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There are still places on Earth where no human foot has set foot.
But also on our planet there are places where people should not have lived, but they still live there.
Whether it's unbearable heat, Siberian frosts, or an island that is almost impossible to get to, some people are unwilling or unable to leave their places of residence for one reason or another.
Here is a list of 25 such places.
25. Atacama Desert, Chile/Peru
This desert is considered the driest place on Earth. It rains here 4 times in a thousand years.
Temperatures can range from incredibly cold at night to stifling heat during the day.
Despite these conditions, over 1 million people consider the desert their home, and most of them work in a copper mine.
24. Verkhoyansk, Russia
Despite the fact that this is one of the coldest places on our planet, and officially coldest city on earth, Verkhoyansk is still inhabited.
Where the temperature reached the mark -69.8 degrees Celsius lives a little over 1,200 people.
23. Merapi Volcano, Indonesia
This is the largest in the country active volcano, which is located on the island of Java, near the city of Yogyakarta.
Merapi is also called the "fiery mountain", and it erupted more than 60 times in 500 years. But this did not force nearly a quarter of a million residents to leave their homes, located on fertile land in the shadow of a volcano.
22. Kivu (Lake), Rwanda/Democratic Republic of the Congo
At the bottom of this lake are several million cubic meters of methane and carbon dioxide. If all this comes to the surface, more than 2 million people could be affected.
21. Pitcairn Islands
Sometimes they are called "the smallest democracy on Earth." This state is the place of residence for 50 residents from 9 families.
On the island no harbor or airport- can only be reached by canoe. But there is high-speed Internet.
20. Cook Islands, Australia and Oceania
Only 4 people live here. Used to be here railroad station where the trains were fueled to cross longest straight road on earth.
Since nothing grows on the island, the inhabitants have to bring all the food and drinking water by boat.
19. Minqin, China
This area has a sad future. The rapid growth of the population has led to the fact that on the site of the only river passing through the district, desert formed.
Here left only 155 square kilometers of fertile land.
18. La Rinconada, Peru
The city is located in the Andes at an altitude of about 5 100 meters above sea level. That makes La Rinconada the highest human settlement on the planet. You can get into the city only by climbing a narrow mountain road.
Plus, its ecology is completely unfavorable. Except almost underdeveloped sewerage and wastewater systems, here you can find high mercury content, which remains after gold mining.
live here about 30,000 people, many of which suffer from mercury poisoning.
17. Chernobyl, Ukraine
After a tragic accident that happened in 1986, almost all the inhabitants of this city were evacuated.
To date some workers still live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, but the time of their stay is limited - only a few days a week they can live there.
It should be noted that the Exclusion Zone is a territory into which no free access, since after the accident she was subjected to intense contamination with long-lived radionuclides.
16. Linfen, China
Until 1978, this city was known for its pure spring water, greenery and rich agricultural culture, which earned it the nickname " Modern city fruits and flowers."
But after the city was turned into the main industrial center of coal mining, furnishings environment changed drastically.
On the this moment it is one of the most polluted cities in the world: air polluted with ash, carbon, leadandorganic chemicals.
15. Pompeii, Italy
After the destruction brought by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79, this ancient Roman city, located in the Campania region and buried under volcanic ash, is still a place of residence for some people.
And all because of the fertile land. Even despite the fact that frozen lava lies at every step, people consider the risk of living in the city justified.
14. Socotra (island), Yemen
Known as "the most ethereal place on Earth", this island is located in the northwest indian ocean, about 250 km from the Somali Peninsula, and 350 km south of the Arabian Peninsula.
This makes it so isolated from the rest of the world that most of the flora and faunaimpossible to findnowhere else.
There are only two roads here, but the inhabitants, who number just over 40,000, it does not bother.
Socotra is inhabited mainly by shepherds, fishermen and farmers - they all breed frankincense and aloe, as well as sheep and goats.
13. Barrow (Alaska), USA
Barrow is most northern city in the USA. It is located about 2,100 km from the North Pole, which makes the city incredibly cold.
In addition, Barrow is included in the list of settlements that can "boast" the harshest environmental conditions.
Only 109 days a year the temperature can rise above 0 degrees Celsius. On the average the temperature in the city is below zero for 324 days a year. Plus, frosts and snowfalls can begin in any month, and the polar nights here are incredibly long.
