9. Mystery Island
To the locals of Vanuatu, the small, uninhabited island is called Inyeug. To the rest of us, it is just known as Mystery Island! Most of the 0.6-square-mile (1.5 sq. km) island’s area are occupied by a grassy landing strip, which is used twice weekly as an airport for the nearby island of Aneityum.
8. Palmyra Atoll
Palmyra Atoll has a pretty nasty reputation as a haunted island. You wouldn’t think it if you were flying overhead – it looks like a classic island paradise in the middle of the Pacific ocean. But for the past two hundred years, a great many ships have crashed around its coastline. Technically, no one lives there, although a few people from the Nature Conservancy are there a lot of the time.
7. Battleship Island
During the 1950s, Gunkanjima (or ‘Battleship Island’) was the most densely populated place on the planet! However, that ended up being a pretty big problem. Battleship Island is aptly named because from the outside. It looks like a battleship – it’s a tiny concrete island off the shore of Nagasaki, and it is wrapped in concrete and jammed full of buildings.
6. ‘Land of No Return’ Island
Many people around Barsa-Kelme’s Island think that it might be a doorway to another realm! It’s embedded into the name itself; ‘Barsa-Kelmes’ is Kazakh for ‘the place of no return.’ With a name like that, it’s got to have a creepy history behind it.
5. Santa Cruz Island
In 1957, one Dr. Carey Stanton moved to a family home on Santa Cruz Island to live out his preferred best life as a bachelor. However, Dr. Stanton might have had a secret or two up his sleeve. He was well known as an odd button – he maintained a strict routine and demanded that all of his visitors do the same.
4. Por-Bazhyn Island
Por-Bazhyn is an archaeological site on a small island inside the Tere-Khol Lake, located in Tuva, a part of Russia. While it’s out there in the open for everybody to see, its exact purpose remains unknown to this day! It wasn’t discovered until 1891, and explorers at the time thought that Por-Bazhyn was a fort.
3. Tenerife
The Canary Islands are a chain of islands belonging to Spain, and Tenerife is the biggest. It’s pretty heavily populated as well, boasting over 900,000 residents. Before the Europeans arrived, the Guanches lived on the Canary Islands; many of their mummies were found in the Barranco de Badajoz, a ravine that’s turned into an archaeological site.
2. Daksa
Daksa is a tiny island inside of the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Dubrovnik, Croatia. It’s been relatively uninhabited for an indefinite amount of time. However, it has a pretty dark history. In 1281, the Franciscans, a religious sect within the Catholic church, set up a monastery on the island known as the Franciscan Monastery of St. Sabina.
1. Bouvet Island
Bouvet Island is the most isolated, remote place in the world! It’s in the middle of the southern Atlantic ocean, and it’s surrounded by over 3.1 million square miles of empty ocean, which is just a tad smaller than all of Europe! But despite its complete and utter isolation, Bouvet Island has a rich and mysterious history.
0 Comments