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Bouvet Island: The Most Remote Island Is Norwegian

6 points by mooreds ago | 2 comments

junto [-]

Tristan de Cuhna is more remote. It’s 2430km from St. Helena. Bouvet Island’s closest neighbor is Antarctica (1770 km).

oliculipolicula |root |parent [-]

Hmmm.. there must be a way to define remote to correlate with likelihood of a hantavirus outbreak.

Maybe the remoteness or inhabitedness of nearest neighbors matters?