The World’s Most Remote Islands: An Inside Look

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No. 1: Bouvet – 1,000 miles off the coast of Antartica

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When Antartica is the closest mainland, you certainly deserve to be crowned the world’s most remote place. Bouvet, a completely uninhabited island, is basically a stretch of land covered by a glacier, in the middle of the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Various expeditions have reached the island on occasion; however, visits to Bouvet are strictly regulated by Norway and unless you have a strong and highly scientific reason to want to reach the island, you will probably never have the opportunity.

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