12. Tristan da Cunha (South Africa)
The British island group of Tristan da Cunha stands profoundly alone in the South Atlantic. It’s the world’s most remote inhabited island chain — so precariously occupied that when a volcanic vent erupted in 1961, the whole population was evacuated to England.
13. Bear Island (Europe North Coast)
Bjornoya, better known as Bear Island, is the southernmost island in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, 400 miles north of mainland Europe.
An island is a place of barren cliffs, near-zero precipitation, and risk of leaks of radioactive material from the nearby wreck of a nuclear submarine.
