List of uninhabited regions

Map of world population, showing uninhabited or nearly uninhabited areas in grey.

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.

List

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.^[1]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

• Much of Antarctica^[2]
• Antipodes Islands
• Ashmore and Cartier Islands^[3]
• Much of Australia
• Bajo Nuevo Bank
• Baker Island^[4]
• Balleny Islands
• Much of interior Nunavut
• Big Major Cay
• Bouvet Island^[5]
• Caroline Island
• Clipperton Island
• Devon Island
• Elephant Island
• Elobey Chico
• Ernst Thälmann Island
• Much of inland Greenland
• Gough Island
• Hans Island
• Harmil
• Hashima Island^[6]
• Hatutu
• Heard Island and McDonald Islands^[7]
• Much of Iceland, especially its highlands
• The upper alpine zone and nival zone of the Himalaya (and most other high mountains).
• Howland Island^[8]
• Ilha da Queimada Grande
• Jaco Island
• Jarvis Island^[9]
• Jong Batu
• Kahoolawe Island
• Kerguelen Islands
• Kingman Reef^[10]
• Mborokua
• Minquiers and Ecréhous
• Melville Island
• Monomoy Island
• Prince Edward Islands
• Navassa Island^[11]
• Nomans Land
• Much of Northern British Columbia
• Much of Northern Ontario
• Paracel Islands^[12]
• Palmyra Atoll^[13]
• Redonda
• Round Island
• South Orkney Islands
• Spratly Islands^[14]
• 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^[15]

See also

• Desert island
• List of ghost towns
• Private island

References

1. Gosh, Ajay Kumar. (2005). Academic Dictionary Of Geology, p. 84.
2. "Antarctica" at CIA World Factbook (CIA); excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants, but there are both permanent and summer-only staffed research stations"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
3. "Ashmore and Cartier Islands" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
4. "Baker Island" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
5. "Bouvet Island" at CIA; retrieved 2013-4-19.
6. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hashima" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 294.
7. "Heard and McDonald Islands" at CIA; retrieved 2013-4-19.
8. "Howland Island" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
9. "Jarvis Island" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
10. "Kingman Reef" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
11. "Navassa Island" at CIA; retrieved 2013-4-19.
12. "Paracel Islands" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
13. "Palmyra Atoll" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
14. "Spratly Islands" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
15. Tumucumaque National Park A 14Nov2006 Mongabay.com article primarily about a different inhabited area, which however does reliably document this large uninhabited area.