12. Tristan da Cunha (Islands)
Together with Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands, it is on the list the most remote settlements on the planet.
Tristan da Cunha is located 2,816 km from South Africa and 3,360 km from South America. You can only get here by fishing boats or scientific vessels. but be careful - locals not very welcoming to tourists.
It is worth noting that immigration is illegal here.
11. Bajo, Philippines
This is not so much a locality as an ethnic group that lives in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Indigenous peoples and tribes from nearby areas were nicknamed "Sea Gypsies" because of their way of life. Even though more and more Bajo decide to move to land, there are families who continue to life on the water.
They live without drinking water and electricity, and they stick to the shore only when it is necessary to bury the dead.
10. Kifuka, Democratic Republic of the Congo
If you are afraid of lightning, then you will definitely not like it here. This village is where lightning strikes regularly, and for every square kilometer there are about 60 lightning strikes every year.
9. Meghalaya, India
This state in India is famous for its torrential downpours and monsoons. The town of Cherrapunji, which is located in this state, has become famous as the rainiest place on Earth - rainfall exceeds 11,000 mm. This amount of precipitation led to the emergence of unique plants.
8. Muli, Faroe Islands
Despite its extremely unstable weather and the complete or partial absence of minerals and vegetation, four residents of this tiny village on Faroe Islands until they are about to leave their home.
7. Motuo, China
This is the place where incredibly hard to get to. The path to this isolated settlement is considered the most difficult in the world. Here live about 10,000 people.
Here no roads and no communication with the outside world. To get to the mysterious (the word "Motuo" means "hidden, mysterious lotus") you need to make your way through the mountains, and the journey can take a week.
6. Norilsk, Russia
Besides the fact that Norilsk is one of coldest cities on earth, it is also one of most environmentally polluted cities on our planet.
5. Dallol, Ethiopia
This settlement can "boast" of the most high average annual temperature on Earth. Between 1960 and 1966, the highest average annual temperature was recorded here - 34 degrees Celsius.
In addition, Dallol - one of the most remote places on the ground. Here no roads, and to get to it, you need to use the caravan routes, which are aimed at collecting and delivering salt.
Nearby, below sea level, is Dallol volcano(last eruption in 1926). There are no exact statistics on how many people live here.
4. La Oroya, Peru
This city is famous mining and metallurgical industries. But these industries have listed the city most environmentally polluted cities in the world.
Due to lead smelting, literally all residents, including children, have some degree of lead poisoning.
The average life expectancy in this city is 51 years for men and 55 years for women. It is worth noting that on average in the country, people live 20 years more.
The main cause of death is oncology. Here there is many genetic deformities, because for several generations they have not left this lead shell.
3. Oymyakon, Russia
This village is known as one of the "Poles of Cold", ie. region where registered lowest temperature on earth.
About 500 people live here (2012). The length of the day in Oymyakon can vary from 3 hours in December to 21 hours in the summer.
In January, the average monthly temperature is -46.4 degrees Celsius(sometimes it can go down to -50).
1. Izu Islands are waiting for tourists in gas masks
South of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean lies the Izu Archipelago. One of the islands in the chain, Miyakejima, presents visitors with a unique challenge. The joke of nature is that the island has the Oyama volcano, which has woken up 6 times over the past hundred years. Under Miyakejima, magma is constantly seething. Therefore, this island has the highest natural concentration of poisonous sulfurous gases in the air in the world.
In 2000, the island population was evacuated due to the poison content in the local atmosphere going off scale. And in 2005, some daredevils were allowed to return. They run a household on the island, doing normal Japanese business, but they are forced to always have a gas mask ready for use with them. The warning system is automated - as soon as the concentration of sulfur dioxide exceeds allowable rate, the siren blares, and everyone puts on their masks. Howling can be heard at any time of the day or night. Even if people have a holiday.
Although Miyake looks like a post-apocalyptic place, tourists visit the island with keen curiosity. The fact is that if you don’t sniff the island on purpose and be mentally prepared for the command “Gases!”, Then you can admire the gorgeous nature or, scuba diving, play with dolphins, which are very numerous in local waters. And gas masks of all colors and sizes are sold in tourist shops.
2. Island of floating pigs in the Bahamas
On the uninhabited island of Big Major Cay, there is a community of feral pigs, who are regularly fed by specially hired Bahamians and tourists who sail to admire the natural wonder.
