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What is the most difficult island to reach?

Tristan da Cunha is a British Overseas Territory with its own constitution. There is no airstrip on the main island; the only way of travelling in and out of Tristan is by boat, a six-day trip from South Africa.



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Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island on Earth!, - Times of India Travel.

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Tristan da Cunha This British overseas territory has a population of around 260. The island's main village, Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, lays claim to the title of the most remote permanent settlement on Earth. With no airport or airstrip, the island can only be reached by boat.

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An uninhabited frozen isle halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, Bouvet Island is the most remote island in the world, and as such, perhaps the most remote landmass in the world.

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World's most isolated islands A chain of four islands makes up the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, which sits in the South Atlantic Ocean between Africa and South America. The main island of Tristan is home to the world's most remote archipelago settlement, consisting of about 260 U.K. citizens.

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North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by force, their protected isolation from the outside world.

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There are fewer than 50 people living on Pitcairn, most of them related in some way. The ramshackle homes on the island lack front doors and are overgrown with trees and plants. The Pitcairn Islands is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, but only one is inhabited.

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Ni'ihau earned its nickname as “the Forbidden Island” in the 1950s when the Polio epidemic was raging. To visit Ni'ihau then, you had to have a doctor's note and quarantine to prevent the spread of the disease to the small population.

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North Sentinel Island, India In short, they know nothing about the outside world. It also makes the natives here vulnerable to communicable diseases as they have never been vaccinated against the same. Moreover, there have been instances where visitors to the island have been attacked violently.

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Description: With income from phosphate mining and a population of 4,000 people, Nauru is the richest island in the world per capita. Most Nauruans don't work and can enjoy the comforts of modern society.

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