Bouvet Island

Bouvet Island is often cited as the most remote island on Earth — a small, uninhabited, glacier-covered volcanic cone in the far South Atlantic, over a thousand miles from the nearest land. More than nine-tenths of it is buried under ice, its coastline is mostly sheer cliffs with almost nowhere to land a boat, and it has no history of permanent habitation at all. Seals, penguins, and seabirds are its only regular residents; the rare human visit comes from scientific expeditions studying the glaciers and volcanic activity still simmering beneath them.