You arrive on the island, rent a room in a small hotel - and they give you a boat. If you swim along the shore, the pigs will surely flounder to the boat and begin to beg for a treat. If the boat runs aground, be prepared for the fact that the piggie will jump into it and brazenly gobble up your lunch.
Piggy locals are friendly, but in the heat they hide in the forest, resorting to the beach in the late afternoon, when the air and water become cooler.
3 Chemical Rabbit Island
Okunoshima, also known as Usagi Shima ("island of rabbits"), is a small piece of land with a dark history. In 1925, Japan signed the Geneva Protocol banning the use of poison gases for military purposes, but the mustard gas plant at Okunoshima continued to operate, producing a total of over 6 kilotons of mustard gas. A secluded place was chosen, there were no satellites flying over the Earth at that time, and the island was erased from official geographical maps.
After the Second World War, the production of poison was eliminated, and the rabbits on which chemical weapons were tested were released into the wild. In the absence of natural predators, the eared bred and became the true owners of Okunoshima. In 1988, the chemical plant was turned into a museum, and tourists flocked to the island. Rabbits meet and see them off, the Japanese do not have a soul in them.
Usagi Shima is also home to Japan's tallest transmission pylon. So local rabbits are not only chemical, but also electrified!
4. Stumbling stone
Tiny, bird-infested Rockall Island in North Atlantic and the language does not dare to call it a rock. Its height is 29 meters, length - 31 meters, width - 25 m. Naturally, it is uninhabited and, it would seem, no one needs it. However, territorial claims Rockall is presented with four European states- UK, Ireland, Denmark and Iceland. And all because under the rock there are supposedly significant reserves of oil and natural gas- in the amount of 160 billion dollars.
In 1904, a Norwegian steamer was wrecked near the rock, 600 people died. Then, until 1955, no one remembered Rockall, but a British military helicopter flew in, and Her Majesty's soldiers hoisted the flag of the United Kingdom on the rock. The British were afraid that a Soviet observation post might appear on the island. And in February 1972, Rockall was officially incorporated into Scotland.
When it became clear that hydrocarbons could be mined in the area of the island, Greenpeace activists landed on Rockall in 1997, declared it an independent country of Waveland and printed 15,000 passports of its citizens. But in 1999, the fighters for the environment ran out of money to maintain the rocky settlement, and the project had to be curtailed. Since then, the very aforementioned states have been squabbling over "the loneliest island of the World Ocean", each of which wants to stop being dependent on Russia or Norway in the issue of oil and gas supplies. The controversy will continue for several more years.
5. The world's furthest island from land
This is Bouvet Island, named after the discoverer and located between South Africa and Antarctica, uninhabited, icy, but having its own ... “.bv” domain zone. In the stupid movie "Alien vs. Predator" the action takes place in a hypothetical dungeon exactly under this lonely cold island.
To the nearest people - 1404 miles, meaning the island of Tristan da Cunha, where there is a permanent population (271 people), cars, cafes and the Internet. Only pinnipeds, seabirds and penguins live on Bouvet, and only moss and lichen come across from the flora.
Landing from the sea to Bouvet Island is impossible, only by helicopter. In 1964, a ship abandoned by passengers with stocks of grubs and booze was found nearby. Who followed it and where - remained a mystery.
In 1979, a bright flash was recorded near the island, similar to an atomic explosion. We talked about some joint nuclear testing Israel and South Africa, but no one confessed.
Since 1927, Bouvet has been considered the property of Norway and has the status of a nature reserve. Occasionally, scientists arrive on the island to study the migration of whales.
6. Island of poisonous snakes
Not far from the Brazilian coast, south of Sao Paulo, the island of Queimada Grande “splashes” in the ocean. Paradise-looking place is untouched by human activity for a simple and understandable reason - the island is teeming with poisonous snakes. Their population density is estimated at one to five per square meter. Reptiles feed on migratory birds, which, stupidly, land on the island to take a breath. There he is, real island Serpentine. And not the one in the Black Sea near Odessa.
A meter-long snake is called island botrops or "golden muzzle". 90% of snakebite deaths in Brazil are due to the teeth of bothrops. These creatures are so dangerous that the Brazilian navy does not let anyone near the island of Queimada Grande. Only two or three times in the history of civilization has the ominous snake island been visited by some scientists with the crew of the Discovery Channel.
