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Colorful houses dot the landscape along Nuuk, Greenland, which, despite being the country's capital, is a small city of fewer than 18,000 residents along its southwest coast.
From temperatures sometimes plummeting to below minus 30 (-34.4 Celsius), to polar bears and arctic foxes occasionally roaming local streets, it takes a unique individual to forgo life on the ...
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.
While it is usually regarded as one of the most remote islands on Earth the island is actually only 320 kilometres (200 mi) from Gough Island. The island is instead known as the most remote inhabited island on Earth. Gough Island is uninhabited apart from a weather station with around 6–7 people on it but they are not a permanent population. [1]
Video and photos of maintenance workers were uploaded to Facebook in July 2015. [13] The Icelandic band KALEO released a music video recorded on the helipad, on 5 July 2020, the light's 78th anniversary, soon after the start of COVID when the public was isolating and online interest in remote habitations was trending. [5] [10] [14]
Tristan da Cunha, a group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, is the most isolated inhabited archipelago on the planet, making its 242 residents quite self-sufficent.
The most famous of these is Barra Head. Blasket Islands in County Kerry, Ireland; Ball's Pyramid, a tall volcanic mountain located close to Lord Howe Island in the South Pacific; Binlang Islet, Taiwan; Most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic, the world's most remote island; Caquorobert, Guernsey
His breathtaking photos of the lighthouse, taken in 2009, went viral thanks to Justin Bieber, who published them on his social media, attracting the attention of millions from all over the world.