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A nifty new world map created by researchers points out the most remote places on the planet.
Researchers calculated how much time it would take to travel to every location on the planet from cities of 50,000 or more people nearest each location, reports The New Scientist. If a location is hard to reach by train, road, or river because it's steep, densely jungled, or behind tightly controlled border crossings, it is ranked as especially hard to reach.
It turns out that less than 10 per cent of the world is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city.
Take a look at the map, where the darkest spots are the hardest-to-reach places. You may be surprised.
[The map was produced by researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the World Bank.]
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Why is an entire and very remote continent (Antarctica) missing from this map? I would bet that the most remote place on earth is on that continent.
Posted By GRB on January 11, 2010, 3:46 PM
And how about the Wakan in Afganistan?
Posted By Phoebe Becktell on January 11, 2010, 7:03 PM
The most wonderfully remote place I've been was a trip through Patagonia, sailing from Punta Arenas, Chilie, located on the Strait of Magellan, to pass through the Darwin's Beagle Channel, and round Cape Horn. Disembarking daily in small boats to approach massive calving glaciers or enormous colonies of Magellanic Penguins and, on the turn-around, spending a day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world.
Posted By Tom on January 11, 2010, 8:07 PM
Try going to Pitcairn Island. It must be one of the most remote places in the world.
Posted By Winston Tong on January 12, 2010, 2:28 AM
You have to click on this paragraph (hyperlink) to open the entire map!!:
"Take a look at the map, where the darkest spots are the hardest-to-reach places."
Posted By Bellehare on January 27, 2010, 9:29 AM