Socotra Island

Socotra Island, located in the Indian Ocean, is connected to Yemen. Located 150 miles east of the Horn of Africa and 240 miles south of the Arabian Peninsula, the island is one of the most secluded places on earth. One third of the plants grown on Socotra Island, one of the most diverse places in the world with its desolation and hot and dry air, are not found anywhere else in the world.

North Sentinel Island

North Sentinel Island is an island in the Andaman Archipelago of India. This island is very special because of the locals living on it; because the Sentinels are one of the last peoples on earth that has no ties to modern civilization. The Sentinels refuse to meet with other peoples and have a hostile attitude towards outsiders.

After the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004, Indian government planes flew across the island to observe the people who responded with spears and stones. In 2006, two fishermen whose boats were dragged onto the island were killed by the Sentinels and their bodies were found washed up on the coral reef.

Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is an island of Norway. Located 1100 miles from the Antarctic continent, the island is the most remote island on the planet. South Africa, the land closest to Bouvet, is 1600 miles away. The island was discovered in 1739 by the French Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, who gave the island its name. However, it was not found again until 70 years later due to the wrong reading of the coordinate information.

Pitcairn Islands

The Pitcairn Islands are a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean that are part of Great Britain. Pitcairn is the least populated government in the world. The 56 inhabitants of the island are descendants of the rebels aboard The Bounty and the Polynesians who accompanied them. HMS Bounty was one of the Royal Navy ships that embarked on a botanical mission in the South Pacific in 1789. The ship's captain, William Bligh, was left in the middle of the ocean after his crew led a mutiny against him. Bligh, with several of his crew loyal to him, had reached the Dutch East Indies in 7 weeks, with no compass and no maps. Some of the rebels were afraid of being caught, so they settled on Pitcairn Island and burned the ship there.

Severnaya Zemlya

Archipelago located in the Russian High Arctic. These islands, although close to the Russian mainland, were first discovered in 1913 and were not recorded until the early 1930s. This archipelago has the distinction of being the last discovered archipelago in the world. These islands are very cold, including in the summer months.