Many of us probably think that humans are everywhere on this planet.

There are billions of us and it seems like everywhere you look, there are other people.

And there is no wild or wilderness left in the world,

With everything being already discovered.

But this is simply not the case.

The world is an enormous place.

And there are still places just as remote,

and far away as they were thousands of years ago.

So then,

how far away exactly can you possibly get from every other human on the planet?

For the maximum terrafactor,

Let's imagine that you have been suddenly teleported

to the following locations,

and then, imagine HOW or IF you would escape.

Perhaps you still want to be around a few people but far away from everybody else in the world.

In which case you would likely want to visit the island of Tristan Da Cunha

which is the most remote place in the world that is actually inhabited by people.

The tiny island has a tiny population of just 264 people

and while you're there the closest other population of humans will be located

2,000 kilometers away on the island of Saint Helena

which itself is quite remote.

The nearest continent to you would be Africa

which would be a staggering 2,400 kilometers away.

There is no airport on the island. So the only way to or from is by boat.

And boats only come from South Africa 8 or 9 times in an entire year.

If you really want off the island, then you better have your own boat.

And, even then the shortest journey to the nearest airport is on Ascension Island

and would take you 7 days to reach.

Now lets imagine that you are placed on the center of Devon island

which is a part of the Canadian archipelago.

This island is roughly the same size as Croatia

and yet it has absolutely ZERO people living on it.

NOBODY. its just you.

In complete solitude with nobody else as far as the land goes.

Walk in any direction and you will never find anybody else to help you.

The closest other humans to you will be here on the island next door

in the town of Resolute.

Population: 229, which is every single person who lives on the island.

But even still, the town is 80 km away from the island that you're on.

and you would need a boat to get there.

Maybe you think the South Pole would have to be one of the most remote and far away places in the world.

And while that used to be true, the South Pole today

is home to a permanent research station.

That always staffed by as many as 150 scientists.

The place in Antartica that is far more remote and difficult to get to or out of, would be this exact spot here.

Which is the furthest point on the continent away from the ocean.

It is located 878 km away from the research station at the South Pole.

Which would be the nearest other humans to your location

You may find some solace that

there is at least already shelter pre-built here

although most of it is buried under the snow.

The Soviets first reached this place in

1958 and builds a bust of Lenin facing

towards Moscow which is the only thing

that still stands today above the snow

gazing into the vast nothingness in

every direction. The last time that humans

ever visited this point was back in 2011

so unless you want to wait around for

years to be rescued then you should

probably get moving to that South Pole.

research station

however this isn't the most remote piece

of land on Earth that distinction has to

go to this island in the South Atlantic

called Bouvet Island. It is small frozen

with ice and completely uninhabited by

all of humanity

although Norway claims it for herself for some unknown reason...

The nearest other piece of land to you would be

Queen Maud land here off the coast of

Antarctica at 1,600 kilometers away but

that island is also uninhabited so

there's no use going there

the nearest other humans to you on bouvet

island would be 2260 kilometers away on

tristan da cunha which as we previously

discussed is also incredibly remote in

its own right. For reference that

distance would be about fifty four

percent of the distance from the west

coast of the United States to the east

coast with no other humans insight and

just to arrive at the most remote

inhabited place on earth that still has

no airport and that only has boats come

to it eight or nine times a year. So far

we've only been talking about being on

land but we haven't yet considered the

ocean if we forget about distance and

just think about the sheer obstacles

between you and every other person in

the bottom of the Marianas Trench nearly

11 kilometres below the ocean surface

would be a truly lonely place only three

people have ever been to the bottom in

all of human history and the last time

was in 2012. Strangely that

does mean that there have been four

times as many people that have been on

the surface of the moon than have been

to the bottom of the ocean but let's

take it back to distance for a moment

because the ocean is truly gargantuan

and far bigger than many of us realize

this point in the Arctic Ocean for

example is the furthest point in that

ocean away from any land. It is located

on a shifting pack of ice so a permanent

structure is impossible to build if you

were to ever reach here the closest

inhabited land would be Ellesmere

Island in Canada home to a population of

only 146 people the closest actual

settlement on that island price viewer

would be 1638 kilometers away from you

at this point further nobody has

actually ever reached this point yet in

all of history so if you want to become

an explorer and put your name down in

the history books alongside Magellan

then get out there and reach at first

and finally and most terrifying of all

the most remote point and farthest away

from the rest of humanity that you can

likely ever achieve is deep in the

Pacific Ocean which for reference on a

globe looks like this and almost takes

up half of everything you see this exact

point here is known as point Nemo and is

by far the most remote place on the

planet. The closest inhabited land to you

at this point would be Easter Island

which is a mind-boggling 2689 kilometers

away. To put that into perspective again

that is about sixty four percent of the

distance from the u.s. west coast to

east coast with not a single other

person and just vast empty ocean. If you

think that possibly some shipping routes

or cargo ships may pass by to help then

here is a map of what these trade routes

look like notice the dark points around

not only here but also the point that we

discussed earlier in the Arctic Ocean

and Bouvet Island over here the record

for the fastest time that anybody has

ever made it to point Nemo was on a boat

and it still took 15 days 10 hours and

37 minutes to reach plus all of that

time to make it back from where they

originated from. It's weird to think that

if you were at this point sitting in a

boat alone the closest other humans to

you would actually be the astronauts

onboard the International Space Station

as they occasionally orbit the earth

above you

the station orbits on a maximum

of 416 kilometers above the Earth's

surface which is far closer than the

2689 kilometers needed to reach Easter

Island in fact the space station would

be the closest humans to you at several

of these other locations as well but

here especially if you were stranded

then they would be too far away for help

the fastest anybody could possibly reach

you would take over 15 days the closest

help you could get yourself would be the

same as venturing nearly two-thirds of

the way across the united states and to

top everything off the lovecraftian city

of R'lyeh yet is located not too far

away from this point so you may have far

worse things than sheer isolation to

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