World's 7 most dangerous and remote islands

CNN ^ | January 30, 2013 -- Updated 1755 GMT (0155 HKT) | Mike Sowden

[Pan_Yan]

CNN) -- Idiotic TV shows and all the latest apps bumming you out on the 21st century? Ready for some "me time" on the world's remotest islands?

Forget golden sands and swaying palms -- the reality of solitude is different as these terrifyingly distant landfalls demonstrate.

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Bear Island
400 miles off Europe's north coast

Bjornoya, better known as Bear Island, is the southernmost island in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, 400 miles north of mainland Europe -- but only on paper, given that it's almost 150 miles south of the Norwegian island chain with which it's lumped.

It's been a nature reserve since 2002 and has a lively history of failed occupation -- hard to believe for a place of barren cliffs, near-zero precipitation and risk of leaks of radioactive material from the nearby wreck of a nuclear submarine.

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Rockall
270 miles from Ireland

If you think Boreray sounds forbidding, try sailing 187 miles west of it. Rockall is the tip of an extinct volcano reaching 20 meters (about 65 feet) above sea level, in seas with waves recorded as high as 29 meters (95 feet).

In 1955, the British Empire, in its final territorial acquisition, seized Rockall -- allegedly due to fears the Soviets would build a missile battery on it.

Reaching Rockall: In the words of the recently minted Rockall Club, "visiting Rockall is difficult, completely weather dependent and not cheap."

[GOYAKLA]

Desolate, as away from land and people?
My idea would be Ile St. Paul in the Indian ocean, west of Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Saint-Paul

[SunkenCiv]

Rockall is the tip of an extinct volcano reaching 20 meters (about 65 feet) above sea level, in seas with waves recorded as high as 29 meters (95 feet).

Photo of Rockall from winter 1943.

[SunkenCiv]

basically the same story, nice pictures though:

http://english.sina.com/culture/p/2013/0130/555881.html