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Map of world population, showing uninhabited or nearly uninhabited areas in gray.
The list of uninhabited regions includes a number of places around the globe. The list changes year over year as human beings migrate into formerly uninhabited regions, or migrate out of formerly inhabited regions.
List
As a group, the list of uninhabited places are called the "nonecumene". This is a special geography term which means the uninhabited area of the world.[1]
- Virtually all of Antarctica[2]
- Antipodes Islands
- Virtually all of the Atlantic Ocean
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands[3]
- Bajo Nuevo Bank
- Baker Island[4]
- Ball's Pyramid
- Balleny Islands
- Much of interior Nunavut
- Big Major Cay
- Much of the interior of Brazil
- Bouvet Island[5]
- Caroline Island
- Clipperton Island
- Devon Island
- Much of Eastern Oregon[6]
- Elephant Island
- Elobey Chico
- Ernst Thälmann Island
- Much of Fiordland, New Zealand[7]
- Much of inland Greenland
- Gough Island
- All of the Gulf of Aden
- Hans Island
- Harmil
- Hashima Island[8]
- Hatutu
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands[9]
- Much of Iceland, especially its highlands
- The upper alpine zone and nival zone of the Himalaya (and most other high mountains).
- Howland Island[10]
- Ilha da Queimada Grande
- Inishark
- Jaco Island
- Jarvis Island[11]
- Jong Batu
- Kahoolawe Island
- Kerguelen Islands
- Kingman Reef[12]
- Mborokua
- Minquiers and Ecréhous
- Melville Island
- Monomoy Island
- Perejil Island
- Prince Edward Islands
- Navassa Island[13]
- Nomans Land
- Much in Far North Canada
- Much of Northern British Columbia
- Much of Northern Ontario
- Paracel Islands[14]
- Palmyra Atoll[15]
- Redonda
- Round Island
- Empty Quarter, Saudi Arabia
- South Orkney Islands
- Virtually all of the South China Sea
- Spratly Islands[16]
- Stirling Island
- Much of Northern Siberia
- Siwalik (outermost Himalayan foothills) and surrounding alluvial skirt Bhabar in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, apparently due to endemic malaria and droughty soils.
- St Kilda
- Tetepare Island
- Tibet's upper alpine zone and nival zone.
- Tinakula
See also
- Desert island
- List of ghost towns
- Private island
- Terra Nullius
References
- ^ Gosh, Ajay Kumar. (2005). Academic Dictionary Of Geology, p. 84.
- ^ "Antarctica" at CIA World Factbook (CIA); excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants, but there are both permanent and summer-only staffed research stations"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Ashmore and Cartier Islands" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Baker Island" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Bouvet Island" at CIA; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Southeast Oregon". americansouthwest. The American Southwest. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- ^ "2013 Census QuickStats about a place: Fiordland". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 2017-09-27.
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hashima" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 294.
- ^ "Heard and McDonald Islands" at CIA; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Howland Island" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Jarvis Island" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Kingman Reef" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Navassa Island" at CIA; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Paracel Islands" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Palmyra Atoll" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
- ^ "Spratly Islands" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.