Uninhabited islands on Earth are still preserved. They are not settled and not developed for one reason or another, including financial, political, environmental, and even religious. The list of uninhabited islands can be almost endless, but the most interesting of them, each with its own history, are presented below.
Okunoshima Island
This uninhabited island is located three kilometers from one of the Japanese coasts. Mostly rabbits live here, but they are not indigenous. It is almost impossible to meet a person on Okunoshima. The island is abandoned. Once upon a time, it housed a plant producing chemical weapons, which the Japanese army was equipped with for almost 20 years, until 1945. After the occupation, the plant was dismantled, and laboratory animals (rabbits) were free. Japan hid information about the island for many years. In 1988, a poisonous gas museum was opened on the site of the plant, but tourists do not appear on the island to visit the museum, but to communicate with cute Okunoshima rabbits.
Uninhabited Antipodes Islands
This is an archipelago of individual volcanic islands that are located in southern New Zealand. The mystical name of the archipelago is due to the fact that it has geographical coordinates opposite to Great Britain. The islands are dominated by strong winds and cold climates. Shipwrecks and numerous deaths accompany his story. The latest incident dates back to 1999, when two people were killed in a shipwreck. Nevertheless, there are plenty of people who want to visit the islands.
Jacques Island
The uninhabited island, whose map is lost in the ocean state of East Timor, is a former Portuguese colony. Here you will not find permanent residents due to the fact that for the Timorese this place is especially sacred. They believe that someone else's presence may defile him. Nevertheless, excursions and camping are welcome, because they bring good dividends to Timorese. Since 2007, it has been part of the Timorese National Park called NinoConis Santana.
Clipperton
The island is a coral atoll in southern Mexico and western Guatemala in the Pacific. Clipperton was first mastered by the French, eventually the Americans, who mined guano on it (litter of mice and seabirds), which serves as a very good fertilizer for the soil. Clipperton territory was annexed by Mexico in 1897, a British company began to engage in the extraction of guano on the island. After the Civil War in Mexico, the inhabitants of the island (100 people) were isolated from the whole world, without transport and food. The surviving islanders were saved and evacuated to the mainland. Clipperton turned out to be uninhabited. Sometimes people appear on the island - participants of various scientific expeditions.
North Brother
The island is located just 350 meters from New York, but it suffered the fate of many other islands. It became a reservation for patients with such dangerous infectious diseases as smallpox, typhoid, and tuberculosis. There was a famous Riverside Hospital on the island. In 1942 it was closed, and after the war it was first settled by veterans. After the resettlement of veterans, the island became a haven for drug addicts until 1963, when the drug dispensary was closed due to corruption and special cruelty to patients. Despite the fact that the island is chronically deserted, now it is classified as an illegal tourist attraction.
Hashima - “Battle Ship”
The uninhabited islands in Japan are numerous. 15 km from Nagasaki is the island of Hashima, called by the people the "Battle Ship". Once the island served as a coal barge and was actively developed for almost 100 years. When there was nothing left to mine there, 5,000 residents left it. The remaining high-rise buildings from a distance look like a large airliner. In 2009, a desert island became available for tourists to familiarize themselves.
Lazaretto Nuovo
Uninhabited islands are also known in Italy. This is Lazaretto Nuovo, located at the entrance to the lagoon near Venice. Previously, a monastery was located there, the territory of which in 1468 turned into quarantine for ships sailing to Venice, to protect the inhabitants of the city from the plague. In the 18th century, all quarantine buildings were liberated, and the island acquired the status of a military base. The army of Italy left the island in 1975, and it was empty. After Lazaretto Nuovo was turned into a museum, he interested tourists.
Uninhabited island "Tree"
This is one of the objects of the Paracel Islands group. The ownership of it is controversial, as it is administered by the Hainan province belonging to China, but, like all the other Paracel Islands, it belongs both to Vietnam and Taiwan. Tourists visit the island with special permission.
Palmyra Atoll
This desert island is located at a distance of more than 1600 km from the Hawaiian Islands, but it belongs to the United States. It is not officially organized. During the Second World War, a military runway was built there, which completely collapsed over time. Today, the Atoll is owned by the Department of Fisheries.
Which islands are uninhabited and uninhabited?
There are many reasons why people do not live on some islands of the Earth. The main of them - the island is too small in territory, located far from the mainland, there is no fresh water source on it.