NewScientist has created a visualization entitled “Where’s the remotest place on earth?” (Is that bad grammar? I think it’s “most remote”, not “remotest”) where they visualize the travel time to everywhere in the world, with black indicating the longest trips.
Plotted onto a map, the results throw up surprises. First, less than 10% of the world’s land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city.
What’s more, many areas considered remote and inaccessible are not as far from civilisation as you might think. In the Amazon, for example, extensive river networks and an increasing number of roads mean that only 20% of the land is more than two days from a city – around the same proportion as Canada’s Quebec province.
The most remote location? The Tibetan plateau, with 21 days travel time: 1 day by car, 20 days by foot.
via Gallery – Where’s the remotest place on Earth? – Image 1 – New Scientist.
