North Sentinel island is located far into the Indian Ocean in the chain of islands called the Andaman and Nicobar Islands which is a territory of India. The island is about the size of Manhattan and its illegal to travel here because the island is home to the planet’s most isolated hunter-gatherer society.

The Sentinelese tribe could range anywhere from 15-500 people but there’s no way of knowing for certain. What we do know is that they do not wish to be contacted as they have resisted any and all contact with the outside world for up to 60,000 years. Nothing is known about their language, they hunt with bows and arrows and they are completely untouched by modern civilization. Today’s so-called un-contacted people all have a history of contact, whether from exploitation or simply seeing a plane flying overhead. What I’ve come to realize is that there are no people who are isolated by accident or have somehow managed to stay completely unaware of the modern times- it’s more that there is this deep rooted fear or defiance of the outside world. Also, the Sentinelese and other isolated tribes around the world are extremely vulnerable to any foreign contact because they have virtually zero immunity to our diseases and could very quickly be wiped out by the exposure.

Pitcairn Island is a British Overseas Territory situated 3,300 miles from New Zealand and no plane or helicopter has ever landed there, so getting there requires a 32-hour cargo ship journey. In the 1700’s this island was settled by a real life ship full of mutineers. The mutineers were running from British Naval ships when they found the uninhabited Pitcairn Island and decided to hide there by sinking their ship after they landed. Today there are around 50 people living on Pitcairn Island which is not much larger than Central Park.

Tristan da Cunha island is said to be the world’s most remote inhabited archipelago which also happens to be on an active volcano. The closest other people to this little town is 1200 miles away in St. Helena and it's 1700 miles away from South Africa. Can you imagine living there?? There’s less than 300 people who call this place home which still feels like a surprising amount of people.

La Rinconada, Peru is the highest human habitation in the world, and it is home to some of the most brutal living conditions in the world.  The town is built at an astonishing height of 16,700 feet. The town is accessible only by braving a dangerous mountainside road covered in ice and the journey can take several days. Its unclear exactly how many people live in La Rinconada because there’s a totally lack of government regulation but it’s estimated to be as many 50,000 live here. The motivation to live in this harsh landscape? Gold mining.

The Russian town of Oymyakon also known as the coldest inhabited place on earth. It takes two days to get there, traveling down a barren and isolated stretch of road from the closest city in Siberia. Temperatures there average around -58° F during the winter months in this area of Northeastern Russia. Daylight only lasts for 3 hours in the winter but it’s light out for 21 hours in the summer. Around 500 people live in this remote community!!

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