World’s most remote islands

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1. World’s Most-Remote Islands By Z.Nandin-Erdene

2. Content: List of most-remote islands Speciality of each places Brief information about the islands

3. The Kerguelen Islands Spitsbergen Pitcairn Island Novaya Zemlya Tristan da Cunha Easter Island South Georgia

4. 1 . The Kerguelen Islands Located in the southern Indian Ocean Archipelago* consist of 300 islands Filled with glaciers, mountains, and vast plains Haven for seals, albatrosses, and four species of  penguins . Archipelago* - A group o f islands

5. 2 . Spitsbergen - Largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern  Norway. The  36 th -largest in the world. The island was first used as a whaling base in the 17th and 18th centuries, after which it was abandoned. Svalbard is a breeding ground for many seabirds , and also supports  polar bears and reindeer .

6. 3 . Pitcairn Islands A group of four volcanic islands in the southern  Pacific Ocean  The four islands – Pitcairn ,  Henderson , Oeno and Ducie - Only Pitcairn, the second-largest island that measures about 3.6 kilometres from east to west, is inhabited.

7. The best time to visit the Pitcairn Islands runs from  January to March , being the warmest and sunniest. During this period you can even swim in the sea .

8. 4 . Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya* – New land An archipelago in the  Arctic Ocean in  Russia  and the  easternmost point of Europe Novaya Zemlya consists of two major islands, and a number of smaller islands. The two main islands are  Severny (Northern) and  Yuzhny (Southern). Novaya Zemlya was the site of more than 100 nuclear tests between 1954 and 1990 .

9. 5 . Tristan da Cunha Name of remote group of  volcanic islands  in the south  Atlantic Ocean It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world The archipelago has a wet  oceanic climate Daily mean temperature is 14.8 °C 

10. 6 . Easter Island -  The name is for a small triangular volcanic island in the South Pacific. Located 2,088 km from Pitcairn Island Easter Island may be the most-isolated place on the planet The lowest temperatures are recorded in July and August and the highest in February

11.  This island is famous for its gigantic stone statues—the enigmatic  moai . The moai means that human figured statues of Easter island. Moai are chiefly the living faces of ancestors. Almost all moai have overly large heads three-eighths the size of the whole statue

12. 7 . South Georgia  - British overseas territory  in the southern  Atlantic Ocean . It is a collection of islands and a chain of smaller islands known as the South Sandwich Islands. Typical daily maximum temperatures is around 0 °C in winter and 8 °C in summer. The climate is classified as polar.

13. Tussock grass at the coastline of South Georgia.

14. References: https://www.britannica.com/list/8-of-the-worlds-most-remote-islands https://en.wikipedia.org https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/13-of-the-worlds-loneliest-islands-you-will-never-visit?utm_term=.fhQNLr3am#.qo6bOd2RB Britannica encyclopedia