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The only truly uninhabited places in the Sahara are the ergs: sand dune fields. Even the hot and salty dried lake beds have Bedouin communities within them that graze their animals in the salt marshes and at nearby oases, for example the below-sea level Qattara Depression contains the tiny village of Qara Oasis and cannot be said to be truly ...
The hunt for the location of Cofitachequi has been stimulated by the century-old search for the route of Hernando de Soto in his 4-year traverse of much of the southeastern United States. The Spaniards described Cofitachequi as about 10 days of travel eastward from Ocute through an uninhabited wilderness. Cofitachequi was situated on a large ...
These wilderness areas cover about 4.5% of the United States' land area, an area larger than the state of California. About 52% of the wilderness area is in Alaska, with 57,425,569 acres (89,727.452 sq mi; 232,393.03 km 2) of wilderness.
Nihoa (/ n iː ˈ h oʊ. ə /; Hawaiian: Nīhoa [niːˈhowə] or Hawaiian: Nihoa), also known as Bird Island or Moku Manu, is the tallest of ten islands and atolls in the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). The island is located at the southern end of the NWHI chain, 296 km (160 nmi) southeast of Necker Island.
Dassen Island is an uninhabited South African island in the Atlantic Ocean.It is situated about 10 km (6 mi) west of Yzerfontein and 55 km (34 mi) north of Cape Town.The flat and low-lying island measures about 3.1 km (1.9 mi) long northwest–southeast and 1 km (0.6 mi) wide, with an area of 2.73 km 2 (1.05 sq mi). [3]
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area is a mostly uninhabited coral archipelago located within a globally biologically important area called the Polynesian-Micronesian hotspot. The Republic of Kiribati, in partnership with the non-governmental conservation organizations Conservation International and the New England Aquarium , has formed the ...
Round Island is an uninhabited island in Mackinac County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in the Straits of Mackinac, which connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. [1] The Native Americans call the island "Nissawinagong." The island has an area of 378 acres (153 ha).
Hog Island is an uninhabited island located off the eastern shore of Washington Island in the town of Washington, Door County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] The island has a land area of 2.14 acres (8,656 m 2 ) [ 2 ] and an elevation of 10 feet [ 3 ] or 20 feet [ 4 ] above Lake Michigan.