7. Paradise for monkeys
In 1938, 409 rhesus monkeys were released into the wild on the uninhabited island of Cayo Santiago, off the coast of Puerto Rico. Today, the number of these sacred (though only for Hindus) animals in their closed little world is 940 individuals.
On Rhesus, doctors are experimenting. Cayo Santiago is under the care of the staff of the University of Puerto Rico. By observing distant relatives of people, researchers draw many useful conclusions. In order to get the right to set foot on the island and communicate with animals, a person must be a scientist. However, anyone can rent a boat and watch the macaques from the sea. By the way, these monkeys are not afraid of water and love to swim.
I present to you 10 secluded islands where you can feel like a real Robinson Crusoe.
Ang Thong, Thailand
Almost untouched nature can be found in the Ang Thong archipelago, which is located about 30 km. from Koh Samui. It was untouched until the 40 islands of the archipelago were included in national park Mu Ko Ang Thong and did not begin to carry tourists. But, despite this, all the islands, with the exception of one, remain uninhabited. The population is only on the island of Koh Palua. Sea gypsies live there, who earn their living exclusively by fishing.
Ball's Pyramid, Australia
The island is located about 20 kilometers southeast of Lord Howe Island. The stone spire, 562 meters high, is the remnant of an ancient volcano that formed about 7 million years ago. Ball's Pyramid is considered one of the most isolated stone islands in the world. Since 1965, climbers have chosen the island. The conquest of the summit continued until 1982, until the Australian authorities banned climbers from visiting the island. In 1986, the island was completely closed to the public, and in order to land on the rock, you need a special permit.
Auckland, New Zealand
This group of islands is located south of New Zealand's South Island. If someone once lived here, it happened somewhere in the 13-14th century - it was this age that archaeologists estimated the finds from Enderby Island, which, in their opinion, belonged to Polynesian settlements. At the moment, the islands do not have permanent residents, and the only visitors to the territory are scientific expeditions. The islands have a rather harsh climate, and the temperature stays around + 5-7 ° C, only in summer sometimes rising to + 11-15 ° C. But even in such conditions it is quite possible to survive, which confirms the experience of sailors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who repeatedly suffered shipwreck in this area and lived on the islands of the archipelago for a long period.
Phoenix, Republic of Kiribati
All islands except for big island the Canton archipelago, which is home to 31 people, is uninhabited. After their discovery in the 19th century, guano was mined on the islands for some time. Such activities only caused damage to the flora and fauna, and the workers made Polynesian rats permanent inhabitants of the island. In 2008, the island was given the status of a protected conservation area. Now the Phoenix Islands are the world's largest marine reserve with an area of 410,500 square meters. km. In 2010, the islands were included in the List world heritage UNESCO.
Coconut Island, Costa Rica
The volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean is the most remote and isolated province of Costa Rica. It is located 523 km. from her west coast. This is a piece wildlife an area of 24 sq. km, where some scenes of Jurassic Park were filmed, and the pirates hid their treasures here. In order to preserve biological diversity and unique nature, the island was made a nature reserve. Although the island is considered uninhabited, there are still a few inhabitants here. Rangers constantly live on the island, who monitor the park and give tourists permission to go ashore.
Mamanuca, Fiji
The Mamanuca group of islands is considered one of the most popular tourist areas in Fiji. The archipelago consists of 20 islands, and many of them host resorts, but a few islands are still uninhabited. This is mainly due to the lack of drinking sources. The most famous desert island in the group - a tiny Monuriki, on which the movie "Outcast" was filmed.
Tetepare, Solomon Islands
The largest uninhabited island in the southern part Pacific Ocean occupies a land area of 118 sq. km. For many years, the indigenous population lived on the island, but almost 200 years ago they left it, moving to other islands. Now the island is used as a tourist attraction, and straw huts have been built here for the few who want to stay almost alone with nature.
Maldives
Aldabra, Seychelles
It is the second largest atoll in the world after Christmas Island. The island is nature reserve world importance. The island is home to a unique population of giant tortoises. In 1982, Aldabra Atoll was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The island is one of the few remaining coral atolls on the planet, which is practically untouched by civilization.
