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From sub-Antarctic archipelagos to islands with the most unique flora and fauna, here are some of the most remote pockets of civilisation.
It's an island archipelago off the coast of Yemen, with a 20 million-year-long isolation period, contributing to its unique flora and fauna, especially the Dragon's Blood Tree.
This sub-Antarctic archipelago, also called the Desolation Islands, is 450 km from the Australian Heard Island and McDonald Islands and over 3,300 km from Madagascar.
It's one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands, with a population of 35 residing in Adamstown, the only settlement on Pitcairn.
This Chilean territory is home to the mysterious giant stone statues called moai. Its closest neighbour, the Pitcairn Islands, is about 1,929 km away.
It's a remote group of Volcanic Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. Its population of 205 people lives in the remotest town in the world, called Edinburgh of the Seven Seas.
It's a point in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, also called the “Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility”. The nearest humans are astronauts in the International Space Station.
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