years.
12. Point Nemo: Oceanian pole of inaccessibility
okay, so nobody really lives here. You can't. Point Nemo is the "oceanic pole of inaccessibility", the place in the ocean, which is the farest from the country. It is so remote that the next people are often astronauts. The international space station orbits the earth a maximum of 416 km away, while the nearest inhabited land mass of Point Nemo is over 2,700 km away.
Atlas & Boots nothing but water
point nemo ("nemo" is Latin for "none") is at 48 ° 52.6 ′s 123 ° 23.6 ′. His next land masses are:
- Ducie Island (part of Pitcairn Island) in the north
- Motu Nui (part of the Easter Island) in the northeast
- Maher Island, Antarctic in the south
- Chatham Island in the west
- Südchile in the east
as I said, in the middle of nowhere.
a map of the most remote places in the earth