Rocky Islands, Palau
The islands, covered with dense vegetation and resembling mushrooms from the air, are the main attraction of Palau. They are famous for their beaches and transparent blue lagoons. Most of them are inhabited only by rare birds and animals.
Modern man is no longer surprised by travel. The borders remain more or less open, and if you have enough money, you can go anywhere. In fact, this is only an appearance. Our planet is so large that only special government expeditions have the opportunity to visit its remote corners. Here, for example, are the 7 islands most remote from civilization, each of which could become a wonderful home for the modern Robinson Crusoe.
Tromelin
France Tiny french island lies 450 kilometers from Madagascar. Above sea level, it rises only some 7 meters - oceanologists say that a couple more decades, and the island will completely go under water.
Pitcairn
Great Britain All fifty islanders are descendants of rebels from a merchant ship who arrived here in 1790. They were accompanied by merry Tahitians, brought by who knows what current to such a remote piece of land.
coconut islands
Australia A thousand kilometers from Java and two thousand from the coast of Australia. The Cocos Islands are a collection of 27 coral atolls that comfortably accommodate as many as six hundred people. Charles Darwin noted these atolls, which brought him many confirmations of the theory of evolution.
Saint George Island
United States of America One of the largest Aleut communities ekes out a proud existence here. However, the Indians can hardly be called the true owners of this land: hordes of seals and a couple of million seabirds fit this designation to a much greater extent.
bear island
Norway Most south island The Svalbard archipelago looks like a real stronghold of the original dark beauty of the Norwegian lands. There is almost no one here: there are about 20 shifting servants of the local weather station per 178 square kilometers.
Floreana
Ecuador Floreana is part of a large array Galapagos Islands. This small piece of land is located a hundred kilometers from Ecuador. Floreana has only a hundred people, there is one telephone and one hotel that sees one guest once a year.
Macquarie
Australia If you love penguins then Macquarie is the island of your dreams. True, there is one small difficulty - the island is located a whole thousand kilometers from New Zealand. Macquarie is under the control of the Tasmanian government and remains home to fifty people.Tired of the noise of the metropolis and have long dreamed of taking a break from the hustle and bustle of the people? We have collected for you a few places where you can fully enjoy privacy. If, of course, dare. Each of these islands, thousands of kilometers away from “ mainland”, not only has its own amazing history, but also hides many mysteries and secrets, to the discovery of which we invite you to go.
Chile's Easter Island is rightfully considered one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world: the nearest mainland (South America) is almost 4,000 km from here. Local residents numbering about 5,000 people call the island Rapa Nui, for the rest of the world it was discovered only in 1722 by the Dutchman Roggeven, who landed on the shore on Easter Sunday, which gave this place such an unusual name.
But the whole world knows this place not at all because of its remoteness or name, but because of the huge moai statues placed along the coast and looking inland. Who and why created 500-year-old idols pressed from volcanic ash still remains a mystery. The native Polynesians believe that they contain the power of their ancestors, and the rest do not stop arguing about the history of the appearance of monumental statues. Some people even believe that Easter Island is a continent eluding man, on which the world has developed over thousands of years. unknown civilization, later disappeared in the depths of the ocean.
True, scientists do not share this version and argue that before the island was not much larger than it is now. They also say that it was once covered with dense forest. Today, there are almost no trees on the island, apparently, they were actively used in the construction of sledges and scaffolding for transporting huge statues.
How to get there: Once the journey to the island took many weeks, now the capital and the only city of Hanga Roa has an airport that receives scientists and tourists from Chile's capital, Santiago.
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
All three of these islands are overseas territory UK and located in South Atlantic, west of the African coast. The Tristan da Cunha archipelago, along with Easter Island, is the most remote place on the ground: from here to the coast of Africa - almost three thousand km, to South America - more than three thousand km, to the nearest island - St. Helena - a little more than two thousand. Tristan da Cunha is the only island in the archipelago with a permanent population: 284 people live here.
However, the island of St. Helena is rightfully considered the most famous island of the archipelago, because it was on this piece of land lost in the ocean that Napoleon was exiled, where he spent his last five and a half years of his life.
