Such places on Earth are still quite a lot.
The population of our planet is constantly increasing.
7 billion people – it will agree, no joke. Sometimes it seems that they are everywhere in the world and has remained the nooks and crannies, which would not be able to reach people with his irrepressible manner to change, to reshape, to “improve”, to learn and to adjust. At such times I could not help think about escaping to a desert island, where, finally, among the untouched nature and absolute silence, you will gain long-awaited peace.
Tindholmur. One of the Islands of the Faroe archipelago. View of the cliffs of the island depicted on the 200-kroon banknote of Faroe Islands.
The permanent population is missing, but archaeologists believe that there once lived people.
Okinoshima is a small island in the Inland sea of Japan. His unofficial name is the “Island of rabbits”, because currently, the island is seized by rabbits, although they are not indigenous inhabitants of the island. Doesn’t live here any one person, because from 1929 to 1945 on the island based factory of chemical weapons the Imperial Japanese army.
In 1925, the Institute of science and technology Imperial army announced the development of chemical weapons. The establishment of the unit was so secret that the island has been removed from the card.
In 1971 a group of schoolchildren released on a completely barren island, eight rabbits, subsequently, those bred to huge amounts. Since rabbits and got possession of the whole island, where live well and fruitfully multiply.
Sable is a small canadian island located in the Northern part of the Atlantic ocean, 180 km Southeast of Nova Scotia. On the island there are five people – the staff of the meteorological station.
The island is famous as the “graveyard of the Atlantic”, as around him there were about 350 shipwrecks. Navigation in coastal waters around the island are complicated by the presence of two opposing currents – the warm Gulf stream and cold Labrador current, generating whirlpools. Also thanks to these currents, the island is moving at a speed of 200 m per year, which can also be the cause of navigation errors. Since 1920, only two people were born on the Isle of Sable.
Horse island was depicted on canadian stamps and coins in 2005.
Pyramid ball or balls of Pyramid, Australia. She stands on a 562 m, and its size in base – about 200 m.
This pyramid is all that remains of an ancient volcanic eruption that occurred 7 million years ago. Today the island has become home to rare insects.
The Devon island in Canada. The largest uninhabited island on the planet. It relates to the Canadian Arctic archipelago. The island has a shock Haughton crater formed approximately 39 million years ago by a falling meteorite.
Scientists estimate that the diameter of the fallen celestial body was about 2 km and the diameter of the crater formed due to shock, 24 km from Millions of years ago the funnel was filled with water and this place was the lake.
Now is a testing ground for Rovers, here simulated the conditions of life and work on Mars.
The largest of the uninhabited Islands in the Pacific – the Coconut.
According to the common legend, on Coconut hidden gold of the Incas, which is still found no one.
In addition to the classic representatives of tropical fauna it is home to many deer, pigs, cats and rats introduced by Europeans.
Champ – the southernmost island group of Islands, Zichy archipelago Franz-Joseph. The island is famous for its large ball-shaped rocks – spherulites that are scattered around the coast of the island.
The exact origin of the stones is unknown.
Auckland Islands located to the South of New Zealand, in cold latitudes, where raging ice winds reaching special power due to the lack of any obstacles. This narrow archipelago was formed millions of years ago from several dormant volcanoes.
Here were found the scanty remains of the alleged settlement approximately of the XIII century.
In the nineteenth century several attempts were made to colonize the island, but they all lasted no more than a couple of years. Since this is where they removed the only meteorological station, the Islands remain completely uninhabited.
Known as “the last wild island of the planet,” Tetepare the island remains uninhabited since the mid-nineteenth century, when its indigenous inhabitants moved to neighboring Islands because of the threat of the invasion of slave traders.Since 2002, the island is under the supervision of the state organization, which strives to protect him from the probable settlement to preserve untouched nature for future generations.
