The Caribbean island of Redonda resembles one very large rock at a distance.
Population: Uninhabited, except by seabirds and a herd of feral goats that manage to survive on the poor grazing on top of the island.
Diego Garcia
The Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia is an island used exclusively as a base by the US military. The former inhabitants of the island were all deported in 1971.
Population: At any given time, 3,000 to 5,000 U.S. troops and civilian support staff live on the island.
Attu Island is the westernmost point of land relative to Alaska, the United States, and North America.
Population: Currently uninhabited.
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| source: Paul Gierszewski |
Ellesmere Island is the world's tenth largest island and has the northernmost point in Canada.
Population: 146 in 2008.
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| source: Toubletap |
Hans Island is a barren knoll between Ellesmere Island and Greenland and is claimed by both Canada and Denmark.
My Comment: People in Canada actually threatened to boycott Danish pastries over the dispute. It doesn't exactly look like paradise to me.
Population: Uninhabited.
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| source: Boris Khvostichenko |
Part of Yemen and located in the Indian Ocean, Socotra is very isolated and a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been called the most alien-looking place on Earth.
Population: 42,842 in 2004.
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