The origin of the name of the island is not known for certain. According to one version, the story almost repeats the history of the origin of the name of Easter Island: the Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovered the island on St. Helena's Day (May 21, 1502). However, the Portuguese did not begin to settle in it, and in 1659 the first English garrison was stationed here, and the island began to belong to the British crown. However, the two main attractions of St. Helena - Longwood House, where Napoleon lived, and his grave (though empty, the remains were transferred to Paris in 1840) - are found in the possession of France.
Looking at the brown-green rocks that cover the island, and the endless ocean beating against its shore, you involuntarily recall the words of the great commander: "There is nothing here but time."
How to get there: The islands are not connected by regular passenger flights to the mainland. However, the island can be reached by fishing boats and science ships. Fishing boats from South Africa go to the island of Tristan da Cunha once a month, they are equipped with seats for passengers. Saint Helena can be reached by the St Helena mail boat, which takes 5 days from Cape Town.
Photo: Pauline and John Grimshaw
Almost completely covered with ice and blown from all sides by strong winds, Bouvet Island is not only one of the islands most lost in the waters of the ocean, but also one of the most inhospitable of them.
From here to the nearest mainland - more than 1700 km, and this mainland is Antarctica.
In the middle of 1927, the Norwegians were able to land on the island (and this is not so easy to do) and stayed there for a whole month. Actually, this is probably why (and maybe because no one needs this godforsaken island anymore) Bouvet Island belongs to Norway today. 50 years after the landing of brave polar explorers, the island received the status of a reserve. However, even before it was visited extremely rarely and mainly by scientists who study the migration of whales and observe other living creatures: sea leopards, crabeaters, seals and penguins.
Named after its discoverer, the French navigator Bouvet, this island has its own ... domain zone.bv, and the hypothetical dungeon under it became the main setting for the stupid movie “Alien vs. Predator”.
How to get there: You can get to the island during the Antarctic cruise of Ocean Adventures: the ship makes a two-week stop at the island.
This island, which has gained worldwide fame thanks to the notorious novel, is located in the Juan Fernandez archipelago, 674 km from Chile. Once this rocky Pacific island was called Mass-a-Thier and was a favorite place for pirates, but then, at the beginning of the 17th century, the sailor Alexander Selkirk, who became the prototype of the famous Robinson Cruz, turned up here. After the release of Defoe's novel, he literally woke up famous, and in the 20th century, his place of refuge, the island of Mass-a-Thiera, was renamed the island of Robinson Cruz, and the neighboring small island began to bear the name of Alexander himself.
Today this island is inhabited. Friendly and few locals are engaged in catching huge lobsters and showing the main attractions of the island to rare tourists. Fans of the novel will be led to see the cave in which Selkirk lived, the rest will be able to admire unique nature of this place: there are 140 endemic species of plants and animals on the island. That is, those that are not found anywhere else. There is also Cumberland Bay, where an English squadron shot down a German light cruiser during the First World War: now this place is popular among divers. There are also penguins, hummingbirds, seals and turtles, and half-wild goats roam the hills, which once helped Selkirk survive.
How to get there: You can get to Robinson Crusoe Island by a small plane from Santiago (flights are more or less regular, it takes three hours to fly) or by ship from Valparaiso. This will take three days.
This island is located in the southern part of the Indian Ocean and is equidistant from the coasts of three continents at once: Australia, Africa and Antarctica. This piece of land was given its name, identical to the name of the Dutch capital, in honor not of the city, but of the ship from which the Dutchman Antonio van Diemen descended on its shore. The ship was called "New Amsterdam", but subsequently the word "new" gradually disappeared from the maps. The island is part of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories and therefore belongs to France.
The island has a fairly regular rounded shape and a mountainous terrain with gentle slopes. The coastline, in the absence of any sharp bends, has neither bays nor bays, and the coast is dotted with rocks and reefs, some of which are underwater. There is not much local population here: only from 20 to 40 people, depending on the season. They all live in the only island locality- the village of Martin-de-Viviers, and one way or another belong to the staff of the workstation. Someone studies flora and fauna, collects weather data, someone cooks dinner for everyone, and someone paints the walls of houses. There is not much entertainment here: except that you can ride bicycles or do photo hunting for penguins, seals and the Amsterdam albatross. With such a small number of people living on the island, the locals are already very happy with tourists. Although tourism on the island (due to the great distance from the continents and the lack of an airport or airfield) is poorly developed, true daredevils still manage to get to this godforsaken place.
