List of uninhabited regions

Updated on Sep 25, 2024

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The list of uninhabited regions includes a number of places around the globe. The list changes year over year as human beings migrate into formerly uninhabited regions, or migrate out of formerly inhabited regions.

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As a group, the list of uninhabited places are called the "nonecumene". This is a special geography term which means the uninhabited area of the world.

Much of Antarctica

Antipodes Islands

Ashmore and Cartier Islands

Much of Australia

Bajo Nuevo Bank

Baker Island

Ball's Pyramid

Balleny Islands

Much of interior Nunavut

Big Major Cay

Bouvet Island

Caroline Island

Clipperton Island

Devon Island

Elephant Island

Elobey Chico

Ernst Thälmann Island

Much of inland Greenland

Gough Island

Hans Island

Harmil

Hashima Island

Hatutu

Heard Island and McDonald Islands

Much of Iceland, especially its highlands

The upper alpine zone and nival zone of the Himalaya (and most other high mountains).

Howland Island

Ilha da Queimada Grande

Jaco Island

Jarvis Island

Jong Batu

Kahoolawe Island

Kerguelen Islands

Kingman Reef

Mborokua

Minquiers and Ecréhous

Melville Island

Monomoy Island

Prince Edward Islands

Navassa Island

Nomans Land

Much of Northern British Columbia

Much of Northern Ontario

Paracel Islands

Palmyra Atoll

Redonda

Round Island

South Orkney Islands

Spratly Islands

Stirling Island

Much of Northern Siberia

Siwalik (outermost Himalayan foothills) and surrounding alluvial skirt Bhabar in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan, apparently due to endemic malaria and droughty soils.

St Kilda

Tetepare Island

Tibet's upper alpine zone and nival zone.

Tinakula

Tritonia

Tumucumaque National Park in northwest Brazil

References

List of uninhabited regions Wikipedia

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