Uninhabited islands: tempting and mysterious

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 practically endless, but the most interesting ones, each with its own history, are presented below.

Okunoshima Island

This uninhabited island is located three kilometers from one of the Japanese coasts. They live mainly rabbits, but they are not native inhabitants. A person on Okunoshim is almost impossible to meet. The island is abandoned. Once upon a time there was a factory that produced chemical weapons, which was equipped with the Japanese army for almost 20 years, until 1945. After the occupation, the plant was dismantled, and laboratory animals (rabbits) were at liberty. Japan hid information about the island for many years. In 1988, the Museum of toxic gas was opened on the site of the plant, but tourists appear on the island not for the sake of visiting the museum, but for communicating with the cute rabbits Okunoshima.

Uninhabited islands of Antipodes

It is an archipelago of individual volcanic islands that are located in the south of New Zealand. The mystical name of the archipelago is due to the fact that it has geographical coordinates opposite to Great Britain. The islands are dominated by strong winds and a cold climate. Shipwrecks and numerous deaths accompany his story. The last incident dates back to 1999, when two people were killed during the shipwreck. Nevertheless, wishing to visit the islands, more than enough.

Island of Jacques

The uninhabited island, whose map is lost in the oceanic state of East Timor, is in the past a Portuguese colony. Here you will not find permanent residents because of the fact that for the Timorese this place is especially sacred. They believe that someone else's presence can defile him. Nevertheless, excursions and camping are welcome, because they bring good dividends to the Timorese. Since 2007, it is part of the Timorese national park called NinoConis Santana.

Clipperton

The island is a coral atoll in southern Mexico and west Guatemala in the Pacific Ocean. For the first time, Clipperton was mastered by the French, eventually Americans, who extracted guano (litter of mice and seabirds) on it, serving as a very good fertilizer for the soil. The territory of Clipperton was annexed by Mexico in 1897, the British company began to engage in the extraction of guano on the island. After the Civil War in Mexico, the inhabitants of the island (100 people) were isolated from the whole world, without transport and food. The surviving islanders were rescued and evacuated to the greater land. Clipperton was uninhabited. Sometimes people appear on the island - participants of various scientific expeditions.

North Brothers

The island is located just 350 meters from New York, but it suffered the fate of many other islands. He became a reservation for patients with such dangerous infectious diseases as smallpox, typhoid, tuberculosis. On the island was the famous hospital Riverside. In 1942 it was closed down, and after the war it was first settled by veterans. After the resettlement of veterans, the island became a haven of drug addicts until 1963, when the drug dispensary was closed due to corruption and special cruelty to the sick. Despite the fact that the island is chronically deserted, it is now regarded as an illegal tourist attraction.

Hashima - "Battle Ship"

Uninhabited islands in Japan are numerous. At 15 km from Nagasaki is Hashima Island, called the people "Battle Ship". Once the island served as a coal barge and was actively developed for almost 100 years. When there was already nothing to gain there, 5000 inhabitants left it. The remaining high-rise buildings from a distance look like a large airliner. In 2009, an uninhabited island became available to tourists for acquaintance.

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, whose territory in 1468 became a quarantine for ships sailing to Venice, to protect city residents from the plague. In the 18th century, all the buildings of the quarantine were vacated, and the island acquired the status of a military base. The army of Italy left the island in 1975, and it was emptied. After Lazaretto Nuovo was turned into a museum, he became interested in tourists.

Uninhabited island "Tree"

This is one of the objects of the Paracel Islands group. Ownership of it is controversial, since it is administered by the Hainan province, which belongs to China, but, like all other Paracel Islands, it belongs to both Vietnam and Taiwan. Tourists visit the island if there is a special permit.

Atrium of Palmyra

Located this uninhabited island at a distance of more than 1600 km from the Hawaiian Islands, but refers to US property. Officially, it is not organized. During the Second World War, military forces built a runway, which eventually collapsed. Nowadays, the Atoll is owned by the Department of Fisheries.

Which islands are uninhabited and uninhabited?

There are many reasons why people do not live on some islands of the Earth. The main of them - the island on the territory is too small, located far from the Great Land, it lacks a source of fresh water.