What If You Were Stranded on the World's Most Remote Island?

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[WorldWarTwo]

*Desolate lump of ice 2, 000km from any land*
19th Century British Empire: It's claiming time.

[rixrobin]

I remember finding this island on a map is my highschool class room 10 years ago and it was my special piece of knowledge back then, every time I see a video on Bouvet Island it brings me to then and I am happy more people are learning about it.

[Rjm]

Damn when the British empire sees a piece of land and doesn’t want to take control of it you know it must be bad

[MrAlfable]

Apparently there was a lifeboat found on the island during an expedition in the 70s. So another view on this is that human life is so pervasive that through sheer randomness it'll still manage to set foot on the most remote corner of the planet.

[jpalexander]

I love how they speak as if someone can become stranded there. You don’t need to worry about getting off the island because it’s probably harder to get on the island.

[duckmeister]

"It's a desolate, empty island in the middle of nowhere."
Norway: *We'll take it!*

[sammckay]

The thought of being in a kayak in the open ocean is absolutely terrifying

[MichaelIhde]

I’m from Alaska and I can tell you with certainty that the little white island in the bottom right corner of the screen at 1:20 that is shaped like an upside-down chef knife, called Baranof Island, has people living in some of the green spots. Not a lot of people, but I know of a few nomadic people who like to live on their own for much of the year excluding winter on Chichagof and Admiralty Islands nearby.

[ShortHax]

Bouvet looks like where Club Penguin used to be. I don’t think it’ll be that bad

[thesmiler]

It's kind of comforting to know that, despite the rapid urbanization of seemingly everything around us, there's still a lot of untamed wilderness out there

[kaylera]

When the ISS flys over, the astronauts are the closest people to this island for a split second

[sharpfang]

What about this: go to the north-western corner of the island, where there's a Norwegian research base which you didn't mention, located on a part of land which is actually a decently accessible rocky beach which you didn't mention, and use the equipment in the base to call for help while living off supplies left there just for that occasion?

[sub-zero]

This is gonna be my "villain's lair" when I become a billionaire.

[player-oguy]

"I am gonna speedrun minecraft"
the spawn point:

[dannylen]

The ISS could actually be closer than any land mass because it orbits 400km away from earth and if its flight path lands over this island then the nearest person there would be is a ISS operator

[reedr]

It’s best to avoid tourist season when you go there :P

[MZZenyl]

Don't forget that, even if you could catch the penguins or other animals on the island, you wouldn't have any wood or kindling to start a fire.
So you'd be on a diet consisting exclusively of raw meat. Certainly better than nothing, but risky.
In reality, the best thing to do if you were suddenly teleported to that frozen wasteland would be to lie down and wait for the cold embrace of death.

[ADCArtAttack]

So what you're saying is....

It'll make a good spot when I wanna avoid responsibilities?

[sharkfinn]

Norway: "It's free real-estate."
Everyone else: "Is it, though?"

[cnw]

My dad lived on tiny Ascension Island in the late 60s working on a secret project related to rockets and the moon landing (and other). Ascension is between South America and Africa. It's extremely remote.