List of uninhabited regions

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.

"Uninhabited" redirects here. For the 2010 Australian horror film, see Uninhabited (film).

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

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.

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

See also

• Desert island
• List of ghost towns
• Private island
• Terra Nullius

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. "Southeast Oregon". americansouthwest. The American Southwest. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
7. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hashima" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 294.
8. "Heard and McDonald Islands" at CIA; retrieved 2013-4-19.
9. "Howland Island" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
10. "Jarvis Island" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
11. "Kingman Reef" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
12. "Navassa Island" at CIA; retrieved 2013-4-19.
13. "Paracel Islands" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
14. "Palmyra Atoll" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.
15. "Spratly Islands" at CIA; excerpt, "no indigenous inhabitants"; retrieved 2013-4-19.