Most isolated inhabited place on Earth

We are used to the nearest town is easily accessible by public transport or car. In an extreme case - on a snowmobile or helicopter. But sometimes people live in places where the general is practically impossible to get.

Archipelago of Tristan da Cunha

While in 2816 kilometers from the nearest places where people live, the coast of South Africa, Tristan da Cunha is the most isolated archipelago in the world. On the islands reside about 270 people whose main occupation is agriculture and livestock. Strangers are prohibited from buying land here, so as long as the locals do not take care of changing the legislation, their numbers will be almost constant. Nominally, the islands belong to Great Britain, but to get from there to overseas ownership is not possible. Once a month, go to the archipelago of fishing vessels from South Africa, where there are a few seats. Expeditions prefer to use helicopters.

Saint Helena

Saint Helena includes the islands of Tristan da Cunha in one public education, but is almost a thousand kilometers closer to the coast of Africa. From the mainland by a small piece of land in the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean, whose size - about 8 kilometers in length and 16 in width, separated in 1950 kilometers. Island consists entirely of volcanic rock and is home to about 4,000 people. First he found the Portuguese in the early 16th century and began to be used as a transit point for their vessels. In 1657, the island was given to the East India Trading Company of Oliver Cromwell, and in 1815 became famous throughout the world, becoming a prison for Napoleon. This does not fly commercial flights, so if you want to get to the island, only hope for the British air force, which happens to be quite a couple of empty seats for civilians.

Easter Island

Pacific Easter Island, whose distance from the nearest settlement is 1819 kilometers, is famous above all lots of stone moai statues by up to a thousand. Island once boasted fertile and magnificent forest, however, with the "arrival" moai, everything changed. Stones from which they were made, were so huge (the weight of one of the most severe is 82 tons, and the average height of the moai - 20 meters), almost the entire forest was used to move the statue from the center of the island to its shores. Soil erosion due to deforestation and its merciless exploitation led to the fact that the land on the island become almost barren. Now the island is home to about 5,800 people.

Supai, Arizona, USA

Incredible, but still in the United States there are two places where the mail is delivered solely by mules, not to mention the delights of civilization as the telephone or Internet. One of such places - Supai. This is a small community consisting of 208 people who have settled in the bottom of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. In this settlement there are no cars, and from the nearest road separates its 13 kilometers. You can get there only by means of a mule, on foot or by helicopter. This means that of all the settlements of the United States is the most distant Supai.

District Motu, Tibet, China

District Motu is so deep in Tibet, that civilization it practically unaffected. Area is surrounded by snow-covered mountains ring, and the way it runs through the eternal Himalayan permafrost. In the Tibetan language is an area called the "hidden lotus" and is a sacred part of the country. You can get there only breaking suspension bridge although the Chinese authorities still trying to build a road. However, this is not the first project of this kind, one of the roads has been built in the 1990s, but soon came into complete disrepair by the forces of nature.

Alert, Canada

Alert is the northernmost settlement in the world and is located just 817 kilometers from the North Pole. Resident population it has, but there are always people: scientists come to the local meteorological station to monitor changes in the atmosphere. There is also a Canadian military base, where the average is about 70 people. Winter on Alert lasts almost all year round, only two months - July and August - have above-zero temperature, the order of 3-4 degrees Celsius. Polar summer lasts from April to September, and that means that day and night on the street the sun shines.

McMurdo Station, Antarctica

The population of this plant in the summer can reach 2,000 people in winter, this figure is reduced to about 200. On average, the station is home to 1,200 people, who occupy about 100 buildings. Once a year by the U.S. Navy to conduct operations with a tricky title "Deep Freeze", during which the station via ships delivered supplies and equipment. For some time, McMurdo energizes a small nuclear power plant, but after ten years of work for security reasons, the reactor was taken out from the territory of the station: during this time, it was 438 problems, including leaks and cracks withdrawals. Now reactor operation performed diesel generators, which consume 42 million liters of fuel a year.

Reserve Changthang, Tibet

Most of this reserve is located at an altitude of over 4,200 meters, and its area is so vast that provides water to 1.4 billion people in China and the lowlands of South Asia. In the 1980s, biologist George Schaller has assembled a team that includes several environmentalists to go hiking in the Changtangskomu reserve. The team overcame the order of a thousand miles, which is equivalent to the distance between New York and Chicago, and all the way did not meet a single person! Reserve boasts Kiang (Tibetan wild asses) and Black-necked cranes that reside on its territory.

Nuclear submarine

There are two types of submarines: the first focused on the quick attack and armed with cruise missiles, while the latter equipped with integral nuclear missile complexes. Last task - as long as possible to remain invisible. For example, one of four such boats England all the time is somewhere in the depths of the ocean, which means that 180 men for three months remain completely cut off from the outside world, living in a confined space somewhere deep under water.

ISS

Since November 2000, at an altitude of 330 kilometers above the Earth's orbit are living people. ISS, whose value exceeds, according to various estimates, more than 100 billion dollars, has a slightly more beds than the standard two-bedroom apartment. As in the case of submarines, the residence time of the crew can reach up to three months, with the only difference being that the number of people on the ISS about thirty times lower than on the submarine - the station are always only 6 or 7 astronauts. Given the cost of one rabid-bed hospital and the incredible complexity of the way to the ISS, it is rightly included in our list of the most isolated inhabited places in the world.