Uninhabited islands on Earth are still preserved. They are not inhabited and not developed for one reason or another, including financial, political, environmental and even religious. The list of uninhabited islands can be almost endless, but the most interesting of them, each with its own history, are presented below.
Okunoshima Island
This uninhabited island is located three kilometers from one of the Japanese coasts. Mostly rabbits live here, but they are not indigenous people. It is almost impossible to meet a person on Okunoshima. The island is abandoned. Once it housed a plant that produced chemical weapons, which equipped the Japanese army for almost 20 years, until 1945. After the occupation, the plant was dismantled, and laboratory animals (rabbits) were released into the wild. Japan hid information about the island for many years. In 1988, the Poison Gas Museum was opened on the site of the plant, but tourists come to the island not to visit the museum, but to communicate with the cute Okunoshima rabbits.
Uninhabited islands of the Antipodes
This is an archipelago of individual volcanic islands thatlocated in southern New Zealand. The mystical name of the archipelago is derived from the fact that it has geographic coordinates opposite Great Britain. The islands are dominated by strong winds and a cold climate. Shipwrecks and numerous deaths accompany its story. The latest incident dates back to 1999, when two people died in a shipwreck. Nevertheless, there are more than enough people who want to visit the islands.
Jacou Island
An uninhabited island, the map of which is lost in the ocean state of East Timor, is a former Portuguese colony. You will not meet permanent residents here due to the fact that for the Timorese this place is especially sacred. They believe that someone's presence can desecrate it. Nevertheless, excursions and camping are only welcome, because they bring good dividends to the Timorese. Since 2007, it has been part of the Timorese national park called NinoKonis Santana.
Clipperton
The island is a coral atoll in southern Mexico and western Guatemala in the Pacific Ocean. For the first time, Clipperton was mastered by the French, later by the Americans, who mined guano (dung of mice and sea birds) on it, which serves as a very good fertilizer for the soil. The Clipperton territory was annexed by Mexico in 1897, and a British company began mining guano on the island. After the Civil War in Mexico, the inhabitants of the island (100 people) found themselves isolated from the whole world, without transport and food. The surviving islanders were rescued and evacuated to a largeearth. Clipperton was uninhabited. Sometimes people appear on the island - participants in various scientific expeditions.
North Brother
The island is located just 350 meters from New York, but it suffered the fate of many other islands. It became a reservation for patients with such dangerous infectious diseases as smallpox, typhoid, and tuberculosis. The island had the famous Riverside Hospital. In 1942 it was closed, and after the war it was first settled by veterans. After the resettlement of veterans, the island became a haven for drug addicts until 1963, when the drug dispensary was closed due to corruption and extreme cruelty to patients. Despite being chronically deserted, the island is now classified as an illegal tourist attraction.
Hashima - "Warship"
Uninhabited islands in Japan are numerous. 15 km from Nagasaki is the island of Hashima, called by the people "Warship". Once the island served as a coal barge and was actively developed for almost 100 years. When there was nothing left to mine there, 5,000 inhabitants left it. The remaining high-rise buildings from a distance look like a big liner. In 2009, the uninhabited island became available for tourists to explore.
Lazaretto Nuovo
Uninhabited islands are also known in Italy. This is Lazaretto Nuovo, located at the entrance to the lagoon near Venice. Previously, there was a monastery located there, the territory of which in 1468 turned into a quarantine for ships sailing to Venice to protect the inhabitants of the city from the plague. In the 18th century, all quarantine buildings were liberated, andthe island acquired the status of a military base. The Italian army abandoned the island in 1975 and it became empty. After being turned into a museum, Lazaretto Nuovo attracted tourists.
Desert island "Tree"
This is one of the objects of the Paracelsian Islands group. Ownership of it is disputed, as it is administered by the province of Hainan, which belongs to China, but, like all the rest of the Paracel Islands, it belongs to both Vietnam and Taiwan. Tourists visit the island with special permission.
Palmyra Atoll
This uninhabited island is located more than 1600 km from the Hawaiian Islands, but belongs to the US property. It is not officially organized. During the Second World War, the military forces built an airstrip there, which eventually completely collapsed. Today, the Atoll is owned by the Department of Fisheries.
Which islands are uninhabited and deserted?
There are many reasons why people do not live on some islands of the Earth. The main ones are that the island is too small in territory, located far from the mainland, it lacks a source of fresh water.
